The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E "“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941. F.D.R. HURLS CHARGE AT NAZIS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8756. MLMBER IBER ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS RAF Smashes Out to Thwart Invasion Plans CONGRATULATIONS BRITISHFEAR BIG PUSH IS NOT FAR OFF Bloodless l-{a:gain with| with Stalin Will Put England on List SOVIETS SAY ENEMY WILL NEVER ENTER English in All-Out Effort fo Smash Nazi Channel Preparations (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Informed quarters in London to- day disclosed that the RAF's nine day series of blasts on the Channel invasion ports of Germany and in the Ruhr, are all-out attempts to smash preparations for a big anl push against England, which is ex-| pected as soon as Germany settles matters with Russia. In what may have been a pointed warning to Germany, the Soviet Government paper, Izvestia, today declared “Neither through the for- est nor the steppes nor the moun- tains nor the seas, will an enemy ever step across our forbidden boun- | dary.” While Moscow appeared outwardly calm, an atmosphere of uneasiness "7 (Continued on Page Eight) N SN, Drew Peorsos «d Robert S.Alles 6o’ WASHINGTON.—Dr. Scholz, once Hitler's confidential representative in the German Em- bassy, is now Nazi consul in Bos- ton. Coming to Washington on the train the other day he bumped into an old friend—an American. They had known each other for many years and fell to chatting quite frankly about the war. “How soon are you going to use convoys?” asked the German con- sul. “Soon, I hope,” replied his friend. “That’ means breakin diplomatic relations,” replied Scholz. Then he added: “Of course, we expect you to be in the war. We've' counted on that. However, in this war, America will never send an expeditionary force. The American people won't stand for that; that's one thing we're sure of." “I don't see that at all,” replied his friend. “Our navy is stronger than ever before. We were able to convoy troop ships in the last war and I see no reason why we cannot do it in this war. After all, it was an expe- ditionary force which turned the tide in the last war, wasn't it?” The German consul admitted this was true. He seemed upset and asked several times if his friend felt cer-| : tain that the United States' would send an expeditionary force. He kept saying that sentiment in the Middle West wouldn’t permit it, and came back to the subject frequently: NOTE.—In diplomatic circles .an explanation for the sinking of the Robin Moor is that Germany now figures the United States will come into the war no matter what hap- pens, but is confident that no expe- ditionary force will be sent until Hitler has administered the final stroke to England. ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN MURRAY Behind-the- scenes = developments last week indicate that the anti-Red forces inside the CIO will not get very much help from Phii Murray in thelr drive to purge the organiza- tion of. key | Kommie leaders. No leftisthimself, Murray seems Herbert| President ‘Roosevelt to become a congratulated by Solicitor 'General mentioned as a probable choice Jackson. Attorney-Geney1: Robert: ;- Jackson, - (eft) -who -wag-nopiinated: by < Justice of the Supseme Court, is Francis Biddle: Bigdle ‘has been as Auorney General to succeed - Warning Is Given Alaska | FishCompany PAF Must Lose Director or Radio Licenses Will Be Revoked SEATTLE, June 20.—The Seattle | Post-Intelligencer says today the ' Federal Communciations Commis- sion has notified the Pacific Am- erican Fisheries, one of the world’s largest salmon packing corporations, that unless Director Earling D. Naess, wealthy fugitive from Nazi occupied Norway, resigns, it will | revoke all of the corporation’s radio | licenses. The Federal Communications Commission officials said that und- | er the regulations, no company with | an alien as an officer on its board | may receive or hold any authoriza- tion for operation of radio stations. The Pacific American Fisheries | neries, the fishing fleets, supply‘ ships and also with Bellingham, Wash., the headquarters of the cor- | pontlon H IIaIy Asks ClosingU.S. Consulates Reserves Right to Put Lid on American Express | Agencies in Country | ROME, June 20.—In the request made by the Italian Government yesterday on the United States to close the Consular offices and recall the Consular functionaries and clérks by July 15, reservation of the | right to close the American Express | offices was also announced. | The request to close the Consular offices extends to the Kingdom of Jtaly, territories under: ‘Italian sov-'| ereignty and t.hue now aecupuc by Ttelian, tmp- j Alaska Slum | Steel Is | Clearing Bill Passes House Would AIIJ Legislature fo Set Up. Authority for Improvements { | o i | WASHINGTON, June 20. — The | House today passed and sent to the | Senate a bill by Delegate Anthuny J..Dimond granting the Alaska islature power to create a publlc[ corporate authority to undertake, slum clearance for low ineome rlm- ilies and construct dwellings fo: sons engaged in national derenu | activities. The same power is now held by all| | State Legislatures and those of Puer- | to Rico and Hawaii. | The Committee on Territories re- ported the need of slum clearance| and national defense housing in| Alaska and said if the measure is| housing. The Federal Works Agency | and Interior Department approved | passage of the bill. A memorial asking Congress -to | enact such enabling legislation wns\ defeated two months ago. ! — | Coming To West Expansion mnduslry Is! Announced - Program Cosi$l()0,000,000 . WASHINOTON June 20. — The! Office of Production Management | announces that steel companies have completed plans for the expansion and Pacific'Coast States. The ex- | pansion program will- cost at least sto0000m. G EXTRA® U. 5. SUB MISSING ON DIVE Rescue Cre?with Diving Equipment Rushed to Scene This Affernoon PORTSMOUTH, N. H., June 20—The Navy reports that one of its oldest submarines, 09, a small undersea boat recently brought back into commission, is four hours overdue thiv af- ternoon in a test dive off the Isle of Shoals, not far from where the Squalus sank two years ago with u:e loss of 26 lives. The rescue ship Faleon that aided finally in bringing the Squalus to the surface is re- ported at the scene, Acmiral Wainwright said the craft was making a dive in the area of 370 feet of water. A rescue corew with diving equipment was being rushed ..o the scene, Ane craft normally carried a. . crew of about two to four of- ficers and about 30 men. Late this afternoon a private airplane sighted oil slick about four miles off the Isle of Shoals, § Navy officials repétt the chances of saving the men are slim.. Aniong the crew on the sub- marine is believed to be Com- mander Lieutenant Howard Abhott, of Osccola, Towa, grad- uate of the Naval Academy of 1931, and Edward Foster, chief machinists mate, of Seattle. The Navy Department at Washington said it is believed 32 men are aboard the craft. e GAINS MAD AT DAMASCUS . BY 2 FORCES 'Free French T Troops Also Holding Own Against Great Odds CAIRO, June 20—British and operates in remote parts of Alaska enacted Alaska will be eligible to! | Indian troops have made local gains and uses the radio as a sole means ‘apply to the U. S. Housing Author- | in the drive on Damascus, of communication between the can- ity for assistance in constructing | British report this morning, the and added that the Free French forces are holding their ground against a sharp counter attack of numeri- cally superior Vichy Yorces south of Damascus. On the southern Syrian front, the Brimh communique says, the situ- ation 4s still not fully cleared up around Merdjayoun, but which is said to be surrounded after the Vichy forces recaptured the place. Game Tonight In spite of a he‘vy downpour in Juneau this morning, weather, cleared sufficiently this afternocn so that the scheduled seven-inning ball game between the Elks and the Moose is still set for 6:30 o™- ilock this evening at the Firemen's Ball Park. homsnas, o o e LEW KAY HERE Accompanied by his attorney, George. Meagher, Lew G. Kay, President of the Hirst Chichagof Mining Company, arrived in Ju- neau on the Yukon this morning, \of facilities in the Rocky Mountain ' stopping here overnight before fly-, ing to the Island mine. ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS 1 | | A company of Free Frenc! troops are now reported fighting Armored troop carriers in Batavis Oritical relations between Japan further strained by the Netherlands government's expected rejec- tion of Japanese demands for great quantities of rubber, ol and tin, projects the Dutch possessions in the Pacific into the news spot- Meanwhile, the Netherlands East Indies government has moved toward increasing its defenses by ordering 300 “blitz buggies” from the Ford Motor company in Detroit. In this picture, light troop carriers are ru»hlng Royal Dutch soldiers to their posts during light. maneuvers their keep it out o! Axls hnnds Dutch East Indles in News [ News of the Day Newsreel Photo and the Netherlands East Indies, in Batavia. | Reveal By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 20 — Jim Preston, who works for. Archivis and probably carries more facts, historical and cantemporary, about Washington than any other man in these parts, and I were chew-" ing the. rag. Somehow we got to discussing the subject of women being draft-| ed for national defense. “Whether women should be drafted orshouldn't,” said Jim, “is somebody else’s argument — not mine — but American women have been fighting their men's {battles with them ever since 'théfe) | was a country. R “Why, right here in the files and records in this building are scores of stories—not just about women who went a-nursing the sick and ! wounded — but about women who shouldered a gun and did their share of the shooting, too. They did it in the Civil War and in the Indian wars and in the Revo- lution—in fact in just about every scrap on American® soil. “Of course every school kid knows about Molly Picher, but| Tl bet there are few if any who ever heard of the strange case| of Deborah Sampson. « gotten one. In .a way, he did get' Massachusetts regiments in April |of 1781. This fellow Shurtleff, it seems, was a good soldier and if the colonists in. those days had had time to knoek out a lot of edals, he probably, would have one—but that's . getting ahead of the yarn, “It was at the battle of Tarry- ‘wvm that Shurtleff, in there pitch- ‘in! lead as fast as his old muzzle- | loader could be stoked and fired,| Bot on the recelving end of a bul-| let. His pals carried him out of| the battle and back to one of those| emergency hospitals, probably in| some little farmhouse, and then— the Army surgeon discovered wasn't Robert Shurtleff at all, Deborah Sampson. “Deborah must have done a lit-| tle fast talking, because the Army| surgeon kept her secret. She got| well, rejoined the Army, was with| General Washington when Lord| Cornwallis surrendered, and was' | honorably discharged in Nuvem-‘ | ber, 1783. } “Now, to get along to the way| | Deborah was honored. That year| jor the next, Deborah married a fellow named Benjamin Gannett.| And Deborah put in her applica-| tion for a pension and got it—$4 he but h f es in review after deserting to the 'side of the British. These e p“‘coumrymen in Syria, which Britain has invaded in an effert to NAZI-U.S. TENSION IS INCREASING American Charge d'Affairs| Closing Up Business— Problems Discussed BERLIN. June 20—Lel'md Mor- ris, United States Charge d'Alfairs, today discussed the increasingly tense German-American rélations at the German Foreign Office as' United States Consulates in Ger- many and seven conquered Euro-/ pean nations prepared to close doors at the request of the Nazl‘ Government. Many problems urgently require" clarification, the sinking it is said, of the including American freighter Robin Moor and also zech-: nical questions involved, including | the caring of French and English interests, who will attend to this; work, and what nation will after American interests. lpok It is estimated that from 75 to| 80 American Consular officials and' employees are affected by the clos-' ing order of United States Consu- lates. Drafting Women for BAN PLACED - National Defense Has ed Strange (ase ON ALL OIL EXPORTING President Issues Order—Di- recls Administrafor fo Act at Once WASBHINGTON, June 20 — By Free Frenchmen——TheY Flght the VIChY Regime lSl“Kl“G OF ' ROBINMOOR OUTLAW ACT President Roosevelf Makes Direct Accusation Against Reich FORCEFUL LANGUAGE IS USED IN MESSAGE Declares America Will Sail Seven Seas — Will Not Yield fo Germany WASHINGTON, June 20.— President Roosevelt describes the sinking of the American freighter Robin Moor as a ruthless act of an “lnternation- al outlaw.” The President declared the United States does not propose to yield the use of the high seas to Germany. The President made the pro- nouncement of the sinking of the American vessel in a spec- | SUNK BY GERMAN SUB President Roosevelt stated, without qualification, that the Bobin Moor was sunk by a German submarine. The President said “full | reparations for losses and dam- ages suffered by Amerian Na- tionals will be expected from the German Government.” The President said the Robin Moor went down in the Atlan- tic on May 21 and all of the passengers and crew subse- quently reached safety. The survivors sald a German sub- Ine and then shelled the PURPOSE OF ACT The President said the pur- pose of the sinking “would ap- pear to be te drive American commerce from the ocean wherever swch commerce is considered to be a disadvantage to German designs.” The President, in proposing to outline gotion in retaliation, apparently chose the vehicle of a special message so he could couch the protest to the sink- ing in the most forceful lan- guage at his command. ACTION SHROUDED The President did not dis- close what steps the Govern- ment might be contemplating to protect American merchant vessels on the high seas and it is regarded as doubtful if these to give Germany a tip as to steps are made public so as not what to expect. It will not be disclosed, it is believed, whether cargo ships will be armed or (Continued on Page Eight) l | direction of the President, all pe-| —-. troleum products are now subjeeted to export control, especially from the eastern seaboard and may be made only to the British Empire, Egypt and the Western Hemis- phere, The White House also disclosed the President has directed the Ex- port Control Administrator to place restr\cuom on oll producu | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 84, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 72, Commonwealth and Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 38%, International Harvester 50%, Kennecott 36%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 6%, United | States Steel 55%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, STARTED IN 'MASSACHUSETTS | a year at first and later on, $76.80. | Jones averages: Industrials, 132.19; “Her story started up in' Innhi’ 'She and Benjamin lived mgemgrinun 27.93; utilities, 17.77. | chusetts “‘when a féllow i lbert Shurtleff joined one vt (Continued W Page Bl | I8 >oo— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 'WORK RELIEF FUNDS GIVEN SENATE BOOST Approprintflm—ls Quickly Passed-Sends Bill Back " fo Hoyse for 0. K. WASHINGTON, June 20 — The Senate has approved of the Work Relief appropriation of $936,000,000 by a viva voce vote and sent it back to the House for action on an increase of $50,000,000 and other amendments . to- the measure. Included in ‘the “appropriation 15 $76,000,000 - to' “provide - jobs ‘for an average of -1 persons under the WPA, fiscal year which begins July 1,