The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8717. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN13 BRITISH BLITZ HITS RHINELAND F.D.R ORDERSSPEEDUP,BOMBER BUILDING U.S.NOWPLANNING _ CIVILIAN DEFENSE; MINUTE MEN OF "41 ARE T0 BE TRAINED This is the first disciosure of complete plans for U. S. civil- izn defense, For it Miss Arne obtained information from many government agencies. By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 6—Behind the cenes a master plan is being! completed here to train millions of minute men to protect the civll-i ian population—if war should come to the United States. | There is no prediction here that| war will come. But Army men say it would be official negligence, these days of total warfare, not to in| train civillans to protect them- selves. | This master plan includes the| programs for housing ang adequate | food about which you have heard much already. But the nub of the plan lies in giving civilians re- hearsals in fighting fires, dealing with incendiary bombs, protecting water supplies, augmenting commu- nication lines, spotting invading| air fleets—the defense techniques the British had to learn when war vas upon them. Many government specialists have cooperated ior months on these plans: Army and Navy men,| chem radio men conservation- ists, communications experts and| doctors. They have been assisted by | dozens of trained civilians. Neighborhood Affair Training will be given to policei and fire fighters. But the planalso calls for you and your neighbor and the man two-doors-down to register for volunteer training nndl rehearsals. ;Cupid Used a ;)‘; - Two sets of such people are al- ready getting their names on the dotted line. First are the volun- teer “air spotters” the Army is calling. Second, the amateur ra- dio operators. The Army wants 600,000 volun- teer “air spotters” signed up hy September 1. These spotters will be trained to identify military planes and to phone warning to air fields, Two Tractice sessions have been held. Gi. in New England, one around New York City. This fis how the rehearsals work. Suppose a minute-man farmer on Martha's Vineyard sees “enemy” craft. He runs to the nearest phone, shouts “army flash” to the qperator. She puts his call through to Mitchel Field, Long Island, so he can say, “Martha's Vineyard, six enemy two-engine bombers flying south. Overhead at * 9:52 . a.m., - altitude about 10,000 feet.” | In a region prepared for a re-| Blond Katrin Roselld}‘Czechactress, hearsal there will be many spot- §s pictured as she arrived in Los| ters. The calls will pile into the| regional air command, Mitchel Field. Each. call will help the air command plot the ilight on a map that will tell the officers) where to send interceptor planes. The Army says volunteers can! write to Brig. Gen. J. C. McDon-| nell, Mitchel Field, Long Island; | Brig. Gen. C. H. Wash, Fort| George Wright, Washington; Brig.| Gen. W. H, Frank, Tampa, Flor ida; or to Brig. Gen. M. F. Har-| mon, Riverside, Cal. | A pamphlet now being pre-| pared will be. sent to the volun- Turned Do n teers. It will include silhouette New York to wed Dr. A. P. Wach-/ statter, who proposed to her by tele- phone while she was in Sydney. The ator cut in to say, “He wants to know if you'll marry him.” Katrin 7 said, “Yes.” ; NG | "GO- WASHINGTON—To date, 40 bil- lion dollars has been appropriated by Congress for defense and aid to Britain, and everywhere the ques- tion is being asked, what is the sta- tus of this colossal armament pro- gram? Are the planes, the tanks, the guns, the ships, the munitions coming out of the factories in the quantities the critical world situa- tion demands? The answer to this biggest do- mestic question-mark varies from different authoritative sources. From President Roosevelt, Cabinet members, and OPM Director Gen- eral Knudsen have come optimistic | assurances. John Biggers, conscient- jous OMP Production chief, recently told a Senate committee, “We are | within 100 days of quantity output | of defense production.” But from others equally informed have come less cheerful opinions. Bernard Baruch, tall, outspoken head of the World War Industries Board, has bluntly told Roosevelt and Defense chiefs that the progress of the defense program is too slow and too lax. Potent New Deal executives have added the complaint that industry generally is still too intent on “busi- ness as usual.” They also contend that despite the size of the defense program, it is still far short of real security for the nation and should immediately be greatly expanded: Little has been said publicly, but this is a very live subject in inner circles and has been discussed more than ever in recent weeks. Now it Rockefeller ( Decisive Battle Over Con- | trol of Iraq Fuel De- posits Looming Supporterof | HH (By Associated Press) " Is e p A decisive battle to control Iraq's rich oil reservoirs' appeared inevit- Emphatically Strong Lef- | able today after both the British |and the Iragi rejected a Turkish offer of mediation and an Egyptian 2 appeal for a peaceful settlement. fer on SUb]e(' Is Made The British Middle East head- e | quarters said fighting in the oil Publicin New York | Kingdom has soread a5 RA® panes — | are blasting Iraqi military positions NEW YORK, May 6—John D.!at Diwaniya and meotor transports Rockefeller, Jr., has come out strongl at Falluja. for aid to Great Britain. TR On April 25, Mr. Rockefeller sent a letter to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, of this city, stating his viewpoints explicitly and in a straight forward manner that leaves no doubt as to (By Associated Press) his stand. As an aftermath to the Battle of The letter, released today, is as briefly. the Balkans, Axis powers today be- even if it meant a fight, I have that we should stand by the British | Mrs. McPherson has been: visiting MRS. McPHERSON RETURNS “You and I have had several talks during recgnt months regarding the relation of the Americas to the European war. There are certain definite conclusions which I have now reached. May I state them my life T have hated it. I have al- Hitler's Command announced the | ways preferred the ways of peace|German occupation of the Lesbos, nnd. have followed them whenever|and Chios Islands in the Aegean possible. But when all peaceful Sea, only ten miles from the Turk- methods have failed and the issue|ish mainland. was worth standing for at any price, e, — “That is my position regarding| Mrs. Frank McPherson, wife of | the present conflict. It is my firm |the superintendent of the Canadian conviction, arrived at in anguish|Polaris-Taku mine, is enroute to of spirit, that the people of the|Tulsequah today after arriving in United States and of all the Amer-|Juneau last night on the north- icas should see this conflict through; |bound steamer Princess Louise. (Omflnmdu”fi l (Continued on Page Seven) ) follows: “Dear Mr. Sulzberger: “Let me say at the outset that,|gan taking over Greek islands in | like most people, I hate war. All|¢he Mediterranean. { never hesitated to see it through on that basis. relatives in Montana for the past few months, Phone | Angeles from Australia on rotte to | tolls were mounting when the oper- | URGENT - REQUEST Secrefary of Wér Given In- structions fo Increase Production MONTHLY OUTPUT IS GIVEN, SECRET NOTE tReports Assert 500 Long Rangers, 4 Motors, De- mand Every 30 Days WASHINGTON, May 6.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has made a big boost {in heavy bomber production an urgent objective and has instructed | Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson | to get the job done with “all pos- | sible speed.” ] The President gave Stimson a secret production figure mark to be attained which authori- long-range four-motored bombers as monthly output. The bombers will be far greater than the present hombers, airmen | claim. | The President made the call for “substantial” production increases jin a night letter sent to Secretary | Stimson directing the latter to “take whatever action needed” to attain [the production rate set in the pri- vate memorandum and ended with the statement the “command of the air by the democracies must and can be achieved.” FOR TOP SPEED WASHINGTON, May 6. — The | of big bombers and has also desig- nated Major General James Burns, assistant to Harry L. Hopkins, to handle much of the detailed work under the British Aid bill. Another step was made by the | President, who directed Secretary | of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard | to set up a special division to handle the work previously assigned to the Agricultural Division of the Defense Commission. EDEN BANKS FOR VICTORY ON U. 5. AID British Foreign Secrefary Gives Review of War Before Commons LONDON, May 6.—British For- eign Secretary Anthony Eden today told the members of the House of Commons that the sooner war materials reach the battlefields in Africa and Europe the sooner the| war will end. | Eden expressed faith that Turkey will stand by Great Britain in the present crisis and told the Arab Ppeoples, including the Iraquis, to be- ware of an Axis victory. During Eden’s review, which he opened with a statement by the government that there is now time for a full dress debate on the con- duct of the war, heckling members of the House of Commons many times interrupted the Foreign Sec- retary, especially in reference to United States aid with “let us do our bit ourselves.” Once Eden promptly replied that he is “presupposing the maximum efforts ourselves and the United States.” Government critics, among them (Continued on Page Eight) IS MADE Secretary | tative reports assert calls for 500 | ! President has called in the top flight | men of his Cabinet, Army and Navy, | | to discuss stepping up production | poration. | o Firing at a target 12 miles out at "I GIANT CLIPPERS READY FOR ATLANTIC HO The Dixie Clipper (background) taxies away from the seaplane base at La Guardia Field in New York preparatory for a takeoff on a regular flight to Lisbo n, Portugal, with 34 passengers aboard. In the fore- ground is a 42-ton clipper type flying boat due to be turned over to the British Overseas Airways Cor- v sea, large caliber defense guns at Fort Barry, near San Francisco, blasted away at a practice session. ‘ Officers said ten rounds were direct hits. | BURY U. § i By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 6 — In a hole in the ground in Kentucky, the U.8.A. has nearly all of its gold buried. Some day, in a hole in the ground in Kansas (or somewhere) the country may have much of its culture buried. Archibald MacLeish, head of the Library of Congress, has been push- ing the Library’s M-day scheme for months. He now is able to re- port that before any bomb blasts the - old-fashioned building that 1,500,000, maps -and cartographers’ IN HOLE IN GROUND | photographs, houses more than 6,000,000 books, THEY ARE READY TO CULTURE nearly pieces of music, and at least half miluon 1mne prints, plans will have been completed to make some; 600,000 of the most treasured of) these items safe against blitzkrieg.| The details are a secret, but| since they are based on the ex-| periences of great libraries abroad,| some conclusions may be drawn. | In the first place, there is the problem of the selection of books, manuscripts, prints, to be saved, To get at this, Librarian Mac- Leish appointed Dr. Jerrold Orne that many | a (Continued on Page Eighw P |GERMAN | VALLEY ~ RAIDED | :Many Industrial Cenfers Are Heavily Bombed During Night by RAF | NAZI HELD FRENCH COAST IS ATTACKED Channel Ports of Boulogne and Cherbourg Shelled with Heavy Damage (By Associatd Press) Germany’s Rhineland last night felt the scourge of a “Made in Eng- |land” blitz in a series of raids by | the British Air Force bombers. | Attacks were made on Frank- | On-the-Main Mannerheim and other R cient university town of Heidelberg, known as the result of the student duels, and hit the academic hospital and other university buildings. The British statement omits any men- URGED NOW, "GET TOUGH' b= o == The official British communique St said a “great weight of high ex- | plosive bombs” was rained on Man= Senator Pepper Wants Cer- | nemeim white ‘other xar ravrs A | attacked the channel ports of Bou~ fain Islands to Be Oc- | iogne ‘and Cnerbours with’ neavy cupied Immediately | ™ —eee— HITLER HITS BOTTLE UP JAPANESE | Sendrll::;%:—:'eflgo‘::e‘: ’ BA(K STRO"G " AT SCOTLAND to China, But Be Man- ned by Americans i wastaton. way o—peca- Refaliates on British for ot éio lough.” United States | Raids Made onmg‘er. many Last Night Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, | (By Associated Press) today urged this nation, in coopera- ! tion with Great Britain to at once| occupy Greenland, Iceland, the| Azores, Canary Islands, Singapore,| pytier's juftwaffe last night count- anger?fitz:r‘f"::)e:r‘:‘r;‘;:gmm also €red with equally as violent raids on - the British Isles as the RAF made carried these recommendations: | on the Rhineland. That the United States and Brit- The Nazi raiders struck again at [ | Rhine industrial centers as well as | the Nazi held French coast. | . . A Berlin annoncement said ‘the | British Air Force bombed the an- fic and shut up the Japanese fleet. ed from Sunday night's attack. That long range bombers, manned The Germans made a fierce at- by American pilots, enlisting volun- ' 420 on various sections in Scot- tarily, be made available for China. 1514 the vast Clyde River shipyards Senator Pepper commented that & ' gng Liverpool’s Merseyside docks. “few bombers, flown by American ' —The British report admitted much pilots, would not leave enough of gamage was done and it is believed Toyko to build a bonfire.” there will be reports of large casual- The Senator submitted his pro- gieg gram in a speech prepared for de-| One Nazl bomb hit a Belfast livery in the Senate. | shelter and twelve persons were DA e A killed. | ’lsh navies join openly on the Pacl- ' paifact where 79 deaths are report- PRI NEW YORK, May 6 — Closlng‘ g quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| 79%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem| MADE TODAY Steel T1%, Curtiss Wright 8%,/ ic 7%, United States Steel 53 7/8,| Pound $4.08%. ’ vow, sones averaces | Sfreefs of Dover Machine Jones averages: industrials 117.10,) rails 29.22, utilities 17.77 1 rage Is Attacked IN ON LOUISE — Representing Keny-Douglas com-| (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) rived in Juneau on the northbound schmitts flashed across the channel Princess Louise. !this afternoon and spattered ma- The most popular state bird is the Dover and also stabbed at the town's western meadow lark, representing balloon barrage.. Three of the bal- STOCK QUOTATIONS FLA ;H RAID stock today is 4%, American Can General Motors = 38, International Harvester 44, Kennecott 33%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacif-| The following are today's Dow,| Gunned-Balloon Bar- o A S pany of Vancouver, W. Forrest ar-| A daylight formation of Messer= - e —— |chine gun bulets on the streets of seven states. loons were sent down in flames,