The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8772 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, LL THE TIME” 1941. MEMBER ASSQCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY GERMAN DIVISION ANNIHILATED U. S. BASE IN IRELAND NOW INDICATED TAFT TELLS SENATE NEW MOVE MADE Ohio Man Claims Consfruc- tion Is Now Underway fo Aid British CLAIMS WILLKIE GAVE OUT REAL INFORMATION | Landing of Forces in lce- land Called Equivalent fo Agaressive War WASHINGTON, July 10.—United States Senator Robert A. Taft, Re- publican of Ohio, told the Senate | this afternoon he heard weeks ago “on reliable authority the United States is constructing a naval nir‘ base for Great Britain in northern | Ireland.” Senator Taft added: “Since I| made the first draft of this speech, | Wendell L. Willkie, after a call on President Roosevelt, announced that it is his opinion we should establish military bases in northern Ireland | and Scotland. “Occupation of Ireland will prob- ! ably relieve perhaps half a million ! “A base in Ireland is much more effective to protect shipping than a ! (Continued to Page Tw0) | b ‘ihe WASHINGTON.—Thanks to its potent lobby, Pan-American Airways recently succeeded in blocking the establishment of a gompeting air- line across the Atlantic. The White House, State Department, Army and Navy wanted the second service, but Pan-Am had more influence with a majority of the U. S. Sen-| ate. ° | No announcement has been made ! about it, but today there is anoth- i er competing airline across the At- lantic. It is operated by the U. S.: Army Air Corps, and was establish- ed because of Pan-Am’s inability to meet the war-booming demand for transatlantic service. Using four-motor heavy bombers, the planes carry only officials nad official pouches to and from Eng- land. Ambassador Winant return- ed to London by this means . | The American port of this new, airline is the Army’s great air bue’ at Bolling Field, Va. The service is’ under the direction of Col. Robert | Olds, ace Air Corps oomm:mder,! who was recently put in charge of | ferrying Lend-Lease bombers from the West Coast airplane plants to Britain. The new airline operates as part of that service. | At present two bombers are in use, more are expected to be ‘The planes are manned by, Air Corps crews and operate on closely-guarded schedules and over a secret route. | “HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP” Serlous-minded Lord Halifax, the| British Ambassador, has his lighter moments, The other day he enter-! tained friends at the State Depart- | ment with this story: A sailor from a visiting British warship was wandering around Bos- M.Awommpwpmm.,mu_) ed the meaning of the letters “H.| ey T (Continued "ot Page Four) | made in the caves on the estate of Sir Harry Oakes. She is chatting | BERUNTO BE RAIDED BYBRITISH Disastrous Sweeps Over . Nazi Capital City Prom- | ised by Njw Official LONDON, July 10.—An inereasing flow of American made bombers will | 1sonn enable Great Britain to enact | manifold retaliation on Berlin for the German bombardment of Lon- | don. | This statement was madé_ today by new Minister of Aircraft Produc- | tion, Lieut. Col. Moore Brabazon who |declared that within a few months {Berlin will hear sirens announcing air attacks. Brabazon said the attacks will be | just as fierce and as disastrous as those made months ago by the Ger- mans on London on Wednesday and Saturday nights when the British Capital City was heavily raided. “The German raids will appear to | ibe mere child’s play compared to the raids we will stage on Berlin,” Brabazon said. | GAYDAHITS The Duchess Sees Movies Made | { | | | i | The Duchess of Windsor (center) seems quite interested in the filming of a motion picture in the Bahamas, where many of the scenes are being with Madeleine ®arroll and Stirling Hayden, stars of the picture. ; o ( ( up ATI N 8 British troops for service elsewhere \ and put half a million American | boys on the British islands. i | ALASKA LEGISLATURE * TAKEN UP AT HEARING | The Washington News-Letter of ROME, July 10—Faseist Editor June 28, written by Mary Lee yiginio'Gayda, in observing that Council, Secretary to Alaska Dele-' ¥ e P both American and British troops gate Anthony J. ‘Dimond says,'are now occuping Iceland, said to- hearings on the bill, H, R. 4397, “T0 day they are “targets eventually for lamend the Organic Act of Alaska,”|legitimate attack by Germany.” s0 as to provide reapportionment| Writing in his newspaper Il Gior- of the Alaska Legislature on the nale D'Italia, Editor Gayda said: “ | |basis of population, were held oni “Every day American bellicosity | June 24 and June 25 before the!identifies itself, without equivocation House Committee, on Territories at but with deliberate provocation, ! ‘Washington, D. C, at which Dele-:SOme incident or rather war between gate Dimond appeared in support Europe and the United States.” of the measure and Capt. James V.| Gayda as well as other Italian Davis, of Juneau, member of the Commentators, attacked Wendell L. Italian Editor Declares v i Targefs for Atfack | OF ICELAND i S. and British Troops | Amid the gaunt ruins that tell the story of blitz warfare, Soviet town on the eastern front. Conflicting reports ‘continue Yo emar and Moscow. chaiming successes. Sailor John on Parade Germans Mop Up a Russian Town Radiophoto Nazi soldiers zound uvp Russian priscners in.a _ ate from the front, with both Berlin ' RAGESOVER WIDE AREA Nazi Bombers Attack Suez Canal - RAF Assaults | - Syracuse, Naples { (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Overnight war in the air raged over a vast area last night extend- (ing from England to Egypt. | Hitler's Command declares that stronz Naz bomber formations at- | tacked the Suez Canal but no re- sults are given out. Mussolini’s Command reports a renewal of RAF assaults on Italian cities after a lapse of many weeks. | British bombers are sald to have | carried out low level daylight raids on Syracuse Island that left a toll |of 14 killed and 30 wounded. | The British Royal Air Force also' MOTORIZED UNIT WIPED OUT, REPORT From 12,000 fo 15,000 Nazi Troopers Said fo Have Been Killed MILITARY TITANS FIGHT VICIOUSLY Decisive Batfle Perha ps Raging-German Stafe- ment Same as Usual (By Associated Press) Europe’s military titans fought to- day with rising violence. The Russians report the annihila- | tion of a German motorized division of between 12,000 to 14,000 troopers, | killed after a terrific attack. The Russians also claim victories ['elsewheté on the vital 300-mile front | guarding Moscow and also the Len- | ingrad' front. | The Germans are silent on any | specific gains but declared that the | world’s two largest armies are now | fighting a decisive battle. | One Berlin newspaper today as- | serted that “not until now have the | two great masses come to deploy- | ment.” | Hitler’s Pleld Headquarters issuing the third day terse communique in succession, declared that “operations in the east are progressing relent- lessly.” The Nazi Command confirms the capture of Salla, fortified Russian ‘clty on the Finnish border. Capture was made only after a Red Army division was “crushed” after several days of intense fighting. | —————— No Armistice In Syria Yet; ~ FightGoesOn Brifish Announce New Cap- Fifteenth Alaska 'Legislature fromi the First Division, and represent- Willkie for his statements favoring establishment of United States mili- fure of Vichy Troops :al,tacked Naples on the Italian tary bases in northern Ireland and Scotland. | THREESHIPS ling the Juneau Chamber of Com-| , merce, appeared in opposition to‘ . the bill. | Delegate Dimond made an argu-| ment in favor of the bill, and then presented to the Committee not only the numerous resolutions, let-' jters and telegrams from various| | organizations and individuals in| Alaska in support of the bill, but {also presented to the Committee rand had incorporated in the record {all resolutions and communications | which he had received expressing opposition to the bill. The follow- i, is o st of toe orsaniatons Marine Disasfer Reporfed Off Swedish East Coast | their support of the bill: [ Supporters of Bill ‘Wrangell Chamber of Commerce, | | | 1mamlund. 5 gz o ¢ Phonephoto John Roosevelt. (left foreground), youngest son of the President, | marches on the parade ground at the new Navy Supply Corps School | at i Immediafe ard University, Cambridge, Mass. All four of FDR’s sons are | service; James in the Marine Corps, Elliott in the Air Corps and | FDR, Jr., in the Navy, | u m oug v i - Nal. Defense | [] | | FRLEEY President Wants Nearly Five Billion Dollars for United States Army Traffic Jam on Highv};ys Of Air Feared; Ceiling Is Temporarily Esfablished |, in Lebanon | Pk (By Assoclated Press) | Conflict in the Middle East flared with action again today amid a jumble of confusion as French spokesmen in Vichy declared the | British have not replied to France’s request for an armistice in the month-old battle of Syria, except in increased military asasults and at- tacks on the military honor of Gen- |eral Dentz, French High Commis- | sloner of Syria and Lebanon. | British headquarters in Cairo re- | ported new gains in Syria, but made im mention'of armistice negotiations jor the demand for the surrender of + Beirut, Lebanese capital. The Brit- !1sh announced the capture of “many {hundreds ot Vichy troops.” 17 guns, '| sitka Chamber of Commerce, Ket- ichikan Chamber of Commerce !skazway Chamber of Commerce, Eeldovia Chamber of Commerce, Explosions Heard STOCKHOLM; July 10. — Three ships of undisclosed foreign nation- ality struck mines and sunk in the By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 10— Some folks here are perturbed about the 17,000 of these are private and commercial planes. There are tens of thousands of pilots. Add a few H WASHINGTON, July 10.—~Author=- three tanks and five armored cars itative sources said President Roose- i the selzing of the French strong- velt will ask Congress for $4,700,- hold of Damour, nine miles south of 000,000 for new Army appropriations Beirut. Douglas Chamber of -Commerce, Baltic Sea off Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, last night. % O oast count Sitka Post No. 18 of the American Thunderous explosions were heard Legion. |over a wide seaboard area. The American Legion, Depart-| It is reported that 16 injured sur- ment of Alaska, Juneau; Ketchi-'vivors have landed but up to early kan Aerie No. 162 of the Fraternal this afternoon no further particulars Order of Eagles, Ketohikan Central Were received of the disaster. 5 SO Labor Council, Fairbanks Mine, b Ao R- rican 8 f.?,’.'..?. a .:5;‘2&":.‘..., w.“;‘.', Workers, Lncal No. 444; Allied GOES TO HOONAH as little Maureen Elinor Andrews Trades Local Industrial Union, Lo-| Van Mavern, local broker, cal No. 1932; Juneau Tndustrial Un-|flew out today on a visit to mer- ion Council, Alaska Salmon Purse °hants at Hoonah. Seiners Union, e e o Capnery Workers Auxiliary Un-' Advertising revenue derived by ion, Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No,|3249 dafly and weekly newspapers did—serving as co-sponsor, with her mother, of the American Ex- port liner Extavia, launched at Bath, Me, Mr. Andrews is line’s operating manager. | sbeen estimated at 155,300,000. 16 of Ketchikan, United Bmther-ll’epm’tml to the Department o! The total population of Africahas = | merce, fotaled $539,495,000 in o at cnce as the first installment of | Reuters, British news agency, sald possibilities of a traffic jam on the highways of the air. The other day a delegation called on the President and urged him to appoint an “air control coordina- tor,” & sort of traffic cop of the air, with broad powers to regulate traffic even to the point, if nec- essary, of grounding private flying in Army and Navy maneuver areas. Trying to get anything official on the situation is like trying to pull teeth with eyebrow tweezers On ‘beth sides of the fence, au- thorities ave afraid of touching off a powder | keg. ‘There are more than 30,000 airplanes of all types in the country today. About million passengers and of private flying. have some priorities in the nautics Board came ‘out of (Continued on Five) you have; some idea of the persons affected by any regulations or curtailment the new Pifteen Billion dollar Na- tional Defense and Lend-Lease pro- gram, | The program included for the On the other hand, it was real-| Army will be mostly for laying in of ized that-the Army and Navy must huge stocks of ordnance ammuni-| sky- ways even before the Civil Aero-| its, huddle recently and established a ceiling of 17,000 feet above sea level for all commercial and private avi-| —— ation. Above that the skies belong| to the Army and Navy. The board, added the further regulations that be in the States for about a month all planes not equipped with two- tion, and also provides for the pur- chase of considerable equipment of various types.. - MRS. BIGGS SOUTH Mrs. E. Biggs left for the south on the North Coast yesterday. She will visiting west coast cities on business. - eee —— BUY DEFENSE BONDS | ‘Brltuh troops have renewed hostil- ities when the Prench failed to meet {8 5:30 a.m. deadline for the evacua- 'tion of Beirut pending the discus- sion of armistice terms. | - e —— [ FUNERAL SERVICES | FOR M. HANIOGLOU \ Funeral rites will be held at 2 | o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Mike | Hanioglou, oldtimer who died two days ago. The service will be read by Dean C. E. Rice at the Charles W. Carter chapel. - e —— Chief industry of Chile, Bollvia and Peru is mining.