The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS A LL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8429. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940. AZIS LAUNCH NEW ATTACK IN FRAN @ Pince BATTLESHIP NELSON I$ SENTDOWN Flagship of Eiiish Home Fleet, Largest in Navy Crafts, Lost 700 ARE BELIEVED T0 HAVE LOST LIVES German Spdk;sman Veri- | fies Rumors But Re- fuses Give Details BERLIN, June 1.—An authorized German spokesman said the British hattleship Nelson 33350 tons, flag- ship of the British Home Fleet, has been sunk and went down with 700 of her crew of 1320 officers and men. | The statement was made in re- sponse to a question at a conference | with newsmen. ,One correspondent | told the German spokesman there | were rumors the Nelson had been sunk, whereupon the spokesman re- | plied the rumor was true. The spokesman declined to give any further details because of mili- | tary reasons. el | Later reports circulated bore out the sinking as it was said word has been received that survivors were} | | | | | | being picked up. The Nelson was Great Britain's largest battleship. e - FISH, GAME CHIEF WILL | SEE NORTH Gabrielson, Two Aides Enroufe fo Alaska | For Investigation | Ira N. Gabrielson, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey | end slated under a reorganization plan to become head of the new National Wildlife Service comprising both fisheries and game supervision, | is aboard the steamer Alaska for a | three-month study of Alaska fish and game problems, The reorganization placing fish- | eries and game in a single agency under the Department of the Inter- | ior becomes effective tomorrow, 60 days after its introduction by the Plesident. Three from Washington Accompanying Dr. Gabrielson on his trip to Alaska are Charles Jack- son, Acting Commissioner of Fish- eries, who also visited the Territory | last year, and Frank G. Ashbrook, | in charge of fur resources for the | Biological Survey. Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission, left on the vessel Brown Bear last night to meet the men from Wash- ington. The Brown Bear will re- main at Petersburg, where Dufresne will join Earl N. Ohmer, Chairman of the Alaska Game Commission, to continye to Ketchikan by the patrol vessel érizzl_v Bear to meet the visit- ors. After taking in the Potlatch at Wrangell, Dr. Gabrielson and party will come to Juneau on the Brown Bear for a stay of several days be- fore proceeding to the Westward. FOLTA RETURNING FROM WASHINGTON George Folta, recetly appoinudl coal advisor t othe Department of | nterior in Alaska, accompanied by | <. Folta and their two children, | Il arrive in Juneau on the Alaska | Tuesday. | To consult with Department of the Interior officials rgarding his newly created office, Folta has been in | | washington, D. C. for several weeks, where she hadrceived surgical care. 1 lateh, Inc, l r Nazis Dig Up Mines in Brussels German soldiers are shown in this radiophoto from Berlin digging up land mines in a street in Brussels, Belgium capital, now in Ger- man hand: WRANGELL PREPARES | FORPOTLATCHCROWD MONDAY AND DEAD NAZIS STACKED UP FIGHT AREA Losses in Lomand Invas- ion Placed af Fully Half Million NEW YORK, June 1.—An official British wireless, in broadcast, pick- ed up by the Columbia Broadcasting System, declared that the French authorities have found German documents confirming Nazi losses in the lowland invasion alone at half a million men, the dead remaining on the field in stacks. No mention 1s made of losses on the western front but they must be tremendous as the French and Brit- ish have not been backing up all of the time and have poured shells and machine gun bullets into the Ger- man ranks, together with tank and air bombs. The National Broadcasting Com- pany picked up a broadcast stating that one Belgian Army Corps is still fighting side by side with the Allies on the western French front. QUAKE-STRICKEN VALLEY T0 GET HOUSING FUNDS Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars to Imperial Sufferers SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 1.—The Housing Authority has notified Gov. Olson that $450,000 have been “froz- en” to be held for reconstruction in the earthquake devastated Imperial Valley. Federal authorities said the funds, added to by local contributions, would provide for a million dollars worth of work planned, long range construction of low rent homes for| low income families. ) The officials stressed the worth of planned “long range” construc- tion of low rent homes for low in- come families. The funds would be used for permanent and not just temporary construction. - e — LEAVES ST. ANN'S Mrs. Paul Schuttpelz was dismiss- ed today from St. Ann's Hospital @ =1I. I. N. Radiophoto | | | TUESDAY Wrangeis 15 muxing preparations Tuesday at the community's. fi Potlatch of modern times, The ‘First Capital Ship for U. §. tness” that will protect us from any |attack. ! to entertain hundreds Monday and | BATTLESHIP WASHINGTON IS LAUNCHED Since 1921 Slides Down Ways PHILADELPHIA, June 1. The 35,000-ton battleship Washington, the first capital shiv addition to the U. S. fleet since 1921, was launched in the Delaware River at the Phila- delphia Navy Yard today before a cheering crowd of 30,000, Wartime restrictions blanketed the Navy Yard as the $65,000,000 battle wagon slid down Lhe ways. Virginia Marshall, 15, of Spo- kane, great great great granddaugh- ter of Chief Justice John Marshall, christened the battleship in honor of her home State of Washington. It is the third vessel named after that State. Senator Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, de- clared in his address to the gay throng of spectators that the launching signalled “a beginning of the renaissance in naval prepared- event is sponsored jointly by the | Forest Service, the Office of In- dian Affairs and the citizens of Wrangell. The Potlatch celebrates comple- | tion of a two-year project to re-| habilitate Wrangell’s famous totem | poles and Chief Shakes Community | House, the latter having been re- stored to its original appearance. | Chief to be Elevated | The - principal attraction on the program is the actual elevation to| full chieftainship of Kudanake, sixth lineal descendant of Chief | Shakes, who, during the ceremony | will assume the honorary name of | “Shakes” won in battle by his il-| lustrious ancestor in the famous| “Battle of the Stikine.” | Blitzkrieg o MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Action Planned Involvin @ g Answéring the President’s Defense Plea ’ Here is how increasing numbers of young Americans are joining its shadow across the Atlantic. Top left, Ralph de Trentini (light coat) York Recruiting officer about requirements. Top right, at head of line, of physical examination. Lower left, candidate, having passed physical the a as the Nazi war machine casts 28, of Brooklyn, asks a New is tested for eyesight as part and mental tests, signs for duty. Tower right, he's in the army now, as Major William A. Marsh administers the oath of allegiance. De T+~ tini hoves to become a pilot. "BIGTRAIN” JOHNSON Of Brifish Revealed Germans A;l;;-d for Time| fo Bury Dead-Terrific Firing Is Answer | LONDON, June 1. — Don't think | the Allies did not fight on the| Wrangell, emerging from its col- Flanders front, said one broadcaster orful past as a Russian outpost, early this morning in relating stories | Hudson's Bay trading post, Indian!gleaned from returning soldiers | town and American Fort, now takes| One General stated that in one its bow as a tourist mecca, | battle the Germans asked that fight- Five steamships are due to call ing stop for a few hours while they in port during the two days of the | Potlatch. A number of small craft, | including the Coast Guard cutter Haida and the Forest Service flag-| ship Forester, will go from Juneau | to Wrangell for the celebration. | Gov. Ernest Gruening will be in| Wrangell on his return from a trip to Washington and will take part in the celebration. The tentative Potlatch program is as follows: First Day—June 3 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.—Dedication of Hit Klane (Shakes Community House). Unveiling new Totem Pole on Shakes Island. 11:00 to 12:00—Lunch hour. | 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Sports and contests at school grounds for chil- | dren. 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. — Impressive Chief’s: inaugural ceremony. Main event of Potlatch. 6:00 p.m.—Banquet at Wrangell Institute. | 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.—Primitive | gambling exhibit at ANN.B. Hall. 11:00 to 2:00 a.m.—Public dance in AN.B. Hall, sponsored by Al- aska Native Brotherhood. Second Day—June 4 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.—Unveiling of Tagook Pole. 11:00 to 12:00 a.m.—Ceremonial war canoe race. 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.—Lunch hour. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Women’s cere- mony (Indian women’s part of in- augural ceremony conducted while 1men smoke). 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Sports program | at school grounds. ‘| | 3:00 to 5:00 pm—Indian band| | concert on Shakes Island. | 5:00 to 8:00 p.n—Races and| contests, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.—Ceremonial dance. 11:00 to 2:00 p.m.—Ceremonial dance sponsored by Wrangell Pot- |subjects already hold the reins of | {great power in that continent.” could bury their dead. The British Commander replied with shells and machine gun fire for | six hours and it is believed that not & German of that division sur- vived the scorching. | Scouting planes declared that stacks of German dead could be seen | on the battlefields. | > SENATOR PITTMAN WARNS NATION OF | FIFTH COLUMNISTS Says Hitler May Have Eyes on South America- —Plans Conquest | WASHINGTON, June 1.—Senator Key Pittman of Nevada warns the people of the United States against | fifth column activities in the Amer- icas if Nazi Germany wins the Eur- opean war. Said the Nevada Senator: “I doubt if Hitler, even in alliance with other governments, will attempt to attack the United States directly in the near future, That would not be nec- essary. Every action indicates that Hitler longs for the great natural resources of South America. His, Added the Senator: “In self de- fense and by reason of our admira- | tion and friendships for the states| of South America, Central Ameérica and Mexico, we are compelled to aid | them against any conquests either | from the outside or against any conquests by fifth columnists work- ing from within. This will be a tremendous burden upon tne people of the United States.” l HEADED FOR CONGRESS FROM MARYLAND STATE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 1—There's| a 50-50 chance that the next Con- gress will have among its represen- | tatives the only man who for 20/ years successfully competed withi a| Noied Negro Educator Is Passed Away Dr. Moton,wlidrrn in Slav- the Washington Monument as capital drawing card. Walter Perry Johnson, the “Big Train” of baseball and the greatest pitcher the big leagues ever turned out, is the Republican nominee in the sixth Maryland district. Politi- cal wiseacres say he has an even chance of tossing a third strike eryl Su“essor '0 Wash. on the Democratic incumbent, Wil- o liam D. Byron. mgton Is Dead Over and over, I've heard ihe L story since his nomination from men who came here as youngsters GLOUCESTER, Va., June 1.—Dr.|during the two decades that fol- Robert Russua Moton, 72, President | lowed 1907: “When Walter John- emeritus of Tuskegee Institute,died|son was pitching, you couldn't] gel a kid to go near the Washing-| ton Monument or the White House. | “There wasn't a boy who came to town in those days who wouldn’t rather have had one brief ‘Hi, son’ from Waller than | to have shaken hands with Presi- here last evening. He became known as one of the famous negro edu- cators of Americ When he was little more than a boy he conceived the idea that| he would like to grow up and be| a leader of his race. At the time his prospects for|dents ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Taft, Wil- realizing his ambition did not ap-|son, Harding and Coolidge all at pear much more optimistic than|once.” cherishing the idea. He had been - ROOKIES ARE BEN LD If the big, slow-talking Maryland farmer does come Lo Congress next January he'll still be a drawing card, but it’'ll be on past perform- ance. Rookies in the congressional league scarcely ever get a chance a chore boy around the home of a Presbyterian minister in Virginia, where one of his particular jobs was to brush the clothes and shine the shoes of the minister's son, George, By a strange coincidence the boys, who were about the same age, | to pitch. | eventually were installed as heads| Take a dynamic fellow like of the leading educational institu-|Bruce Barton, for example. Be- tions of their respective races in|fore he ran for Representative Alabama. George became Dr.George | from New York, he already had had his finger in national affairs and big business. He had written books, made speeches. He told H. Denny, President of the Univer-| sity of Alabama, and Robert, Prin- cipal of Tuskegee Institute, world- famed negro school. | folks he was coming down to Goal Not Easy ‘iWashmgmn and repeal a bill a Dr. Moton’s path to the goal|day he had dreamed of was not an! Now I haven't checked up lately, easy one. After being an errand but I don’t think Mr. Barton has‘ boy he was waiter in the “big|repealed a bill at all. Rookies in house,” then foreman in a lumber|the House just don't do that sort camp. In all his activities he dis-|of thing. If they are smart, they, played a remarkable faculty for spend a couple of years bench-| making friends among white people| warming. If they go trying to lam- as well as negroes. | bast a homerun every time some- This was attested when he was body lets them hold a bat, they're urged, ‘although having compara- likely to find themselves back in| tively little schooling, to enter the the bush leagues, race for the legislature from his (Continued on Page Seven) | (Conunued on Page Two) Los Angeles Party Spends Day l nPort {Visitors Says Juneau Air Even Better than California’s Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce members, 106 strong, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Aleutiun this morning for an all-day stay on | their 11th annual good will tour to| Alaska. In sunshine which cannot have | been inferior to that of Los Angeles herself, the visitors stepped ashore to be greeted by representatives of the Juneau Chamber. The Southern Californians are spending the day visiting the glacier, seeing the Territorial Museum and walking the streets of Juneau. Tenth for Bayer Weather has been perfect for the party all the way from Los Angeles, according to Field Secretary Charles P. Bayer for whom this is the tenth such trip to Alaska. This, said Bayer, has been the fin- est trip the group has ever had. ‘The good will party left Los Angeles last Sunday, spent a day at the San Francisco fair, an afternoon on the Columbia River Highway out of Portland and an enjoyable steamer trip north The visitors will leave at 1 o'clock tomorrow morning for Skagway where they will take the Lake Ben- nett trip. To the Westward, they will see Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Anchorage and Palmer, returning by way of Sitka. Long Stay Southbound The schedule will be revised, Bay- er said, to allow a longer stay in Juneau southbound than the five hours on the printed itinerary. Ar- rangements are being made to arrive here at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, June 9, and remain until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in order to give a number of the Californians a chance to fish for salmon. ,Southbound the party will stop at Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Metlakatla, reaching Seattle June 13 and Los Angeles June 15. Bayer said if it hadn’t been for the war there would have been at least 200 on this year’s trip. President Likes Air Hearty greetings to Juneau and "7 (Continued to Page Two) NLE Italy ROLL TOWARD PARIS MOVE IS INDICATED Maneuvers Are Suddenly Switched fo Somme | River, North France GERMANS ADMIT ALLIES ESCAPED, FLANDERS {Clamor for Release of Gib- | raltar Now Arising | in Two Nations :1 (By Associated Press) | The German forces invading on the A‘Weatem front suddenly wheeled | about today and began an attack on the Somme River, the Allled line guarding Paris, as battle stained Al- lied troops, snatched from the Nazi deaih trap in Flandrs, reached safe- |ty in England. Tne French statement said the Allies are holding the line on tne south bank of the lower Somme River where the Germans started | the attack yesterday and resumed it again at dawn this morning. The Germans are making « al as- sault on the entire line whiie other Nazi forces are still hemming in remnants of the trapped Allied forc- es In Flanders. The Germans admit the main forces of the Allles es- |caped from the alleged cath trap |in Flanders and courtmartials are certnin to follow feor in com- 'mand of this invaded secior for al- | lowing Lhe (roops * 3 Roll Toward is ! A new phase ¢ 4 i the Allies todé 1 the pr var as Ger- {many hinted of a Nazi attempt to roll down ¥rance before lossening | the attempt (o invade England. The British forces are watching the north | sector, however, and if the Germans think they are going to make a surprise attack on England and catch the defenders unprepard, there is going to be a big surprise and a decided jolt handed the Na- zis. Italy Just Waiting Italy is still hovering on the sidelines apparenty drawing steadily closer to a decision which might send her armies northward as the Germans push southward in a gi- gantic pincer move on France. 1 Italy has called up 10,000 non- commissioned officers to supplement the force of 50,000. Clamor i'or Glbraltay Both Italy and Spain are now clamoring for Great Britain to re- linquish Gibraltar, her stronghold as the western gate of the Medit- erranean. Great Rescue The British make the claim that i ALLIES LOSE GOOD FRIEND IN SHAKEUP. King Carol_A;poinis Pro- German fo Replace Foreign Minister BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 1.— Foreign Minister Gafencu has re- signed because of “ill health.” He was immediately replaced by Ion Gigurtu, Minister of Communi- cations, and close friend of the Ger- man government. | The resignation of Gafencu, who is energetically pro-British and pro- French, came as a surprise here. It is understood that King Carol has entrusted to Gigurtu, former manager of & gold exploitation con- | Alaska were extended by J. L Van |cern, the problem of reorienting So if Walter Johnson does come Norman, President of the Los An-|Rumanian policy to obtain better relations with both Berlin and Mos- Jeow.