The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941. - ALASKAGUARDSMEN CALLEDOUT VOL. LVIL, NO. 8728. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS < AMERICANS ARE MISSING IN SEA TRAGEDY ) EGYPTIAN | DIRE(TS (REW[ESS BOAT [MANEUVERS | FIRST PICTURE OF HESS WRE(KED PlANE |NORTHLAND . E i . B ! e ' | ; ; ) | [ | r, ‘ } . ¥ i - Mystery Surrounds Disap-' Blggest Series of Move-l Four National g“a:dt Or pearance of Vessel ments Since World War | gamzaigonss ‘; 1" 0 i . Somewhere af Sea Days Underway | Service Sep , ! U.S. AM uu"a i | FORT LEWIS, Wash., May 19— EXECUTIVE ORDER (€ The United States Army's biggest| DRIVERS ABOARD series of maneuvers since the World | Is SIG"ED BY fDR War Days is underway today as more than 35,000 soldiers pulled outj A " ' l 300 E |. I " or got ready for California for par-| m niisi- Craft May Have Been st o i oo mbagg N:m“ afi yOfl' ' . &s a prelude to the larger military| n I(el’S 0 Caught by German Raid- el ootk ol eE 'eé bt Arin Trucks loaded with fighting men,! nier ular eror Torpedoed by Sub towing field artillery and anti-tank| . e_.__g Y M guns, began moving out of Fort| 3 19.—The NEW YORK, May 19—The broad | Lewis at dawn today, headed for# Am:“;:‘f,mlqcr:,; was or- td expanse of the South Atlantic or King City, California, onthe fringe| dered into active duty today as possibly the Indian Ocean today | of the Hunter Liggett reservation,| President Roosevelt signed an cloaks the fate of 120 Americans, midway between San Francisco and ! official order calling out the including 24 United States Ambu- | Los Angeles. First Infantry Battalion, 297th Y Jance drivers enroute to serve the| The truck departures will continue ' Regiment of Alaska. The order British with the “Free French” from Fort Lewis until Friday. ! did not specify when the battal- forces in Egypt, 81 other passengers ! The motorized convoy includes| icn is to report for duty, nor and 120 crewmen, aboard the 8200/ more than 3400 vehicles and a cargo : | b where the men will be sent. ton Egyptian passenger liner Zam of 22000 men. The remainder of Zam, reported to have been sunk on | troops will go south May 27 a L A boax‘ 8. pproximately 300 enlisted men the voyage from New York City of troop Lnlns = 4 - ? and 17 officers in mel All‘&:: pi:.:_ P - § o i1l be called ini = % .| MusterSergeant John Lucas operated s fadly imipulse‘machine (o oon- | s 8t Bimprailasboptes ontinued on Page EIShD | ol the movements of the V-11, Army test boa (upper centér), used : |United States on Beptember 1, ac< | by ccast artillery to practice gunnery as defense against mosquito | cording to & statement made by . < "’le boats. Note wake of crewless hoat. The operator is aboard the Army | Gov. Ernest Gruening today. The mine planter, General Schofield, off Cape Henry. Governor did not say where the . G’ } u S ARMY | Guardsmen will be stationed, hs: i . | | y statdd that the battalion “will % | Black and White | g e r kept in the Territory.” n ‘ The date of September 1 Is ten- Orev Pearscs [ tative. - | ] The First Infantry Battalion of jonal Guard Is wsm SURRENDERS the Territorial National i st composed of companies in Ketchi- H H kan, Juneau, Anchorage and Fair- kGO'Q‘Q Two Bombers Collide in B b e o met L . . cal eadquarters detachm To BRI"SH Midair, Drop fo Earth, in Junes, i . 2 = A # ear ervice WASHINGTON — According to | Blll'ned Ioday n Easi | Newly organized and the last Na- 3 best diplomatic advices available! | | AT 4 3 This is the first picture to reach the United States of the wreckage of the German fizhting plane from tional Guard battalion to be nduct- here, it seems probable that Rudolf | | which 'Rudolf Hess parachuted to safety over Scotland. The number 3 Nazi suffered a fractured ankle in he Alaska ascist viceroy o I0PI@| RrAINES, South Carolina, May 19 od into. Federal service. thie Hess will be able to give the British | < 2 _Six Arm'y THisés wize kul 1 when” his jump. The picture was cabled from London but was delay ed by absence of transmission facilities units of the National Guard will be nlmos‘:i & N‘lfl mt.ll‘hry :«:1:“' ird lees Up Figh"“g_ “two bombing planes crashed and‘ apparently 'llmll'ed by a un-mc Nul air rfld on l.ondqn. sent to camp for a year's training. anation of weir 4 A fobing HE BN S nirlsfimi :l)i‘:mn:o sncouand is that | ls Trapped ‘blrxrned lfl:r )Le_lre this afternoon | fikemothl:‘:“:fizxt‘:ngn;r t.::ze :;:f:; Hess had repeatedly warned Hitler | { batepenraducti. Lol % mwaw ! ed States Army, will be kept for seinad . patiey SLEH AL 18 bonauer | By A I parachute bt he Y | r I s jionger duty If national emergency [ the whole world. caused a breal 2 2 | continues, between him and Der Fuehrer, and Bflmh, Prime Minister Winston ground the 'chute fatled to open.| ‘ | The office of the Adjutant Gens 1 Churchill's pledge that he would He was picked up but died while | | . . Hess had been under suspicion for tear Italy’s African Empire to “tat- | being rushed to the hospital. ] | ars l s eral announced today that married sor}r;‘e“lem;s iy e -, ters and shreds’ moved nearer ful-| Witnesses said the planes were . ™ [l ! officers under the grade of Captain g1 eight or nine Ges:. | 4 | and enlisted men under the grade of | fillment as Duke Aosta, Fascist Vice- the last in a formation of six flying tapo men to watch him constantly. | f Ethiopla toda; ed to | morth. | staft sergeant will probably be dis- These were the “adjutants’ or froy o 5 e .| charged, Single men with depend- “aldes” described as arrested in Ber- b e s o e b ents will also be included under the lin dispatches. Apparently Hitler ! 'nfixm)’) %.@Ium;smmen‘?‘u:h.l i Tilioe made the mistake of telling the Ges- o bt ”:mlmn‘yhok;m;g‘gd D | To Take Selectees tapo merely that Hess was suffering ol : The Alaska Battalion, soon after e v Sconbice kol il i northeast of Addis Ababa and is said By JACK STINNETT grease in their polishing, he |raq Air Force Is Repofled Bt i R g ' v no tell them the real facts. That ito be without food and water. . WASHINGTON, May 19 — An- ! claimed, invariably gave the best " strength of 28 officers and 904 en- was why they let him go to an air-| {11 The Brilali fooas re mopping up swering the Army mail orders: ' Performance under fire. | in Action Over Per- [ised men as the Alnska Selective plane factory where a friend lent { ofhier Bectiohg, el Iners o T. F, Fort Benning, Ga. — . Wo AW ACobs. ool . Service Board draws the first draft- him a Messerschmitt 110. Olivia S 1s shown fn New!| | reason there are no Company |'s;Mated strength of the Army in sian Gulf ed men from the Territory. According to uncensored diplo- ¥::k wifl: h::“t:': .h:b‘i"e; nEddlei ; ¥ in the Army is that originally the mid-April was 1,186,000 men. About| R Affected by the Presidential or- matic dispatches, there has been & | poo sirono (left) and Lucy Ma; letter “J” looked so much like the 68500 were commissioned officers. (By Associated Press) der in Juneau are six officers ana growing rift between the leaders| pory jagt Sept. 5 at the Strong ho e | IS letter “F” that Army officials were T::mw::r nA;;fly seslinte ‘05 Reports this afternoon from Bagh- |80 enlisted men. Following are the who built up the Nazi political or- | fn Hooketton, N. C. The Strongs -re’ | afrald orders to the company :n,,md‘ » Nt °“l ‘:;“”ff b‘"‘ dad, capital city of Iraq, declare men to be inducted on September 1: ganization and the army leaders 'hol living in New York so scientists can' | might become confused. Inciden-, 76 R ef FALOME CUAIE S OUL 110t the Iraq Air Force has “most| Major Charles G. Burdick, Capt built up the German military ma- ' - _ study their albino boy. il (By Associated Press) tally, although there is alphabeti- 200000, draftees about 380,000. | .jeeotively” bombed British war- |Willlam ©. Walther, Capt. Edward chines. The politiclans staged the | Operators of hard coal mines and °8l lettering of streets in Washing-| Mrs. T. P, Austin, Tex—Tll b€ g0 on “the Persian Gulf and the (——r——————— e N revolution and made a big army pos- | | 'umwd Mine Workers of America oD, there is no “J” Street. slndv to pass along your observa-| g .i.q, garrison at Habbaniyah, (Cununued on P-ze Elsht) ‘ sible; but now the army is in the | o haye tentatively agreed to a new Mrs. K. M. D. Phoenix, Ariz.— ::::t}yczr‘:?:!nf'a‘:r g:nl“;t);;:fl under siege since May 2 has been ERAGEM saddle and plans to stay there. 1 wage contract and increased pay for | It would be fun to write a story ... o ‘s‘ sty engr i | air raided and also pounded by Iraq | about 100,000 anthracite miners. The about this being the first army 'f Mexi POs! ’l'he Y Ol artillery. s‘,)c:’n.ocio a:esuu s"%;:&n; b | men have been ordered to resume with which there are no Indian Men Of Mesican descent mnc vl British planes are also reported to Today in rmany 9,000, H i work tomorrow by President John L. | seouts, but General Headquarters 4 “ | have renewed attacks on Syrian air- are under arms. These men see less | H Lewis. |tels me we DO have Indian|the Distory of their company goes|fielgs where German bombers are 19 and less of Hitler, more and more of The miners stopped work yester- | scouts in the present set-up. They| all the way back to the Battle of | onorted on their way to Iraq. their own officers. Their victories . on Nafion '0 Pr°|es' day. :“' With the 25th Infantry at Fort San Jacinto. They were with Hood e G e o are not victories based on fl:;’opfl- i Huachiics, Ariz, Maybe it's beside| in the Civil War and went through | ganda or politics but on efficlent | ! i | almost all the bitterest battles on S e o ealen Shedding of Blood | STOCK QUOTATIONS | o, e Army comsers £ Gmern vomt. e rovaes [y Mo SACKE! military machine. Propaganda and ! 0 1P e A} hoast of these Spanish-Americans| » Ty efficient communications men in , Nazi “heiling” made the war pos-| In the Middle East war theatre, e ieo. drat is that they never have had aand sible, but the Junker leaders of Ger- | % c I ¥ Britain’s struggle is Iul;:’herl(gm- Ng\;vmyo}‘zx May 19. — Closing "% Bo em:pt :)nnrlly Mg | | never will have a man drop out| p A s ABesa. W te th i of Gen. | quot n X - 0] " 2 -0 s, ute bve | AXis COlUMNS Driven Back piies sy b o sl of o | ot of ek s i gy 55, Som i ot v o v o' P@SS@S AAWAY | nfaniry Reported Passing Into this new evolution of Ger- | A"e[ Zlg-lag Flgh' by ruled Syria, who has called on the |79%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem ::lnm":ld me: “Whenever I “l‘“ walk and run about during the as- Throu h Wa'erwa man leadership Hitler has fitted i . Syriafis to resist the “criminal ag- [Steel 68%, Commonwealth and le.'; ; troops: 1 looked at "‘“ signed rest periods on forced| payorvORE Md. May 19 g Y very, very comfortably. He was the Mechanized Units srossions’ of the JAeD. Southern_ %, Curtiss Wright T4, GaIer M & Mans shoes, belh PUSS marches. They have a record of | pyderic . Sackets, 13, formtr| Link fo Aid Syria first to see Germany's need of a big Gen. Dentz declares that “once|General Motors 37%, International leather) and cap visor (if yavino marched 22 miles in a littie ef ormer Y army, and he is 100 per cent with P again England is shedding the blood | Harvester 45%; Kennecott 35%, Nev, 16Ather, too) were shined, I fig-| ;ver seven hours. Senator from Kentucky and for| i ',he.l;rmy today. If he wasn't, it (By Associated Press) lof Frenchmen,” referring to attack | York Central 12%, Northern Pacific ured he k‘new what soldiering was g L., Enid, Okla.—Pvt, Sainds] several years United States Ambas- (By Associated Press) probably would not matter to the wlin ":; Nm hA;fmmflr::;ln by the British Air Force on Syrian | 6%, United States Steel 52%, Pound :h"““::"* He did add, however, giouart' late of Hollywood, still is :;’:: to Germany, died here yes-| A pritish radio this afternoon v new army leaders, but that exigency e By'm&: i camlumqna e~ airdromes. $4.03%.. ol e same applied to all pol-| .¢ wofrett Field, Cal, but you had Y. i quoted a Rumanian broadcast as w hasn't arisen as yet. clare e fmtl o 'a"rtedm The British come right back with bt L metal, but he» sald ne|poirer hurry if you want to write| - B ‘scying German infantry has been Goering, born of Junker caste and the Egyptian frontier and s 8 the statement that when the attacks DOW, JONES AVERAGES never saw a man with metall py wright Pield, at Daytona, O., HERE FROM CHATHAM transported through the Bosporus, trained to be an officer, also fits zig-zag battle around Salum. They were opened last week German| The following are today’s Dow, equipment up to glossy who didn't has asked that he be Lrans(erred‘ S. T. Sorenson of Chatham is in ! Turkish-controlled link between the have his leather looking the sunew | Juneau today for a few days visit. | Black Sea-and Hcdlufqmux, pre= b sl Bl vt e Lk (Continued on Page Pour) - were finally driven back by the Brit- planes, flying to iraq, were landing | Jones averages: industrials, 116.15 lkh ‘mechanized forces. lon Syrian airfields. rails, 27.82; utilities, 17.30. | way. These men who pu: elbow | LConunucd nn page Six) | He is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. | sumably bound for Syria.