The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIL, NO. 8741. 9y “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941. FIRE BOMBS DROPPED ON BERLIL AXIS POWERS READY TO FIGHT U. J. Not London, but Newark, N. J, in Test Blackout ‘NI GHT RAID ACTION IS INDICATED BY GAYDA | Fascist Editor Makes Au- thorifative Statement in His Newspaper ANNOUNCEMENT CLOSE ON HEELS, BIG MEETING Declares Military, Polifical | Forces of Europe Are { Ready for Any Move ROME, June 3.—Germany and Ttaly are ready for action against the United States if that country enters the present war. This is the authoritative view expressed by Fascist Editor Vir- gino Gayda and comes close on the heels of the latest meeting between Mussolini and Hitler at | Brenner Pass. Gayda wrote today-in.his. (Continued on Page Eight) | Annual Rose Fe: Porllan's Rose_ Queen Betty Jane Harding, 18, was selected to be Queen of Portland, Ore., ival, June 11-14. e~ i WASHINGTON—Behind all the guessing and speculation over con- voys aroused by the President’s fire- | side chat is this one basic fact. The | old-fashioned form of convoy al-| ready is outmoded, and, as Rooseveiv indicated at last week’s press con- | ference, it will not be used. But the new-fashioned form of convoy, as described in detail in this column | May 1st, already is in use and will | be intensified. This is convoy by airplane patrol, | using airplane carriers and nearby | islands for bases. The destruction of the Bismarck showed how ef-| fective this airplane convoy could be. | Airplanes flying above the water ' can sight the submarine below the water miles away, whereas a surface | vessel cannot sight a submarine more than a mile or so away There- | fore you can éxpect to see a network ' of United States airplanes criss- crossing back and forth across the ! north Atlantic, assisted in part by surface warships, but- extending all the way to Ireland. ] ~ THE PACIFIC FLEET ' Wwith this settled, the most im- portant strategic problem being dis- | cussed in backstage Navy circles is that of bringing the mighty Pacific , fleet from that ocean into the At- | lantic to prevent Nazi seizure of the mid-Atlantic islands and to be ready ' for other major eventualities | Every detail in connection with ! such a shift has been discussed. And while there have been some hot behind-the-scenes arguments, the ! one thing upon which the admirals | GEHRIG IN ACTION all agree is that the fleet must be | ROAD FUND FOR kept together. To split it into small l units and send some of them to the Atlantic, in their opinion, would be disastrous. Battleships must have[ their accompanying cruisers, de-| stroyers, etc., and they cannot be, divided. i Naturally, the idea of the fleet withdrawing from the Pacific is| Senate Appropriations enouth o s he hair on the | Corp!nmee Makes Ad- Coast. However, the Navy has work-{ (litjon fo Supply Bill ed out a plan whereby it is con fident that the West Coast would WASHNGTON, iJutr;‘e 13.:‘:11 Bm. be in no real danger. ,crease of $350,000 in the Indian Bu- This plan is extremely important, reau’s road building appropriations because it fllustrates the new type has been voted by the Senate Ap- of warfare made possible by the long propriations Committee in reporting the Interior Department's supply (Continued on Page Four) bill, INDIAN BUREAU INCREASED NOW Lou Geilrig, Iron Horse Ot Baseball, Dies; Had - Greaf Diamond Career NEW YORK, June 3. — Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig, 38, former New York Yankee first baseman, is dead. His condition had been eritical since a month ago. Lou Gehrig was synonomous with durability, clean living and clean play in baseball. During his sixteen seasons other players came and went, but he was the “Iron Horse,” an institution as unfaltering as time itself. Over a period of 14 years he ap- peared in every game the New York SENATE HITS ICKESPOWER IN NEW BILL (BRI | Territories Committee Not Willing Secrefary Should Dispose of Property WASHINGTON, June 3. — The | Senate Territories Committee today struck from a pending bill a pro- | vision which would have permitted | Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to dispose of property alone. The committee would make Ickes | give a full report on the matter. | “Why, it might be gold or copper or anything. There might have been another Teapot Dome scandal | on our hands,” one member said. | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond said the bill would authorize the Copper River and Northwestern | Railway to give all its property and equipment in Alaska to the United States Government. Its measures would also empower Ickes to accept property and give | him power to dispose of it. This pro- | | vision also was eliminated by the | committee. | ; The committee approved a hill Wwhich ‘would authorize the town of Seward, Alaska, to purchase private- ly owned electric and telephone sys- tems which duplicate service install- | i ed by the Government there. BIG PLANE ~ CONTRACTS AWARDED \ rer STATES ROAD o e ke et 15 BMEALL DEFENSE BOTTLENECX This is the first of three ar- | Worth of Bombers ticles on National Defense on | WASHINGTON, June 3. — The| the highways. out; below, during the “lights out” period. Seattle, Wash War Deparment today announced | |the awarding of two bomber con- | | tracts totaling more than $320,000,- | 000. One, for $226,000,000 was award- | |ed to the Consolidated Aircraft| ! Company in San Diego. The other, for $95,000,000, went to the Boeing | Aircraft Company in Seattle. Both of the huge orders were de- | scribed by the War Department as | HUGHES LEAVES By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON,; June 3 — It hardly has been mentioned, but| Yankee pl. —, | World sz,.:g;ed Smflcx;mfifi;g":r';designed to further the President’s exhibition—and it was because of | goal for bomber production at 500 a this incomparable record that his | month voluntary withdrawal from the line- | up May 2, 1939 was so dramatic and ! ] the subsequent discovery that he | Alrcra" was suffering from amyothropic lat- eral scleroses. This was a rare dis- Carriers ease and was described as harden- [New Cargo Ships Are fo Be ing of the spinal cord which caused the mucles to shrivel. | A pall was cast over the sports | world and the fact that his team | continued on its orderly course to a fourth consecutive world cham- pionship had no effect on the opin- ion of most fans that his forced retirement ended an historic era in baseball. o e botdoner trom e vt | Converted, Says Mari- Hornsby, Frank Frisch and the 'ImeCommlsswner other heroes. A Part of New York ! -He was as much a part of New York as Central Park. Born in Man- hattan June 19, 1903, he grew up in Dempsey, member of the Federal Maritime Commission, today told i i Chief Justic | Relieved-Request Ac- | cepted by FDR | el HYDE PARK, N. Y, June 3 — President Roosevelt has accepted ithe request of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes that he he permitted to retire from the Su- preme Court of the United States. Hughes, in a letter, informed the President that in “consideration of {my health and age, it makes it e—Asks fo Be | necessary that I should be refleved | it— which I have been | tional WASHINGTON, June 3. — John | discharging with increasing diffi-|over the problem of how to ma- | from the duti culty.” Hughes is now 79. SCOTUS, | this circumstance. one of the bottlenecks of national| defense is our wonderful system of | highways. Fop, before the blackout; below, during the test In a test staged By ure city defense council to demonstrate air raid defense, the city of Newark, N. J., is blacked out for 15 minutes, the second U. 8. city to try it. At the top is Newark before the black~ had a test blackout a few weeks ago. Knox Demands Miracle from Shipr_iIders Secretary of Navy Says Combined Sea and Air Arms Can Win War WASHINGTON, June 3.—Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox today demanded a production “miracle” Even as this is being written, Con- in the nation’s warship building gress is preparing to do something | industry in order to assure the about it. It's hard to predict what, United States and British command Congress will do under any circum-|of the seas. stances, but Washington’s capm)l‘ wiseacr can’t miss doing something about|and no one thing. It is the suc- cessful combination of the sea and an- air power.” an| Speaking at a conference of ship- Behind this prediction is other of those strange Amer! stories. The United States has the)builders, Secretary Knox told them | greatest road system in the world it was up to them to see America —nearly a million miles of the equipped with warships, half of the finest a rubber tire ever rolled combination necessary for victory. over, But the United States cover. T a lot of territory. Its highways' cross everything from the swamps Y k 'TUKON 1S NOW of Florida to the Great Divide. Because of that—or in spite of Army and Navy and na- defense now . are swealing neuver on the highways of Amer- ica and get their big guns Knox said: “There is no doubt this | are saying that legrc»‘ war will be determined by two things | “no chdnge in the situation” on all | ficial IS MADE ON NAZICAPITAL Royal Air Force in Exten- sive Attacks Says ‘ Brit. Ministry OTHER GERMAN CITIES ARE BRITISH TARGETS ‘A'panmenls,_Oiher Build- | ings Damaged-Civil- i ians Killed, Injured (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Night raiders of the British | Royal Air Force caused a spread ! of “large fires” in an attack on Berlin, according to an official | statement issued in London this | afternoon by the Air Ministry. The Royal Air Forces also | bombed the cities of Dusseldorf, | Duisburg, Ribrort and other tar- gets in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Valley, Tt wis the 46tk assault of the war on Berlin. | British raiders also struck at the docks at St. Nazaire, the German U-boat base, and Os- tend. ¥ The German statement ac- | knowledged this afternoon that apartments and other buildings | in Berlin were damzged by the | British bombers and a number | of civilians were killed or in- jured. PEVSIES. (GO S SYRIANOW NEXT AREA FOR FIGHT Britishers Eéifl;ved fo Be Racing o Beat Ger- mans Info Sector (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Britishers are ragerly awaiting word that steps haye been taken to beat the Germans into Syria, | Qualified observers in London sug- |gested that the current wall of of- British sil pce is a highly significant sign. The only announcement made is from the Middle East Headquarters in Cairo which states only there is | | | fronts and the RAF omitted men- tion of operations in Iraq, Syria ot the eastern end of the Mediterran- ean in conneetion with the possi- bility of a British movement into Syria. Observers sald such unusual si- lence in the past has almost in variably meant something big is in progress. P Connors Bound for Vacation in States Mrs. J. J. Connors, Jr., accom- panied by Patricia and James, sail- and with the metropolis. As a high school athlete jne atiiined some prominence and was an all-around sports star at Colus University. Throughout caré®r he was called “Columbia Lou.” At the age of 20 he left Columbia in 1923 and signed with the Yankees. Except for parts of the 1923 and 1924 seasons when he was sent under option to Hartford in the Eastern League, he never played with any other club. After his withdrawal from bas>- ball he retained his identity with (Continued on Pege Six) the Senate committee investigating | 1t is indicated that Attorney Gen-|convoys (truck fleets) and mech- | the Defense program, that a number | cral Robert H. Jacksvn may be | anized forces into and out of | of the commission’s new cargo ves- | fughes’ successor. : | strategic centers and scores of sels will be converted into aircraft | In fijling the vacancy caused by | training camps—and how to get carriers for the Navy. Hughes' retirement, President Roo- | labor into and out of the new de- & TR | sevelt will have named seven mem- | fense plants. MILES TO WRANGELL | bers to the Supreme Court. Preliminary steps in remedying Pastor M. L. Miles of the Sev-| Hughes sent his retirement this situation already have been enth Day Adventists left aboard (.. ¢o (he White House before taken and out of these I can giv the Northland for Wrangell on pas- |, qunging the bench yesterday to you some picture of conditions s e toral duties. | preside over the court at the last| they exist today. In the first place |sessfon until October 6 and the there is the report which the WILDER TO PETERSBURG | |iter way transmitted to this tem- | public roads administration h Bill Wilder left aboard the North- land for Petersburg to join his par- ents who are now publishers of, the weekly Petersburg Press. J | porary White House, made to Federal Works Adminis-| Spectators at the Court session!trator John W, Carmody, at the o i e ALY | (Continued nn page Six) | (Continued on Page Five) SEATTLE, Jupe 3. — Steame: Yukon sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with 220 first class and 97 steerage passengers aboard. Passengers aboard the Yukon for Juneau include the following: Ralph Robinson, Capt. Sampson, wife and child, Edna Steiner, Jean Taylor, B. F. Heintzleman, Roy Jes- en, Miss M. Marothich, Thelma Pet- erkin, Mrs, Eleanor Dusenbury, R. M. Black, Harold Prentice. - ‘Women predominate as the users >d on the Motorship Northland tc spend the summer months on a va- cation in the States. Most of the ‘ime will be spent ifi Seattle and on Whidby Island. Ui s AU e HEINTZLEMAN SAILS Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- deman left Seattle on the steamer Yukon today to return to Alaska after spending six weeks in Wash- ington on Forest Service business. He plans to stop over in Ketchi- an enroute north. ——————— Labor Day was inaugurated by :or taxis in America’s larger cities. juxe Knights of Labor in 1882,