The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S S ALL'THE TIME” \OL LVL, NO. 8448. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY JUNI 24, 1940 PRICE TEN CENTS FRANCE T°0 SIGN ARMISTICE WITH ITALY REPUBLICANS GATHERED IN Given U.S.Commana NAT. SESSION Convention in Philadel- phia Opens—Commiit- tees Are Named DELEGATES GET DOWN T0 WORK, FAST ORDER Willkie Carfipaiqn Head- quarters Active-Dark Horses Looming PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 24.— Moving at a swift pace, the dele- attending the Republican Na- tional Convention disposed of pre- liminary session and then headed for the real work of picking a candidate for the Presidency. Alf Landon, 1936 Republican Pres- idential candidate, received some cheers as he entered the convention ' hall as did Gov, Arthur H. James of and Senator Styles , of New Hampshire, The! last two are Presidential candidates. In rapid-fire order, the convention gave formal vestments to the Rules Committee, Credentials Committee, Permanent Organization and Plat- form committees, then trooped back down town where Wendell Willkie boosters have a campaign going full blast for his nomination. | There is also great activity around the Taft headquarters. Statements are being circulated that Willkie will not suit many Republicans as he is listed as a former Democrat, utilities man and boys’ uu\spapel editor. White, Anfis (ase Before (redential gate! routine at a 40-minute dy ~I, I. N. Phonephoto Rear Admiral Le Breton 1\ Rear Admiral D. M. Le Breton has been appointed to command ! $he U. S. naval forces operating ‘n Eumgea.n wnhn. PO L Y PLANE SERVICE T0 KETCHIKAN STARTING HERE Holden, Sim—mons, Munter First Flight Tomorrow on Regular Run A regular passenger and mail airplane service between Juneau and Ketchikan will be inaugurated tomorrow by Alex Holden and Shell Simmons of Juneau and Herb Mun- | ter of Ketchikan, it was announced today. The first plane, from Ketchikan to Juneau, will be flown by Mun- | ter. A round trip between Ketchi- kan and Juneau to connect with i the Pacific Alaska Airways Clipper ship from Seattle is planned. Arrangements for the new serv- ice were made over the weekend i at Ketchikan. Holden and Simmons | flew there Saturday to confer with Appeal Is Anticipafed on Seating "Regular” , Alaska Delegation | the Aviation Committee of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce with Munter. Situation Explained t was pointed out at the con- ference that much unjust criticism {had been directed against the Civil p“”‘ADELPHIA Pa., June 24_‘Acronauucs Authority for denying Early this morning, members of the |the application of Pacific Alaska Alaska delegation to the Republican | Airways for a certificate permitting National Convention were silent on ! it to carry passengers and mail be- their sentiments regarding the var- | tween Ketchikan and Juneau. The ious candidates pending a decision 'Civil Aeronautics Act and the Civil on their fate by the Credentials ' Aeronautics Authority provide that Committee ‘as they anticipated ap- | lin return for the strict compliance peal by th? Anti-Whites, the con- | with their requirements, local testing defégation. | operators who have established Albert White, of Juneau, has besn‘sew:ces must be protected against placed on 'the Resolutions and Cre- | further competition if they are to dentials Committee; Jane Robert-'pe able to adequately serve the son, also of J_unegu, is on the Perm- | puplic in their respective areas. anent Organization Committee, and | This protection is only afforded ‘]l J lei“%:z;n‘:f"::momge is on | if the local operators are adequate- e e sk G gt LTS (5o oods ot the DA in favor of the White three- member.wmch have been made to the Civil del 1“’1“0" by a rising vote. | Aeronautics Authority, the Pacific | Alaska Airways has filed another . . | Major Air Corps s, wemmisin o nter Base at Stockton | by Alaska operators that when peo- STOCKTON, Cal, June 24—Plans | are being rushed for establishment of a major United States Army Air Corps training base here. The pwms call for a new train- | ing pase fur 65 buildings, includ-: ing hangars and barra/ks for 140 officers and 800 enlisted men. Pirst units of the new force are| scheduled to arrive July 1. ‘hawe been made will be with with- drawn. Wrangell, Petersburg on Run Regarding the new service, Hold- jen and Simmons announced today: Wrangell, Petersburg and Juneau a2 new service which will be at) least as frequent as that furnished | by the Clipper, and on every mp we will stop at Wrangell and Pet- | ple realize what this would do to the local service, the protests which | CLIPPER STOPS AT KETCHIKAN; HERE TUESDAY }Newspaperméfi, First Pay Passengers Aboard Present Trip With its first passenger the Alaska Clipper 10:41 o'clock this morning bound for Ketchikan and Juneau. The big ship was to stay overnight at Ket- payload, | left Seattle at| | chikan and come on to Juneau to-| morrow morning, due to arrive at Auk Bay at 10:45 o'clock. The Clipper is scheduled to leave Juneau southbound at 5 o'clock to- | morrow afternoon, staying n"am at Ketchikan overnight. A reception planned by Gov. and | Mrs. Ernest Gruening for the Clip- per’'s passengers, uled for today, will be held tomor- | row. Mrs. Gruening will talk to the Governor, who is a passenger originally sched- | on the plane, by telephone at Ket- | chikan tonight to make definite] arrangements for the affair. If the plane is to leave Juneau at 5 o'clock, the reception will be in| the form of a buffet luncheon. If| it stays here tomorrow night will be a buffet supper, as origi- nally planned. The time of the affair will be broadcast as soon as it is known. Devon Francis, Associated Press { 5 | Aviation Editor, is one of the Clip- | per's passengers. The complete list of “passengers flying north aboard the Alaska Clipper is as follows: Peter Andre, Russell Faber, Royal Gunnison, Ed- win A. Kraint, James McVittie, Gov. E. Gilbert, Devon Francis, Ancil Tal- bert, William T. Gray, Frank Bar- tholmew, John Norriss, Sherman Gruening, Haakon Friele, Leo Raridon, S. E. Bradford, Lawrence | Monrose, Carl Anderson, Joseph Ed- | gerton and W. A. Douglas. Friele will disembark at Ketchikan. — . Fight Staged At Ketchikan InFish Strike Attempt fo land Cargo at, Cannery Starfs Mild Demonstration KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 24.—! With the cannery season near and | the AFL Alaska Salmon Purse Sein- | ers Union and Cannery Workers auxiliary strike contimuing, opera- tors attempted to land a cannery cargo last night when the south- bound North Sea docked at the Alaska Pacific Salmon Company which uses only trap caught fish The sailors refused to unload al- though there were no pickets, Later approximately 50 pickets sped to the cannery in taxis, some going on the cannery dock. H Later last night a street fight States not to started between CIO longshoremen, whose income has been decrease (GOP Head Asks 'S fm ‘I’Ium Lun guage’ i > 1 l;l f orm . Jochn D. M. Hamilton, National Chairmah (at right) asked the Republican National Convention Resolu- tiens Cnmmiltfl- for platform couched in “plain language,” one that nominees of papvr London Cheered—By Help from Canada The National Convention opéned in Philadelphia today. will not regard as a scrap Marching smartly towards their barracks, another coatingent of Canadian troops have arrived in England to help the mother land in the fight against Nizism and Fascism, ‘flflh Columnist Adtiviies Show Citizens On Their Guard; Senalors On Edge By JACK WASHINGTON, 24.—Some the country, they tell me, are laughing at other sections for over-excitement, hysteria and fantastic anti-fifth column activity. It's a good thing for the United lose its sense of want any of you June sections of humor. I don't q|to get the idea that any of us this season through inability to here in Washington fail to recog- handle cannery cargo, and mem- bers of the AFL seiners. |nize the gravity of the situation but here are some of the things A crowd of over 100 persons, in- that have popped up: cluding women of the Cannery{ Workers Auxiliary, AFL, and wo-, other day, men CIO cannery workers, filled the street. Fists swung before the police arrived and dispersed the {crowd before any of the fighters | were seriously hurt, The strikers are taking a vote over Southeast Alaska to decide| ll,erms on the price of fish. { ALICE THROUGH The steamer Princess Alice visited | istration official i“We are going to give Ketchikan, \whether to accept the operators'|fifth columnists! !lice arrived, On the the Pennsylvania Avenue half-way between Capuol and the White House, two young men appeared doling out handbills, urging America to steer a path of peace. Before they had been there five minutes, an angry crowd assembled and was shout- ing: “Run them out of town! Dirty " And so on. Po- Gispersed the crowd JAPANIS - RISING UP ~ INORIENT all its departments to get them Ifldl(a"OflS Slrong A('IOH and sent the frightened “peace ad- | vocates” on their way. A junior public works admin- went screaming out of the zone enemy bombings inside truth” ments involved in the defense drive may move some their personnel into the field of danger (The make office space for new agencies which will have THE REDSKINS ARE A story spreads that 5" are working among Indians to bring about slashing uprising of the r against the United Sta ‘basis for truth” probably was the misguided mind of some to be set up.) a the plains in marauding bands. The Army (and Navy) COMING! “fifth col- | ¢, the scalp- skins The fur- riner who ‘thinks Indians still rove sudden- from “absolute is that some depart- national | fo Be Taken Briish, French Colonies of to TOKYO, June 24. — Japan has protested to Great Britain against | arms traffic Burma and has demanded the right station inspectors and enforce the ban on the flow of arms and ammlml‘.lun The announcement of the protest n‘luhowuj reports in circles close to | the Government that Japan is ‘])menmg to take a stronger hand, |if not direct action, in regard to |the Briush and French posses- sions in thae southern part of the i have been deluged with plans|opient, and inventions for more weapons” than have been uted to that fellow A. Hitler. ample: A “projectile plane,’ which the fuselage of the itself is one huge shell, between twin motors, et | B attrib- | Ex- | ELECTRA WINGING IN in | { WITH TWO PASSENGERS | plane | carried | The pilot |fly in from Fairbanks this after- Joe Crosson and Walt Hall were to IH'I,LETIN——R()I\IH. bheaten France have signed The meeting lasted four hours. June 24.—The envoys of the armistice with Italy. The conditions of the armistice were not immediately disclosed. BULLETIN—BORDEAUX, France, June 24.—It is officially announced the French delegates have been ordered te sign the armistic The French € noon with President Lebrun Charles Huntziger, ranking Italian-French armistice. A “cease firing” ‘abinet met at 5:2° e with Italy. ‘clotk this aftor- and decided to order Gen. French envoy, to sign the order will follow automatically six hours after H'\Iv informs Germany the French have signed the armistice. It is believed the armistice will be signed during the night and Gen. Huntziger wiil then notify Premier- Marshal Petain after which a formal order will be issued to suspend fighting. FRENCH ARE STRIPPED BY NAZI TERMS - Army tfo B;Femoblllzed Fleet Interned and Dis- mantled, Soil Occupied BOUNDARY LINES ARE ESTABlISHEDj Nation to B:lfiiand “Isle’ —British Break Off | with Regime (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The weight of conquered France fetters, the dissolution of her army. internment of her fleet and occu- pation of most of her soil, is dis- | closed by the British Government, which has withdrawn rPcmmn,mn‘l of the Bordeaux regime. The British Government charac- terizes France now as a ‘“slave” of Germany but the French colonies | are lauded for displaying a “more robust spirit.” By the German France will be converted passive ally of the Naz combine in continuing the against the British. Armistice Highlights i | armistice terms | into a scist war Highlights of the armistice signed | between Germany and France are| follows French Navy is to be tied up\ and will 'not be used against thc British as FRENCH, ITALIANS MEETING Armistice Terms Are Sub- mitied to Plenipo- {entaries Today 'FIGHTING COXTINUES PEKDING SETTLEMENT "Invading Forces March from Nerth, Others Enier ir South (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) With France in a straightjacketed vassalage and stripped of her coast lines, reduced L oa land-locked one third of her terriivry and forced to become virtually an ally of Ger- many, an imjending battle for Great Britain s now looming. The Italian government announc- ed delivery of the Italian Armistice terms to the French plenipotentiar- ies. There was a brief meeting this morning and another is scheduled for tonight between the Italian and French representatives. The French delegation has tele- phoned to the Bordeaux government and it is indicated that a ‘cease 4(,om.u1ued on Pnge Elght) BRITISH IN to China by way of| Demobilization of the French Army and storing under guard all arms not taken over by Germany. Occupation Nazi occupation of the north ]mr- tion of France on line fro; Geneva to Tours and also all At- lantic coast in a broad swath from | Tours south to the Spanish border.| This occupation includes Paris and virtually every important city in France with the exception of Mar- selle, 4 - ed in London Swiss sources assert Marseille| will be taken over by Ttaly as well| as all of the Mediterranean coast.! France will thus be left as a piti- ful inland “island” entirely sur- rounded by the conquerors who will hold most of the best parts of the country. It is also revealed that accord- ing to. the Franco-German armi tice no soldiers will be permitte to leave French soil. The soldiers will be disarmed as well as de- mobilized. All armaments and mili- tary equipment is surrendered. | The fleet will be recalled to home ports to be interned, also) disarmed, under the control of the naval heads of Hitler and Mus- solini. French tanks, artillery and air- craft must also be surrendered. Surrender of Industry - NEW LINE-UP WITH FRANCE |Recognizes ‘French Nation- | al Committee Form- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Government holds that Fra ce’s capitulation on the German terms puts he: in passive alliance with the Reich. The British Govarnment says It no longer regards the Bordeaux Government as the “government of an independent ecountry.” The British <oclare they will ! witl: the French Natior.al Com- mitiee med i ondon by Gen. Charles D Gaulic. Later toct.v, diplomatic sources uuserted houever, that the British Goverriment was ctili maintaining diplomatic relations with the Bor- | deaux government through the French Ambussador in London, Charles Corbin. This informant said British Am~ bassador Sir Ronald Campbell left —l strial establishments must California uses irrigation more Al industrial es extensively than any other state, & is housed in a small portion of noon with a PAA Electra, bringing |in two passengers, Z. Esbierkerman ‘and J. Sullivan, ersburg, thus serving two towns|in Juneau northbound Saturday to his superiors that he had heard - {evening with 95 round trippers |the absolute inside truth that the .Lnbonrd . \Gnvemment plans to decentralize | | France becavse the German drive |put him in danger, (Continued on Page Seven) (Continued on Page Six) (conunfiefl (;n Pl’ae Seven)