The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LVL, NO. 8447, JUNEAU, ALASKA ,SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1940. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — — — = ARMISTICE MIGNED BY \ Britis GERMAN CAPITAL ATTACKED Several Bu'irldings Hit, Af- firms Berlin-German Hollywood Touched BERLIN, June ‘This German Capital city suffered the first air attack during the night. Several buildings were hit and seven persons are reported to have been injured Two incendiary bombs, striking Babelsberg, Germany's Hollywood, damaged the automatic telephone system, several garages and auto- mobiles. The invading British planes struck elsewhere in western Germany where nine persons are reported to have been killed when bompbs struck buildings, including one church. Pianes also raided the port of Marseille but the official statement does not say whether the planes were German or Italian. It is officially stated British bombers destroyed Nazi big gun displacements at Calais. GERMAN VESSELS SUNK LONDON, June 22—Two Ger- man vessels were sunk in an air raid on Willemssord, the Ger- man-Holland harbor. The British Air Ministry says in less than one minute five tons of bombs were dropped, sinkinz two ships, damaging another and set- ting fire to an oil storage tank e NEW WAVES OF BOMBERS FOUGHT OFF English Coaflgain Object of Large Scale Nazi | Air Attacks LONDON, June 22. — Waves of | German war planes swooped over England for the third time in four days today and scattered bombs | along the East Coast. Three civilians were killed before the attackers were driven out to sea | by fierce anti-aircraft fire and the quick action of British fighter planes. The interceptor planes of the Royal Air Force scattered the raid- ers ahd prevented concentration on any objective. The British Air Ministry announc- ed a widespread program today of air and naval attacks in the Medi- terranean, during which three enemy ships were sunk by submarines. French bases at Bizerte, Tunisia and Marseille were bombed heavily. — ,,————— CROSSON FiYING | (uppER MA"' o“‘cepz buf they waited word from| One Pacific Alaska Airways )Ezlec-1 tra flew north this morning and; another was due here from the| Interior. | Joe Crosson, continuing his mghtt north with “first mail,” took an El- ectra north this morning with Walt Hall and passengers W. A, Castleton, J. C. Anderson, Major Dale Gafiney, | Sharron Bakke, Mrs. C. Lagergren | and two children, R. C. Cook, A. J.| Wester. Pilots Bill Knox and Herman Joslyn were due in today with A. R. MeGuire, B. McGuire, W. J. Cole- | man and W. N. Growden. Mr. and | Mrs. Carl Beal and Betty Donnelly were disembarking at Whitehorse. SELLS HALIBUT The halibuter Marian, of Peters- purg, sold 11,500 pounds of halibut here today at 8.75 and 6.75 cents a pound to Alaska Coast Flsheries, h Air | Royalty in Canadian Haven JAP ANESE P [ | Be® | 1 Princess Juliana of The Netherlands and her royal party are shown leaving a Dutch warship at Halifax, N. S., for an unannounced des- tinatlon in Canada where they will seek a haven from war-torn Europe. | Left to right: The Princess and baby, Beatrix; nurse Baroness Roell and Baby Reell, and Baroness de Voa van" Steenwijk. : - ~ TROOPS ON MOVE NOW ‘ China to Be Occupied ‘ by Nippons HONGKONG, June 22 | Japanese vince of Kwangshi are reported as other fdorces steadily completed occupation of areas adjacent to Hongkong’s mainland. Great alarm is felt by some, be- lieving that Japan is preparing o deal herself a stronger hand re- garding British and French posse: sions and perhaps take direct action against the Allies while they are busy in Europe. The British officials here say there is no cause for alarm as the Japanese are only cleaning up Chinese guerillas. 2 NEW SYSTEM DELEGATING with Irene, | Uniled/SIéléi; Including 7 Alaska, Vulnerablefo Air Attacks; Mitchell Said If Fishermen, Seiners fo Go fo Work Accept Offer by Wrangell Canneries for Fish Prices for 1940 WRANGELL, Alaska, June 22— At a meeting yesterday afiernoon of 45 purse seiners and cannery workers here, it was agreed to ac- cept the offer of local packers for the season, as follows: 8% cents for pinks, 9': cents for chums, 20 cents for cohoes and 30 cents for| reds. The offer was made by the A. R. Breuger Company, Wrangell Packing Company, Farwest Alaska Company. The meeting was in charge of | Pat Kelley who- represented the | seiners and fishermen and he said | work was to start, The Cannery Workers representa- tives said they also agreed to ac- Ketchikan where canneries are also tied up there. Resolve fo OAKLAND, Cal, June 22. — The California State Convention of the County Supervisors Association has | unanimously passed a resolution calling for the deportation of West- | ern CIO leader Harry Bridges. e McCORD THROUGH Jack MecCord, well known Alaska promoter, is a passenger on the Baranof for the Westward after a — trip to the States, ! Company and Burnett Inlet Salmon | | FOR GOPERS Willkie Gainifig Strength Over Dewey and Taft as Nominee PHILADELPHIA, June 22. — The Republican National Committee has adopted a sweeping rule denying a ! delegate representation in future Re- publican conventions to Congres- sional districts not polling at least 4 thousand votes for the party ticket. From many quarters came reports ' of rising Wendell Willkie strength died after being court-martialed by among various delegations earlier the United States Army. considered nailed down for Dew | “Billy” Mitchell, son of a . -;,,;e;‘ g i United States Senator, enlisted = | as a private in the war with Spain in 1898 and 20 days after enlistment was made an officer at the age of 18—youngest offi- cer in the Spanish-American War. Fifteen years before the sec- ond World War, General Mit- chell said: “An air attack di- rected against England has greater chance of success than an attack by sea or land. Un- | doubtedly this is how she will be attacked, she is more vulner- able than sver before.” Ice Crater Mitchell re - enlisted after the LAY Spanish-American War and served pERRYVILLE, Alaska, June 22— |in the Philippine insurrection, the The Rev. B. R. Hubbard of Santa Cuban rebellion in 1906-7, and the Clara University and his party are Mexican border trouble in*1916. credited with being the first per- Less than 19 years later and |sons ever inside the huge ice crater long before any nt-day | of Veniaminof Volcano. The priest congressman had cast his vote and his party returned to Perryville for the great defense program, from the volcano, showing exhaus- Brigadier General Mitchellsaid: | tion from the difficult climb through By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 22, — Four years ago, one-time Brigadier Gen- eral William (Billy) Mitchell, | prophet of modern aerial warfare, | B A5 R S 2] Veniaminof Is Enfered Hubbard PaffiReporled to Have Gone Inside of Looks Like French Indo- | troops from the South China Pro-| moving toward French Indo-China | FRANCE Mass Production of Pilots at R | | | With more than 7,000 pilots annually Randolph Field, West Point of the air, is today one of the world’s busies! "Hell'sDevil Butler” Passes " Away Suddenly;Noted Career ~~ Ended;Was A’mericanfighler PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 22.— Few careers in the American fight- ing forces in recent times have been . more picturesque or sur- {rounded with more dramatic epi- |sodes than that of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. He died suddenly in the Naval Hospital here yesterday afternoon after an illness of several weeks, | A young Quaker who wanted to | fight for his country in the Span- | ish-American War, he ran away | from home and tried to enlist| | in the National Guard at Phila- | | delphia, but was turned down be- cause he was only 16. Later he heard that the Marines were short of second lieutenants | |and again slipped away from hom to appear at Marine headquarte; !in Washington. There he misrep- resented - his age, w passed eligible and shortly afterwards was commissioned a lieutenant as R | | GEN SMEDLEY O. BUTLER | I3 i | | Career Starts | 3 1881, General Butler was a It was not long before the young |descendant of two old and dis-| Lieutenant Butler saw action with|tinguished families of Quakers. His| McCall's men at Guantanamo and father was Thomas S .Butler, for| Manzanillo and started upon a[many years a Representative in career that has had few parallels|Congress from the Delaware-| in variety and activity of service.|Chester County District of Pt'nnAi His record in Cuba, the Philippines,|sylvania and for a long time chair- | China, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haitijman of the House Naval Affairs |and France won for him two Con- Committee. The General's mother | gressional medals of honor, a dis-|was a Darlington and a Hicksite | tinction shared by only four other|Friend. One of his ancestors, Nobel |men at theé time; an offer of|Butler, came over with William | |the Victoria Cross, an Army Dis-|Penn. | tinguished Service Medal, a Navy | Distinguished Service Medal and |a brevet medal. In addition he re | | ceived promotions which raised him | he supplemented by constant study. | to the rank of Brigadler General In June, 1905, he married Ethel (at 29, and the Major General ninei Conway Peters of Philadelphia. | years later. !'They had three children, a daugh- | Was Home Man The General recelved his educa-| tion at the Haverford School, which | the goal of the Army Air Corps under the new expansion program, seene at the Field, which is near San Antonio, Texas, showing air ships on the line as cadets mill abo |Defenders at Ledluse Fori. | American officer under fire in | World War and One is over the Atlantic by way of Iceland and Greenland to Canada and the other is over the Pacific, by way of Siberia, Alaska and the Pacific coast islands.” Colonel Mitchell was the first the (April 22, 1917) “Two over-seas routes (for |the rough country. The glacier priest planes attacking the United | said they had made no important | States) are perfectly feasible. |geological discoveries but were well satisfied in being the first human beings to go inside the huge crater. He said that his party will pro- Some Exploits | Some of the exploits which won| recognition and promotion for Gen- | eral Butler were these: As ayoung Marine officer he rushed out be- ter born in the Philippines, and two sons born respectively at the Phila-| his active military career, General |ceed from here to the Arctic to|tWeen the lines in China co bring|pytier was a home man and took continue their geological investiga- |tions on King Island and in the | Kobuk area. |back a wounded British Tommy: |he was caught in ambush in Nic- |aragua; he risked his life to go | to Mexico City as a spy; he charged |a bandit fort at Haiti; he carried | duckboards with his men at Brest,| his family with him on his assign-| ments in various parts of the world Heroic Deed | After his service in Cuba during| the Spanish-American War, Butler went to the other side of the world | | delphia Navy Yard and the Isth-{g.rence gutlays past the $6,000,000,- mus of Panama. Notwithstanding| o mark | the first American flying officer to| Oust Bridges FIRE ABOARD SHIP SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 22.—Of- ficials said today that the damage | from a fire in the hold of the Mat- cross the enemy lines. AREA VITAL TO US. Seventeen years later, he | France, to aid t,_he landing of the| =0 part in the Philippine in- American Expeditionary Forces in surrection and next pnruclpated‘, the soupy mud; he dismounted|;, ne storming of the Tientsin from his horse at Quantico 10 (o5 in the Boxer uprising in 1909, said: “Of all the large cities in the world, New York offers the ideal target for aerial attack. Although the United States generally is fortunate in this respect, because of its size, should the triangle formed by Chicago, Chesapeake Bay and Bangor, Maine, be laid waste by an attacking air force and com- plete mastery of the air be ob- tained by a foe, for the Unit- " (Continued to Page Three) json steamer Maui has been slight. | A fireboat with five land fire com- | panies battled the blaze for more |than an hour before it was ex- | tinguished. The Maui is docked | here, enroute from Baltimore to San | Prancisco. R BACK TO FAIRBANKS Shirley Linck and Kathleen Pres- ton, Fairbanks girls who have been | | attending school in the States, are - |aboard the Baranof, returning for the | | summer with their parents. | carry the pack of a sick Marine. ‘ Fights Bootlegging General Butler was borrowed by the City of Philadelphia to act as director of the Deparcment of Pub- lic Safety during 1924 and 1925 waging a vigorous campaign against ‘booueneu and politicians, only to | be dismissed by the Mayor. He re- turned teo the Marine Corps and after an assignment in China was ' made Commanding General of the Marine base at Quantico, Va. Born at West Chester Pa., July suffering a leg wound. He was ba on active duty before Peking was land is 355,428, an increase of about.‘ reached and it was in one of those engagements that he ran out be- yond the lines to bring back a wounded soldier “of the British forces. When he returned to the United States he had another wound, tie| silver bars of a captain and a ci-| Governor Olson has granted : tation for “eminent and cunspicu- mission for the extradition of Rich- ous courage.” “(Continued on Page Three) Raiders Drop Bombs On Berlin Field SIGNATURES ARE PUTTO PEACE PACT Ceremony Takes Two Min- t ufes-Next Move Is with Italy BULLETI BERLIN, June 2%—1t is ofiicially announced thut the Armistice between Germany and France was | igned =t 3:58 a. m. today. BULLETIN — NEW YORK, June 22—An NBC from Com- peigne reports the armistice between Germany and France was signed abont 9 o'clock this morning. According to the NBC report the armistice will take effect six hours after Italy reaches | an prmistice with France. ! The broadcaster said the French plenipotentiaries, who | agreed to the armistice, are leay- ing by planc for Romie where terms will be discussed. The terms of the German- French agreement are not dis- closed but the armistice was signed by Com. Gen. Wilhelm Keitcl, German High Command, and Gen. Charles Huntizger, head of the French delegation. The same railro:d car as was used in the signing of the World War armistice was used for the signing of the German-French armistice, The signing was made at a two-minute cere. mony. andolph t training schools. Here is a noon ut. Nazi AIIéEk- | Repulsedby | French Force Show Germans-Drive (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany announces through au- Them from City thorized sources that France is ex- CHANCY, Swiss-French Frontier, pected to sign the armistice agree- June 22Tt is reported here that ment presented to ‘the four French the French defenders at Lecluse envoys yesterday by Hitler, before Fort, near Belegarde, have not only this day is out. repulsed the attack on the moun- gyench officials announce that the tain citadel but have driven the g, enyoys meeting in the Com- Germans out of the town of Bele- piegne Forest will fly to some place xfardcl,l itself five miles from the j, Ttely to talk over terms after sitadel. the German agreement is conclud- b v T SR ' ed. " 11 The French state that two par- leys will be completed before any general peace agreement with both allversaries, House Approves Com- FOR VO'I'[ promise Measure for National Profection | wasuinaToN, June 22. — Tne PREHERAS Senate has approved and sent to WASHINGTON, June 22, — The !he House an amendment to the House has approved of the com- final deficiency appropriation bill promise version of the $1,770,000,- Authorizing the Post Office Depart- 000 émergency defense appropria- Ment to contract for flying the tion bill, one of the few remain- Mmail between Scattle and Juneau ing “must” measures standing in Via Ketchikan. the way of a one-weék recess for The Emergency Defense Bill won the Republican National Conven. final Congressional approval to- tion day. The bill carries funds for 68 new e FASCISTS IN - MANY BOMBER RAIDS TODAY H { MALTA, June 22.—Air raiders Showing INcrease :uaccea s taree times ‘wday, inflicting unestimated damage. _| It was also reported the Italian . 22.—Cens‘m squadrons renewed an attempt to bomb the Allled war fleet. but 'anti-aircraft guns shot down one 310,000, a preliminary estimate for, Multnomah County including Port- | bomber and drove ghe others oft. warships and 3,000 additional army planes. The bill has boosted the Portland, Oregon, PORTLAND, Ore., Jun sus officials estimate that Portland® ANOTHER RAID DJIBUTI, June 22—Italian raid- ers bombed French Somaliland to- day several times, - ——— 16,000 over 1930. EXIRAD"ED SET FOR TRIAL . Trial of the suit of A. J. Martin BAPRAMENTO, Cal, June 2:': againsi J. J. Stocker over owner- Iship of the boat Samson II, poste led. as security on a loan Martin obtained from Stocker, has been set for July 1 in Digtrict Court, ard Forsythe from Los Angeles to Port Angeles, Wash., to face bur- glary charges.