The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8738. JUNEAU, AL. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS .3. DEFENSE PLANTS GUARDED CRETE DEFENDERS REPORTED IN FLIGHT BRITISHERS ARE CAUGHT NAZI DRIVE Reportedmndering‘ About Island Seeking fo | Be Evacuated by Ships ! FASCISTS CLAIMING | SURRENDER IS NEAR Dutch Pray for Nazi Defeat DIPI.OMAI Third largefii!y Said Ioi '. Be Captured-Gen. Frey- | berg Reported Killed ‘] (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British defenders of Crete are reported in full flight as Axis dispatches this morning picture the Allies as wandering around the land lost and demoralized in an ar-| tificial fog laid down by Hitler’s' aerial invaders. | British soldiers are reported tumbling along the rocky southern; shores of the lsland hoping that ships may come to evacuate them.| Fishing boats already have taken! off a few, it is reported. | The German radio said a Cairo broadcast announced that General Freyberg, Commander of the Brit- ish Imperial Forces in Crete was killed in a plane crash while en-: route to Egypt. (Continued on Page Seven) N ..G@ | Drew Peanscs «od i | | | | | | | WASHINGTON.—It hasn't been! announced but the Roosevelt cab-| inet has a new member. He is Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Director of Civil Defense. The dy- namic little New Yorker attended his first Cabinet meeting last Fri- day and will participate in all future weekly sessions. A veteran of 37 years in public of- | fice, LaGuardia is one of the ablest administrators in- the country. With the exception of Roosevelt, La- Guardia knows more about govern- mental affairs than any member of the Cabinet, also has more drive and capacity. By all odds he is the most experienced and resourceful executive the President has ap- pointed in a long time. | Apparently desirous of taking full | advantage of this, the President di-/ rected LaGuardia to attend the, weekly Cabinet deliberations, al- | though he does not have titular Cab- | inet status, Some White House advisers have| long advocated that Defense heads | attend Cabinet sessions for a closer] integration of policy-making with| the actual execution of policy. They have in mind OPM Chiefs Knud- sen, Hillman, Biggers, Stettinius and Nelson, and Price Regulator Hender- son. NOTE:—On his first day in of- fice LaGuardia floored officials who conferred with him about taking, over certain offices for his new' agency, by telling them: “Just leave (Continued on Page Four) Twins Have arrive until 27 ‘hours later—about | noon Sunday. Just one year after Germany’s invasi in England gather in the bombed rui: | Dolifuss. ion of Holland, Dutchmen in exile ns of the Dutch Church of London "o‘l_)ny for the freedom of their native land. Queen Wilhelmina and Beenhard ware among those praying for overthrow of the Nazis, ‘125,000 Hear Him D William 8. Knudsen Pictured as he addressed the “I Am an American Day” rally in Chicago is William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production’ Manage- ment. The patriotic ceremony, one of scores attended by millions throughout the eountry, drew 125, 000 persons to Soldiers Field. . 2 Birthdays PUEBLO, Colo,, May 30—They're! twins, but the newly-born daugh- ters of Mr. and Mrs. David Cabera of Pueblo won't celebrate theh‘l birthdays on the same day. | The first was born at 9:05 a.m.| on Saturday but the second didn't! } BIG PARADE INDICATED FOR SITKA Soldiers, Sailors, Marines to Join Legion in To- day’s Observance SITKA, Alaska, May 30—Soldier sailors and Marines will form the main contingent of the Memorial Day parade, according to word re- { ceived from the Sitka Post of the American Legion. With the arrival of the US.S. san Mihiel, Army transport, Wed- nesday, which brought several hun- dred more soldiers to Sitka, it is expected that the parade will be the largest ever held here. - - — Schmeling Alive, Says NaziReport BERLIN, May 30—Mex Schmel- ing, former heavyweight champion of the world, is alive but confined in an Air Force Hospital with an attack of a tropical disease. Schmeling was previously report- ed to have been killed in the fight- ing in Crete. —————————— Only 60 perceni of the eggs pro- duced in Oklahoma are sold for food; two percent are used for farm hatching and 38 percent are consumed on farms, | Fribune which said he had arrived | owned. .0il IMPRESSIVE | OF NALZIS ARRESTED Kurt Heinrich Reith Sud-| denly Taken Into Cus- fody in New York NEW YORK, May 30.—Kurt Hein- | rich Rieth, German citizen and former diplomat, has been taken into custody and hurried to Elis Island by United States Immigra- tion authorities. Rieth was Minister to Austria from German at the time | of the assassination of Premier | The presence of Reith in the! United States was revealed last Sat- 1 urday by the New York. Herald here and was to buy American properties in eastern Europe. MEMORIAL DAY HERE Hundreds Witness Parade, ‘ . Program, Services af | Dock, Cemetery | Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and the { veterans of the last war marched in {Juneau's Memorial Day parade to- | day. Headed by Company A and the | Headquarters and Medical Detach-' | ments of the Pirst Battalion of the izs‘lth Infantry, the parade began at the Federal Building at 10 o’clock and headed down Franklin Street to the Capitol Theatre, for memor- ial exercises. | Following in the line .of march |were the Juneau High School Band in bright red uniforms, a snappy marching unit of Marines from the gunboat Charleston, and a pany of Navy men from the war- {ship, Members of Alford John Brad- ford Post of the American Legion, |brought up the rear. Price of Liberty To a capacity audience at the Cap- itol Theatre, Memorial Day speak- er Lynn Gemmill, Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Pirst Judicial Di- vision, declared that the nation’s war dead have not died in vain but have demonstrated the value we attach to our rights and liberties under the American system of gov- ernment. | “America has always felt,” he said, Ii“thnt every war would be the last one, but it seems an inevitable flow of sacrifice is required in order to preserve liberty and justice.” Noting that democracy is threat- ened today as never before, Gemmill said the attitude of America to- ward the emergency today is the same as it was in 1917, and Ameri- cans are just as willing today to make a sufficient sacrifice to re- duce that threat to nothingness. Have Not Died in Vain The pertinent question “Have those who fought and died for America and liberty fought and died in vain?” is still answered, he said, as it was al Gettysburg and as it was at the close of the last World War: “These honored dead havemot died in vain.” (Continued on Page Seven) | action, ) JUNEAU CAR SOLDFOR§1 IN SEATTLE Auto Abandoned by Local Man for Parking Fine Sold by Sheriff SEATTLE, May 30.—The ancient auto belonging to Joseph Wagner of Juneau which he abandoned in front of the Seattle Police head- quarters four months ago rather than pay a $1 parking fine, was sold | for $1 today to the garage wherni the 1923 model sedan has been held | for storage. The dollar was paid at a sheriff's | sale and was given as credit for the $1250 storage fee. | Wagner, four months ago, found an overtime parking ticket on the windshield of his car, then wrote to the Seattle police saying that they could have the car, that he would rather forfeit the car than bother with the $1 fine. ————————— QUIET, PLEASE! SAN FRANCISCO, May 30—Jan- gled nerves of apartment house dwellers started action by the Cali- fornia State Automobile Associa- tion. Thoughtless drivers who park and honk—just to summon one per- som from among a hundred or more in an apartment building — have been threatened with legal | FIRE DELAYS INDIANAPOLIS AUTO RACES '$100,000 Blaze Desiroys Three Racing Cars- Seven Injured Lindbergh Profesting ToAnyWar eclares Rtrsevelj's Pol- icy Will Start Confli of Hemispheres PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 30— ¥ Charles A. Lindbergh last night SPEEDWAY, INDIANAPOLIS, | told a rally of adherents against| Ind, May 30. — The start of the war that if America attempted to Memorial Day 500-mile auto race,| follow the policy suggested by Pres- | scheduled for 8 oclock Pacific Stan- | ident Roosevelt last Tuesday night dard Time today, was delayed by a | “we will start & war between the|flre in the garage section. The hemispheres that may last for gen- flames destroyed three racing cars | erations.” | and thirty garages, injuring seven - | men. Cost of damage was estimated | "by officials as $100,000. ALWAYS A FIRST TIME The delay was caused by damage DENVER—Jack McCracken, who to the power lines affecting the has played on Denver A.A.U. bas- electric timing device by which the ketball teams for nine years, says cars are clocked. his teams have been eliminated The crowd was unofficially esti- from the national meet on Mon- mated at nearly 150,000 on hand. day, Tuesday, Thursday, Fridayand| Repairmen worked frantically to Saturday, but this was the first | restore the power lines. year it happened on a Wednesday. | e —————— D - MILITARY TAKE OVER NEW DUTIES Sudden Adivities Over- night as Various Re- ports Start Action LEAVES AT VARIOUS FORTS CALLED OFF Special Precautions Taken at Seattle-Ship Canal Locks Closed (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Military and civil guards stood watch over defense plants from Coast to Coast today after be- ing summoned overnight. Civilian authorities spoke of sabotage and military officers talked only of‘tactical maneuv- ers. Highlighting the sudden ac- tivity was the New England and California cancellation of leaves for 14,000 soldiers for a “practice alert.” The “alert” at Fort Cus- ter, Michigan, was so realistic that officers confessed, “it even fooled us.” War Department in Washing- ton said it had issued no in- structions of any kind to lead to the precautions and sald it knew nothing of the activities 4t Fort Dix and Fort Custer. It was pointed out that the Post or Corps Commanders may corder alerts or maneuvers at any time. Alrplane factories and estab- lishments engaged in defense production, it was explained, are under the protection of the FBI and individual protection forces are at most plants. Anti-aircraft guns have been mounted atop California plane factories and ships in Los An- geles harbor are floodlighted. Police guards have been aug- mented in several cities along the West Coast, and “patriotic bodies” have been asked to stand by. At Seattle the Port Com- missioners ordered extra guards along the waterfront after warn- ings from the FBI that they should exercise unusual alert- ness over the Memorial Day week end to safeguard shipping facili- ties. Federal authorities have clos- ed the Lake Washington ship canal locks to visitors and have doubled the ordinary guards. Alarm Clock Dynasty Seen PITTSBURG, Kas, May 30— The weary residents of a Pittsburg neighborhood are beginning to .{believe that in woodpecker fam- ilies missions-in-life are handed down from father to son TIME MARCHES SHORT STORY i an Smallest “national defense” con- CLEVELAND — Not caring tor“ tract is held by Mrs. Emmalice Ot- long speeches, Toastmaster CIff testad, who, by bidding one cent,| Hopkinson handed the speaker his | was low for the job of renovating watch as a reminder. Then Hop-| a government-owned flag at Bel-|kinson got interested in the ad- lingham, Wash. postmaster, | dress. He forgot about the watch! who called for the bids, gave her and the speaker took it right back| 90 days for the job. |to Akicn with him. | There are 3,250,000 cattle in Den-' Elephants like onions just as mark—one for every other person, well as they do peanuts, At 7 am. nearly every day a woodpecker alights on one par- ticular roof and unsheaths his bill against a metal ridge pole. It has been going on for so many years that the late sleeping residents ust can't believe it has been a one-woodpecker project. B i — New York, City's subway police do not carry clubs,