The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1941, Page 1

! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8722. & 14 ® & & EXTRA HITLER'S BIG SHOT - MISSING Rudolph Hess Believed to% Have Crashed Pilof- | ing Own Plane NUMBER 3 MAN OF GERMANY DISAPPEARS | Strange Note Left in Which | Mental Disrangement Is Indicated BULLETIN.—May 12.—Rudolf flcss, the Number 3 Nazi Lead- cr, landed by airplane in Scot- land it is officially announced tonight. The 47-year-old head of the | Naticnal Sccialist Party landed by parachute from a Messer- schmitt fighting plane which crashed near Glasgow. At first Hess gave his name as Horn but ! loter said he was Hess. Berlin dispatches previously rcported he had been missing since Sunday on an unauthor- ized flight. Berlin declared him as mentally ill. BERLIN, May 12.—Rudolf Hess, Hitler’'s deputy, has crashed in a plane, according to an announce- | Small boat which took them prisol ment by the Nazi party leaders. right). Hess is reported missing since Sat- many via the Orient. urday after taking off on a flight Honolulu. in his own plane. | While sailors from the Canadian auxiliary cruiser Prince Robert stood guard, the four German fliers aboard the American liner President Garfield, were marched to the ggil and down a jacob’s ladder to a The aviators (in civilian clothes) were trying to reach Ger- The Garfield was stopped 400 miles from “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L4 L4 ners of war to the eruiser (upper Hess has been in. failing health 2 ol 2 21 (Continued on Page Eight) | ]APANESE SR A e PRI o o el ‘ (Claim 15,000 Chinese Sol- -Go. | diers Killed-Fight Rages i in Terrific Rain Storm WASHINGTON. — Recently, an! OPM press release announced that plans were being formed to spread| SHANGHAI, May 12. — Japangse out the placing of defense steel or-| military authorities asserted their ders so that all plants worked to a forces are closing in on Chinese maximum of capacity. Behind that! troops in the southwest Shansi was a neat scheme—but it died Province after a battle that cost aborning. » ' the Chinese 15000 dead and 8,000 The plan sounded reasonable, but captured. the Justice Depqtm.nt's,Anti-’rrust' Fighting raged during torrential Division was startled when the OPM | rains and the Japanese assertted requested an opinion on the legal-| the battlefields were churned into ity of setting up a board within the | quagmires. industry to farm out the Govern-! —_———— ment’s orders. This savored Stl'cmglyl‘ of the outlawed NRA code authori-/ ties, and the trust-busting officials| looked disapprovingly down their| noses. Then they spotted something that caused them really to blow up.| This was the discovery that the proposed board was to consist of | Benjamin F. Fairless, head of giant U. S. Steel; Tom Girdler, turbulenl.l labor-battling czar of Republic RAF Make Attack on Libyan Seapori-Three Large Fires Are Started Steel; and Ernest T. Weir, president of Weirton Steel and foe of the Wagner act. | The Anti-Trust explosion was s0 vehement that the OPM, without, H poLicy | CAIRO, May 12,—British planes Ax?(gge[: N(Eol:i ;:’l:hbor" gest,uubnttacked shipping in Bengasi (Lib- will soon be made to our immedi-|ya) harbor on Sunday and started ate neighbor o the south, Mexico, | three large fires in the mole. This a pigeonhole. It is now gathering dust. | ~ BATILING ~INCHINA JapanAlone.sactiie: withdrew the plan and buried it in! luwme East Command, waiting for a formal answer, hastily | R eiurermer| 1 10 DEPICIS) announcement by the (Continued on Page Four) Says China Will Fight Chiang Kai Shek Makes Pointed Talk at John- son Farewell Party CHUNGKING, China, May 12.— Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek de- clared in a speech here Saturday night that China, without help of any expeditionary force or naval ac- tion but with material and economic aid, is prepared to undertake single handed the task of putting down Japan. Chiang Kai Shek also added that it is his conviction that “any coun- try in the world, matching itself against the American democracy, will meet certain destruction.” Chiang Kai Shek spoke at a fare- well dinner given in honor of United States Ambassador Nelson T. John- son, leaving China to became Amer- ican Minister to Australia. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 12. — Closingi quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 79, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel T1%, Commonwealth and Southern | %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Mot~ ors 39%, International Harvester 44, Kennecott 34%, New York Central! 13%, Northern Pacific 7%, United | States Steel 54!, Pound $4.03%. L4 HIGH NAZI OFFICIA ~ GERMANS TAKEN OFF SHIP | | misunderstanding, let me state at | JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1941. PRICE, TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TERRIFIC AIR RAIDS ARE STAGED 04 & 04 sl HOOVER | OPPOSES CONVOYS Declares Protection of Navy Means Dictator- ship, War Enirance NEW YORK, May 12—Herbert Hoover declared here that United States convoys will catapult this unprepared nation into immediate war and paradoxically result in ti curtailment of material aid to Great| Britain. Using the Navy to guard war ship< ments to Britain, Hoover also de- clared, will lead to a “dictatorship | of our own, a total war, and post- war bankruptey.” Breaking a silence of six months over the controversy, as he called it, | of “whether we should be in this war,” Hoover spoke over a Red net- work of the NBC last night. In this sentence he summed up his convictions: “That there be no | the outset, I support the provision |’ for maximum tools of war for Bm-” ain. I am convinced that we can.! give this to the maximum during | her next critical months but only if | we keep out of this war. Putting , BRITISH PRISONER BIG COAST This big coast defense rifle sticks its nose target miles at sea, then disappears. Soldiers of the Sixth Coast Artillery are bringing up another shell (right) te be rammed into the breech as soon as the gun drops into position on its disappedring mount. & & 4 4 (4 4 4 s GERMAN B CENTERS SHELLED ‘Brifish Capilal City Again Withstands Intense Aitack at Night 'RESCUE WORKERS . DIGGING FOR VICTIMS [large Armadas of Both Figthing Nations Swap !, Blows at Each Other | (By Associated Press) | London’s millions trudged to work today through acres of fire-black- ened ruins in the heart of the Brit- ish Empires’ capital, scarred anew by a luftwaffe of volence over the weekend but the millions of Lo ers knew that Germany was fe the sting of a big scale aerial count- |er offensive as an armada of 100 | Royal Alr Force warplanes bombed | Hamburg and Bremen last night, leaving many large fires raging in | both cities as the result of Britain's DERASEGUNSS 7 % 2 PEAS over the parapet at Fort Barry, near San Franeisco, fires at a our Navy into action, is joining this war and the whole European situa- | tion and the transformation of Am- erica, as yet unprepared even for adequate defense of our people, who | are not ucited.” .Iraq—fllzck_ IsRepulsed | ' By British Violent Figfig Reported | Taking Place Around Fort Rutba BEIRUT, Iraq, May 12.—The Gen- forces have repulsed violent fighting around Fort Rutba. The British statement says the | forces lost two armored cars in the | attack and a British plane was | ¢ caught in machine gun fire from the ground and was downed. The attack- ers were hit hard and losses were heavy the statement declares. ~ NEW FIGHTER CLAIMED WORLD'S FASTEST The Lockheed Aircraft Company at Burbank, Calif,, called it's “Lightning” P-38 interceptor combat plane (above), now in production for the U. cham said it traveled 458 miles per hour. new super bombs. The official British communique said other British Air Forces attack- |ed Emden and raided other points !in Nazi-held Holland, Rotterdam, ToET R B 25570 BET™ Tjmuiden and the seaplane base on ‘ . ' | the island of Texel. The attacks are evidently designed to cripple the Nazi concentration points German Assaults Overnight assaults were made by the German raiders on flying bases in southern, central and southwest- ern England. Nazi quarters in Berlin said many multi-motored planes are believed to have been damaged or totally de- stroyed as attacks were made on RAF airdromes. The Nazi quarters declare that 20 British airdromes were attacked by “several hundred German bombers, the pilots espee- jally seeking out flying fie from which the long-range RAF bombers set out on their attacks on the Reich.” London itself had the lightest night raid last night in three weeks but thousands of residents huddled in shelters fearful of another bomb- ing stormn hitting ‘the Capital City like'gy, Saturday night when the at- tack’{; d early in the evening. “Wigging in Ruins Resctfé workers were still digging in the ruins this morning for vietims | that the all-out attack inflicted. Un- counted dead and wounded is re- ported from the Saturday night at- . Army, the world’s fastest fighting plane. Test Pilot Milo Bur- —————— 11 DEFENSE WORKS DLE, BIG STRIKE Shipyards and Drydocks From Qur By JACK STINNETT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 12.— Eleven shipyards and drydocks with contracts for half a billion dollars retary of the Treasury Morgenthau and his staff looked over our re- cent expenditures and commit- New Defense 'Siamp and . Bond Plan Takes a Cue ! stamps, WASHINGTON, May 12 — The| H 2 national defense stamp and bond Par?lyzed In San‘Fran icampa\gn isn't nearly so compli-‘i C1SCo Bay Sedlon |cated as it sounds, and it has its lighter moments. For example, Sec-| tack. One single bomb smashed through a hotel and exploded in the base- |ment where 140 persons had taken refuge. Y Westndfnster Abbey, House of Par- liament, including Big Ben, were among the vencrated symbols of the British Empire scarred anew in the six-hour shower ives and MELOS IS ~ OCCUPIED l‘ House of ‘Commons 0 badly e |damaged that it cannot be. used Another Greek Island Tak- ™ra. “iitwacte wsea between 500 en Over by German and lfalian Forces co-workers. looked through the land 400 planes in the raid Satur- | day night | - e books and they found two things.,| BERLIN, May 12.—Germon troops They found first the war savings have occupied Melos Island in the stamps and liberty bonds of the Cyclades group, 75 miles north of CAPTAIN OF REDWING World War, Then they discovered Crete, according to-authorized Ger- of explo: Posfal Savings next year and a half from defense baby bofids ‘and defense bonds—but the estimates are un-| official. Those in the know set the| goal around three billion.) | 8o Secretary Morgenthau and his| was ONCE ON TALLAPOOSA of warship and other defense con- struction are closed today by a joint strike of CIO and AFL machinists. Between 15,000 and 20,000 workers are normally employed in plants where 1700 machinists walked out in the face of a protest from the government and high union offic- ials. The machinists are striking for DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, of double time for overtime which director will Jones averages: industriasl, 117.1 rails, 28.80; utilities, 17146. ) $1.15 an hour in place of the present $1 hourly wage, and for continuation 'ehey claim they have had for tht»l past 23 years, ments, The hired hands burned some midnight oil and the answer |was that we would need something |in the vicinity of three billion dol- lars cash in the next year or 18 months that couldn't be washed up by the ordinary bonding methods. (The Treasury officials won't say (exactly how much, because that | would be establishing a goal—and 'gonls are hard to reach, as every communpity chest or charity fund tell. you | prompting. The estimates run from one to six billion needed in the without | the postal savings stamps | bonds. Presto, they combined the, two and what they got really— Cyclades islands Germany and Italy with slight modifications—was the Nave announced as occupying so far. postal savings system in defense dress. HADN'T PLANNED 10-CENTERS | Known resident of Juneau, now Al- The discovery seemed such a ®Ska Agent for the Standard Ol find and, according to Treasury Company, passed through Juneau | Department gossip, officials were in such a hurry to adopt it, that " (Contlaued on Pege Six) and | Man souces. Lt. D. H. Brallier, now in com- mand of the Coast Guard cutter Redwing, which docked in Juneau yesterday on a several mond cruise to the Westward, was former- ly stationed on the Tallapoosa here. JORGENSEN TO WESTWARD Brallier was Lt. Junior Grade Martin S. Jorgensen, former well when he was stationed on the Tal- lapoosa here eight years“ago. Melos is the twelfth of Greece's —— B e G R e There are more meadow mice aboard the Baranof for the west- than any other mammal in the ward and interior. He visited rela- | United States, W. W. Dykstra cof tives and friends while the steamer | the United States Fish and Wild- was in port Sunday. life Service reports