The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8735. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZI BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED 2 ROOSEVELT ASKS FUND Requests Over Three Mil- lion Dollars for. Aircraft . for Army and Navy | PRESIDENT GOES ON AIR THIS EVENING | Government's National| Policy Expected to Be Announced WASHINGTON, May 27—Ia the | midst of preparing the momentous ' pronouncemeént of this Govern- | ment’s policy, the President today | asked Congress for a $3,319,000,000 | appropriation for more airplanes. Stephen Early, the President’s private secretary, told the newsmen this afternoon that the President | will extend his fireside chat tonight | an extra 15 minutes and asserted | that “I think you can say that by | Wednesday morhing ‘there will be no longer any doubt of what the | national policy of this government 15.” The President is scheduled to go | on the air at 6:30 o'clock this eve- | ning, Pacific Coast Time. i In asking the appropriation for ! FOR PLANES W—Qi BISMARCK SENT DO | GEARED TO PROP SHAFT, CAM'X"I$ IN HORIZONTAL POSITION AS BLADE CLEARS LINE OF FIRE. PIEGE A SLIDES NOT FIRING GUN CAN FIRE ONLY WHEN IMPULSE FROM | CAM' X" CARRIES THROUSH TO A MACHINE GUN spits bullets faster than How A Machine Gui: Fires Through {ropelle: SYNCHRONIZATION OF Gui B | AND PROP SHAFT PERMITS Kl | FIRING ONLY AS TRAILING | EDGE OF BLADE 'Y GOES i BY GIVING MAXIM Gii C7 SAFTY FE. FRENCH Bi;cies,i FLEET 2 4 {Navy Has ioTBeen Sur- | rendered to Germany, U. S. Is Informed | WASHINGTON, May 27. — The French Government today gave re- MAR- P United States that the French fleet and colonies have not surrendered | to Germany or any other power. The French Ambassador told the | him on instructions from the Vichy | Government and is intended to re- move any misgivings here of the wWITil CAM. scope of the French-German col- | laborations. WHEN GUN TRIGeER IS | | PULLED. PIECE ‘B°SLIDES) | BRITISHBACK "IN INVASION FIRINT sy ECE 'C* {n can count. An I ts blades invisible. - INTACT)] newed assurances in writing to the ! The note, containing the specific | | guarantees, was delivered by French * Ambassador Henri Haye to Sumner | “Welles, of the State Department. ' | newsmen the note was drafted by | Woman’s Touch T N in Bombmaking OF BISMARCK IS ADMITTED 1Germany's High Command | Issues Official State- | ment in Berlin FIGHTING ADMIRAL | IS AMONG VICTIMS { Captain of Craft and Unde- termined Number of Of- ficers and Men, Killed BERLIN, May 27—Germany’s most powerful battleship Bis- marck has been destroyed in the Nerth Atlantic by a formi- dablr squadren of British war- ships and planes that have | pursucd the Nazi ship since last Saturday when she sank the pride of the British Navy, the Hood. 'The German Command, in acknowledging the loss of the said that in a final and numerous destroyers, the Nazl forces put up a heroic fight, attacking = the British craft with planes. The German Navy's fighting *., N BY BRITISH NAVY DESTRUCTION GIANT SHIP * OF GERMANY DESTROYED Craft that Sent British Bal- fle Cruiser Hood fo Bot- fom Is Blown Up VESSEL DESERTED BY ESCORT, IS RUN DOWN Anothér Cruiser Is Being Hunted-American-built Plane Is Spotter LONDON, May 27. — Torpedo planes from the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, backed by ships of the Royal Navy’s At- lantic fleet, sent the 35,000-ton new German battleship Bis- marck to the bottom of the North Atlantic at 11 o’clock this forenoen. This is the official announce- ment regarding the stern re- 1 for the sinking of the Hood in a baftle on the North Attantic last Saturday. The coup de grace was ad- ministered after the Bismarck had been spotled by observers aboard an American-made air- employes of the Budd Manufacturing company, Phllad‘el- i wn putting caps on the new fragmengation bombs being | Admiral Guenther Luetzen, in States and also for Great Britain. command of the Atlantic fleet, ] Women phia, are Defenders Sf_ Erele For(ed' alr{lule propeller whirls at a rate that makes Yet one of more airplanes, the sum of $2,790,- synchronization which permits mounting of plane. 1 VITALS BLOWN OUT - night's message three times. The 000,000 is for the Army and the re- mainder of the sum for the Navy. Cthe | WASHINGTON — The fireside chat which Roosevelt delivers to- night has been the hardest to pre- pare of any during his eight years in the White House For he knows that upon the basis of this speech history will adjudge his 1eadetship] for peace or war. | He knows that, as the Chlcngo! Times' R. J. Finnegan recently sent | word \to him: “The ball is on dead | center, The public 'is /walting for the lead. You can pick it up and run with it either way.” | Tllustrative of the mental anguish | which must beset Roosevelt at this | time is a remark he made to a friend | very recently, describing a similar| situation which faced Woodrow Wil- | son. Roosevelt was Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy and together with other naval advisers urgal wu.sonl to mobilize the fleet in the Atlantic in preparation for the possibility of war. This was before the German | submarine campaign had become severe. Wilson refused and explained to young Roosevelt that the adminis- tration must let Germany take the | initiative. He would make no move which might .appear to put the United States into the war. “At the time,” Roosevelt now says, “I disagreed with Mr. Wilson and thought he was Wrong. But now that I look back on it I can see that he was absolutely right.” THREE POSTPONEMENTS Although the public hasn’t known it, the President has postponed to- first postponment was known to-the public—when the President was ill and uncertain just before the Pan American reception of May 14. The second postpopement was on May 16, when the President serious- e A S e (Continued on. Page Four) ., e propeller blades. The above diagram will {n‘c;‘v n'.h dole|. Symhroniufi‘on Was ar, when planes were equ y R atter, Modern stecl propellers aro less vulnerable, but it's still a good idea to ke>p bullets and blades one misplaced bullet would from mixine. e commonplace features of modern m is the "I'nl lween manufactured there for the United fo Fall Back fo “'Posi- fions in Rear” CAIRO, May 27.—German troops riected with wooden propeliers which | FBI, 1CC, Even Knudsen Get Mixed Up in Deals launched a new attack on West Canea in Crete yesterday “which enlarged their penetration of Brit- ish defenses and forced the defend-! lers to fall back to positions in the! | rear.” i The British Command announced {the new German attack is support-| ed by intensive bombing from the! gir. The communigue added that — German reinforcements are con-! ] . { Tha' Brlng ou' la"ghs mnulng to “reach the island by the, " Navy Press Chief = 7 Rear Admiral A. J. Hepburn Rear Admiral A. J. Hepburn is shown with reporters in Washing- ton as he assumed new duties as di- rector of naval information. He de- clared his department was ready at, sll times to cooperate with news representatives. NOT WITHOUT HONOR ROCY MOUNT, N. C.—Not with- out honor in his own land is Or- chestra Leader Kay Kyser. With li- cense plates issued here go extra tags reac Town, British fighter planes shot down G-men. But also it is'a variation | i The Federal Bureau of Invesii- § of sabotage. The other 'day, FBI the brim. Over each group of them | George' Meets Death lons of fuel oil floated on top uf; FBI found health officials. These George Sixth, commander of the eliminate all mosquitoes in the todsy which also stated that eight| wasn't until the FBI knocked on Actually happened to Lord Louis. \ By JACK STINNETT five troop-laden German planes each barrel. The .eonclusion was! neighborhood. The first thing was officers and 120 men, the greater| their doors that the health menh LAUGH-PROVOKING LAW [ air, and heavy fighting is continu-| i WASHINGTON, May 37 — The pegr the Malemi airdrome y | aff: | yesterday capital off the. euff: and destroyed several other planes,’ of an old story about the fellows who put gasoline in the fire ex- ‘gation is doing a good deal more; | than you know about. It is check-} 3 ing everything under the sun. It] | checks defense plants to see what: 1 men were investigating a pier and| NAvAl HGHI wharf area (I can’t tell where) and | was this sign: “For ‘usé only in case of fire.” . in Crefe Battling staggering. The FBI settled down| for an all-out investigation. i LONDON, May 27—Lord Louis men, it was definitely proved, haddestroyer Kelly, has been lost in} come into the case on a hurry-up"m!Vl.l fighting off Crete. to spread oil—and lots of it—over | Part of the ship’s complement, were| the open fresh-water barrels. It rescued. realized they had made a flaming; torch out of every fire-prevention " Won't Feel Dralt Sometimes American laws make; —_— American laughs, One that Wash-| PUEBLO, Col, May 27 — Dutch ing.” . In a way, this is & laugh on the (. pAp asserted. | tinguishers. goes on, if anything, in the way| came on 97 water barrels, filled to| Second Cousin of King: The pay-off was that five gal-| But instead of saboteurs, the Mountbatten, second cousin of King call—and their orders were to| This is the announcement made, murdered the mosquitoes. It'' There is still no report as to what | water keg in the vicinity. ington is chuckling over is the in- Clark, ‘coach of the Cleveland| Ttalian Surrender Duke of Aosta Leader of the Fascist forces in Ethiopia, the Duke of Aosta, vice- roy of Ethiopia, surrenders, according to a report from Cairo, Egypt. The duke, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, has sent emissaries to the British as to terms on which he might yield bis troops, estimated at approxi- mately 38,000 Italian and colonial suralers. The duke is shown in his field auarters in East Africa e i GOES THROUGH SCHOOL ON FLY COLUMBIA, Mo., May 27—Rus- sell Thompson makes trout flys to pay room and board at the Univer- The bombs are said to be moat powerful of their kind yet developed. New Taxes Vs. Inflation: Explanation Is Given of Proposed Treasu_ry Plan Japan Ready By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 27 — The Treasury experts ‘who planned the scheme now before Congress to raise $3,500,000,000 in new defense taxes next year hope they also are building a set of brakes against! inflation. | The theory is that inflation hap- pens when people have lots of money to spend. The more thlngs' they buy, the scarcer things get. The scarcer things get, the higher, go prices. Then the people's money; won't buy so much, but pricestend to remain high—they are “in-| flated.” Maynard Keynes, now in Wash- ington, prescribes heavy taxes in boom times to prevent people from spending enough to cause in- flation. In times of depression he recommends buying power brought up by public spending. Some economic expgrts here say the Treasury tax plan is an Amer- ican version of Keynes' plan, In any case, the defense spending boom makes the experts feel it is imperative that Congress plan against inflation. Prices are defin- itely on the upgrade, and the threat is doubled now that defense con- tractors are bidding for raw ma- terials and ships are scarce to carry many of the things we need from foreign lands. There's dan- ger of panicky buying under those! circumstances. The Treasury people made their| tax plans with one eye on the national = income, barometer of prosperity—or lack of it. The na- tional income is the sum of all our incomes. Experts estimate the 1941 na- tional income at around $85,000,- terstate communications statutg) Rams, believes the draft won't sity of Missourl. He learned the | 000,000—beyond the high water which makes it prohibitive for any|Put interstate telegraph system to es-; says. \order for 300 dozen. any crimp in professional foot- art at his father’s tackle shop in|mark of 1929.' Next year o ball. “There are a thousand pros- Roaring River State Park’ in thelnest it 'to go still mz:nr s o nhe Ozarks. Last year he filled & single'! - 1 (Continued"on' Page Bight) be! and the Bismarck’s Comman- der, Capt. Lindeman, as well as an undetermined number of the crew of 1,300 officers and men were lost. The German High Command does not disclose what hap- pened to the rest of Luetzen’s fleet or whether even addition- al warships were accompanying the Bismarck. To Meet Any "Eventuality’ Invaders of China Display Intense Interest in Fire- side Chat Tonight TOKYO, May 21.—In a state-| |{ment made on the eve of President A noted British economist, John Roosevelt's broadcast tonight at 6:30| |o'clock. PST, Captain Hiraide. Jap- janese Navy Ministry spokesman de- clared, “The Imperial Navy is al- |ways prepared to meet any even- ‘tuauty. “Two hundred warships are now |engaged in patrol duty along the China Coast and more than 300 ad- |ditional warships, together with a total of 4,000 planes are stationed in the Pacific ready to take action |en a moment’s notice to defend Jap- an against any enemy or combina- tion of enemies.” Japan's interest in the President’s | Fireside Chat tonight is without par- allel in the past few months. - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 27. — Closing ,quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 79, | Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 70, , Commonwealth and Southern 5/16, vcunl&s Wright 8%, General ‘Motors 78%, International Harvester 47%, Kennecott 36%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are todays Dmv.I Jones averages: Industrials, 115.95; The first torpedo dropped se- verely damaged the Bismarck and the next torpedo hurled out The British statement said | . e R (Continued from Page Six) GETS CREDIT FOR SINKING OF BISMARCK Brifish Cruiser Dorseshire Rammed Home Tell- ing Torpedoes LONDON, May 27.—The 9,900-ton British cruiser Dorsetshire rammed bome the torpedoes that finished off the Nazi battleship Bismarck after she had been shelled into helpless- Iness by the British heavy ships and destroyers, the Admiralty announced tonight. The statement said the Bismarck slowed down to a speed of about eight knots an hour after hit by two serial torpedoes, dropped by dive bombers, and two torpedoes from | British warships. | It is indicated the Bismarck was beyond. the range of the German convoy. and.whs at least 1500 miles out or approximately halfway to the rails, 27.65; utilities, 16.82, United States when sunk,