The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIL, NO. 8740. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE _ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY JUNE 2, |94l MLMBLR ASSOCIATI:D PRESS PRIUz TEN (.l:N 13 AXIS CHIEES P 4 & MANCHESTER AIR RAIDED BY GERMANS Manufadurfl(ily Attack- ed During Night - Two Kinds of Bombs Used MANY FIRES STARTED BUT ARE (ONTROLLED Heavy Pall of Smoke Handicaps Rescuers Who Are Digging, Wreckage Shorts for Evening > , | 4 14 BOMBER IN CRASH; FOUR DEAD Sabotage Is?idenced in Air Accident in San Diego Bay Today SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 2.—Four fliers apparently have perished in a crash of a $250,000 British Lib- erator bomber in San Diego Bay which the Consolidated Aircraft | Corporation spokesman said gives “evidence of sabotage.” The spokesman said the 25-ton | land bomber was “thoroughly test- ed” and added that a “thing like | that does not just happen.” The dead fliers are believed to bel 4 Willilam Wheatley, 39, of Chester, | 4 L4 N NEW MOVE ABANDON CRETE; MEDITERRANE P . York by radio after the Bismarck er ¢|¢cd the Hood, _ |MUSSOLINI, HITLER ARE CONFERRING Meet Agailra—i Brenner Pass-Are Now in "Com- plete Agreement’ NEW PERIL IS THREAT 10 BRITISH LIFE LINE London Sources Admit De- velopments Eliminate Sea as Vital Link (By Associated Press) Hitler and Mussolini have reached MANCHESTER, England, June 2. —German planes poured thausands of incendaries and high explosive | bombs on this manufacturing city N. Y. Chief Test Pilot; Allen Aus- eased by Berlin and sent to New tin, 28, Assistant Test Pilot; Bruce £ % Craig, Engineer, and William Reiser. a new “complete agreement” re- __. |garding a “course of way” at an- other meeting at Brenner Pass and This picture of the German battieship Bismarck was pride of the British fleet, and send her down in a nav: muck und mrpedocd n.e cnfl lrm mir md sea, ncndln al battle between Iceland and Greenland. The British fleet then gave chase to the Bis- l '-Ile Nazis’ prlde to the botlom 0' I.Ile Athntic 25, Chief during the night. Rescue crews are handicapped by the heavy fall of smoke but-Kbor- jously dug victims from the eck- age. Although many fires were started by the incendary bombe, none got beyond control of the fire fighters. A number of nurses are feared to have been buried in the wreckage of a nurses’ home which received a direct hit by a high explosive bomb. Two hospitals were also damaged. In other areas, three churches, several shelters and homes were hit. WASHINGTON.—One year 3ago this week, as France began to crum- ble President Roosevelt launched the gigantic national defense pro- gram. The twelve months which have passed have seen $40,000,000,000 appropriated, and studendous chang- es in the économic structure of the country. A huge powder and shell indus- try, with an output greater than the U. S. total at the end of World War I, has been created literally ‘from {he ground up. Plane production has been pyramided from a few hundred to well over 1,600 a month. Hun- dreds of war ships are under con- struction, and new cargo vessels every week are splashing into the basins of roaring along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts. Guns, automatic arms, tanks and many other types of mechanized equipment are pouring from pro- duction lines in an ever mounting fiood. Taken as a whole, the picture is breathtaking, impressive. In one short year a mighty war industry has been created where none exist- ed before. But when the details are examined closely, the picturé is not S0 rosy. These ominous things stand out in close-up; shortages in esseéntial raw materials, due to the stupidity and timidity of responsible officials and the cupidity of profit-minded bus- iness men; also ugly time-wasting strikes, contract breaking and cost-| ly racketeering by self-seeking so- called labor leaders; also demoral- izing obstruction by buréaucratic brass hats in the Army and Navy. Then there is the fact that of the forty billions appropriated, approxi- mately one-third is still uncontract- ed, while—even more startling only about five billions have actually been paid out for completed work. Finally, of four billions earmarked for new defense plants, only about | half has been allocated, and of this (Continued on Page Four) L numerous | | Paulette Goddn.rd | You can imagine the “ohs” and “ahs” which greeted Paulette God- dard, screen actress, when she walked into the supper room of a Santa Monica, Cal., hocel in for- mal evening shorts as shown above.. Joan Crawford, also an | actress, suggested the daring idea | & few weeks ago. The upper part of the creation is like the conven- tional evening gown but the bot- 4om ends abruptly above the knees. Bargaining For Miners U, S, ‘Smelting, Refining, Mining Co., fo Treat with Employees FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 2— The United States Smelting, Re- fining and Mining Company has agreed to bargain with the local 440 CIO after making a check of the company’s production employees in ‘this district, numbering 760. The check showed the majority of such employees belong to that union. Bargaining begins this week with both sides hopeful satisfactory ar- rangements will assure continua- tion of operations in the Fairbanks area. o ——————— FORCES OF - WARPLANES IN CLASH CAIRO, June 2—Large forces if; British and ‘Axis warplanes have | ranean. The RAF headquarters two German Heinke! bombers were shot down, one by a Free French pilot. The communique says many oth- Jhues. At Fairbanks /dropped medical supplies and food Lewis McCannon, Mechanic, was seriously injured. He | was rescued from the wreckage. } New Boeinfiircrafl Ad- ministration Building at Vancouver Damaged T | VANCOUVER, B. C. June 2—| An unexplained fire roared through the admMistration bullding of the | new Boeing Aircraft Company of Canada plant yesterday, doing dam- age estimated at between $60,000 and $70,000 to the building and also to the exterior of the new factory for production of new flying boats. Firemen were aided in fighting | the flames by student fliers from ! the nearby Royal Air Force training center. The fire raged for two hours be- fore controlled and extinguished. ———————— SUPPLIES DROPPED BY PLANES Remnants qf_AlIied Forces in Crete Given Medical Rations and Food CAIRO, June 2—British bombers | to isolated bodies of Allied trpops | left in Crete after the major wlth-’ drawal of the forces, is reported in | a communique this afternoon. No further details regarding the remnant of the British Imperial and Greek troops are given. 1t 1s, however, announced officially that Crete has been abandoned and the Axis are victors in the conquest for the island. clashed “over the eastern Mediter-| reporis i | feller during the famous industrial- ers probably failed to reach their ]due to general debillty: LAMONT BOWERS DIES, AGED 94 BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., June 2.— Lamont Bowers, personal represen- tative of the late John D. Rocke- ist’s greatest activity, died here today at the age of 94. Death was ROUTE ¥ 1600 MILES -, This map indicates the route of Bergen, Norway, Brest, France. It was firs! It was intercepted by the Britis] ed by aerial torpedo hit (4), sk sher Germ-,n battleship sank (5). uudtr cmb closed in and mrflul' crippled Drivers Heldl At Biarritz All Survivor—s_of ZamZam Released Except Ameri- | @an First ‘Aid Men ‘ SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Jun | —The group of 112 American sur- vivors of the Nazi-sunk liner Zam- Zam have been allowed to cross into Spain, but 21 others, all Am- erican ambulance drivers headed for the Battle of the Mediterran-| ean, are held by the Germans N Biarritz in ‘Nazi occupied France.| No explanation is glven excep' “diplomatic reasons.” Two ambu- lance drivers, Charles McCanh) and Langford Harris, were released | with the other survivors, apparent-| 'ly because they had passports| marked as students so the Ger- mans did not realize their work Men who crossed into Spnsn‘ were compelled to leave all baggace behind, but women were allowed to bring hand luggage. A representative of the U. S. Embassy at Madrid plans to go to Biarritz today to investigate the reason for . holding the American ambulance drivers. ‘ s The Bible contains no word with more than six syllables. f the German battleship Bismarck until it succumbed to a combined air and sea al ¢ discovered at Bergen (1), h battle cruiser Hood off Greenland ( | walpole, 57, British novelist next seen off th as British fleet pursued it. from the time it was first observed off ttack by the British 400 miles west of e Strait of Denmark off Iceland (2). 3), where the Hood was sunk. Bis- Then British aircraft and warships | Sned -,u-ck OF BISMARCI( ON FMEHIL JOURNEY 21 Ambulance SINKING OF BISMARCK WAS HELL, SAYS NAZIS AN UNNAMED BRITISH PORT, June 2—A British naval officer who participated in the sinking of | the giant German battleship Bis- | marek, said today that the ves.sell wns a 50,000-ton ship and the largest in the world. “It was un- | doubtedly far above anything we d thought of.” The 82 survivors of the blasted Nazi ship who arrived ashore are e 2 sml dazed from the battle, and hit.” British seamen paid tribute to the enemy who .went .down fighting. A British officer said, “She never struck her ensign.” NEW DEFENSE SUM SOUGHT NOW BY FDR tion Is Proposed-Con- gress Gefs Request WASHINGTON, June 2—Presi- dent Roosevelt has recommended to | Congress additional appropriations | totaling $125,000,000 for special de- | fense highway construction, The President proposes that $100,- 000,000 be authorized specifically for | development and access of roads and $25,000,000 to strengthen bridges =;nmd widening services for key areas. Italians Planning Attacks * for Assaults on Brit- ish Positions One German, dragged from the debris in the littered sea is quoted as saying: “It was Hell. Great holes burst out in us and flames sprmd in every direction. We'd run this| way and then something else would Novellsl Who Wrole a Book A Year Affer He Was 25, Is Dead; Gave Hugh who wrote a book a year from the age of 25, died here Sunday. He was LONDON, June 2 — Sir | frequently termed “the modern An- thony Trollope,; tried home mis-' | sionary work nnrl schoolmastering before his first novel appeared in 1909, when he ‘was 25. Thereafter, w for 1917, he wrote at least one book a year, From the outset he was .recog- | nized as a writer who would take Lecturesin U.S. commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 and was| knighted May 10, 1937. His “The Secret City,” published in 1919, was, Black | awarded the James Tait prize,; one of the foremost recog- nitions for English letters. Walpole, a confirmed bachelor,| was born in New Zealand in 1884, ithe enly son of an. Angelican cler- (Continued to Page Three) ROME, June 2—Informed Fascist circles predicted today that Italian forces will use Crete as the spring- | board for new attacks by air on British positions in the triangle formed by the island of Cyprus, Alexnnder and Port Haflu 459 MEET DEATH IN TRAGEDIES | | day Disastrous Over This Nation (By Associated Press) At least 459 persons met violent | deaths in the nation during the three-day Memorial holiday. | Traffic accidents took 308 lives, | train mishaps 13, drownings 75 and |63 were killed by miscellaneous | causes. Special Hughway Construc- ! Use Crefe ggpringboardx Three Day Memorial Holi-, a place among the foremost au-| thors of his time. He was made a| at the same time the British ac- | knowledge the Mediterraneran has become virtually an “Axis sea.” This situation is now capitalized and it is presumed to undoubtedly figure in Hitler-Mussolini talks. Quallfied informants in London said the developments of the past weeks, notably the fall of Crete, officially admitted, and alignment of France with the Axis, have prac- tically. eliminated the Mediterranean as a link between Great Britain and the Midde East and even the fastest | warships, it is said, will likely find :tranm in the 1800-mile long sea | a feat of extreme peril. ; There are two short danger zones, the 200-mile stretch between Crete and Libya and a 100-mile ‘gap be- tween Sicily and French-ruled Tuni- sia, which routes are vulnerable to attacks by Axis bombers. Hitler and Mussolini conferred for several hours at Brenner Pass, mak- ing the sixth time they have met since the present European war be- gan, Each meeting signalled the beginning or end of a major phase of the war. When the Axis leaders met the /last time, January 20, the talkfest preceded the Nazi assault on Yugo- slavia and Greece. There is no | information made public as to the next big move but action is indi- cated, however, AXIS CHIEFS DISCUSS U. S. ATMEETING Presumab|y—T—aIk Over F. D. R.'s Plans fo De- fend Hemisphere ROME, June 2.—Informed Fascist sources claim that at the meeting of Hitler and Mussolini at Brenner | Pass the United States was discussed. | These sources said the Axis lead- ers “presumably” discussed the pros- \ pect of actions of the United States in line with President Roosevelt's iprogram to defend the Western Hemisphere, French West Africa, the Azores and other Atlantic Islands, with the United States Navy, — U. 5. FOOD INENGLAND LONDON, June 2—The first ship- ment of food from the United States under the lend and lease bill has reached & British port. The steamer had among the cargo 1,000 tons of flour, 4,000,000 eggs and 120,000 pounds of. cheese,