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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8755. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANY ATTACKING RUSMIA U.S. Agents In Germany Are Ordered Out B s i | it ST ORI (W NOTE GIVEN T0 OFFICIAL IN BERLIN Consular arfixpress Em- ployees Must Leave Reich and Occu pi_ed_Counlries BULLETIN — BERLIN, June 19—Germany has asked the United States to remove all Consular and American Express Company employees from Ger- many, Norway, Holland, Bel- gium, and occupied France and Serbia, also occupied Greece, not later than by July 15. A note to the abeve effect was handed by the German Foreign Ministry to the United States Charge d’Affairs in Ber- lin this afternoon. The DNB, official German news agency, says the action is because the “conduct of Consu- Jar and travel agency employees have long been highly objec- tionable. The Trepresentatives have furnished lists of activi- ties to the American authori- ties and this has beem injuri- . ous to the state.” 50%, Kennecott 37%, New York Cen- tral 12%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 123.50; rails, 28.07; utilities, 18.04. g Robert S.Alles WASHINGTON — The United States is getting much better co- operation from some of our South American neighbors than has leak- ed out to the public. Last ‘week, when Portugal protest- ed to the United States against Roosevelt’s fireside chat hinting the seizure of the Azores, the Brazilian Government immediately got in touch with the U. 8. State Depart- ment. The Portuguese had sent the Brazilians a copy of their protest, and Brazil asked us what reply we were going to make. Ambassador Caffrey in Rio de Janeiro immediately showed Foreign Minister Aranha a summary of our proposed reply, and Aranha volun- teered to send Portugal exactly the same answer—telling them it was vital to the safety of the Western Hemisphere that the Azores be. in friendly hands, "and that Brazil could not afford to see the islands taken by the Axis. This message was sent: which means ‘that Brazil will cooperate with the United States if and when the time comes to occupy the Azores. Argentina also has been more cooperative than ever despite the die-hard efforts of our Rocky Mountain Congressmen to prevent the importation of Argentine can- ned beef. Argentine sentiment is overwhelmingly anti-Hitler and pro- Roosevelt. The Argentines are much stronger for Roosevelt than for the United States, and have their fingers crossed as to what may happen after Roosevelt leaves office, ,DAKAR AND ROBIN MOOR For approximately one month, however, all White House advisers (Continued on Page Four) [ ansert RAILROADS Z=== MAIN ROADS emces SECONDARY CANALS Ay & Ak MARSH LANDS I~ = AIRPORTS [] z 10 15 ? LINK IN LIFELINE—On STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW, YORK, June 19, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 85%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlenem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 39%, International Harvester in Britain’s empire lifelines to India and Australia, the full weight of a Middle East war may soon fall. A waterway for supplies, it's a key to Eastern Mediterranean dominance. OKATIB EL HENU Suez Canal (above), vital link LORD HALIFAX GIVES AWARD T0 ROOSEVELT F.D.R Says U. S. “Would Rather Die on Feet than Live on Knees” CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 18— Responding to the precedent shat- tering award of an Honorary De- gree from Oxford University in Har- vard University’s ancient . yard, President Roosevelt today assert- ed: “We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.” Roosevelt gave the message in response to a citation read by Lord Halifax, British Ambassador and Chancellor of Oxford. The Briton said: “We too, are born to free- dom, believing in' freedom and willing to fight to maintain free- dom.” The honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws was awarded the President in a dramatic ceremony held only a few minutes after Hamvard, as the oldest university in the United States, awarded an honorary Doc- torate of Laws to Lord Halifax as a representative of “a stalwart na- tion unyielding before the blows of tyranny.” e, BLOCKADE IN ARCTIC British Makfiove af Pet- samo Owing fo German Troop: Movements LONDON, June 19—Great Brit- ain has clamped down a blockade about Petsamo, Finland's Arctic post, on the ground that a large number of German troops arg pour- ing into the country. ‘Three Finnish vessels have 3l- ready been infercepted and’ de- tained. SABOTAGED VESSEL IS TAKENOVER First Iialian?th Lying Idle in U. S. Wafers fo Go Into Commission WASHINGTON, June 18. — The| Maritime Commission announced ' today that possession of the flrst{ of 28 sabotaged Italian ships laid | up in waters of the United States has been taken. The Maritime Commission’s an-| nouncement says its representatives | | have taken possession of the Italian | ship Clara, 61,000 tons, in Savannah | harbor. The Clara will be taken to; Newport News for drydocking be- fore placed in service. 'Plane Down AR In Inferior, | | {Army Observafion Craft on Mountainside - Occu- panfs Not Injured - FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 19— ‘The Army observation plane, forced down on a mountainside about 40 miles south of here, is apparently little damaged. Raymond Robert who are mushing back to the airbase with supplies dropped from an Army bomber. - e e—— U. S. BUDDHISTS HONOLULU—S8ince .it was in- troduced’ in Hawali 50 years ago, Buddhism has obtained 49,713 ad- herents, says Kenju Ohtomo of the Young Men's Buddhist Association. | Its membership represents about 35 percent of this territory’s Japan- ese. population. >oo— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 2 . - 1 8-Hour Law { No injuries were sguffered by Lieutenants Milton Ashkins and| DAMASCUS * REFUSES T0 | Allies Deliver Ulfimatum to Surrounded Syr- ian Capital DEADLINE THOUGHT SET EARLY TODAY Only Three Miles Distant (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Vichy-French defenders of Damascus are reported to have re- | jected a British ultimatum to sur- render the 4,000-year-old capital | city of Syria, as Allied siege forces threatened the city on three sides. Authoritative quarters in Lon- |don said the probable expiration deadline was 5:30 o'clock this morning, when British and free French forces opened fire on the final assault at the closest point. | Allied forces' gre sald"to have oc- cupied Mezze, of Damascus, three and one-half | \ l | | | miles from the city, ‘while other | troops attacked from the southeast of the capital. Suspended In3 Areas Executive O;&e—r Affects Al-| aska, Puerto Rico and Also Canal Zone WASHINGTON, June 19—By an Executive Order issued today by | President Roosevelt, the eight hour | labor limit law for laborers and me- | chanics émployed in Government defense construction work in Alas- | ka, Canal Zone and Puerto Rico, is suspended. The suspension is effective for the' duration of the current National Emergency periods and applies to workmen engaged in building can- tonments, air fields, fortifications | and other public works necessary to | National Defense. President Roosevelt said the or- der is necessary because it will be impossible to accomplish the ne-| cessary work within the time re- quired and in the interest of defense because of the remoteness of the areas affected and the sources of the labor supply from the United States, and also because of transportation and housing difficulties. ITALY ASKS U.S. TO CLOSE (ON_;!JLATES | BULLETIN—Rome, June 19. —The Italian Government has requested the ‘ United States to clese all Consulates under the Italian flag and remove all agents and clerks. ANYBODY EVER KNOW A CHESTER DAVIS! of Chester Davis, about 57, has been received by Chief of Police Dan Ralston. .Anyone knowing such a person Is asked to communicate with Ralston, | | , sun:n_mnm‘ [ i | | Brifish in Suburbs of City! | | Alfred J. F. Moody (right) of Hamden, Conn.,, honor student at West Point, N. Y., receives his diploma from Secretary of War Henry L. St ¢ Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Superintendent of the academy, but forme: ¥ isat center. a western suburb HONOR STUDENT GETS DIPLOMA Point Military Academy at West imson at graduation exercises, Brig. rly at the San Francisco Presidio, INVASION BELIEVED STARTED :War Machine Said fo Have Moved Info 15 Soviet Poinls‘Alo_ng Border NEW BLITZ LOOMS, DIRECTION UNKNOWN German Spokesman Gives Evasive Reply fo Lat- est Developments (By Associated Press) With the lack of the slightest con- { firmation, and with reports up in {the air, attention is still pivoted on the wildcat reports from Turkey that Hitler's war machine has start- |ed an invasion of Russia, attacking \the Soviet border at fifteen points after the conclusion of the German diplomatic stroke that neutralized Turkey and virtually isolated Rus- |sia. Yesterday it was announced |that the Reich and Turkey had fll’;ed a _ten-year non-aggression pact. Nazi spokesmen in Berlin declared | A Cadet and His Girl T & | | | | I Cadet George S. Brown, of El Paso, Tex., who received the sabre pre- sented by the Republic of Ecuador for the graduating cadet captain and regimental adjutant, shows Alice Colhoun, of Alpine, N. Y., how to wear a cadet’s shako, Brown received the sabre at rezimental narada Congress Hears from Teammale of fhe Late Gen. Billy Mitchell By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June 19 — Into the" Anflals ‘of Congrécs fhe oitprpirummed. qut gf e, Army,. for. & day was written one of those sim- ple and fouching stories of how| axdicles -and lectures. and breach of discipline, history and it's also history now the German-Turkish friendship pact DECLARES U.S. WILL ENTERWAR Japanese SBo—kesman Dis- cusses Situation Today in Speech at Tokyo TOKYO, June 19 — Spokesman Koissii, for the Japanese Govern- ment, addressing the Central Co- operative Council today, declared that “it it almost certain the United States will enter the Euro- pean war on the British side.” The spokesman asserted that Ja- pan’s primary goal is the ‘“con- struction of a new order in East Asia.” The United States ald to Great Britain ,has increased tremendously of late but “Germany is taking no deliber- ate attitude, refraining. from any step to stir up the United States.” At the conclusion of his address, | the spokesman added that in the | spokesman mentioned no other aim but did.say that the is a stunning defeat to British diplo- macy. The pact, engineered by Hit- ler’s ace troyble shooting diplomat ‘Von Papen, was greeted without surprise in London where the British interpreted it as a coup against Russia amid rapidly mounting Ger- man-Soviet frietion. New Blitz Predicted Informed quarters in London said the ten-year accord is a virtually infallible omen of a tremendous new German military venture. But the riddle remained unsolved whether it would be aimed at Russia, Egypt ‘or the British Isles. British spokes- men declared, however, the treaty fitted familiar Nazi strategy for isolating Hitler's intended Blitz vic- tims. German officlaldom remained silent regarding relations between Moscow and Berlin, declaring “a ver- itable flood of rumors regarding Russia, Rumania and Germany has descended on the world, but none of these originated in Germany” so therefore, the German spokesmen said, there would be no comment. Ultimatum Rumored Among the flood of rumors is a report circulated by Reuters, Eng- lish news agency, that Germany has already served an ultimatum to Stalin making demands for the re- turn of Rumania’s lost provinces of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina which Russia seiged last year, and _ demanding German occupation of World War the United States Ex Russia’s great ofl and grain -3 }pedmonnry forces were able ‘o ince, the Ukraine, “for the time |time at least, for insubordination| That's| land on the European continent but ! the situation is different today. ————e——— Tyee Is Now | | | Norlllbound SEATTLE, June 19, — Steamer Tyee is on the way to Southeast Al- |aska ports with passengers and freight. The result was that he was| Passengers aboard the Tyee book-’ ed for Juneau are Mrs. J. H. El- liott, Bob Tew, Mrs. Bob Tew, Mas- ter Bobby and Jean Tew. long and enduring can be a friend- ship between “war buddies.” | It. has to do with the memory and the record of the late Brig. Gen. Willlam L. “Billy” Mitchell, who suffered the humiliation of being court-martialed and relieved of his Army command for, four years after he shouted long and that “Billy” Mitchell's name has bobbed up more often in the last year or so than that of any of the major or minor prophets who pre- dicted the tides of modern war- fare, for it appears now that he was right. GAMES TODAY The following are final scores of being.” Another reported Nazi demand was that Russia withdraw her troops beyond a line of demarcation to be fixed by Germany from the Russian (Continued to Page Two) DR.DYKSTRA QUITS POST, NDM BOARD JResignalio;—A_ttepIed by Rooseveli-Is fo Remain on Call, However ' | | | 1 baseball games played in the m’“l WAS!flNmN. June 19. — The leagues this afternoon as mclved‘mmm of Dr. Clarence Dykstra An inquiry as to the whereabouts |loud and violently that wars of the future would be fought in the air and that the United States Army was' negligent in not developing this ‘branch of the service. Head down, like an angry bull,-and ob- livious to ' consequences, ~General Mitchell snorted and pawed out his lchu‘—l and claims in interviews,| ‘tion ‘which Assemiblyman Edward AFTER 42 YEARS It bobbed up again the other day| in Congress when Rep. Stephen Bolles of Wisconsin called to fhe| attention of the use a resolu- P. Hilker of Racine had laid be- 7 T |up to press time: National League New York 9; Pittsburgh 6. American League Chicago 2; New York 7. Detroit 4; Boston 6. g Cleveland 12; Philadelphia 1. e ——— — BUY DEFENSE BONDS as Chairman of the National De- fense Mediation Board, effective July 1, was today accepted by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Dr.. Dykstra will return to his duties as President of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin but he has agreed to remain on call for panel service with the board from time to time,