The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVL, NO. 8548. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH BOMBS POUND BERLIN, ITALY Draft Drawing Starts At Noon, October 29 HUGE COAST DEFENSE GUN LEAVES FOR TEST RAFRAIDERS FIRST NUMBER T0 BE PULLED BY ROOSEVELT DirectorDr.Bv—ksm Makes! Announcement of Im- porfant Event | BLUE CAPSULES WILL CONTAIN LITTLE SUPS| Same Fish Bowl fa Be Used | as When Drafting Starf- | ed in World War WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — The President will draw the first num- | ber in the draft lottery at noon | October 29, Dr. Clarence Dykstra,| Draft Director, reported today. The announcement was made af- ter a conference with the Chief Executive in which he said the draw- | ing would be held at the Inter-De- | partmental Auditorium adjacent to (Continued on Page Six) | Cthe ‘ ‘%\NG@‘ | WASHINGTON—Wendell Willkie rang the bell when he asserted that the National Defense Commission | needs reorganization. He said out loud what privately has been gued vigorously within Admin| tration and Defense circles for long time. Also, you can write down as a move that is not dis- tant, The need for reorganization daily becoming more insistent. With the preliminary tasks of set- ting up staffs, securing appropria- tions, and clearing up contract problems out of the way, the Com- mission now comes to grips mm; its real job—mobilizing the nation’s industry for turning out arms, mu- nitions, planes, tanks, ships on a mass production basis, the key to Nazi military might. | Judging from the tenor of be-| hind-the-scenes deliberations, the“ reorganization plan favored is not along the lines recently rumored. These were that the President was about to place the Commission un- der a Chairman to boss all its op- erations. One story had Leon Hen- derson, Price Control Commissioner, slated for this place. This report is unfounded. Neither Henderson nor anyone else is being considered for Chairman because the creation of a chairmanship is not contemplated. An entirely dif- ferent plan is being discussed. is| COORDINATOR NELSON As the Defense Commission 1s now set up, each of the, seven Commissioners acts more or less independently in his own field. The only tie-up among them is infor- mal and confined chiefly to mai- ters of general policy. There is 0 organized machinery to coordinate the agency's far-flung operations. Under the proposed revamping, the members would continue to hold equal rank and be responsible for their individual spheres. But their activities would be coordin- ated through two major changes. William Knudsen, soft-talking production wizard, would be re- lieved of all administrative burdens so as to concentrate his great tal- (Continued on Page Four) | s ¢S A e NGNS TOO MANY PHEASANTS? PIERRE, S. D.—Lake Madison hunters will shoot pheasants instead of ducks this fall. When the lake| dried, pheasants -thrived in the dense undergrowth, The Game and | World War Vet to Register i As a boy of 13 Adurm Oppenheimer claimed he was 18 to enlist in the U in his coal office at Portsmouth, S. Marines in the World War No. 1 register for the government’s selective service program. Since he now is 35 he must He is shown Ohio, looking over a registration card, uom‘lvflnx if he will be the only World War. veteran to regixter ACTIVITY REPORTED INEGYPT British and Italian Forces Drawing Each Other Info Battles CAIRO, Oct. 21.—Renewed activ- | ity by the Italians in the western | district was reported this morning by the British High Command in Egypt. The Italian operations were described as probing expeditions in- tended to test out the strength of | the British in western Egypt. One Italian column was said to have moved eastward about 10 miles along the coast road from Sidi Bar- rani where it had pitched camp. British mobile artillery and armored units were reported to be harassing the Fascist encampment . Another Italian force consisting of 200 truckloads of infantry, protected by a fleet of 30 tanks, approached the Libyan border on the plateau south of the coast and the British said this force advanced until it came within range of British artil- lery, then returned across the Li- byan border without firing a shot. Several of the Italian truck were reported to have been crippled by British shell fire. Meanwhile the British Air Force in Egypt and East Africa intensified its attacks on Italian naval and mili- tary establisments. — e 10 RECOGNIZE LEADERSHIP IN DRAFTEE RANKS | \Order Is Issued by Head-‘ quarters of Army-In- efficient Be Qusted WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — The Army General Headquarters in Washington has sent instructions to Army commanders to uncover and replace any inadequate leader- ship which might develop in the new conscript training program. The order said that the coming training | program will necessarily reveal out- standing leadership and this lead- ership will be recognized by prompt promotion. But added that inade- quate leadership must be uncov- Pish Commission abandoned the ref- uge and invited “come and hunt.” ered and replaced with equal promptness, SIX DEAD IN CRASH OF PLANE Craft Clrclmg Parachutist| Entangles in Lines- Plunges fo Earth MARIANNA, Arkansas, Oct. 21.— The Civil Aeronautics Authority to- day planned to investigate a mid- air accident in which six persons were killed when a sightseeing plane became entangled in a stunt man's parachute at an air show and plung- ed 500 feet to the earth. The sightseeing plane, according to eye witnesses, was circling slowly | around the descending parachutist, Paul Nalejava, 34, to give the pas- sengers a closeup view. The plane became entangled in the parachute lines when it sud- denly sloughed in the wind and plunged downward carrying parachutist with it. George Zorn, 30, was the planes pilot. B S N R Burma Road IsBombed, | Japan Says Im porfant Bridges Report- ed Destroyed—Mo?or Trucks Atfacked TOKYO, Oct. 21. — The Naval Mlmstry announced today that Jap- nnese naval planes again bombed | | the Chinese section of the Burma Road, doing heavy damage. The ministry said that the Jap- anese fliers succeeded in sighting a | number of bridges spanning deep | gorges in Yunan Province, in spite |of a heavy cloud bank. Several of | the bridges were said to have been destroyed. One motor convoy, consisting of | scores of trucks loaded with muni- itions and other supplies for the | Chiang Kai-Shek government, was | sighted during the attack. The Jap- anese said the trucks scattered in all directions to avoid being bombed. the | FORTS FOR | 'NORTH ARE NOW URGED | | Polar Explareir Stefansson | Fear, Not Russians | SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—Vilhjalmur ‘Ste!flnsson‘ Polar explorer, has ar-| | rived here from the East enroute to Alaska to inspect the Territory’s| | commercial airways. Commenting on reported Russian| Ioltmcntlon of Big Diomede Island, \ Stefansson said thé island is “noth-| ing but a great bare rock which {one of our cruisers could blanket | | with shells in no time at all “Besides,” the Polar explorer added, “it’s not Russia we have to fear. If any attacks come, they will come from Japan. We ought to | fortify Alaska and make no secret | ‘o! it.” 7 2 EARLY DE(lINES WILLKIE DEBATE | FOR PRESIDENT| Roosevelf Says He Would | Rather Speak in Brook- | lyn than in Baltimore | | | R 20 | \ WASHINGTON, Oct, 21, — The | President, Stephen Early, House secretary said, is not accept- ing Wendell Willkie's offer to share the auditorium with him at Bal-| | timore on October 30 . Early said the President declared | let rather than speak in Balti- | | | | | | i ore or Washington on that date,| ! Lh(' President will probably speak lat the Academy Music Hall in| | Brooklyn. | Asked whether Roosevelt had nuy; | disposition to accept Willkie's chal- lenge to debate, Early remarked, “It was a public challenge,” and| then added to a reporter in his| | press conference, “If I were going| to invite you to my home, I'd send you an invitation and don't think| rd send it if I knew you weren't| ‘ coming.” | Thousands | ~ Flee Homes From Flood ; Lol | One Hundred Persons Are| | Drowned or Missing- Property Damaged VICHY, France, Oct. 21. — More | than 100 persons are reported dead ' or missing and officials estimate | the damage at 1,000,000,000 francs as | | the result of torrential rains and floods which forced thousands to | flee from their homes in French | Catalonia. | Details of the weekend disaster | ‘becnme known in Vichy only today | |when telephonic communication | Ewit.h Perpignan, the capital city of | the stricken region, was retored. . | | Perpignan itself was evacuated as | | the swollen river Tet inundated the lower parLs of the city. iSlmlly | Informal MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 21. — No |engraved invitations does Fred | Bauer, Sr. issue when he’s throwing a party. He merely prepares re- freshment and entertainment. When it's all set he goes to his front porch and puffs away with a bugle. Neigh- bors in the mood for a shin-dig come a-runnin’, | Says Japanese Our || White | R — Two 14-inch railway rifles, among the biggest in Uncle fam's coast defense, left Fort MacArthur for Naples, north of Santa Barbara, Cal, for three wee's of target pratice and mimic coastal defense man- euvers. special train loaded with ammunition, equipment, and 200 officers and men. aboard the speclal car. New AurAmbuIance [, The Army displayed its new aerial ambulance &6 Bolling Field, near Washington, D. C. The plane is a forerunner of a new aerial ambul- ance corps now in the process of development and establishment. This interior view shows the ambulance as it appears in actual use. Giving attention to a “patient” is Capt. E. M. Martin of the Army Medical Corps. Taylor s Named fo Com. Dept. Chicago Banker Succeeds| Edward Noble, Resign- - ed, Undersecrefary WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Presi- dent ‘Roosevelt has nominated ‘Wayne Taylor, former Assistant Sec~ retary of Commerce, as Undersecre~ tary of Commerce to succeed Ed- ward J. Noble, who has resigned. Taylor is a Chicago banker, | | BREAD PRICES UP IN RUSSIA MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—The people of | Rumanian newspapers have been bombs across the big square of warned not to speculate on the London's fashionable West End and | strength of the Nazi forces now in-|one bomb demolished a house and Moscow felt a new punch on their living scale today when the govern- ment-controlled bread prices were sed. ye bread and dark wheat bread both were increased by 15 kopeks a logerma. Shortage of grain supplies is understood to be the reason for the price increase. - EDGECUMBES SOUTH George Edgecumbe, owner of al Richardson Highway transportation | outfit, passed through town today on the Yukon for the States with /his-wife; The guns, which have not been fired since tiey were tested in 1936 near San Diego, left on a One of the big rifles is shown ‘Duck Hunter Loses Life On Stikine Board by Line When Throws Anchor Out | WRANGELL, Alaska, ing on the Stikine River fiats ! Kinsch was on a boat owned by Fred Wigg and had gone out on deck to throw the anchor over in a shallow slough. It is the belief Kinsch's foot got caught in the anchor line as it was thrown overboard and he was drawn overboard, hauled in water and held there before skip- per Wigg could reach him and re- wase his hold. famed Stikine Flats this season. | Kinsch was a stepson of S. N. | Harvey, well {of Wrangell, | NAZI STRENGIH '\ INRUMANIATO \ BEKEPT SECRET ‘General Denials Made of | Troop Movements and Newspapers Warned BUCHAREST, Oct. 21.—Rumanian John Kinscmgged Over| Oct. 21.— | John Kinsch, 33, of Wrangell, was | drowned last Saturday while hunt-| duck the| known boat builder | Embassy Of 1 I | CARRY FIGHT - TO GERMANS Stmg Nazi Land by Drop- ping Explosives at One Hundred a Minute ' 'HIGH COMMAND ADMITS HEAVY DAMAGE IS DONE Itahan Communlque Claims Civilians Killed, Others Are Wounded (By AESOC!ATED PRESS) Great Britain’s intensified aerial counter offensive Sunday night and early this morning was marked by 100 bombs a minute that stung Nazi land and caused the Germans to complain of “outright terror” of the method of the Royal Air Force bombers. The RAF pounded Berlin, north- ern Germany and even northern Italy. Tromsoe Attacked The RAF also bombed German held invasion ports and the German seaplane base at Tromsoe, Nor- way, in the Arctic Circle. One report is that the RAF spot- wd many large craft leaving Ger- man occupied ports on the English channel and made a surprise raid sinking several vessels and sending the others scurrying back, some limping from the effects of the bombs. Waves of RAF The Berlin High Command ad- mits the RAF bombs killed many | | | This is the first fatality on the |~ | civilians and wounded others, as- rting that British warplanes, strik- g in several waves, destroyed one large apartment building in West Berlin and showered incendiary and high explosive bombs on other sec- tions In Berlin's firs tair raid in five nights. Nazi Bombers in Raid The German High Command as- serted Nazi bombing squadrons dropped 500 tons of bombs on Great Britain in one 24 hour period over the weekend. Italy Bombed Rome reports eight persons were killed and 15 wounded by British (Continued on Page Five) U.S.Damaged In Air Raid Windows Blasted Out of Building in Center of london’iv_les!-‘ d | LONDON, Oct. 21. — Windows | officials denied this morning that|were smashed in the big United a full German Division had arnved\ States Embassy building on Gros- at Ploesti in | fields north of Bucharest. the Rumanian oil venor Square during a recent Nazi raid, but the red brick, white The Rumanians also denied lhnt}trimmed Colonial structure is not 30 river craft had brought cargoes|badly damaged. of armaments and military supplies to Rumania from Germany. mania. |stalled in Rumanian territory. | (CANADIANS IN ' ENGLAND Now LONDON, Oct. 21.—A contingent of artillerymen from Newfoundland arrived today at a western British | | port, They were welcomed by the | Newfoundland Trade Commissioner ;m London, D. J. Daves. that the denials had been evoked| by reports published outside Ru-|mission to tell about the incident. No member of the Embassy staff (suffered injuries as the result of the Rumanian authorities explained bombing. British censors finally gave per- A German plane lald a stick of dnmaged two others across the square. The explosion of this bomb blew in a few windows of the Em- bnssy. Another bomb failed to explode lmmzdiacely but dug itself deep in a pit about 50 feet from the front door of the Embassy and went off a few hours later and blasted more windows of the Embassy and hurled soil and stones on the roof and against the front wall. The inside was not damaged. The spokesman said: “We are still open for business)’