The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL EMPIR THE TIME” ) VOL. LV., NO. 8379. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD/{Y, APRIL 4, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Planzlor Seaftle-Juneau Air Service ire above) will inaugurate the Seattle-Juneau service about May 15, operating from the new base (upper picture above) at Matthews Beach on Lake Wahinugton, north of the Sand Point Naval Air Station. The Scatile base will cost about $10,000. The picture above is an architect’s sketch of the terminal building to be built. The building will house radio, traffic offices and waiting rooms, with ramp leading to the lake for the clipper loading. The base will be temporary as far as PAA is concerned, to be used only a year or two until the com- pany converts its Alaskan operation from flying boats to the new Boeing Stratcliners which are renamed Strato-Clippers when they pass into the hands of PAA. The Strato-Clippers will operate from Boeing Field Plans contemplate operation of the Clipper service from about May 15 to about November 1, mak- ing two round trips each week. The Clipper will go as far north as Juneau, with a stop at Ketchikan, to connect with PAA’s schedule to Fairbanks and Nome and other Alaskan points. No midwinter schedule service is contemplated for a year or so. The new service planes will base at Auk Bay. The pictures above were sent to The Empire by Faank G. Gorrie, Chief of Bureau, Associated Press, Seattle, courtesy of Seattle Daily Times, A 32-passenger Sikorsky Clipper (lower pi 70 Tons of Bomber for the U. §. Army 5,000 hoysepower motors on the new 70-ton bombing ylano I, for the U. S. army’s air corps. The plane will be t to Kurope with & 1o { 28 tons of bombs. The plane will a¢ 200 miles an hour. one of the four Moni 15 @ nonstop round-trip i hav, wing and an average ¢ Sleuthing on Hollywood; 'WARNING IS GIVEN Queer Slant Is Givenon ~ BRITISH (ommittee of (ongress1 By JACK STINNETT sleuthing, boy does it sleuth! X la microscope as the legislators can | WASHINGTON, April 4. — When | ginq That's good, We, the people, a committee of Congress gets 10 geserve every ounce of that protec- \Japanese Make Threat MOTHER IN - (RAZY ACT; FOUR DEAD iWoman Suddenly Derang- ed, Commits Deed- BATTLE A SEA, IN AIR Mrs. Roosevelt Greets Easter Egg-Rollers Dies in Flames LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 4— Leita Davis, 43, beat her| three small children to death to- lday with a claw hammer, then | |died on a flaming mattress after setting fire to her own hair, the police report | The children beaten to death are, | Daphne, aged 10 years; Deborah {Ann, aged 7, and Marquis, aged 3. A fourth child, Chloe, aged 11 years, was beaten almost unconsci- ous but the officers said she will probably recover Chloe sobbingly said: “Mama be-| lieved demons were after her.She loved us and we loved her and| that is the only reason she couldi have done it. I fought her and] tried to take the hammer away| from her after she hit me on ll\c‘ back of my head.” e NEW PLANES TOFLYTO FAIRBANKS | [ Mrs | | { { APPOINTED T0 ster Monday and the annual egg-rolling contest on the White House lawn in Washington oeccu- pies the attention of the first family of the United States. Mrs. Roosevelt is shown with several of the children who apparently were well p) ed for the roll. The President was kept indoors by a cold. More than 250,000 colored eggs were spread over the lawn ' RENEWED PLEAS MADE FOR {PAA fo Put lé}ger Doug-| las Ships on Run | Next Month Two new 15-passenger DC-2 Doug- las planes have been ordered by | Pacific Alaska Airways for service| lon the Juneau-to-Fairbanks’ route, ! it was disclosed here today by Frank ‘McKm\zfle‘ Pan American Airways | Airport Engineer, who is here to | develop a seaplane base at Auk Bay | for the Seattle-to-Juneau service. | | The big Douglas ships will replace |the Lockheed Electras which have: been used on flights to the Interior. The DC-2s are expected here about | May 1, McKenzie said “ The Sikorsky 42-B seaplanes which | are to be used on the Seattle-to-| Juneau run starting May 15 arv“ much larger than the planes which/| ! made test flights over the route several years ago, McKenzie said,) in a talk at the Chamber of Com-| merce luncheon. | Auk Bay Ideal | He said that Auk Bay presented an ideal setup for a landing spot for the Seattle seaplanes. No con- gestion, plenty of water and lack of | hazards help make it the “most beautiful landing spot I have ever seen,” McKenzie said. A passenger shelter, refueling and | landing facilities will be installed | i there. | | At Ketchikan, a barge operation |is planned for Ward's Cove. A ter- |minal base at Matthews Beach on Lake Washington north of Seattle |is already under construction. | Next Two Years st s DEFEASEOF ALASKA; NEW REVELATIONS BY DIMOND LONDON, April 4.—Earl of Ath- lone, 66, brother of Queen Mother Mary, and former Governor General of the Union of South Africa, has been appointed Governor General of Canada. The Earl of Athlone succeeds the late Lord Tweedsmuir. a int - s New Commander, Juneau District, Coast Guard, Is Assigned SEATTLE, April 4.--Commander Frederick A. Zuesler, 1 assigned to cutter duty on the east coast will take command of the Juneau ey District, Coast Guard, on June 10. ' poo Commander Zuesler will relieve o0 oppe Capt. M. G. Ryan. began yeste Coast Guard dquarters he fought hi: Governor General of Canada i , i | WASHINGTON, April 4—Terri- { torial officials of Alaska put before | the House Appropriations Commit- | tablishment the theory that if the | United States is attacked from the Alaska and not through Hawaii OF TTA(K Testimony has been made public A | oduced in the House, . Zuesler W|II s { Delegate’'s Revelations | Alaska . . Committee membe that the short- Night of Horror with |est route between Japan and tne Four Negroes lis by the Great Circle, 1400 miles o7 | shorter than by Hawai SEATTLE, April 4. — Merle Ed-| ] ; mundson of Fairbanks, told & jury,Japanese Neval Base within 1750 who robbed him and criminally as- |Ilands. at Paramushitu - saulted his wife Ada in a hotel room| ~The Delegate said the air base {sidering taking them “for a last ride|Siberia and Bering Sals which and dumping us out on the highway | 5¢Parates Alaska and. Bibgsisn: Bas- At the trial of the negroes, Jame:s % Ru\\igtlls Active Fred Alderson, Julius| “We in Alaska know | tee during a hearing on military es- MAN TEllS "Oru-m this attack will come through a military establishment bill was Miner Edmundson Relates mond toia the House Appropriations Succeed Ryan . G | Delegate Dimond said there is a teday he overheard four negroes miles of the westernmost Aleutian Taat Jantary 21, say they were con- |at Fairbanks is in a direct line with o et i o sia by only 54 miles Chester' Cage, accused|5ians have done much more the Rus- than Siberia under all sorts of conditions than we have ever {done anywhere,” said the Delegate. and b / and assault, which |{lying all over Edmundson said way out of the room an- Delegate Anthony J. Di- That's how a 1iouse Appropria- ticns subcommittee the other day‘ pored over newspaper accounts of | the now apparently dead romance} of Greta Garbo and Leopold Sto- kowski. Ii this sort of thing goes on, one of the requirements to a seat in Congress will be an annual subscrip- | tion to all the Hollywood and New York gossip columns. What the Legisiawss expected to} learn from any published reports | about Garbo is a little beyond me. Any movie fan this side of Honolulu | could have told them in one twoe| syllable word: Nothing. But read the accounts they did and here’s how | it happened: | It's just routine for any committee or subcommittee, before making any | recommendations on any matter, to go into it as thoroughly as possible.i If personalities are involved, the| background and character of those ' persons are put under as much of | tion. } Concerning Alleged Biockade, Russia SOMEBODY SAID ‘WHOA!" | When the appropriations sub-| committee came to that phase of its | appropriations concerning the Na- tional Youth Administration they, japan objects to the extension of noticed an item (reported to be about | 11, European war to waters near $2500) for preliminary auditions | Japan has been made in several rep- for the all-American youth OFCth‘\resentauons to the British Naval tra, which Mr. Stokowski plans to | attache here. take on a gdéodwill tour of l-fltinl, 1t is stated that warships of Great America next July. | Britain are cruising in the waters Sotheboay must nave said: “Whoa, | near this Nippon Kingdom. who's Stokowski?” And one thing The spokesman of the Admiralty must have led to another until the said the Japanese Navy will take clerk was instructed to go to the action if Great Britain's blockade Congressional library and get ;heiol Soviet Russia is done “illegally.” reports of that Stokowski-Garbo ro-| The spokesman declined to spec- mance of the spring of 1938. (Oh, ify what he regarded as illegal ac- ves, the clippings were there. You'd | tion. be dumbfounded at half the things you can find in the Library of Con- gress). Mind you, this was all very se- (Continued on Page Five) B i There have been 50 known eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy. There are 67 ports in Japan open to foreign trade, TOKYO, April 4—A warning that | Two round trips per week from : __|nounced that Capt. Ryan's new with his wife ,signment has not been determined. broke_through a padlocked fire door to the alley Edmundson said he went to Al-| aska was eight and lived there continuously until last Oeto- | ber, when he and his wife, to whom | he has been married seven ycar.\,; To Enter War for Allies innocent of hoth charges participation when he pleaded | Tells of Tragic Night | The 28 year old miner Edmund- son, in crisp sentence: without prempting, answered questions of Deputy Prosecutor Charles Ralls and | said they, with two newly married friends, left home that night to cete- brate the wedding. CANNINGTON, Ontario, April 4— |unless there is active Attorney General Gordon Conant|Of the United States made effective at an early date. |7 ers and old an audience of farmers ai Conant further declared that “no| They ate at a cafe and danced at | business men here, that Canada’s|saerifice of Canadians on their part's tavern, he said, and then went to| duty is to “do everything within ourgwfll be too great if that can be ac- 4 Jackson Street place called the power to enlist the active support of | complished and if the United States Green Dot, at their friends’ sug-, atier the attack and| | weird thing the United States on the side of the wants access to Alaska over Can- gestion. Allies,” adding that success of the |adian soil there should be no hesi- — Allied cause may be very doubtful | tation in settling the matter.” | (Con tinued to Page Three) | Gov. Ernest Gruening testified: his area of nearly 600,000 quare mile: today defenseless’ at this time now is the time the Nation tion to its defense Major W. B great and hould Smith, from the office of Chief of Staff, told the com- weather does to planes and we know comparatively little about it.” Major Smith said the station at Fairbanks, Alaska, will provide con- ditions for studying action of planes in the Arctic cold Fears Expressed Dimond read a newspa- which said it indicated that Kamandorsky Islands, belong- ing to Russia, about 260 miles north- west of the Aleutians, was fortified and he asserted that the United States was confronted not only with the possibility but the probability of an outright alliance between So- viet Russia and Japan. mittee ths “cold Delegate per artic considera- 3 Children Beaten To Death TWO FORCES ENGAGED IN NORTH SEA Heavy Gunfire Is Heard- Ships and Planes Are Seen in Action CABINET SHAKEUP APPROVED, BRITAIN German High Command Makes Smashing At- tack on Shipping BULLETIN— COPENHAGEN, April 4.—Reperts from Bergen and cther Norwegian coastal points claim heavy gunfire has been heard at sea and a num- ber of ships and planes were seen in action. One German plane Stravanger, Norway, burned by the Nazi examination ‘of the showed many bullet landed at and was crew but wreckage marks. (By Associated Press) Revision of the British War Cab- inet, a popular move which makes Winston Churchill Great Britain’s Number two man and points up to renewed action in the British- Allied war against Germany came {as Nazi air raiders claimed new successes against Great Britain sea- power. Churchill becomes practically a dictator of the British sea, land and air forces. Demand More Shakeup | Many sections of the British pub- {lic and newspapers, while approv- |ing of the cabinet shakeup, de- clare that it does not go far enough in Cabinet duties shifted |88 the personnel remains largely the same. Critics feel more drastic changes are needed. Hitler “Missed a Bus” Prime Minister Chamberlain, in ‘a speech at his Conservative Party | Council, said Hitler “missed a {bus” when he failed to use Ger- |many’s arms superiority at the |start of the war to overwhelm | Great Britain. | Chamberlain said he is “ten {times as confident” of winning the war as at the outset, | Sea Raiding The German High Command an- nounces that about 40,000 tons ot | British shipping was destroyed or |damaged by bombers yesterday af- | ternoon. Three British “outposts™ ‘were also raided. The announcement of the High Command says that one British ‘dest.royer was damaged in the raids | yesterday. | The High Command admits that ({two German planes were forced |down and another is missing. The British lost one plane, the report i 5ays. BRI P R SR 'SECRET SESSION " OF COMMONS BE " HELD NEXT WEEK | Chamberlain Announces Debate Be Heard on Economics, Warfare LONDON, April 4—Prime Min- ister Chamberlain today an- nounced that a seeret session of the House of Commons will be held next Thursday to debate the eco- homic and warfare policies of Great Britain. The only previous secret session during the present war was on December 13 foliowed a month later by removal of Leslie Hore- | Belisha as War Secretary. el r——— In the United States, there are 288 insane persons per 100,000 in- habitants.