The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV, NO. 8432. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940, MEM BER ASSOCIATE D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE Hitler Opens New Dri NAVALARR BASE PLAN ISBOOSTED Senate Pas;Authoriza- tion of Program With- out Dissenting Vote WASHINGTON, June 5. — Au- th tion for a Naval Air Base program was passed by the Sen- ate late yesterday without a dis- venting vote. The measure provides for 18,500 pilcts, 10,000 airplanes and 20 air bases rngng the North American *continent. A preliminary appropriation will be requested for the program with- in a few days. The bill authorizes $2,012,000 for an air base at Kodiak and $2,963,- 000 for an airbase at Unalaska. - GabAr“ieI_son Heads Game- Fi sh_e ries Jackson Will Be Assistant for Fisheries in New Merger Set-Up WI\SHINGTONfi;Jne 5.—Interior Department sources disclosed today that Secretary of the Interior Har- —_ 1 i M ontgomery Robert Montgomery, American film star, signals “thumbs up” as he | leaves his sandbag-protected London hotel to begin a trip to France where he is to become an ambula service, This picture was cabled from London to New York. Chief Shakes Again Ruler - 0f T_hlingels Inauguration of Kudanake | Takes Place at Wran- old L. Ickes will shortly name Dr.| : Ira Gabrielson, director of the new| ge" Ceremonla' Fish and Wild Life Service which | will combine the old Bureau of Bio- | wpaANGRELL, Alaska, June logical Survey of the Agriculture | ;o0 gpakes rules again over 2,000 5—| Department and Bureau of Fisher- ies of the Department of Commerce, for the last year both under the Interior Department as a part of President Roosevelt’s reorganiza- tion of governmental services. Informants said that the Secre- tary would name W. C. Henderson, new associate chief of the Biologi- cal Survey new Director of Wild Life Research, Economic Conserva- and Regulatory Work and Charles E. Jackson acting of the Fisheries Bureau to be new Director of Fisheries Research, Economic Conservation and Regulatory Work. Dr. Gabrielson, who is fifty-one years old and from Sioux Rapids, Towa, has been in the government service since 1915, Henderson has been with the Biological Survey since 1916 and Jackson 1933. tion appoint director INTELLIGENT CONSERVATION IS HOPE OF GABRIELSON WRANGELL, Alaska, June 5. — Dr. new Federal Pish and Wild Life Service, said at the banquet ending wrangell’s potlatch last night, “I hope we have learned something from our mistakes of the past” in developing the nation. ‘It is my hope that we will profit by our experiences and conserve in- telligently in Alaska.” Dr. Gabrielson left aboard the Brown Bear for Juneau at the con- clusion of Potlatch ceremonies, OFFICIALS IN JUNEAU Dr. Ira Gabrielson, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, De- partment of Interior, and expected to become director of the new Fish and Wild Life Service in the mer- ger of the Bureau of Fisheries and Biological Survey under the Presi- dent’s Third Reorganization plan, arrived in' Juneau this morning aboard the Brown Bear, accompan- jed by Charles D. Jackson, acnng; | Commissioner of Fishereis. After two days of conference in Juneau, Dr. Gabrielson and Com- missioner Jackson will leave tomor- row on the Brown Bear for the Westward with an itinerary that will engage them until mid-August. Brown Bear Itinerary Aboard the Brown Bear will also be Frank Dufresne, regional- director of the Biological- Survey, L. J.Pal- (Continued on Page Eight) Ira Gabrielson, chief of the, | Thlinget people in Southeast Al- aska, ending a 24-year regency | which began with the death of the last Shake# in 1916. At impressive ceremonies day afternoon and Monday Kudanake took the official name |of Shakes, the seventh direct lineal | descendant of the Shakes to know the white man with the arrival of |the Russians headed by Baron von Wrangell nearly a century ago. Erect as a raven totem pole of his people, the new Chief accepted the honors at a special affair at which | Gov. Ernest Gruening, Dr. Ira Ga- | brielson, new head of the Fish and | wildlife Service, and other digni- | taries were present. Thlingets Pledged Speaking through. an interpreter, | with numerous hundreds of his own ‘))eople in gay costumes standing in silent respect, the new chief pledg- |es the Thlingets anew as “Ameri- {cans of which we are proud to I be.” The new chief revieved, in his |own language, a complete story of | the early Thlingets and arrival of the whites. He recounted the fa- |mous first Christmas in Wrangell | when the Indians were guests of | the Russians and who became in- |culted because though laughed at | by the Russian Captain's wife, killed |several and when the Russians re- taliated, old Chief Shakes demand- ed the death of one white for the death of every Indian. Pride Preserved Even though at peace today, the new Chief said: “Our pride is |preserved and our courage un- | daunted.” { Gov. Gruening, Claude Hirst, ‘head of the Indian Office, Frank | Heintzleman, Regional Forester, and Judge George F. Alexaryder and |others spoke at the feast given by the Chijef for 250 especially invited {guesm, indians and whites. The ceremonial dance last night ended the two day event at which a new chief was inaugurated and |a Tagook Pole unveiled on Shakes | 1siand. Gov. Gruening was given the name of Gushx by the Wrangell Indians. - e RANDALLS ARRIVE Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Randall of Mon- night, jon the steamer North Sea. Windham Bay arrived from Seattle | - Off for Front GET READY FOR ACTION - ONENGLAND ;Strategic Purpose of New Drive by Germans Announced BULLETIN —BERLIN, Junc 5.—The German High Command announced late tonight that the “Weygand Line” across North- ern France has been broken at several points by fierce German thrusts after the Somme River was crossed and the agfense has collapsed in seme places. BERLIN, June sources tonight said the Germanl Army’s right wing is advancing on, | the “broadest front” south and | westward along the channel coast | toward LeHavre and Rouen. The operations “are proceeding as scheduled,” the same sources claim. The strategic purpose of the drive | to “separate completely Great nce driver with the American field : |is additional bases for operations | against England.” { e Governor Says AlaskaDefense is Now Assured {Deploring W; Alaska Ex- | ecufive Looks for In- creased Defense Aids { Wes! Alaska “VolcanoNow To Burst Quf Earth Rumbles Forecast Eruption, Says Ex- | | | | [ { | Back from Washington, D. C, plorer Hubbard | where he found World War TI and % 5 all its involvements the matter of PERRYVILLE, Alaska, June 5.—| chief concern among officials with | The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard re- |whom he talked, Gov. Ernest|Ports constant earthquakes since | | Gruening declared this morning his arrival here with the expedi- that the one bright spot on an|tionary party. otherwise dark horizon was that| This Indicates that Veniaminoff Alaska was to have the dc[cmw.si‘s ready to burst out again. for which he and Delegate An-| The party is ready to make a| thony J. Dimond have been work-|Climb but is delayed by bad| |ing. | weather, The camp is on the lower | | Anchorage it now assured sts| slope from where the leader of | | Army air base. For the pro[m%ed“’hc party plans to send out radio | Navy base at Dutch Harbor, 32,-1"31’0“”“' /500,000 has been set aside to begin| | work, the Governor said. “And I have every reason to be- lieve that this is just the begin- ning,” he added. Effect of the move toward na- tional defense in Alaska will be far reaching, Gov. Gruening said. | Work will start immediately on the | | Ketchikan airport. Military neces- | sity will require the enlargement| | of Juneau plane facilities. Airfields| U“pledged will be insreased throughout the| Territory and existing fieids willl Hof Time Is Had at Conven- be enlarged as a part of the na-| 3 e H tional defense program. "0"—"0 Th"’ d Ierm | Approval Gov. Gruening deplored the war| BATON ROUGE,La., June 5. —| as a cause of bringing to our at- tention the need for national de- fense, “It is tragic that we have had|y,.siana State Demacrats refused to have this cruel lesson, but I last night in the State convention to approve a third term support to President Roosevelt and drove Unit- ed States Senator Allen J. Ellander, am glad that there is no longer any doubt about Alaska being in- who tried to speak for the Chief Executive, from the platform with Louisiana cluded in our national defense pro- gram,” he said. ington to Seattle and was a pas-|boos and hisses. senger on the Alaska to Wrangelll The convention went on record | was a principal participant in the|istructed. ceremonies in connection with the| This was the first State conven- The Potlatch, he said, was a|ished them in 1924. real and deserved success that he R s g | annual event. | ‘The 1,500 people that the cele- cluded about 500 natives and 1,000 e | other visitors, All were impressed| HOMINY, Okta., June 5.—Hear-| dian Affairs, the Forest Service and |their food in large quantities, the ipeople of Wrangell had accom-|town boosters of Hominy, on giv- Potlatch, dered: 2,400 buns; 1,600 slices of Particularly noteworthy, the Gov-|meat; 800 slices of cheese; 800 Shakes Community House by the|l2 gallons of mustard; 20 pounds ————|of coffee and two boxes of tooth- Gov. Gruening flew from Wash- where he joined Mrs. Gruemngand}:o send a delegation to Chicago un- Wrangell Potlatch. tion since the late Huey Long abol- hoped would be continued as an bratiop brought to Wrangell in-| | with the work the Bureau of In-|ing that rural residents appreciate |plished in preparation for the|ing a “feed” for 500 farmers, or- ernor said, was the restoration of|doughnuts; 50 pounds of onions; picks, " (Continued to Page Three) Authorized | Britain and Prance and set up new 4 ve On West 4 ern — $ New Defense (o mmission Meefs with President Members of the new Defense Commission named by President Roosevelt held their initial meeting with tho Chief Executive at the White House and conferred on methods of spending swiftly a $4,300,000,000 wac chest for national defense. Railway; Edward R. Steiti Pry lent of General Maotors Corp sity; Leon Hender: N R TRBR r a L — Prime Standing, left to right: Jr., Chairman of United States Steel Corporation; Ralph Budd, Chai oration; Miss Harriet Elliott, Dean of e i U.5. Diplomais Keep House | AIR FORCES rman of the Board of Burlington William 8. Knudsen Women of North Carolina Uniyer- , member of Securities Commission; Chester C. Davis, Federal Reserve Board mem- ber; William H. McReynolds, Administrative Assistant to the President. Home Defense Their Problem Now Minister Winston Churchill (left) and General Sir Edmund Ironside (center) pass a barber-wire barricade and acknowledge a sentry’s salute outside the Admiralty Building in London. charge of England’s home defenses—a momentous task as the Nazi Blitzkrieg moves near every hour. Ironside now has For Nations Whose Envoys ‘ OF BRITISH Flee Blitzkrieged (apilals[ MAKERAIDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 5. For weeks there hasn't been a night that midnight oil hasn't been burn- ing in the gray, ramshackle De- partment of State Building. The 44-hour week has become more than twice that for many officials and a lot of their under- lings. Foreign relations must be kept intact. Scenes abroad change swiftly. Raise your finger from the world’s pulse one moment and the hint of a new and vital flux may be lost. But if you think Secretary Hull's' boys in the home office of Ameri- can diplomacy are over-worked, pity the men in the field, sweat- ing over the new problems that a war raises. Besides their regular duties they are working for the Allies, In Ber- lin, Brussels, The Hague, Copen- hagen and Oslo, the United States embassies or legations have been authorized to handle all the busi- ness of Great Britain, France, Can- ada and Australia, and in some in- stances that of Belgium, Luxem- v bourg, New and Egypt. COURTESY DOESN'T PAY This is all a matter of interna- tional courtesy. Nations who ha gotten themselves into a mess |don't pay a dime for the labor | | expended in their behalf, although | | they do make an honest effort to| | defray all cash outlays involved. | The first obligation generally is seeing that the representatives of the nation represented get safely out of the country. For example, when Hitler crash- ed through Holland and - Belgium, it was our legation at The Hague and Embassy in Brussels which as- sisted ‘the French and British rep- | resentatives in getting safe pas- | sage - home. | In September, 1939, when En- |gland finally tossed down the glove, Alexander Kirk, United States charge d'affairs, helped Sir Nevile Henderson, the British Am- | bassador, get his “30 men, seven | women and two dogs” onto ' the |sealed train that carried them to | | { | Zealand, South “"""‘:lndusfrial CemerS, Ifldud" ing Frankfort, Munich, Are Bombed LONDON, Jjuns 5—The British Air Ministry last night announced that British planes flew over the Ruhr Valley late yesterday, bomb- |ing industrial plants, oil refineries |and railroad stations. Royal Air forces also bombed Germéin positions in Holland Northern France. French planes bombarded German industrial centers fort and Munich, birthplacc }zlsm and Hitler's most Leloved town in the Reich, One group of German planes headed for Paris yesterday after- |noon but turned back in the face of heavy antiaircraft fire, It is officially announced that Le Havre was bombed, the Nazi the planes dropping devastating shells on the flourishing port and rail- way terminus. A number of casu- alties occurred and some damage was caused by explosion of bombs (Connnuet’i”on Page s1x) rnd subsequent fires. 4 t FIGHTING IN RIVERSECTOR STARTSTODAY Two MiIIiofi S_oldiersv Are | Reported Engaged in Vast Battle FUEHRER SAYS ALLIES T0 GET THEIR DESIRE Eight-Day Celebration Is Ordered as Result of Flanders’ Viciory Fron | BULLETIN—PAKIS, Jjune 5. | —Authorized sources said to- night that the irench are hold- ing everywhere against the new German with the ex- ovints where to more offencive eplion of “they may Al b favorable positions.” The official communique says there “is nothing to worry about.” Nearly 2,000,000 men are en- gaged In the vast battle, the of- ficial report discloses. BULLETIN—LONDON, June 5.~Military sources said tonight that “certain armored vehicles” of the Germans are on both sides of Amiens although not very close to the French-held town itself. German elements have reached the Somme but not enough to be feared. (BY ASSOCTATED PRESS) Fuehrer Hitler has launched a violent new offensive against France on a 125-mile Somme-Aisne rivers front, stretching westward from Laon, 75 miles north of Paris, to the English Channel. The drive was touched off by Hitler himself from his western front headquarters. The massive attack began about v few (Continued on P;»‘gne Six) Annihilation Of Allies|s 1 Hiflers Plan Fuehrer Makes Broadcast To Germans; Claims Made of War Gains BERLIN, June 5.—Fuehrer Hitler, in a special message from his Western Front headquarters broad- cast last night, declared he has “sworn to carry through the war to a final and complete annihilation of the Allied forces.” The broadcast was made to the German people afte minutes lof martial music. Hitler sald the great battle of anders was finished and he de- | clared the Allled losses so far are 11,200,000 men in casu:ities and pris- |oners. This figure is believed to irefer also to the Belgian and Dutch °5 | P | At the same time the German |High Command issued a commu- nique saying that material cap- {tured included large calibre guns nd m tunks, enough to equip o to 80 divisions. | German Claims The German communique said |the Nazi alr forces had bombed |und sunk five cruisers, seven de- stroyers, three submarines and 68 merchant and transport ships, and badly damaged many other ships. Submarines and torpedo boats are said to have accounted for six destroyers, one submarine, one aux- (Continued on page Six)