The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1941, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8724. HESS MAY REVEAL NAZ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941 R MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CEN1 [ SE CRETS U.S. AND RUSSIA NEARING SHOWDOW TALK IS ARRANGED FORTODAY Soviet Ambassador Asks for Conference with Secrefary of State HULL, OUMANSKY 10 GET TOGETHER Meeting Between Officials Is First in More than One Year WASHINGTON, May 14.—A show- down of the uncertain relations be- (ween the United States and Rus- sia is believed imminent. his was indicated as a confer- ence was arranged with Secretary { State Cordell Hull by Soviet Am- sador Oumansky, the first in than one year. Both American and Soviet circles are silent on the purpose and sig- nificance of Oumansky’s call but! there has been a gradual tightening of export restrictions of most ma- terials sought by Russia and this has led recently to a virtual sus- pension of Soviet buying in the United States. | It is inferred that much of the ex- ! ports to Russia have found their way into German hands, but neither side makes any positive declaration regarding this subject. m WASHINGTON—State and War Department officials are not talking about .it, but one of their biggest worries in_connection with the new Atlantic patrol system is that Ger- many will seize Ireland. | This is the best immediate means | by which the Nazis can nullify Roosevelt’s plan for making sure | that vital lease-lend supplies get to | British soil rather than to the bot- | tom of the ocean. A neutral or friendly Eire is es- ! sential for the success of the patrol plan and even of convoys. For should Germany seize Ireland, Nazi war- planes and submarines would have bases extending much farther west into the Atlantic; thus creating a ! suicide zone in the direct path of incoming supply vessels. Already Germany, operating from ¥France and Belgium, has closed Britain’s Channel ports, foréed the re-routing of all British shipping to | the north of Ireland. So if Hitler should establish bases in Eire he could come closer than ever to ac- complishing his goal of starving out the United Kingdom. This is why the British have frantically asked the State Department to appeal for Irish cooperation. GLIDER PLANES TO TRELAND U. S. intelligence reports from Germany tell of a new type of glider ! that Nazi airmen are perfecting, al- | legedly for use in landing troops in Ireland. It has advantages over both parachutes and transport planes. Large transport planes carrying troops require large landing fields, cannot land on rough ground, and it is relatively easy for home defense forces to protect their main airports against such landings. Parachute troops come down slowly, provide easy targets. . But gliders can coast down into —_— (Continued on o3 En route to wed the lad who pro- posed so roman- tically via wire- less that she could not resist his ardent plea, Mercedes Cam- pos, age 19, the daughter of a millionaire Ha- waii plantation owner, arrived in Los Angeles recently from Honolulu. Miss Campos’ fiance is D. W. Knight, a Princeton stu- dent. They met in Hawaii last year. i Persons in Government Posifions Are Subjed fo A welcome change from war pic- tures is this traditionally-posed shipnews picture of Mathea Merry- field, California dancer, shown as she arrived in New York aboard the liner Excalibur from Europe. PLANS FOR TACOMA (HAMBER (OMING UP AT LUNCHEON MEETING Plans for the entertainment of the members of the Tacoma Cham- ber of Commerce upon their arrival here on the Princess Louise Friday night will be discussed at the noon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel tomorrow. .Other business taken up will be the reading of a new amendment {mfithe conmltuuon. Many Investigations I By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 14 — Don',| for goodness sake, call it a witchi hunt, because it isn’t like that at| all. But rarely has there been 50 much “investigate- your- neighbor”, stuff going on as there is in Wash-| ington today. i " ADVOCATED BY WINANT U. 5. Ambassador Discuss- | es Convoys with “‘Free- dom Loving People” LONDON, May 14.—United States Ambassador John G. Winant today ' told the English Speaking Union that “freedom loving and peace lov- , ing people of this earth are coming | | to realize this is not Britain's fight | alone” and their destinies may de- }pend on the use they make of their | navies. ‘ Ambassador Winant expressed | hope that in the debate over losses | at sea of goods manufactured in the | United States both Britons and | Americans “realize the mere state- ' | ment of sinking of ships from Am- | erica does not tell the whole story and only proves, as it does, that the successful transport of troops to the Middle East under protective power ' | was an adequate convoy.” i | NO CONTRACT IS LET ON RAIL TERMINUS JOB Bids Submitted More than i | Million Higher than | Govt. Estimates SEATTLE, May 14—The United States District Engineers office here today withheld the contract for the construction of the Passage Canal { If you even pian to apply Iorj . iencon because the two bids sub-| a government job, be sure that your patriotic record is as clean" as George Washington's. It happens like this: You cant work for the government if you owe allegiance to any orgamzntinn, that is violently “agin” our politi-, cal way of life. Thus, when you apply for a job, the Civil Service Commission makes all possible in-| | vestigation within its means. Suppose you get a job. You get assigned to a typewriter, we'll say, in the Treasury Department. The, Treasury has its own investiga-| tory staff. It gives' you anocher; going over. Still, all clear. Then, you get an offer from a friend you have made to come over to the Office of Production Management at a better salary. You make the jump. You are in- vestigated again—because certainly there are few spots where a per-| son playing loose and free with his government's secrets is more dan-| gerous that at OPM. REFER IT TO FBI i Still, you come through, without even a slightly muddy hem. Then,, somebody hears something. You| were seen last night with a very suspicious person. The “somebody”; who heard something sits down and writes your boss, or the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, or the De- partment of Justice. If the justice people think there is the slightest| possibility there might be some-[ thing in the case, they refer it to FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover's boys| would be knitting on_ the job if| they didn't make a thorough inves- tigation. | So you see where this thing’ leads. Working for the govern- ment is becoming & stroll through| a maze of investigations. I know of one young woman who hns‘ worked for four different agen- cies in three years and claims she knows of six different times she been investigated. Some of these were routine—but a couple (Continued on Page 8L mitted exceeded the Government's estimate by more than a million dol- lars, The Government's estimate was $2,961,778 and was to take 550 days construction time. The lowest bid, by the Seaboard Construction Company of Mount Kisco, New York, was for $4,074.616, to be completed within 450 devs. The second bid was a joint tender by the Morrison-Knudsen Company of Boise, Idaho, the General Construc- tion Company of Seattle, and the J. F. Shea Company of Portland, and asked $4,267,435. Engineers here said no announce- iment of action on the bids is ex-| pected for a week or ten days. Roosevel Designales Flag Date June Fourfeenth Set for Af- firmation of *'Our Faith in Our Ideals” ‘WASHINGTON, May 14.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today formally des- ignated June 14 as Flag Day. The President in his designation declared that it is particularly fit- ting that “we affirm our faith in our ideals for which our flag stands.” Ading Postmasier NamedMorage WASHINGTON, May 14.—Herbert Brown has been named acting Postmaster at Anchorage, Alaska. L. to give way. U. S. Utged to Seize 7 Bases Graphic view in Soundphoto above shows the blaze which swept threugh a. J Seattle_early May 8, killing four persons and hospita sidrame building. The fire started in & waste basket. p reaghing to the building's upper Stéries as trapped victims sercam for aid. vy 3 % AZORES . CANARY™"/ . CAPE VERDE X Senator Claude Pepper, b.uohog. for the Adminfi;‘trl;tion, proposes tough” and occupy wi ritain Ap;riu and Asia.” Points the Floridian says should be, Greenland (1), Iceland (2), the Azores the Cape Verde Islands (5), Dakar exits of Europe, Jjointly occupied are: Islands (4), A%, - Favorife Air Raid Shelfer | Singapore in the Far East, 5. p whose speeches often are regarded as trial that the United States “get seven strategic bases to “close the (3), the (6), and 0f Englishmen Is Pillow; Shuts Ouflgise,vou!(now By EDWIN STOUT (Associated Press Writer Back From 18 Months in London) NEW' YORK, May 14—Millions of Englishmen are making air raid shelters out of their beds just by putting a pillow over their heads to shut out the noise and going to sleep. They have found it nine months under bombardment that there aren’t any bombproof shelters. The only absolutely safe place when bombs start dropping is out of town and after they begin to fall it's too late to get there. The next safest place is down in a deep subway station, but sta- tions aren't -entirely several hundred South Londoners were drowned in one when a big | bomb hit a water main over their | heads last fall. Many other hun- dreds have been killed in shallower subways and in underground and | surface shelters. Hardened { + Pewer than a hunaicd thousand :peuple find shelter in London’ | deep subway stations, leaving s million others to go somewhere else. | In a night raid most of theseseven | million act as if the sirens hadn't | sounded, the guns weren't barking and the airplanes weren't droning | overhead, | They crowd the neighborhood | saloons until closing time and then go home and go to bed. They hurry | |in off the street because houses| shut out some of the frightening| 1 | | T contnued un page s ) lizing eleven others after glice said. Pheto shows. fire fighting lm}y Accepts Wireless Proposal - NAVY USEIS | SEATTLE HOTEL BLAZE SUFFOCATES FOUR apanese-operated hotel in secres were rapped in the Interior stairways were first ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLES FOR | NEW CCMBINE Fascist Nevg;;pers Claim Dominions Deserting England for U. . ROME, May 14. — Fascist news- \ | | | papers today declared the British Dominions are deserting England for the United States and Presi- dent Roosevelt is turning toward a new “super-confederation” of Anglo- Saxon peoples with the Capital in Washington. This is the interpretation given to' Australian Prime Minister Menzies visit to Washington as well as a statement attributed to the Premier on his recent visit in South Africa, that the entry of the United States into the war will make the outcome certain. —————,———— PROPOSAL ON 'DEVALUATION KILLED NOW %Coinage Committee Con- | finues Power of Presi- [ dent on Money | WASHINGTON, May 14. — The | House Coinage Committee today re- versed itself and killed a proposal | aimed at precluding any further de- | valuation of the dollar. By a party vote of 13 to 6, mem- | bers removed the restriction from the bill, continued for two years from June 30 the Treasury’s two billion dollar stabilization fund and the President’s power to devalue the dollar. The amendment, by Representa- tive H. Carl Andersen, was added to the bill yesterday by a nine to seven vote. Andersen’s amendment provided that no additional amounts of foreign gold would be purchased at more than 35 an ounce. The sponsor said the purpose of the amendment was to prevent further bombproof. | | oice put they figure they are just devaluation of the dollar by pur- "chu.se of foreign gold at prices up to $41. e e THIRD NAZI LEADER NOW GIVEN QuiZ Infimation EWords Will Make '"German High Command Sweat” FIRST SEMI-OFFICIAL STATEMENT IS MADE Personal Dggu_st for Pres- ent Reich Regime Stat- ed-Chieffains Split (By Associated Press) Rudolf Hess, the Number 3 Nazi leader, who made his sensational es- cape from Germany in a Messer- schmitt 110 plane, landed on the shores of Loch Lomond, Scotland, last Saturday night by parachute after freeing himself from the cock- pit and sending his craft down to crash, is today described by the British radio as talking and writing “This is the first semi-official inti- ‘mation that Hess, now under guard in a hospital in Glasgow, may have already divulged German military secrets, but all statements will be observed by “wariness.” Hess Questioned British Military Intelligence Of- ficers are reported questioning the Number 3 Nazi very closely. Simultaneously, the Government- controlled British Broadcasting Company began a barrage of 10 (Continued on Page Eight) NAZIS CLAIM HESS POSES, PEACEMAKER Flight of Number 3 Leader Belittled — Germans Given Warning (BY ASSOCIATED PRFSS) Authorized Berlin quarters said documents left behind by Rudolf Hess indicated he planned to visit the Duke of Hamilton, an old friend, at Glasgow, in an effort to bring about peace. The Nazi spokesman said: “Hess had a fixed idea that he was sort of a Messiah by whom, in a spec- tacular individual gesture, he could bring about termination of " hos- tilities.” p* The Nazi spokesman declared Hess has no intention of approach- ing British Prime Minister Churchill or other British Govern- ment Jeaders but he has a “crazy notion” that @& Pacifist Ggoup could end the war. “Hess did not flee as a traitor,” the Nazi spokesman asserted. The spokesman reiterated that Germany will not accept any peace offer except on German terms, Germans Warned In the Reich itself, the Germans have received an oblique warning against listening to foreign broad- cast and this warning was issued as the British radio flooded the air waves with Hess stories in Czech, Spanish, Norwegian, French, Ger- man and other languages. The DNB, German news agency broadcast a list today of seven re- cent cases of persons sentenced from four to six years for tuning in radios so as to receive foreign broadcasts. Only two of five morning news- papers ‘in Berlm mentioned the Hess mysterioys flight from Ger- many to Seolland.