The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1941, Page 1

obtained.” THE DAILY ALASKA E VOL. LVIL, NO. 8723. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY, 13, 1941. IRE PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — FLIGHT OF HESS STILL MYSTERY RAF.RAIDERS SET G ONE THOUSAND MILE - DEFENSE ZONE S OVERNIGHT ATTACKS MANY ARE Whole Blockbs of Buildings Ablaze in Two Indus- frial Centers RAILWAY SHEDS AT (OLOGNE BOMBED Coblenz She—llgd by Royal Air Force - Splendid Results Atfained LONDON, May 13 —Fires 2 whole blo of buildings” set in the industrial center of Mann- »im and sister city of Ludwigshaf-! en in an overnight raid by British Air Force bombers, the British Air Ministry announced this morning. | ires were also started at Cologne, | | | | These fires were among the railway sheds and elsewhere in the center of the eity. A fierce attack was also made during last night on Coblenz and both explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped with “splendid results — e, SCHWAMM LANDS HERE Petersburg pilot Tony Schwamm arrived in Juneau early this morn- ing with three passengers in his ‘Waco monoplane. The pilot is scheduled to return today. | ———.———— Cthe WASHINGTON—Every train to ‘Washington brings a group of small business men with rumpled collars and bulging brief cases. They've heard high officials declare that the defense boom should be evenly distributed. They've read about a sub-contracting program for the smaller firms. So they come to her objective-by RAF raiders.! | RMAN CITIES AFIRE [ | | LAGUARDIA DEFENSE LINE - President Roosevelt has said U ; The iégs Have It town loaded with blue-prints and inventories of machine tools. The visitors wait patiently in De- fense offices to ask the same ques- tion: “When do we get contracts or sub-contracts?” Then they go home empty-handed, cussing the ‘“bu- reaucrats running the defense pro- gram.” What they don't know is that the issue of sub-contracting is being fought over daily, and with in- creasing bitterness, at the inner conference tables of the Office of Production Management. The ques- tion is whether OPM should crack down on the big primary contrac- tors and force them to farm out their piled-up orders. The powerful big industry clique says “No.” It argues that forced sub-contracting would be costly and unreliable. Bob Mehornay, a liberal small business man in charge of sub-contracting, hotly denies this and is battling to overrule them. He wants authority to decide) whether overloaded big contractorsj should get additional machine tools through the "Priorities Board. He wants to be consulted on giving the big fellows extensions of time to complete their overdue orders, also to require them to make peri- odic progress reports. The cold facts are that although 200,000 firms are available for de- Meet June Cox, the girl with the most beautiful legs in America. She was selected from six famous leg models who competed as finalists in an “ldea! American Legs” contest n New York. Axis Forces Beafen Back . EgyptDrive British Mechanized Forces Easily Defeat Ad- vancing Columns CAIRO, May 13.—British mechan- ized troops have easily beaten back! five small advancing columns of Axis troops.in the Salum area, on the Egyptian frontier, the British headguarters announced this morn- ing. S. naval ships could eperate any- where deemed necessary for hemisphere defense, and Chief of Naval Opcartions Harcld R. Stark has disclosed that at some Wpints ships are cruising as far as 2,000 miles offshore. DOES IT MEAN! T, 0 %L . b S % 1 By MORGAN ‘M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer the answer to the question, “How | close is war to American shores?” All you have to do is to take: 1. The Hitler combat zone as revised by the German government on March 26, and superimpose on that— 2. The American defense line 1,- 000 miles from American shores from Greenland south to Florida, as defined on April 28 by Chair- man F. H. LaGuardia of the Unit- ed States - Canadian permaneat Jjoint defense board, and then draw on top of that— 3. The steamer lanes between| Halifax and Liverpool, over which most of our aid to Britain, must; travel. | When you have done all these things (See Map) you have a mid- Atlantic trouble spot, where Amer-| ican patrols, British convoys, and/ German blockaders might meet. Washington’s closest observers of the war scene suggest that when Americans patrols meet German sub or surface raiders close ‘o British convoys, the stage is set for! fireworks. | The next question is, Will they go off? If the observers read their his-; tory right, the answer to that question has been left at this! stage of the game to Adolf Hitler.| Here's how: During the first World War, President Wilson created an Amer- ican precedent, backed by a ma-| jority of the American public of that day. | Before we entered that war, a; series of public statements and notes exchanged between the Unit- ed States, Great Britain and Ger-| many, made it clear that the Unit- ‘ ed States would ultimately fight if the European belligerents sank American vessels, or vessels on which American eitizens were le- gally traveling. WASHINGTON, May 13 — It iii possible to draw on a map part of| HESS TELLS OWN STORY OF lANDINGf Upside Down Before Taking Leap GLASGOW, Scotland, May 13. —Rudolf Hess, Ne. 3 Nazi lead- er, told his stery of his flight from Germany, in a calm veice, of flying to Great Britain with an extra gas tank abcard his plane and guided by a map of a route to “Ausburg, Scotland.” The route ¢n the map was mark- ed by blue pencil. Nazi Official Turns Plane | EXTRA, He told his story to two Home Guardsmen who took him in custody last Saturday night. Hess said he circled for a long time over the Scoftish country- “side intending {6 land his plané bat finally teck to the parachute, after turning the plane upside down to help himsclf out of the cockpit. Hess said, acccrding to the stery he gave the Heme Guards- men: “I climbed several thou- sand feet, threw the plane over on its back, switched cff the en- gine. Just as I was falling cut, 1 righted the plane again, switched on the engine and sent the plane hurling to the earth while I feli clear.” Hess told the Home Guards- men he fitted the extra gaso- line tank to his plane to make certain he had encugh fuel for the 800-mile flight but dropped the extra gas tank into the sea when be crossed the coast of Scotland. When the guards took Hess into custody he told them there are “ne bombs in my plane so you need not worry.” Speéch by Roosevelt (ancelled Address Wed_nesday Night fo Diplomats Is Off- Fireside ChatMay 27 WASHINGTON, May 13 — The speech President Roosevelt was to deliver Wednesday night to the diplomats of the Latin-American Nations, now in session here, has been cancelled, according to an an- nouncement made by the White House. The speech was to have been broadcast. The President instead will make one of his fireside chats on the night of May 27. LODESTAR DUE TO LAND HERE FROM SEATTLE Germany at first respected that position, refrained - from sinking’ A Pon American Lodestar. which cancelled its scheduled trip to Ju- American ships. Later she revised neau from Seattle yesterday. is in her position, flatly announced she‘d‘the air today and expected to land carry on unrestricted submarine'in Juneau after 5 o'clock this af- warfare against ships she thought!terncon. Passengers on hoard the were carrying aid to Britain. The:plane, which left Boeing Field at United States went to war. noon, were not listed at press time. One Electra roared out of Juneau Before the present Euraopean war|this afternoon with six passengers broke out, our neutrality law ml booked for Fairbanks. Passengers passed, designed to keep American|Wwere Ike Taylor, G. W. Folta, Lois - e | Booth, E. D. Zylstra, W. A. Hesse (Continued on Page Six) and Chuck Carmody. ] I | |seen through the smoke. | flagration and may continue to Le| _Here is Uncle Sam’s newest addition to the ai turned out by the Chrysler Corporation at n (left) and a 37 mm. cannon (center), e (ev) where it was presented to the U. S. Arm: Urges Perkins Ouster '] Arms upraised, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia is shown after his speech in Washington demanding the ouster of Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. He declared the post should be filled with a “two- fisted man” capable of keeping industry and labor working together harmoniously to avoid strikes in defense plants. forésl Firesin East Reach 5310in 10 Days; Service vIs Handicapped unless heavy rains come. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 13 — TI've been fighting forest fires. Of course, SOME INCENDIARISM it was from an armchair in the “Smokers and illegal or careless Forest Service and the only smoke brush burners seem to have been I'got in my eyes came from a cig-| responsible for most of the fires,” arette. But what I heard was hot says Regional Forester R. M. Evans, enough to singe the hair on the “but children and deliberate burn- back of my neck. | ers have played their part. “Pressed by an advanced spring In ten days, I was told, 5310 el 1 fires were reported from 14 eastern season,” he conthuo , “many farm- and northeastern states, with an €'s started cleaning up brush and tarly estimated loss of about $3,- trash without suffieient regard for 000,000 and the gutting of moie weather condltlol‘w," e Lo than & quarter of a million acres/ Some day the statistics may seep 4 | through as to just how many ar- of forest, woodland and brush . . . p not to mention homes, c.hu.rchuu.|res""' fines and jail sentences have sl 3 r cotta; "‘re.sullcd from this recent spr stt’);:s. barns and summer cottag e s ghatimte s atid .~ when e thing has happened so! quickly that Acting Forest Ser- doe‘s, e SmeR Rt e Amanng, vice Chief Earl H. Clapp's boys| " :pnere was a dearth of firefight- haven't had time yet to analyze o gome of it resulted from the all the reports, but, from the Blue| joronge program. Most volunteer Grass of Kentucky to the woods| g efighting squads are composed of Maine, enough is known about| e young men, The draft had causes that a few things can be .40 huge gaps in these squads.| lswnndly. there have not been Take the weeks of drouth that| ;g fire epidemics like this dried the winter -killed under-| ocent years in the East and most| brush and grass to tinder. Take ,¢ tne amateurs weren't up to the warm dry weather that drove| .ure on snuffing out fires. | hundreds of thousands of careless Report after report in the for- tourists and picnickers into WOOdS‘esters' records show that back- a;)d-llddg. Take the fact that one ryo. were started without any fire leads to another in the twisted | y),u1edge of how. the wind Wi mind of a pyromaniac. Add "u'hlow or whether they could be, these and you'see why most of ‘the | .o irolled to meet the head-fires, eastern seaboard was ripe for con- ____ in| e (Continued on Page Four) rsenal of democracy, the first of 685 M-3 medium tanks to be a cost of $34,000,000. The 28-ton monster carries a 75 mm. as well as machine guns in the turret. It is shown in Detroit, . of the Nazi Socialist Party - TRIP STARTS ~ OFF RUMORS | Nazi Chief, Number 3, May | Give Out Information | Where fo Strike ' PARTY LEADER RESTING | IN SCOTTISH HOSPITAL |Offical’s Getaway Indi- cates Splif in Ranks of ! Fuehrer Since Purge | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ! The German Propaganda Office |describes thé melodramatic 800-mile Iflight of Rudolf Hess, Number '3 | Nazi man, to Scotland, as the act | of a man “mentally deranged because |of physical illness,” while elsewhere speculations arose as to whether |the Nazi Deputy, leader of the Na- tional Socialist Party, might divulge information where to strike a serious blow at Hitler's war plans, as the British Forelgn Office experts ques- tioned Hess in a Scottish hospital. Nazi Split Indicated i U.S. Army Receives First of 28-Ton Tanks - 'SOLO PLANE (OR(ORA“ | Minister of Information Alfred Ior Britons at Hess’s capture and | further said: “I can only say his ar- rival in Scotland shows the first e — | curred since Hitler murdered a huge f 'bloc of his followers on June 30, RCDUbh(afl cOflgfessmafl‘xm a purge which Hess executed RT DoeSn ' I-lke Sme" believed he would be a purge vic- tim next. Countering the German assertions WASHINGTON, May 13. — Rep. |point out that for a madman, Hess Robert F. Jones, Ohio Republican, made an adroit job of flying 800 today demanded in the House an miles from Germany to Scotland, Thomas Corcoran, former adminis- | landing place for his Messerschmitt tration aide. |in the darkness, Jones called attention to testi- Ankle Is Broken | Harold L. Ickes that Corcoran re- /in his parachute jump from his | cently discussed with him the ques- | Messerschmitt, one of his ankles [tion of a government loan to a|was broken. Soon after he was dis- IlAla.ska. R. E. Havenstrite proposed hospital uny guard. | the government finance drilling a |%Hess carried photographs of him- new test well in the Iniskin district. |Self taken at various ages, appar- :holds oil and gas leases issued by |tity, although at first he denied he | the Interior Department and that|was Hess and said his name was the oil man was a client of Cor-|Horn. | S i gy last Saturday, flying a plane. He had i been forbidden to go into the air by { | Hitler, and &s a result of his flight, [all of his aides have been arrested |as the Fuehrer declares they knew | lEAD E Rs Io i VR el RO | ] ¥y Duff Cooper told of great rejoicing |breach in the Nazi Party has oc- under Hitler's orders. Hess may have of Alaska Oil that Hess is mentally ill, the British investigation of current activities of | bailing out when he failed to sight a | mony by Secretary of the Interior| When Hess landed on the ground private oil prospecting venture in‘mvered Hess was taken to a Scot- The Congressman said Havenstrite (ently intended §o establish his iden- coran’s. | Hess disappeared from Germany " GATHERNOW HESS FLIGH Men of reich wil Meet, COURAGEQUS | Hitler-New Service E SAYSLONDON Is Expected Nazi Official Rests in Scol- tish Hospital - Has The gathering follows the flight! Shgh' leg Pain of Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, who, [,ONDON, May 13. — Informed parachuted to safety from his s0lo| sources sgid tonight that Rudolf plane in Scotland, |Hess's flight to Scotland “obviously ST e entailed a high degree of physical SHEll MAKB mlp and moral courage.” He injured one of his legs in bail~ Io (o‘s' I" VEG ing out from his Messerschmidt plane, Carrying two passengers to the The informant said: “Hess is in & Coast, pilot Shell Simmons winged hospital bed, is in regular army pa- out of the Channel this morning jamas and is resting comfortably. in the Lockheed Vega with Ernie He has a slight pain in the leg.” Whitehead for Hoonah and John The informant also said “Hess Is Hendrickson for Hirst. The pilot is spending his time resting, dozing, due to return with three passen- reading periodicals and writing” and. gers from Sitka, one from Hirst' added he is ‘“eating simple hospital’ and one from Hoonah. food." BERLIN, May 13—All of the Reich’s leaders and district leaders are to' meet with Hitler at once. A new, “party” service, will be announced, it is stated. |