The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 1

JTHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE il o “ALL THE NEWS A LL THE 7I/|Il"’ VOL LVI., NO. 8427 a JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940. MEMB]:R A%SOCIAT};D PR[SS _— PRICE TEN CENT3 ALLIES FIGHT DESPERATELY ON RETREAT 4 & & L4 4 L4 & (4 - L4 L4 04 & L4 & o~ 4 4 L4 4 Great Flanders Battle Is Practically QOver Two Founders of City of Juneau Are Honored Today IN TRIBUTE TOWARDEAD Homage Paid at Grave of| Unknown Soldier as Shells Burst Abroad PRESIDENT (ONFERS WITH COMMISSION Congress Keeps in Session Faced with Problems | of Conflict AMERICANS | 1 | COTTON QUEEN | | (By Associated Press) M g Shells burst anew over veterans’ cemeteries in Flanders fields thousands of Americans once again paid Memorial Day tribute to the | Unknown Scldier and his thousands of companions who met their deaths | in the last war. Fears of war sent President Roose- | velt into conference today w his new National Defense Commission. | Congress, with problems of war before it, denied itself its usual Memorial Day holiday and con- tinued in session The President designated his Mili- | tary Aide, Maj. Horace Smith, vet- | eran of the last World War, to lead .the observance of Memorial Day ‘n.\ Arlington Cemetery. At Detroit, a former German sub- marine commander, head of the| German Veterans Post, withdrew | from the Memorial Day Parade “to | avoid nn\ embarrassment to othell groups. BRIDGES Blll UNAMERICAN SAYS COFFEE, Washinglon_(i)ngressman 1 Will Lead Opposition fo Deportation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 30.— Congressman John M. Coffee, of Ta- coma, Wash., has notified the Harry Bridges Defense Committee that he will take the lead in fighting against the bill in Congress to deport the Australian-born Pacific @oast CIO | leader. Coffee denounced the bill as un- American, unethical and unconsti- tutional and said it would set a dangerou: meccdent KLONDIKE KATE HEADS NORTH T0 MINING HUSBAND BEND, Oregon, May 30.—One of the legendary figures of the Alaska gold rush, Klondike Kate, has hark- ened once again to the siren call of the north. * Klondike Kate, whose real name is now Mrs. John Matson, has book- ed passage to Alaska to rejoin her husband who is mining on Matson Creek in the Klondike, - MEDICAL PATIENT M. Galyas was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital today and is re- | ceiving medical treatment for an injury, He is an employee of the| mine. Chosen recently rueen of the National Cotton Week Carnival at Bakersfield, oneé of the princi- pal cottton-producing areas io California, was Ruth Rogers, pretty Hollywood starlet. Perch- ed atop a cotton bale, Miss Rogers is attired in a cotton playsuit. DEFENSE BILL HAS BILLION MOREADDED ! Preside nt Confers with Commission on Speed- ed Armament Plans WASHINGTON, May 30. — The administration raised the nation’s armament bill more than a billion | dollars today while President Roose- | velt conferred with a new defense ! commission on methods of swiftly JUGGERNAUT | | OF GERMANS CRUSHES ON | Trapped Allled Army in Flanders Field Split, Shattered PARIS, May 30.—The Battle of Flanders has virtually ended In the Germans favor, leaving them in control of France’s northern indus- trial region, pius the northwestern | coast. of France across from Eng- { land | The Allied forces in the fields of | Flanders crumbled in the face of the juggernaut of the German army. The trapped Allied army was split |and shattered by the force of the German attack, and is battling des- | perately to reach Dunkerque, leaving most of northwestern France in Nazi hands. The Allies opened flood gates |around Dunkerque to stave off the Germans from entering the beseiged |ports until as much as possible of | |the battered army could be evacu- | | ated | The British troops fought doggvd rear guard actions to keep the re- treat from disintegrating into a rout |but the Germans pressed the har- | |ried and beaten forces with an in- ferno of bombing attacks and ar tllll-lv fire. BRITONS WARNED GERMANS MIGHT INVADE ISLANDS| ext Few D_a;s May See Enemy Troops in Eng- | land Says Official LONDON, May 30.—Britons heard | last night the first official public | | warning that the British Isles might | be temporarily invaded by thousands of German troops. Sir Harold Nickelson, Pnrlisment— ary Secretary, in a braadcast, said: “News from the French front is | Ibad in every respect and we may | |expect even worse in the next few ‘days to come. Germany might suc- Joe Juneau, sketched in the section of Alaska. This is from a Bronze plaque on the granite monument which was dedicated today to the founders of the City of Juneau. | JUNEAU, HARRIS ceed in invading Britain by using | F#| spending the $4,300,000,000 in the | war chest for national defense. “her new methods of warfare and‘ The billion dollars decided on to- | might even succeed in landing thou- | | day adds to thePresident’s message ‘sands of troops in the British Isles, | last week asking for $1,182,000,000, | but there are forty-four million peo»‘ | which the Senate wrote into the |ple who will not permit them to re- | iregular army appropriation bill and | main long.” | raises the total to $1,823,000,000. He said that Britons know well | The remainder will go into the that they might expect destructive | | regular navy bill, raising the funds | bombing of their cities but that they | } for that branch of the armed forces | had not been foolish enough to neg- Ito $1,473,000,000. |lect all possible precautions against | President Roosevelt hopes to send |possible invasion of the islands. to Congress fomorrow a message | SRR 5 . | ! n'commending additional defense ‘p I p l R I P.-l. PUBLISHER | | GERMAN FORCES BREANSHIS ARM | ABOARD YACHT HOLDING THREE | SEATTLE, May 30. — President | u s (EMEIER'ES\Rwsevens son-in-law, John Boet- tiger, Publisher of the Seattle Post- | Intelligencer, suffered a broken h:u‘ ‘Anofhef IS Under Fife A( arm yesterday while on a yachting cording to Paris Clergy- man-No Names Given {trip with Chairman Emory Land of [ the United States Maritime Com- | PARIS, May 30.—Three American. | on the davits aboard the yacht. | - ., | mission. | Boettiger's arm was broken when | cemeteries are in German hands and another under fire, said the Rev. {he was struck by a skiff swinging | Frederick Beekman in Memorial Day | Services in the American cnthedrallka with Capt. Ed Jones on the | Church today. He did not mention | Triton. They expeet to return Fri- | the names of the cemeteries. | MEHERINS TO SITKA | Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Meherin left | Juneau this morning bound for Sit- day. l KEEP OUT AND KEEP READY,” IS POLLEY MESSAGE |American leglon Memorial | Day Exercises Held at Elks Hall A three-fold determination to keep the United States out of foreign | wars which are no concern of ours, to build up our own national de- | fense and to defeat any fifth column activity in America was enunciated today by E. M. Polley in American Legion Memorial Day services at the Elks Hall. Polley said that in view of events abroad, we must not view too lightly the sacrifices made by Americans who died abroad. He urged that we carry on in pea(‘e time “the tur(h‘ they flung to us.” Noting that “eight nations of | Europe have gone into the interna- Iuam\l graveyard” in the present struggle, Polley stressed the need of national preparedness. “Keep out and keep ready” should (connnued to Page Three) rom an. atd Print early days when he came to (i n old vrint. \ - DEEDS EXTOLLED ~ BYROBERTSON \Founding of Juneau Re- | called in Speech | at Monument | The address by R. E. Robertson at | ;th morning’s dedication of the monument to Joseph Juneau and | Richard T. Harris was as follows: Nearly sixty years have elapsed {since the whites and Indians of Sitka saw a couple of white mer paddle their canoe northward out of Sitka Sound toward Sergius Nar- rows. How little did those Sitkans realize that that canoe bore with it | the capital of Alaska! Even the red- headed Irishman and the black- haired French Canadian who wieldec the paddles had no dreams of a new | town deslined to rule the vast terri- tory which is ours, Kowee, Chief of the Aukes, had | brought word to N. A. Fuller and George Pilz of yellow stones abound- |ing in Kowee’s fishing stream which sxnpued into what was then Icy | channel. Their was no Gold or Sal- mon or Sheep Creek by name in those days. Gastineau Channel had | been named, but it was more com- ‘nmnly known because of the nu- merous silvery, blue-sheened icebergs | which floated on its bosom. The creek of yellow stones, which Kowee spurned as being only valuable to the foolish white men, was located over in the Taku country not far from the Aukes village. Lure of Gold Not in boat driven by gasoline or diesel oil, not in luxuriously equip- | compensation the right to | ped steamer, not in flashing, roaring airplane did those two intrepid, devil may-care prospectors travel between | arrived on the 20th of September. | 111 1P TH v.'n,f&¥ ‘)‘:*f»/fw h Richard T. Harris, born in Ireland, etched 74 years old, by his son, W. John Harris, now DICK HARRIS HIMSELF DESCRIBES DISCOVERY The discovery of gold here Aug- ust 17, 1880, by Richard T. Harris | and Joseph Juneau was described | | by Harris himself in a long letter | | written in 1900 to the Daily Dis- | patch of Juneau, The two men left Sitka in July wxlh three Sitka Indians in a large | canoe. Harris and Juneau, who| were prospecting for George E. Pilz | | of Sitka and the Hall brothers of San FPrancisco, were to receive as locate | all the placer mines they should | discover and also all the extensions | | on all the quartz lodes they should | | discover. Harris also was to receive | three dollars per day and Juneau | two dollars per day. Harris was lui charge of the expedition, he wrote, | as Juneau was unable to write in the English language.” The account by Harris continues: | Named Salmon Creek “We next took our course for the | mouth of the Takou River, but did not stop. Sailed along Stephen’s passage, the steamboat channel, past the old Auk village, north to Berner's Bay, and on our return e sailed over the Auk bar and discovered first Salmon Creek. Here I panned out our first few colors of gold. I named the creek Sal- mon. We then sailed up to Gold| Creek August 17, where Juneau now stands, and made a prrmanrnli camp where the Louvre Theatre| now stands. Went up the creek next | | day as far as Snowslide Gulch and found 10 cents to the pan on bed- | rock in the creek, and also, some galena and quartz which we gath- ered up, and concluded to go back | to Sitka, as the underbrush and devil clubs were so thick it was impossible to follow the creek. Return to Sitka “We got back to Sitka about September 5 and replenished our stock of provisions and 1 bought a large canoe and hired three In- dians and started on the 10th day of September for Gold Creek and from life when he was of Juneau. Miss Genevieve Juneau (above), NAZIS BEGIN . MOPPING UP FIGHT AREA Many French Units Are Cut 0ff - Reported Lay- ing Down Arms ENGLISH TRANSPORTS ARE REPORTED SUNK Expeditionéfy- Forces ““Cut fo Pieces”'-Air Bat- tles Raging BULLETIN — LONDON, May 30.~The big guns of the Allied fleet have dropped a ring of fire around the French “escape” port of Dunkerque as Allied (roops fell back Tor 20 miles to the sea under a swirling attack of Nazi v}lcm Approximately 60 vessels ° vic, Approximately 60 vessels are reported to have taken off contingents of wounded and ex- hausted troops. BULLETIN—BERLIN, May 30. —Neutral military circles express the belief that the British must have succeeded in getting quite a number of soldiers out of the Flanders’ trap since the move- ments of transports are reported to have been under way for four days. (By Associated Press) The retreating Allies, estimated between 440,000 and 600,000, are des- perately fighting rear guard actions against the Germans who are rush- ing across the Flanders plains to an attempt to crush them. Many French units are reported completely cut off in a 12-mile pocket. Around Lille, it is said, the French troops are laying down their arms, Lille is in the hands of the Ger- mans. The German High Command de- clares that the great battle of Fland- ers is rapidly nearing the end, in fact has ended with the exception of the mop-up and “slaughter of hundreds of thousan The German High Command claims that diving bombing Stukas have sunk 16 transports, three Brit- of Aurora, Illinois, grandniece of Josevh Juneau, who with Miss | Margaret Harris of Juneau, grand- daughter of Richard Harris, un- veiled the bronze plaque on the granite monument erected by the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 6, dedicated to the two founders of this city. PIONEERS MONUMENT DEDICATED {Memory offifleau, Harris Honored in Ceremony Here This Morning Hundreds of Juneauites stood in a | | concrete street and among modern | dedicated a today and ish warships and damaged 34 other vessels waiting to embark the fleeing Allies at English Channel and Strait of Dover ports. The British expeditionary force is pictured by Berlin as “cut to pieces” almost within sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, England. Eighty-nine Allied planes are re- jported to have been shot down and German plane losses are placed at | 15 | The British Air Ministry claims | that 52 German planes, including 25 | Nazi bombers, have been shot down and 17 others damaged in encount- lers with “many large formations of {enemy air craft engaged in bomb- |ing operations” on the French and Belgian coasts.” The Air Ministry claims that only 10 British planes are “missing.” | British military circles insist that the main base depots in Flanders are still held. (CANADA'S SECOND - ROYAL AIR FORCE ARRIVES OVERSEAS Sitka and the creek with the gold|We then concluded we would try stones! No! Through tide-rip and|and reach the headwaters of (xuld‘ swirl of Sergius Narrows, through|Creek. We only got up as far ‘]51 the swell and wave of Chatham Snowslide Gulch, We packed one of | buildings monument to Joseph Juneau and\ Richard T. Harris wh oonly 60 years| OTTAWA, May 30.—The Second ago landed on an uninhabited beach |Royal Canadian Air Force contin- (Continued to PIKE Two) (Conuinued an Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) gent has reached England, it is of- ficially announced here,