The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIL, NO. 8762. MEMBER ASSOCIATED RESS o HOLDING NAZIS GERMANY BRITISH IN 17TH NIGHT RAID, GERMANT PLANESOUT JERRY CHAPMANWINSCITY | AGAINOVER CROWN IN THRILL-PACKED NAZI LANDS New Bomb;rs_Being Used Which Carry and Drop i | | | | | | [LUCKY BOY SOAP BOX DERBY (LASSIC Jerry Chapmen, 12-year-old Em- | pire newsboy, will go to Akron, Ohjo, to compete in the All-Am-| U.S. SHORT SUPPLIES OF - AMMUNITIO Irish Want Rifles, But FOR| Wants Cerfain Assur- FROM PLANE T0 PARK BENCH RED AIRMEN STRIKE AT OIL FIELDS Soviet Uses Luftwaffe as "Anti-Tank" Arfil- l fE l h { | erican Soap Box Derby August 17 fin ¢ by virtue of his winning the Ju- . 03 | oads Y xp 0sives 1 IS Ex(ITED neau championship yesterday in an(es Flrs' Iery on NaZIS et i | the first Derby ever held in Al- o I.OUD REPORIS ARE i ‘“-"““‘- HYDE PARK, N. Y, June 27— HITLER SIAI.IIIG HEARD E"GI.ISH SIDE Chapman, spensored by Tom Dy- President Roosevelt today disclosed | y | er of the Standard Oil Company, thata shnrtag:o of Iml‘nunltlox; o::;. 0" u“ REPORIS — | sent his speedy car No. 34 over a fronts the nation’s defense eff A e ! ——— rainy 12th Street course in record| He said at a conference with Affacks Made on Docks, e o capture the main prce of ‘newsmen he i looking inio the| Germans Have Not Yet 1 H i i | the big event sponsored by the question of sending some rifles Shipyards at Kiel-Num- | Jerry About Happiest Kid | e v cvent soonsores by ‘e G, o, ot o, srmmaniion can Broken Through Sec- . ! H H ¢ 3 be sent because the United States 8 s erous Fires Started in City Today-Wanfs | s Emoiee. ' Way bebind in fts own needs. ondary Defenses i fo Be Engineer | A crowd of well over a thousand | iy "pregigent psserted the Irish % I spectators stood shoulder to shoul- want all kinds of things in addi= e | |der_along both sides of the entire Yior iy riris. but most of these the (BT ANOIUAINS ERSISL in the irection of Boulogne on | Jerome John (Jerry) Chapman,|Course to see 61 boy-bullt CATS coungry cannot get for itself. He | ising to reveal Nazi & | f v he lanes. A stead 8 promi prog: the seventeenth consecutive |who won the Rotary-Empire Soap | c0me down the Y | made it plain that armament aid to ress in its latest war, Hitler * night raiding®of Gemmin ob- | Box Derby in 49 seconds flat over drizzle of rain was ignored by spec- reland will be given only after as- | again today put off telling in de- jectives. {55 competitors yesterday, is prob- | tators and competitors alike as the surances that the Irish will defend | tail how the Rusian campaign A short time Igter,the familiar | aply the happiest and most excited excitement of the race kept all themselves against a German at-] is going. Meanwhile Russian re- sounds of explosions were heard. |kid in Juneau today. minds and eyes on the racers. tack, but added that no such assur- | ports declares planes used as The raiding forces included | Jerry, when speaking of his vie- | Minard Mill Second ance has been received. |3 “anti-tank artillery” have in- ; some of the latest type of bomb- | tory sald he was “awful excited” and | Young Chapman narrowly beat _ AS for helping Russia, the Chief flicted. heavy losses ' on i wiericimiyA e Sl 3 ng P Executive sald he ‘expects to confer F s (Cantinied on Page Seveny | 1 40t know it Tl win at Akron out Minard Mill..Jr., 14, for TUS! on that topic with Sumner Welles | i : CENNIN I R jbut I'll try.” ! place honors. Chapman was the SR . 4 e E Russia. ; » | Jerry has named the “soap boX" winner of Class B and Mill of :L:V:‘fgnfx'fi’",,fi:i :ikl;;“’:;‘e ;'_3 L g o SR A Moscow communique ‘said (= “* that brought him victory the “Em- ciaeq A competition. They were pit- o (po yte e 8 A5 W 0 | Jacqueline Cochran, (second from right) American flier, sits on a park bench with a group of on Rl it " tnnumerably als C | pire.” He is one of the hustling Em-| toq together in the final race of . ¢n, ibility of using Irish Sirls after flying an American-built bomber across the Atlantic to England. This picture was cabled from tacks” have blasted mechanized i bewship . : 11| the day for the M. E. Coyle silver naya) pages. | London to New York the same day she arrived. invaders almed at Vils, in Lith- | oThe lucky youngster is & well| ;opny, a gold wristwateh, the all- s PO ST masiiy R Y. sat Bine: ] ‘12 vears of age l’-’u is the son Of!ex?iense-paxdd ";‘: M;x Akronlfore::y Regardi;xi t::e ammunition short- Axls Supplv ol.nd. ze ussian-occupied Po- ¥ 3 and car ant e honor of repre- age reveales y the President, Ju- ] | Orew Pearsos, 2k SUER IR LGS ROk oaper AT senting Juneau in the national neau ammunition and small arms oRDERED (losED | { Indications are that the Ger- pvy | masseuse. Jerry was born in Santa a v mans on the sixth day of their | finals. retailers said today that tpeir sup: Barbara, Calif., and when he was 2 H intended blitz drive have not fcbert S.Alles | years old the family moved to Port-| Mill, as second place winner, will plies have not been depleted and w | yet penefrated the secondary |1and, Ore., where they remained un- | be awarded a shiny new bicycle. they are still able to get quick de- 300 . outer ‘dafiises of the Beviet | til two years ago, when Mrs. Jen-! Placing third was Jack nm“v‘“";;zso;‘ :‘de":i] RN N 1 Union o reach the primary for- q» - ‘e | kins moved to Juneau, with her son |12, who defeated Charles Linehan, e, bsbe “e.m g sas , to 7 e fac | tifications along the old frontier. and daughter, now 13, to make their|14, in a special runoff for that m" }{Dm“ A e "3'6‘5 oresaw | The German High Command home. | place. Turoff wins a portable ra- "es OH ge an shmetfi ”3;‘51“1"‘ proclaimed from field head- — | Jerry will be in the seventh grade | dio. D b e e quarters that troops, victorious SHINGTON—The Russo-Ger-|this coming year. | Medal Winners v ! Sk e on all fronts, have made im- s s prought more than| When asked what his ambition is| Medal winners in Class A were: S mmunition wil be “extremely | Attack Is Mad v l' portant gains_ which “will be ever to the forefront two young he declared: “I want (o be an engl-) Mill, first; Linehan, second, and “pney pointed out that several cali- {ANIBCK Is Made On ¥ esse T e o b t neer and build bridges.” Tony Del Santo, third. = gty bellgerents, Ambaasador Constan-| M7 Jenkins was delihied With| Clags B medal WINNers WELE: ¢ have besn aken from the markel Under Heavy Convoy - | ot Bed sirmen in raids an’the ; i {the sportsmanship shown by the|cngpman, first; Turoff, second, i f umanian port of Constanta, tin Oumansky of Russia nnd‘mmar Bowa fsibia by “They. wers apmi A until t't.\e end of the “European E 0" Aflanh( coast the Rumanian capital of Buch- Charge d'Affaires Hans Thomsen|, o= istrig 3 A offebs and Keith Weiss, third. trouble.’ arest and Ploesti, in the center o ety {Just fine, praising Jerry and offer-| gupeiaesing all competition, 10- I b A " oif ¢iak |ing him many congratulations on CAIRO, June 27.—At least two Of the Rumanian ol - Both are about the same age pis win and none of them showing 20,000-ton Axis merchant ships have in their early forties, both are extremely able, both play an ex- ‘the least signs of chagrin at losing.” tremely different role, and neither; circulates very much in Wssmng-lau""ER.up l" ton society. l Thomsen, boyn of a Norwegian DERBY pR AlSES mother ‘and married to a Hungar-| Minard Mill, Jr. “Glad Jer- ian wife, sometimes is suspected of | anti-Hitler leanings. This suspic-| ion has been increased by his)| wife's urconcealed dislike for Hit-i ler. Frau Thomsen has declared that she would not go back to, Germany if her husband were re- called, as long as Hitler is in power. Actually, however, Thomsen loyal Nazi and a close friend of Hitler’'s, He happened to be in the Foreign Office when Hitler first came into power, and served for some time as MNaison officer between the new Chancellor and the Foreign Office. Quite a bond of friendship grew up betwesn them. ry Won"'-Speeds Were wa Awlully Close | “I'm glad Jerry won.” This was the first thing 14-year- old Minard Mill Jr, runner-up in the Soap Box Derby, had to say yes- terday after Jerry Chapman had defeated him by a few feet in the |final heat in which the Juneau |champion was chosen. *I tried hard, but I'm glad Jerry the Capitol Theatre. Second in this class was Willlam Porward, who wins a sleeping bag, while Bil'.yl Sperling won third place and & fishing outfit, Class A Results Young Mill won his Class A title in a final heat with Linehan after Del Santo and Wallace De- boff had been eliminated in semi- finals. Del Santo won a special runoff against Deboff for third place. Quarter-final racers. were winners of original heats. Class A heats resulted as fol- lows (in finish order): Leonard Olson, | John Cass. Bobby Murphy, Gustav Peterson. Ralph Kibby, Harry O'Brien, J. L. Wilson. Del Santo, Billy Carlson, Leslie Eddie Hughes, Mill, Louis Bonnet, Rildy Krsul. | Beverly ¢ Lane,®observers said devastation from the f e year-old Stanford Clark and his “Tin Can Special” won first place FINLAND IS in Class C and a year's pass to 1 IN FIGHT ON SOVIETSNOW Devastation from Skies Forces Liftle Nation Info Conflict HELSINKI, June 27. — Finnish ! 8ky, such as typified the Soviet Rus- sian invasion of two winters ago, (has marked the outbreak of hos- tilities between Pinland and Russia. Acknowledgment of a state of war between the two nations was made last night. KONIGS! @BREMEN v £ 5 o ofreoam™ 8" o (U, Y O NE 6® oDRESDEN (POLAND) been torpedoed by planes and be- lieved to have been sent down. The ‘action took place off the Italian KEEP QUIET | coast. The announcement is made by the Royal Air Force Middle East Com- . mand which further states the at- tack was made on the ships which were under 4 heavy convoy. R GERMANSUB SAYS HITLER T0COMMAND Defails of Five-d ay Old Strugole Withheld fo Keep Plans Secret By LOUIS B. LOCHNER Associated Press Correspondent BERLIN, June 27.—The mdin de- cision over Soviet Russia has already been won informed German forces declared optimistically today after the High Command reported the SINKS FIVE - FREIGHTERS {Claims Include 18,000 [ Tons of Merchant Ship Likewise, Ambassador Oumansky won, because the best man always| Hogins. & - 0“ E ' h c Gef!nl!n Army has been “victorious is close personally to the dictator| Wins,” young Mill told the big Der-{ Don Daigler, Gene Hanna, - n g i S OaS| on all fronts.” But the High Command, on orders of his country, Josef Stalin. Ou- mansky once was chief of the press bureau in Moscow, in other words, chief censor, and came into close contact with Stalin, Oumansky and his wife are great students of American life and pol- itics, and know this country as well| | by crowd over a public address sys- | tem. | Chapman, the winner, accepted {his honors modestly. He publicly thanked “Mr, Dyer and Mr. Baker,” | (Tom Dyer and Dewey Baker of the Standard Oil Company, who spon- sored his entry.) In tryouts over the course in the ling Martinson. \Continued on Page Seven) 936 Hot Dogs Sold Yesierday: NazisDemand United States consulates, located in the cities indicated on this map, were ordéred closed by the German and Italian governmentts, effective July 15, from Hitler's headquarters, have (By Associated Press) postponed again the heralded an- Germany chalks up credit for the nouncement that “successes are baf- Anfi - Russian EXILED RULERS CARRY : destruction of 31,500 tons of British fling the imagination,” and with- merchant shipping today as sources held all details of the vast five-day !claimed that one Nazi U-boat sent struggle. The High Command savs |five merchantment to the bottom |that this postponment of any furth- | off West Africa. er announcements is solely to keep or better than most d‘p“’m‘“-iweeks preceding “the Derby, four They have not circulated socially cars had alternately clocked the since Russia made her ill-fated al-:fastest. Some nights Chapman would | Seventy-eight dozen hot dogs, al- [ ] . I Ifl M’"” o organlla|lon ' Other German claims are that the ' secret valuable information and does . e o" AT l “Do"l Aw" Luftwaffe sank 18,000 tons of ship- not mean any delay in the progress T X | y | 1plmz along the south coast of Eng- of operations, % iMrs. Courtney Smith REUNI(E WIIH PEOPLES, prince rupERT liance with Hitler in 1939, but thebe speediest, other nights Minard Soviet receptions once were rnm-'iMill. while the cars of both Tony ous for caviar, vodka and rich Del Santo and Charles Linehan for viands rivaling anything givendur-;a time appeared winners. most enough strung end to end to stretch the length of the Soap Box Derby course, were sold yester- A report from Spain today claim- ed that Hitler has demanded a token of anti-Communist force in h day from the Rotary Club conces-nation in the Nagzi-| .::w { ® ing the ornate days of the Czar. | RN P G B sion stand nesr the¥inish line of Europe. i Goes Sou'h Dn ViSi' OUMANSKY AND HULL ! i e Wm hy iso disposed “,Sgll‘lm mhbe:f'n :\: xn?x?- By WILLIAM W. WHITE ood stead now.” HM“' mI(BI S Cqurtn;;m](h e Oumansky has had. frequent AP Feature Service An officia of the Polish govern- contact with the State Deparl- Cent heat wave, E. C. Barrett Jr., ment, especially last summer and 'ePorted to police someone broke fall, when Sumner Welles was|into a storage locker on North = —— Plum Street and stole an electric RICHMOND, Va—During a re-la dosen cases of $op and a g0od'jng of o e, I e, ing 5 Spanish Legion of Volunteer But, , said Goncession -Chairman = '1¢ i reporteq 1 | by a German spokes Dr. Dick Williams sadly, the ice mar that other units are also form- cream didn't seem' to have muchlm‘ in Norway, Denmark, Sweden lished " spiracy ‘nwnl in yesferddy’s climate. and in Oceupied Prance. . At Prince Rupert today 56,000 daughter Courlyne left today aboard hie { LONDON, . June - 21 — “Through| <", 1% €¥1e Was vesalthié. BO% ! pounds.of halibut were sold at 1080 the Yukon for & two months' trip. long years of practice, we estab-' profiting by the - lessons thn“'"d 9.30 cénts a pound. While in the south they will visit certain routines of econ-|’__ P L e e relatives in Everett, Wash., and that are standing us ' in BUY DEFENSE STAMPS in Portland, Ore. l:u—and a pair of ice skates.