The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1940, Page 1

' First American Vessel, Present War THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”- VOL. LVIL, NO. 8565. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1940. ) MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER IS BOMBED BY BRITISH ELIERS U.S.SHIP BLOWS UP, GOES DOWN Thirty-seven Members of | Crew of 38 Report- | edfoBeSaved | | ; SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 9.— Australian Navy Minister Wil- liam Hughs announces that 5800 ton American freighter City of Rayville blew up and tanx near Melbourne last night. | Thirty-seven members of the | crew of 38 have been saved, it is said in the anncuncement. | “The blowing up,” the Navy | Minister said, is probably the | result of a mine. In many quarters it is said | some members of the crew are blamed for sabotage. The City of Rayville is the first American ship sunk during | the present wal | PLANS NO ACTION, YET WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull said the United States planned no action in the sinking of the American freighter City of Rayville pending| a complete investigation. | Secretary Hull said preliminary | reports indicated the ship hit a floating mine. | The statement of the State De-|~ partment said it has no informa- tion whether the mine was German | or British, but does not recall that any Nation has notified the Unit-| States it is laying mines in Australian wate! ———————— W S, Dr“ond Q Robert S Allen % N | WASHINGTON — Upon the out- come of the war in Greece depend | several things besides the ques- | tion whether Hitler pushes on to} Suez. Probably the most important} is the war's effect upen the Ital-| ian people—especially in case of set- back or defeat. . or a long time, U. S. intelligence | reperts have indicated that Italy was th> Achilles heel of the Axis| and that the Italian people were| nene too enthusiastic about their| partnership with Germany. Basic- ally, the Ttalians always have sided a great deal more with Bri-| tain than with Germany. For| years they had distrusted Germany, and for an equal number of years had done business with Great Bri- tain. Furthermore, the war has put a severe economic pinch .on Italian people. In return they have had no great victories and conquered no important territory. Hitler has been able to show new conquests to arouse the enthusiasm of . the German people, but Mussolini has had nothing to show except Al- bania and British Somaliland. Even the much-heralded advance of Marshal Graziani in Egypt now has bogged down on the sands of Sahara. So Mussolini needs a Greek victory and needs it badly. And if he doesn’t get it, observers in Italy believe that dissatisfac- tion among the Italian people might become so great as to lead to a new dictator in Rome. NOTE—Because of her vastly su- perior air force and more modern army, the odds are very much in favor of an Italian victory. Out-| come of the war, however, depends | on how much aid Greece can get| from Britain, which cannot risk | taking too many troops away from| its Egyptian defenses; also wheth- er Jugoslavia and Turkey come in. ed POLITICAL NOTES Little was heard of Alf Landon during the campaign, but the 1936 GOP standard bearer put in yeo- | man like licks for his 1940 successor. " (Continued on Page Four) Gail Patrick to Sue Mate Gail Patrick Screen Player Gail Patrick has announced in Los Angelés that she has separated from Robert H. Ci restaurateur, and will file for "Lone Wolf” Makes Good At NPA Course; Gives His Reasons for Queer Adions By JACK INNETT wATERFRoNT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Capital | folk: | (The National Police academy, u | sponsored by the Federal Bureau v | of Investigation, gives a 12-week course of intensive instruction in modern police methods to a group | of 40 men three times a year. There iis no tuition fee, but traveling and, | 14,000 MEN living expenses of students must be paid by some one other than 2 the government). New Contracts Practically me was o meavy-set, aumpy deputy sheriff from the sagebrush Same as Before—New ' country. me was terriby over- | weight and while it was expected Board Proposed | that the NPa's datly nofir of phys- s | ical training would * reduce his SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 9.— | Weight, in the ensulig weeks he Climaxing 14 months of negotiations, | became almost skinny. CIO Longshoremen and the Water-| His actions were called strange front Employers Association last Although he never went to lunch- night reached a tentative agreement | €0n with his classmates and imme- cn terms of a new contract cover-| diately the afternoon sessions were ing 14,000 West Coast longshore- out he would hwry off by him- men. | self. The other members of the The proposal must be ratified by | class dubbed him “the lone wolf”| memberships of the unions and of —made jokes about him, snickered | the employers’ body. It will be-|behind his back. ! come effective after ratification. | Finally, the course was over The agreement generally Iouo\vs{ and, on ‘“graduation day,” the | previous contracts with regards to| Lone Wolf came into the office of | wages and hours, holidays and hiring | the Assistant Director. He said: halls, but would add a new “Coast|“There’s something been worrying| Labor Relations Committee” to serve | me. I know the fellows don't like| as a court of appeal. !me. They think I'm a queer guy, I guess. That's all right. I don't| blame them. But 1 did feel kinda| loNDo“ 'I'o STAY like some explanation was due [ you. ‘ | DAYLIGHT TIME, riurssen wie | “The truth is I had to mortgage |my home to get enough money to pay my expenses here. I had to leave my family and some other - LONDON, Nov. 9.—Britain will observe daylight saving time h By daylight saving time mndon:b;:xh Pomh, R Qe e is nine houss ahead of Juneau il time. myself, Shucks, I had coffee and| . Canada Is fo Train doughnuts for breakfast, soup for pa’a(hu'e “WDS"”‘"" and I managed to get along fol 5 1 't stand for RS g p S B el L L e b 1 those other fellows to see me eat- chute troops will be trained in Can-|ing like that and I couldn’t tell ‘em | “When I got my budget all fig- ured out, I found I just had 35 |cents a day to buy meals while I was here. I didn't mind that for |ada shortly, Air Defense Minister: where I was going for my meals. | Charles Power said today. “The belief is that the war will| be won sooner or later by our tak- “I guess it's what you call false pride. But that's the way it was, anyway. And I just figured I ought ling the offensive and pamhuteim tell you that I'm mnot really a squads would be most useful when| — — that time comes,” he declared. (Continued on Page Seven) |cd to be hoisted any moment. Is ITALIANS * TRAPPED; | MAY QUIT Entire Division Expected fo ; Surrender fo Greeks | Within Few Hours ATHENIANS POURING SHOT INTO DUCEMEN Hitler IrkeaTMay Either Make Attack Himself or Ditch Il Duce ‘r | K i \ (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Informed scurces of military op-| erations in Athens declare that an entire Division of perhaps 15,000 Ttalian soldiers has been trapped in the Pindus mountains and surroen- der is only a matter of hours. | Greek sharpshooters are pouring | shots into the Division and the white flag of capitulation is expect- 1N It is also reported, semi-officially that the Italian forces in Albania are withdrawing from the Korilza sector where the invaders have been under a constant artillery fire for several days. | jegicns unless Mussolini's Generals chew some telling moves or Italy abandors the Grecian campaign en- tirely. In the latter case, Hitler will not continue the war on Greece. MICHIGAN Bridge War VOTES IN IsFlaming STEWNOW In Tacoma Jackson Eo—uniy Demos Engineer Accuses Federal Find Bug in Ballot- Government of Forcing Profest Lodged Plans for Span e 3 | TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 9—Engin- JACESON, Michs Q0. 5 eers planning to rebuild the Nar- Somersaulting Michigan may swin > s frivs il ja "% rows Bridge, converged on the city i b : ' |today, among them Frederick Lien- a court protest filed by the Jack- 3 LT Y 4 |hard, New York associate of the son County Democratic Committee R i Rt | bridge’s designer, Leon Moisseiff. is favorably acted upon. . > ¢ " The Del fhtad SHnt | Lienhard called “not true” the R At| ccertion of Blark Eldridge, chief en- o . o sy ot Pre-| gincer on the bridge, that the state ceded the main ticket and prevent-| . 4o po ped money lending ed voting machines from ’fg‘s‘e"iamncics. the RFC and PWA, they| ing a straight Democratic tickel. | ;4 not have Federal funds un-j The error was discovered Tues-| .. day morning anc‘l FURBELR: ¥ENS dl5"‘;11 reputations were employed. patched to all city precincts to ad-| migridge said state engin Vise, voters. . protested the bridge’s design as un- Jackson County went Republican|c,,nd and impractical. by 9,000 votes although the county e Rt N e SR was Democatic in 1936. The claim was delivered that| ] Wendell Willkie's lead over Presi-| ur( I dent Roosevelt in Michigan might| be lost if the Jackson County vote is thrown out. pI easeda, [ Election —— - —— : Shrinkage of Brain | Causes Long lliness LONDON, Nov. 9—Premier Wins- ton Churchill today described the FRESNO, aCl,, Nov. 9.—The 242- day semi-coma, which has kept C.| S. Barclay, 54, at the Fresno % . s |election of President Roosevelt as gfi:%ufi;@“fll sl;rl:::gl:m;: D“:‘n “message across the ocean of great £ i 4 * | encoura a GO cheer for H M. Ginsburg, hospital superin- gement and good cheer for d {successful British resistance and Yeudent, | final victory, proclaimed by all par- S o R |ties in America.” - New York Plans | For Snow Storms 10-Year-Old Girl Heir fo $1,800,000 NEW YORK, Nov. 9. — Deputy| Commissioner Albert Pleydell of the department of purchase has invit-| CLEVELAND, Nov. 9—Phyllis A. ed bids for the rental of trucks Myers, ten, became heir to a $1.- for the removal of the nrmclpnted; 800,000 trust fund under the will snowfall. Bids must be presented in|of her mother, Mrs. Josephine For- person by the bidder at the snow|sythe Myers, author of the musical truck rental division. | composition, “Lord's Prayer.” Nazi bombs were still dropping as this \ n i , ladder, battling a raging West End fire set by incendiary missiles. AIR PASSENGER SERVICE, it e SEATTLETO JUNEAU, ENDS; MAIL, EXPRESS CONTINUES less eastern engineers with nation- | s had | { In the Front Line of the Battle of London ( 0 A | photo was made of a London fireman, mounted on an aerial | ANOTHER ~ EMPRESS BOAT HIT Former Flagvsfip of CPR on{ Pacific Disabled by SEATTLE, Nov. 9—Pan American Airways announced today that Al- 1ska passenger service between Se- attle and Juneau is suspended be- cause of unfaverable weather. After proving flights with the big Nall Bomb A"a(k Douglas DC3 land planes will sup- e | plant the Alaska Clipper Sikorski for mail and express flights between NEW YORK, Nov. 9—A radio Seattle and Juneau. message was received this forenoon Local Manager Robert Bullwinkel reporting the 26,000-ton liner Em- | said it is hoped year round passen-|press of Japan, former flagship cof | ger service will begin early next year. | the Pacific fleet of the Canadian | | Pacific Steamship Company, has ——————— been bombed and disabled in the | North Atlantic. | u as The radio was received in the | office of Domei, Japanese news agency, in a message from their| | H correspondent aboard the liner | s ue In rom | Fushimi Maru which intercepted | the Empress of Japan’s distress call, The attack is said to have oc- o u o ay‘cunvd this morning about 300 mileg) | west of Ireland and the vessel was | disabled by a direct hit on the en- gine room. Pany of CAB and Pal‘lail"l e, veesh: ol ngcd b Men Passengers—Cros- | sapan. ohina and Maniia. 1t was | requisitioned by the Admirglty early in the war and is believed to have been used as a troop carrier. The attack was in the same area Panair’s big Douglas DC-3 wheel-| equipped airlined which will relieve| Where the 42,000-ton Empress of {ihe flying boat Alaska Clipper on| Britain was crippled October 26 and | the Alaska run, took off from Se-|later sunk by a German submarinc | attle this morning for Juneau with | a crew of six and seven CAB and S35 o il }P/\A passengers, | | The big ship took off from the | airport at Seattle at 9:30 o'clock| | this morning and flew to Vun(:ou-‘ BY pERK S ivm on its first hop, getting out | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Secre- of there again at 11:17 am | From Vancouver it was to Hy‘ | to Prince George and then to Ju-| ‘nesu, probably arriving here around | {4 o'clock or later this afternoon. | | Crew of the Douglas is made up !nr Capt. O. J. Studeman, First Of- | | ficer 8. E. Robbins, Navigator Gor- { don Thompson, Radio Operator D.|y o "1 010 "o noes Perkins re- | |P. wiliams, Pgh. Engineor | L0 s to commen. today on reports| i 3 | she is to resign her Cabinet post. | | Krause i | President Roosevelt conferred with | Passengers are J. E Crosson, Gen- | i capinet for the first time since | eral Manager of Pacific Alaska Ar-|y¢ oyerwhelming third term victory | | ways, Bryan Jacobs of CAB, T.lang present at the conference was | M. Lurry of CAB, George Cassidy,|pic Vice-President-elect Henry A. | | Charles Huntley, PAA, J. H. OKer-|wallace. lund, PAA, and PAA Communica-| Ajso present was Secretary of La- | tions Superintendent R. J. Glea- por Perkins whose resignation has son. been rumored for months. PRI B Ll S resign were true, she said: “I have not seen the reports so I cannot CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—W. Edward|comment on s | Gallie of Toronto, Ont, has been | SURGEONS ELECT | The moon is approximately 240,- }000 miles from earth. elected President-elect of the Am-| L erican College of Surgeons, |ale dTtalia | bombardments on England and Al- Asked whether reports she wuuld‘ Sunk MUNICH 1§ AIRRAIDED NIGHT TIME Explosives _DTo pped on Hall Where Fuehrer Is Making Address FLAMES IMMEDIATELY BREAK OUT, ROARING UP Nazi Chief Refers Sarcas- Germany Is "Great” (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) British bombs fell last night on Munich where Adolf Hitler address- ed a party of comrades on the 17th anniversary of the Nazi Beer Cellar Putsch. The British Press Assoclation laims that one stick of explosives hit the meeting hall and a large fire broke out. Informed Berlin sources claim Hitler had- completed his address when the attack on Munich came. The British Press Association says the British fliers flew over Munich for 14 minutes after Hitler was scheduled to begin speaking and then attacked the city for more than one hour and a half. No information is given out by either side regarding Hitler's pre- carious position, or the after-effects or how close the bombs fell to the Fuehrer. British planes also bombed Turin, Northern Italy, with disastrous re- sults to that section. In Rome, the newspaper Il Giron- said “tremendous” air Illas will start immediately in repris- als. Hitler in his speech at Munich said Germany i§ ready “as never be- fore to face any combination of the world.” Hitler referred sarcastically to the United States and asserted German alr producticn was the greatest in the world Bombastic Declaration After the unexplaired cancella- tion of his speech, Hitler pictured Germany as a vast arsenal frem which his mighty armies could draw unlimited supplies with which to wage war until final victory is achieved. He declared that Ger- many, with its Allies, is strong enough to oppose any combination in the world. Hitler's boast of Germany’s mili- tary might was made in the courfe of the hour long speech before the so-called “Old Guard” of the Nazi party, assembled to commemorate the abortive beer hall putsch No- vember 9th, 1923. The Nazi leader sceffed at air- plane production in England and the United States and declared—"Ger- man productive capacty is the high- est in the world and we shall keep up because we are in position to mobilize the forces of practically all manufacturers in the industrial field Hitler asserted that the Army is now even stronger than at the outbreak of war. He said German losses had been small and it had even been possible to dis- charge some of the other classes of reservists. Further losses in material in the war Hitler said would be entirely German (Continued 'on!}”afe Eight) Wanfed Willkie; Wheels Wheelbarrow Every election seems to produce a wheelbarrow bet. This recent presidential election was no excep- tion for Juneau. At high noon today, Rex Chittick of the D. B. Femmer Wharf offices picked up the handles of a wheel- barrow, and with Roosevelt supporter J. J. Smith of the Alaska Ark Wel- ders sitting happily aboard, trun- dled his way from Triangle Corner to the City Cafe. Moral: Win with Willkie would you wheel a wheelbarrow.