The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1941, Page 1

+ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. LVIL, NO. 8716. AMERICANS READY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” i g R N4 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOND/_\_Y, MAY 5, 1941. MhMBl:.R ASSOCIATED I’Rtbb PRICE TEN CENTS FIGHT, SAYSFD.R. Belfast Is Heavily Bombed By Nazi Forces TRANSIT HARBOR | RAIDED! Four Shiflepofled fo! Have Been Set Afire | -Plants Set Afire | BRITISH BELIEVE DEATH LIST LARGE RAF Refaliates by Wide- spread Series of At- facks, German land | Hitler's luftwaffe, striking with- in a few hours after Hitler told in a hastily called session of the Reichstag that no coalition of powe could defeat Germany, heavily bombed Belfast and also attacked Liverpool last night for! the fourth night in a row. | The German communique termed Bel t as an “important transit harbor” implying it had been used, as a port of entry of war supplies from the United States. | The communique said four ships| were set afire in the harbor at Beitast and tremendous fires and explosions were observed from air- craft and other industrial plan.s] British officials said it wa.q‘ feared the casualties in Belfast are heavy. The previous raid on Belfast was| April 15 and caused 500 deaths. British Air Forces countered with a widespread series of ovemight‘ ra by blasting the docks and shipping at Rotterdam, Antwerp,| LeHavre, Brest and Cherbourg. | Saturday night a German raid; was beaten off over London. “The WASHINGTON—There are sev- eral important developments be- hind the plan to make the North Atlantic safe for “all” ships of “all” nationalities, One is the conversion of the old battleship Wyoming into an aircraft carrier. From its decks, after con- version, airplanes will scout the North Atlantic for submarines. The Wyoming is the oldest battle- shi in the Navy, and came near being serapped at the London Naval Conference of 1930. However, the Japanese wanted to keep one of their old battleships as a training ship, so the Unitéd States countered that it would keep the Wyoming. Otherwise she would be scrap iron today—and probably sold to Japan. As a training ship, her big guns were removed, but the Wyoming still can serve as an effective airplane carrier—especially in the North At- lantic. Another development is the plan to take over the French luxuyy linep Normandie as another aircraft car- rier, Incidentally, the Normandie will be used not by the U. 8. Navy, but will be under Henry Morgen- thau as part of the Coast Guard. Tt will be the biggest vessel used by any Coast Guard in world history. The Normandie was secretly de- signed by the French for conversion into an aircraft carrier. A huge sports deck was built so that it could be quickly changed into an airplane landing deck. Two ele- vators were even installed at each end of the ship for the hoisting of planes, Starlet Tries to Kill Herself Bunny Hartley Once again beautiful Bunny Hartley, former model and now a movie starlet, pops into the news. This time with a tragic note, for, police say, she attempted to kill herself in her Beverly Hills, Cal, apart- ment after writing a love note to'her former husband, James Barry Feeley. Miss Hartley, whose hectic life with Feeley sometimes led her into eastern courts, is it Santa “Monica, Cal; hoSpital where she is recovering from an overdose o( sleeplnx mbleu EIGHT MEN SPLIT ICE CLASSIC AWARD;ALASKA SPIRIT NOW REVEALED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 5— Fred Miller, mining machinery { | "B( pro'esls | mechanic for the Caribou Mines, In- | corporated, a large placer mining | concern operating in the Kantishna F | district, near Mount McKinley Park, | who guessed the Nenana ice would ing of May 3, does not get the classic’s grand prize of $95,000 all by his lonesome. A message was received here late OnNefworks | { Saturday afternogn from J. E. Nas- |enius, Manager pof the Caribou Mma confirming the first reports | that Miller, named as the winner of | the Nenana ice contest was there !but asserted seven others of the |camp were partners with him on the winning date. Was Group Guess The message said: “Caribou Mines mining crew won National Broadcashng Co. Must Dispose of One System WASHINGTON, April 5—Officials of the National Broadcasting Com- pany indicated today that they {move at 1:50 o'clock on the morn- | BRITISH STRUGGLE ~ CRITICAL f | Reports Indicae Severe - Conflict Confinues-i § Iraq Oil Fields | (By Associated Press) \ In the Near East, Great Britain'sl, | struggle approached a ecritical stage' early this morning as the pro~ %German Government of Iraq cut} ‘llhe pipeline flow of oil to the Med~ iterranean, ) Late last night unconfirmed re- | ports said Iraq troops were en- | ircling the British air base gar-|, | rison at Lake Habbaniyal, 60 miles| "« | west. of Baghdad and closing in but{:* | advices direct from the British | headquarters at Cairo said most of! | the Air Force of Iraq has “beenti’ | already destroyed and the Iraq ar- tillery which pounded the besieged}: air base has been rendered help-!" | less by our aircraft.” Y | Later advices said the garrison | at Lake Habbaniyal is intact and fsurfered very few casualties. The official Cairo communique late this afternoon says British | | troops remain without interference |in the occupation of the Bastra {area at the head of the Persian | Gulf. | ;Blockade Here is a view. of the which the Greek government, E George 1I, has fled. -~ Mediterranean fortified jsland of Crete, to including King Crete, fourth in size among ds, 1s about-150 lmlu from the Mediterranean, | wMeeI the Man Who Could Runner Is " RunDown German Frelghter Inter- cepted by British Craft —Reported Sinking NEW YORK, May 5—The 3300-| ton German freighter Lech, which |left Rio de Janeiro five days ago !in an attempt to run the British blockade, was intercepted by a British auxiliary cruiser is is re- ported sinking off the Bahamas, Brazil maritime sources report. | No details were given. It is believed the crew scuttled the freighter when intercepted and with capture certain. The Lech arrived at Rio de Jan-| eiro on March 3. PAA DOUBLES BROKENUP BY BRITISH wEngllsh Troops Coumer- Attacking Against Com- bined Tobruk Forces (By Associated Press) As British Imperial Forces are counter-attacking German and Ital- | might challenge in the courts the Federal Communications Commis- sion order to force the corporation to discontinue either its Red or Blue | the Nenana ice classic. Eight in the | group, namely, Fred Miller, Matt | Bischoff, Herman Medford, Howard | | MacDonald, Francis Anderson, El- SCHEDULE OF ian troops at Tobruk, it was reported today that the British Middle East | command had broken up Axis prep- arations for renewed assaults. Heavy Network. The commission decided Saturday by a five to two vote to promulgate | Immediately upon receipt of the new regulations which Chairman |message, Pilot Frank Pollock flew Fly called the “Magna Carta of Am- | to Kantishna with a broadcasting erican radlo stations.” {crew of Radio Station KFAR with The regulations make it impos- proadcasting equipment with which sible for 'the NBC to continue t0 the men could tell their story to the operate the*two networks, and pro- v,orld over the air. Following the hibits the licensing of two stations | proadcast made by Miller, Nasenius, in the same area on one network pjschoff, Francis and Anderson, who unless it could be shown that this|yode a tractor 14 miles from the is being done in the public interests. | mine to the landing field for the The new rules regulate sharply con- pyrpose, Nasenius flew here with tract affiliations between mnetwork | pollock and the KFAR crew to es- | mer Larson, Arthur Erickson and J. E. Nasenius.” casualties have been inflicted on the encircled Libyan port. Axis forces are still holding a small sector of Tobruk's outer de- fenses, a war bulletin said. gttt 4 A L ALASKA TRIPS Four FIightsTom Seattle fo Juneau Announced by Air Line Today WASHINGTON, May 5.—The NAVAL DEFENSE masmvazo e | SEA AREAS IN | et | ALASKA GIVEN | read to him. NAZI SUBMARINE TACTICS The use of airplanes in spotting submarines in the North Atlantic was worked out partly as a result of Nazi tactics in locating British vessels, For some time the Nazis have used airplanes to spot British convoys, then radiod their location stations. Gets $10,000 Not Quarfer 0f Million SEATTLE, May 5—Mrs. Mar- garet Gable, 58, former saleswoman, has been awarded $10,000 by a Superior Court jury in a breach of promise suit brought against Jay' Allen, 72, prominent attorney. Mrs. Gable sought $225,000. ., MRS. BOTSFORD RETURNING Mrs. L. Botsford is returning to Juneau aboard the Princess Louise after vacationing in the south. S ‘tablish the identity of the winners. Alaska Spirit Revealed | The Alaska spirit asserted itself | when the eight men who won the | Nenana ice classic, promptly agreed |among themselves, on hearing the news, to pitch in $150 each for a {ninth, Al Anderson, the other man in the camp who was absent when ‘they formed the group which picked the winning hour, minute and date. | Anderson is a brother of Francis ‘ Anderson, one of the lucky eight. All winners are sourdoughs and have worked for Joe Nasenius, min- ing operator in various Alaska min- ing camps, over 10 years. ‘Their ages range from the ¢hirties | to the forties. | Personal Mention Nasenius has a wife and two sons (Continued on Page Seven) tween the United States and Alaska. g The proposal calls for four | + schedules weekly between Seat- | tle and Juneau, instead of the two scheduled flights from Boe- ing Field in Seattle to Juneau | which arrive in Juneau on Mon- days and Thursday and return to the south on Tuesdays and Fridays. | The company will operate non-stop schedules between Se- attle and Juneau and one-stop service between Juneau and Fairbanks. —————— PARENTS OF SON A baby son was born Saturday | evening at St. Ann’s Hospital to | Mr. and Mrs. Roland Emel. The infant tipped the scales at eight pounds, three ounces at birth. Dates Named Afier Which! No Private Vessels Al- | lowed in Sections SEATTLE, May 5—Capt. W. "H. Munter, Commandant of the Seat- tle District of the Coast Guard, announces that Naval Defense Sea areas will become effective at Una- laska Island and Kiska Island on May 14 and at Womens Bay, Ko- diak Island on June 22. After the dates pamed, no pri- | vate vessels of any nationality will be permitted to enter' the areas without a permit issued by the commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District. | was merely lonly claim to diplomatic NotHear; Goes Deaf When Ordered fo Make Profest AXISDRIVE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 5—I want you to meet the man who couldn't hear. He is tall, handsome, friendly Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to the United States. There isn't a thing wrong witn Mr, de Kauffmann's auricular pow- ers ordinarily, but he went stone deaf when the “Danish government” | test the seizure of those 58 Danish ships in Ameritan ports. He couldn’t hear again when Copen- , hagen denounced (and ordered him| to void) the pact he had signed with the United States authorizing| this country to take over the de-| fense of Greenland. For the third time, his ear drums| | refused | recalled as envoy extraordinary and ' Reichstag. 7 Minister to respond when he was| plenipotentiary to the! | United States. When finally a long cable came from Copenhagen wlth |a list of charges involving “treason- Kauffmann | able acts,” Mr. didn't even bother de to have them Speaking of those charges he smiles a blg warm Danish | smile’and says: “Any lawyer (,m go through the statutes and find| laws which he can chmg(- a man, with having broken. am lawyer has done his job.” WAS BORN IN GERMANY Despite the quiet intensity with which de Kauffmann is workiz day and night for his nation, his mhvrmt Scandinavian sense of humor is forever slipping out When Fascist papers in Rome de- nounced the Greenland treaty with an observation that de Kauffmann| “an adventurer, whose fame is that he happened to be born in Denmark,” the Minjsher stopped chuckling just long enough to ex- plain, “As a matter of fact, you| know, I was born in Germany.” He was, too — nationally known tect as well as chamberlain to the King of Denmark, and his mother were on one of the many trips they had to take in pursuit of his| father’s profession. - When Henrlk (Continued on Plao Seven® (4 Greek coast. The island is 35 miles wide ard 160 miles long. The British fleet controls the eastern ment will be safe here excepting for air raids. certainly ! ordered him to pm-‘ now, | | too | busy to be curious ubou( now this| at Frankfort-au-| Main in 1888. His father, an inter-| Danish archi-| ASLAND OF CRETE; WH ERE GREEK KING FLED NEW ACTION - IMPLIED BY PRESIDENT ‘Speech Carries Promise of Virtually Unlimited As- | sistance fo British STATEMENTS MADE " TAKEN TWO WAYS Senator Nmnfers Chief Executive Makes Feeler, Declaration of War WASHINGTON, May 5— Presi- dent Roosevelt's declaration that the American people are ‘“ever ready to fight again” for Democracy is interpreted in high Administration quarters as carrying a new prom- ise of virtually unlimited assis- tance to Nations resisting aggres- sion, This view is taken by some mem- bers of the party. who accompan- ied the President to Staunton, Va. where he made the statement yes- terday in dedicating the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson as a National shrine, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota commented: “If the Presi- dent is making a feeler to a dec- lardtion of war, he will be quickly surprise to see the people of Am- erica do not want to be involved.” Officials of the Presidential party noted that on the other hand, the | President did not say Americansare ready to go to war but drew a distinction between that and the actual words used in the present instance. s0 it is believed the Greek govern- HITLER MAKES BOAST ABOUT NAZI VICTORY s s o | covering strong material support of a Democratic nation rather than military involvement in war. The President said: “We are meeting to dedicate a new shrine of freedom. By this action we are bearing true witness to the faith that is in us, a simple faith in the freedom of Democracy in the world. It is a kind of faith which we fought for before and for the ex- istence of which we are ever ready to fight again.” U.S. WAR SUPPLIES AT SUEL Claim Made—26 American Ships Are Conveyed by Navy Craft - Denied VICHY, May 5.—Usually reliable diplomatic circles last Saturday afternoon reported that 26 American merchant ships, loaded to the fun- nels with arms and ammunition to aid the British in the Middle East, arrived at the Suez Canal. The same sources said the ships were convoyed by American war- ships. The news ran like wildfire through neutral diplomatic circles as well as official French quarters. Accounts said the ships carried {1ight tanks and anti-atrorafy sk among the arms and munitions. German Chancellor Tells Cheering Reichsfag Bet- ter Weapons Coming BERLIN, May 5—Germany and her Allies form a mightier combin- ation than any other possible coali- tion in the world, Hitler declared | Sunday as he said, “Neither force nor time can make us yield, let alone break.” What Germany has won, he cried, cannot be wrested from her “by any | power in the world. If already the | German soldier possesses the best | weapons in the world, he will receive still better ones this year and the | next,” Hitler shouted to a cheering | P Wilhelmstrasse sources said Hit- ler's reference to ‘“next year” was | made in answer to “English and | American propaganda that Germany will collapse if the war is not ended | this year” and should not be taken | as implying any prediction as to | when the war will pe over. i R | Britishers - Advancein -~ [ast Mrlca' [Losses Inflicted on Nazi Troops in African CRISP DENIAL . . WASHINGTON, May 5.—The re- campa|gn 4 Clalm | port from Vichy concerning Amer- ik ican warships acting as convoys for munition supply ships, brought the 10y Amnclaten Fxms) crisp comment from the Navy De- | In East Africa the British Com- partment that ‘no United States mand announced further advances Navy ships are employed in convoy against Amba Alaja, some 28 miles duty.” northeast of Addis Ababa. Fresh fighting has broken out in the ‘Salum sector of the North African e front. Mrs. Frank McPherson, wife of Along the Egyptian-Libyan bord- Suverintendent McPherson at the er, losses have been inflicted on| pPolaris-Taku Mine at Tulsequah, is | Axis troops and vehicles, it was an- | q passenger aboard the Princess ‘nounced, Louise after a trip to the south: — e RETURNING NORTH