The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1938, Page 2

FOR THE GRAD B. M. BEHRENDS CO0., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” NEW BILL ASKS $950,000 FOR FISHERIES WORK Five-Year Program Propos- ed in Senate for Alaska —Opposition Raised (Continued irom Page One) almen counting weirs, $20,000; for 1941, sea-going patrol vessel, $60,000, buildings for the natives in the Prib- ilofs, $20,000, fishery products lab- graiory, location to be designated by the Secretary of Commerce, $50,- 000; for 1942, sea-going patrol ves- sel, $60,000, tender for the Pribil- ofs, $300,000, buildings in the Prib- dlefs for natives, $20,000, and for 1943, a sea-going patrol vessel at $60,000 and buildings for natives in the Pribilofs, $20,000 Senator King today mediate consideration of YOUR CAR Policy? to your car from and theft. coverage. blocked im- mined the mea- trillion metric tons HAVE YOU INSURED with the Comprehensive “All Risks” Automobile This unique policy protects you against loss of or damage practically It can be secured with or It provides much more protection, yet costs only a trifle more than fire and theft insurance alone. SHATTUCK AGENCY PHONE 249 Office—New York Life | “received word there is some obje verything 10 Wedrsss—-— Start him out into the world fully equipped to face it in Michaels-Stern Suit . . many fine styles & for a new “BRITAIN WILL PREPARE NOM American Observer Cites Frenzied Efforts of Na- tion to Get Ready, Strife F. Brooks, young men) Supply him with WILSON BROS. and ARROW SHIRTS - Wedge- locke angd Arrow ties hose, hats by Stetson and Hardeman. wiltiam jormer exe- he tells what Englsshmen are gelting ready for it. By WILLIAM F. BROOKS LONDON, May ure when he told the Senate he had headlines to mast Americans—is tria; Poland and Lithuania let their SALT LAKE CITY,—The state swept toward Barcelona; Ozecho- board of health’s vital statistics div-|slovakia wore out her knuckles at ision reports that Anderson is the Burope's chancellories to find out most common name in Utah, with Who would come to her aid if Der|clares : | 5180, Second come 5040 Johnsons. Fuehrer decided to ‘“reclaim” the THERE’S NO ESCAPIN: CLOUDS vately owned flying boat—which is the of amphibian, recently flown to Oakland, Cal., can carry 18 passengers, has a speed of 190 miles an hour and a cruising range of 1,200 miles. Its interior includes a mural of sunlit clouds. cutive news editor of The Associat-| ' ed Press in America, has spent the last six months in England as man-| aging director of The Asxuciatcu; Press of Great Britain. In this story| about “the mext war” and how they| Wrilten for the AP Feature Service 11.—The coming'ain is looking for ways to increase European war—as yet just a series of | her inflow of money for war prep- something the man in the streets| years-old quarrel boil over; Franco between the ages c Sikorsky—believed world’s largest pri- e and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. The ¥ g . fiiake 'a rToom gas-preof, how (o'rangements for such protection and build bomb shelters, how to @i I r in their business premises tirst aid, or what to do in the c may be practicable.’ jot an air raid. I'he Home Office ominously point- | 'The spy hunt is on again. Alicn ed out that “once an emergency has restricticns are tightened. Scattered urisen the actual warning of an im- |cases under the secreis act pending air raid is Jikely to be short {pop up in newspapers. Sabotage is The gov nt—obviously in an {discovered in air factories and nava! cconomy mwve—lurther uggested |dockyards. Watch is being kepl on that back arden trenche about |all job scckers at aviation factori feet deep, which a man could | It may not mean war. But it is ¢ for himself and his family | preparation such as no country has would be among the most effective | known in peace time. The working air raid shelters |¢lass Englishman accepts as it Gardens are ng dug up for |itable that some time, “W ha this purpose Government |to go over and wipe up that blcody plans includ twork of sheiter | —,” the blank referring to whichever | trenches in public par |dictator happens to be under di The result of these sober pro- {cussion. nouncements by His Majesty’s Gov- “This time well be ready,” he crmment has heen a frenzied cam- adds. paign on AF such as never could | England’s 1914 maxim has been be put un y in America ex- |revived—"If possible, no war; but cept on a real war time basis {if there is war, Britain must win A call has gone out for 1,000,000 | Faves CHimb volunteers—30,000 of whom will con- | Taxes are piled on. Already the 1‘)‘\""‘:“”“(‘]' ‘H!nlxl‘i‘\”:)llz‘h': ad: |rate is five shillings in every pound g = E [of income—25 per cent—and Brit-|2%: Twenty-six of London’s sub- urban districts for air raid p Brighton—Eng is dallying rowing huge we joined together autions. |aration. The Englishman doesn’t like taxes bomb-shelter eaves in |tions to this bill and some very s i ithl ‘ | > 2 of England has begun to view withlany better than the American but 4 » |ious eriticism.” Asking trae to inves- prac:‘igal, personal application. |he shrugs and says its better 10 ~uvl:m)m(>hn:,; hillsides. ’ ] :nwu. the I\«‘Hu!nf said, “this mll‘ Hitler and Mussolini have taken!be prepared. Ilt) M »,:up':).h.zn W‘m r Board, {was formulated without any regard | gt eiE S S Y out of| The Army has been getting it- D¢ Port of London Authority, and o the X s of particular mem- |y pajs of Parliament and put it|self fit for two years, but organiza- S Lagaen Paeinger TEMEpatk bers of the House or Senate which|ine " b e S iver shops and ton of civilians now has been un. | BO2Td are pondering protection of represents, as 1 already stated, the g drawing rooms. dertaken with a vengeance. A plan their s ms {rom air attack. finest technical judgment in the “ope ciormy week with war talk has been perfected to supply the Recruiting Stepped Up | country as to what is necessary and| guey a1l Burope made England’s|50,000000 men, women and chil-| The public pulse is so jumpy that joe ARP. (Air Raid Precautions) asdren in Britain with gas masks|astute peddlers are taking ad- ST T well known in England as WPA is|within eight hours if war breaks vantage. Warnings have been is- H H in America. {out. Thirty million masks already sucd against “certain individuals” smlt“s Are I"r German troops tramped into Aus—ial’e stored in 11 cities. They are in whc are calling on householders four sizes, the smallest for children offering to sell gas masks. “There no need for anyone in Wimble- | Babies will have as don to buy a gas mask,” ene author- {will cover them completely ity d ared.” If ever an emergency | A Home Office announcement de-|occurs they will be issued free.” Because so many of its staff were “One of the most urgent tasks for|enrolling as air raid wardens, the two and four. is bags” which ind’s Atlantic City with the idea of bur-{ The Smiths can claim only 4,652, 3,500,000 German-speaking citizens authorities—is the recruitment and|British Broadcasting Corporation has’ which ties with the Petersons. within her borders. - - EBETH SAILING |still was in the academic category tebeth will not sail for Sitka |0f discussion in London despite two o- years of furious rearming. London Becomes Jittery The and way ports until Thursday ev: ning, 6 o'clock adv. iy The estimated world total of un-| that the next war would be won by {he ground is 7.8 Mass bombing raids has been some- what exploded. It has been tested in Spain, and a million people in |Madrid refused to be terrorized. Nevertheless a quarter of the city lies in ruins. Some 3,000 Madrilenos have been killed and some 20,000 |injured. London is suddenly con- | sciods of her vulnerability. Nine million people dwell in'the 20-mile square which is London. The |city is the food distributing center for 15/000,000. It is the empire’s | greatest port and storehouse. It is one of the world's biggest business centers. | And there is no ocean between it and the countries of national jeal- |ousies ‘and Strife. When the war {monster stalks you can almost reach lout and touch it. [ You can go to the park mornings and. see the lines in gaunt Neville Chamberlain’s face as he strides along. ¥ou can try to hire maids or ‘messenger hoys—and find they all have jobs in the day-and-night- working munitions industries. You can see ‘serious-faced civilians plod- coal on © 15, €O, N. & ANY cause, including fire without collision drills. Spy Hunt On Big London newspapers give col- ‘umns to instructions on how to Until these things happened, war| The theory argued 10 years ago| conducted by ding nervously through gas mask| | training of personnel for the duties feund it necessary to proclaim that {of ‘air raid wardens, first aid parties,| while the corporation wished to co- decontamination squads, etc.— 'Opfl'ul(\ “broadecasting seems likely “As regards casualty clearing sta- to be regarded in time of war as an | modation generally is now being poration therefore feels a responsib- the Ministry of ility for ensuring that the essential Health.” [ staff should be available.” { Bomb Shelters Planned | Recruiting for the regular and The announcement declared it the territorial armies goes on at such | duty of local authorities to “provide'a pace the charge of “kidnaping” {such shelters for the protection of | has been thrown before War Minis- the public as may be necessary” and | ter Leslie Hoare-Belisha by Labor that “it must be assumed that the!members in Commons. householders will generally do what | they can to increase the natural pro- 'slashed red tape and hundreds of |tection of their own homes and that' years of precedent. He turned out |of employers—will have made ar-|the aging generals in the supreme t f | Ly PR TR LR S 1938. 'PARADE TO PARK WILL OPEN BALL SEASON, SUNDAY Band Is to Head March to Grounds — Government, Civic Officials Take Part While the Gastineau cague baseball team e been busy, of late, lining up eir squads for the campaign ahead; league officials have likewise been busy, lining up the program for next unday afternoon when the Moos: nd Douglas nines meet in the opening engagement of the local 1938 diamond seasen League President William A. Holz- heimer today announced that, not cnly is the forced-draft sale of season tickets for the league games going along at good pace, but that ngements are already all in for the opener In big league style, Juneau and Douglas ball fans %will meet Sunday afternoen at 2 o'clock at Triangle Place, from where, headed by the Juneau City Band, players, fans, officials, everyone in. whom the pulse quickens at, the sound of bat blasting halls will styetch out in the traditional parade to Fire- men's Park, possibly all going in autos or trucks to make better time. At the park, while the band works up still greater enthusiasm in the stands, the players will take the field for a brief warm-up, to immediately followed by the me-honered hurling of the sea- con’s first ball To see that all is naught but as hould ke, Gov. John W. Troy has been nominated to the post of Honorary Umpire for the ceremony, according to announcement by President Holzheimer. Secretary of Alaska, E. W, Griffin, will demon- strate his old-time championship form in whipping the ball across the plate to Juneau's Mayor, Harry I. Lucas. Set at the plate to take a wicked cut at the ball, and may- be paste it into the bleachers, will be Collector of Customs J. J. Con- noss. From then on the afternoon’s program will be on the shoulders of the Moose and the Islanders as they re-new their last-season’s feud, out of which the Paps emerged as champs and Douglas as ner-up. Wettish weather during the past two days has handicapped the three league teams in getting into shape, but all will be well-enough set if there is any weather break at all before Sunday, according to the re- spective team leaders. Meanwhile, President Holzheimer is giving new players not yet sign- ed to play another chance to reg- ister before completing the assign- ment of listed players to the league squads. Newcomers wishing to play ball are to register at the office of the Daily Alaska Empire, with the league scorer, W. K. Clark. Channel managers or rded promotion the soldiers’ command, by seniority, so that half the army resembles a |{actory ten months behind schedule. Elaborate Air Defenses All eyes are on the air defenses. They are manned by 48,000 territor- ial army men, but hordes of recruits are being enlisted for emergency, service, Anti-aircraft guns provide the chief defenses for big cities. Seventy- six batteries of eight guns 608 guns in all—continually the skies. Fighting planes provide the de- fense between the cities. But mod- crm enemy aireraft coulkd reach Lendon within ten minutes after being sighted on the east coast— hardly enough time if warned- at once, some Britains believe, for fighting planes to get high enough to engage invaders. chain of giant searclflights stret. ches in front of and between the ereat cities. There are 108 search- eep [tions a survey of hospital accom- essential national service—The cor-|light companies, each with 24 lights. ‘We'll Be Keady Then London has a gigantic net- like affair which is to be raised around the city like a wall, sup- ported from balloons, to trap enemy run- pay, s production U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., May 11: ain tonight and Thursday; fresh southeast winds tonight, moderat- ing Thursday. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Thurs- day; fresh southeast winds tonight, except strong over Dixon Entrance, Olarence Strait, Frederick Soynd, Chatham Strail, and southerly over Lynn Canal, moderating Thursday. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong outheast winds tonight from Dixon Entrance to Salisbury Sound, mederating Thursday; and strong easterly winds tonight from Salisbury Sound northward to Cape Hinchinbrook, moderating Thursday. LOCAL DATA 1 Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathes 4 p.m. yest’y 29.67 45 81 SE 12 Lt. Rain 4 am. today 29.43 44 1 SE 8 Lt. Rain Noon today 29.01 44 9 SE 15 Lt. Rain RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max.temp. | Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am Station last24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24brs. Weather Atka 44 36 38 4 .06 Raia Anehorage 58 36 - — 0 Barrow 16 12 16 22 0 Cloudy Nome 42 24 26 4 - g Clear Bethel 34 34 4 04 Cloudy Fairbanks 45 48 10 0 Dawson 32 32 0 0 St. Paul 26 28 16 01 | Duteh - Harbor 31 34 16 Jd2 Kediak 38 38 6 30 udy +Cordova 40 40 4 33 Rain Juneau 42 44 8 10 Rain | Sitka | 43 — 2 ! Ketchikan | 44 44 12 1.02 Ram {Prince Rupert 40 46 14 A6 Rain + BEdmontory 40 40 4 01 Clear +Seattle | 50 52 16 39 Rain Portland | 52 52 8 31 Rain i8an Francisco 62 50 50 4 0 Clear 1 New York 60 48 54 4 11 Cloudy "Washington 66 54 58 4 ¥ Cloudy WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), raining, temperature, 51; Blaine, raining, 52; Vie- toria, raining, 48; Alert Bay, raining, 41; Bull Harbor, raining, 47: Triple Island; raiming; ‘GLangara-‘Island, raining, 44; Prince Ruperi, raining, 43; Ketchikan, raining, 41; Craig, raining, 47; Wrangell, n- ing, 45; Petersburg, raining, 44; Bitka, raining, 44; Soapstone Point, | raining, 39; Hoonah, raining; Haw: Inlet, raining, 36; Juneau, rain- ing, 44; Radioville, raining, 88; Skagway, cloudy, 43; Cape Hinchin- brook, cloudy, 44; Cape St. Elias, missing; Cordova, clear, 43; Chitina, clear, 44; McCarthy, clear, 46; Anchorage, partly cloudy, 48; Fairbanks, cloudy, '59; Ruby, cloudy, 49; Nulato, partly cloudy, 46. Juneau, May 12 —Sunrise, 3:41 am.; sunset, 8:12 pm. WEATHER SYNOPSIS A storm area of marked inter has developed over the north- eastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, the lowest reported p sure being 28.80 inches'at latitude 54 degrees and longitude 152 degrees. The pressure was falling rapidly this morning along the coastal regions from Cordova southward to British Columbia with the greatest fall at 4 a.m. over the northern portion of Southeast Alaska. High baro- metric pressure prevailed ‘over the Pacific Ocean from California southwestward to the Hawaiian Islands. This general pressure dist bution has been attended by precipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutian Islands southeastward to Oregon, with heavy rains over Dion Entrance and by partly cloudy to cloudy weather over the in- terior, wi n, and northern portions of Alasl It was warmer last night over the interior ity alleys of Alaska. American Bund has 460,000, and is a greater menace than any other aircraft Just how it works is not generally known. One of the bal- loons recently escaped, trailing a un-American group. cable that wr power lines. | Dickstein charged that German Britain is fairly well up on its pro-| money was financing camps in the gram of munitions manufacture and United States that were fostering huge Teserves are stored in secret|Nazi ideolog: | underground caches. | s The Navy is said to be relatively| . stronger than it was before 1914, but | 47 ships will be launched in 1938—| 5 an aircraft carrier, three cruisers, 32 destroyers and 11 submarines. | Other plans are in proportion CHICAGO—The Chicago Surface The diplomatic tension eased af- Lines, which charges 7 cents on its ter Germany absorbed Ausiria, but street has recelved ‘a $1000 England’s war preparations sped on. check from an unknown donor to Every bomb that falls in Spain is be applied to its “conscience fund.” a reminder to Jaggards. | PR sl T This time,” says England ,“We'll MARTHA SOCIETY be ready.” Ice cream social and luficheon, e Friday, May 20, starting at 11 o’zlock. Save the date. adv. B e A SR L Un-Americanism May Be Probed; Nazignd Reds Dickstein - Claims German- | American Bund Has Near Half Million Members WASHINGTON, May 11. — The powerful House Rules Commitice has approved of the resolution of Chairman Dickstein, of the Immi- gration Committee, for investiga- tion of un-American propaganda ac- | tivities in the United States. [ ‘ Dickstein proposed a probe aimed largely at the German-American on the air- €0 Bund and Fascist and Communist electrified groups. The Chairman said the Commun- 2 : % lists have only 32,000 members in OLY P:':A | the United States, but the German- " E J osephine Wright The dynamic war minister has| @—_———— The -Daily- A‘laSkaBEmpire “TCAPITOL THEATRE Your Name May Appear—WATCH THiIS SPACE A your journey. For you ride in cool, lean the ater- AR | mEESR S ROAD .