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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8457. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 BRITISH, FRENCH FLEETS BATTLE R SENATETO FIGHT OVER 2 NOMINEES Appointmefit?of Stimson, Knox Will Come Up for | Debafe on Monday | WASHINGTON, July 5.—Follow- ing a on lasting eight minutes, the Senate today recessed over the week-end, the members making ready to go to the floor Monday to fight over President Roosevelt’s nominations of Henry L. Stimson to be Secretary of War and Col, Frank Knox to be Secretary of Navy. 5 ITEMS | ALARM E D—_Reports that Russia is colonizing Big Diomede | Island, four miles from Little Diomede on U. 8. fterritory, | have alarmed Anthony Dimond (above), Alaska's territorial representative in Congress. A Russian air base is hinted. MS OF PEACE SLATED™ President Iégs—evelt Gives Newisomgg S?,figfiwes 'Both Incendiary, Explosive : | Bombs Are Dropped HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 5.—Five | by waves Of Planes objectives which must be realized | before permanent world peace is| assured are listed by President| BULLETIN — LONDON, July 5—~A German air raid -on Eng- land’s Home Naval Base at Roosevelt. First among them, the President| Pertland, southwest coast, killed 11 civilians. ENGLANDISAIR RAIDED AGAIN IN DAYLIGHT | | puts freedom above fear, which he! said, means disarmament. | The discussion came up today at a conference with the newsmen and | Jus the time when Europe is fighting a bloedy war and the Unit- ed States is embarking on a vast defense progrigr under the Presi- dent’s personal direction. This is how he listed the objec- tives which he said must be real-| ized to assure world peace: | Freedom from fear, freedom of information, freedom of religion, freedom of expression and freedom from want, LONDON, July 5—Waves of German planes yesterday raided the British Isles in daylight for the fourth successive day They dropped incendiary and ex- plosive bombs and fired their ma- chine guns in power dives. i One German plane flying over a northeast coast town went into a power, drive and fired explosive bullets before dropping bombs. Other planes bombed villages and > hampblets in the southeastern part| of England in what appeared to be a plan to creat terror. The German planes flying over 12 INDICTED ‘s GRAND JuRy U- 5- FAUING Corporations_Are Charged FATE WORSE wi\wagvei?llii(’)'lil(r"}\scl0f THAN IN 76 { WASHINGTON, July 5—The Jus- tice Department announces that the Federal Grand Jury in New York City has indicted the American pulpwood Association, twelve large corporaticns, on charges of conspir- acy to violate the Wage and Hour | Act in fixing earnings for %0,000 employees of non-companies on the Pacific Coast. ‘Governor Asks Rewaken- ing fo Freedom's Responsibilities The grievances which caused our Colonial forefathers to revolt | against the English were as noth- ing compared with the oppression |which faces the de’cated peoples of Europe today, Gov. Ernest Gruening declared yesterday in a Fourth of July address heard by | ! several hundred Juneauites at Fire- men’s Park. The Grievances listed in M DN IR S 2 0 FoR $1 Declaration of Independence, the Governor said, appear pale and| VANCOUVER, B. C., July 5—Can- slight by comparison, George I!I,‘ adian Immigration officials today he said, was a relatively harmless | announced that $1 passports good and benevolent ruler compared with for 12 months travel in the United Hitler and Mussolini, who are States will be issued by the immi- | clamping an “oppressive and loath- | gration office here starting next Monday. —————— the !of the Dictators, declared the Gov-| INFANTILE PARALYSIS 15 RAGING Seattle and Tacoma Report (ases—Nine Dead in Latter City SEATTLE, July 5—Infantile par- alysis cases rose to five today as Tacoma counted two more dead in the fifth week of the epidemic, The fatality list at Tacoma is now nine, the last two to succumb being Raymond Sundell, 16, and Judd Morrison, 13 months. .- PUBLIC BARRED 2 AREAS itish Kepfiifl of Naval Base_Also Important Shipping Center LONDON, July 5—The public is barred by the home office from entering any part of the south coast of the County of Sussex and a large part of the County of Hampshire. | This area includes the big' Naval Base at Portsmouth and the im- portant shipping center of South- ampton. Br - Tonnagé Is Senf Down By Raiders BERLIN, July 5.—In recent Ger-/ man sea raids the Nazi submarines have sunk British merchantmen totalling 106,000 tons. This is the statement issued todgy by the! High Command, This tonnage in- cludes one British warship. Clipper Has 11 for Here | The Alaska Clipper came through on a perfect schedule yesterday from Seattle, landing at Auk Bay at 5:10 with eleven passengers for here, and taking off this morning at 9 o'clock with tweleve passengers. Coming in yesterday were, Lee Griffith, E. E. Willkie, Mr. and Mrs, W. P. Thomas, J. J. Connors, Mrs. Robert Hendrix, Henry Van, James Hanson, E. Tracey, R. F. Nicholson, Raymond Ogden. Flying south today were, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, Christine Halvorsen, Dr. M. R. Hill, L. J. Gimmell, R. A Gunnison, Jack Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Thomas, Ansel Talbert, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Wien and Eldon Daly. Germany Gels Swedish Help STOCKHOLM, July 5. The some tyranny” on Europe. Coming Swedish Government today granted | Germany the right to move supplies, Where —Keep Out!’ U.S. Posts a Warning w.s) NORFOLIC . (AusTRaia) '\ ment in the Western Hemisphere. by the Doctrine which, the U, S, Hofiday Blast af Flame Throwing Time De- vice Bomb Explodes— 2 Detectives Killed NEW YORK, July 5—A flame- throwing time device bbomb, dis- HaAWAlAN 1S, - To many people the Monroe Doctrine is justa S phrase. To Uncle Sam it means that no European power can seize territory or set up a govern- . This map shows the territory covered N.Y.Fair o L ASAL avoar Al LESSER 15L4NDS TO FIXES WESTERN FIRST DEFANSE ow /8ot MERIDIAN - OR 60 WEST OF SAN FRANCISCO i ol S ety . !/ 7/ SOCIETY 15 N o \ R FRANCE o b . s6OMEZ 1. ‘easter (CHILE) [ UNITED STATES AND POSSESSIONS DANGER POINTS IF HELD BY ENEMY [@] PavAmA=N0.2 DErENSE PROSLEM m ' POSSESSIONS OF NON-AMERICAN NATIONS force, The map also shows the vital points where violation of this doce will greatly enhance the power of the U. S. navy to deal with possible violations and to prepare for all eventualities. PACIFIC COAST MARINE [Coast Pors STRIKE CANCELLED; MEN Tieup Today GET INCREASE IN PAY By Workers : "Stop Work’ Program Pre- venis Sailing of Alaska Ships SEATTLE, July 5-—Ship move- has warned the Axis powers, is still in SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 5. | —The long-feared West Coast ‘nmrlne strike was cancelled early | yesterday morning, The deadline | was set for Wednesday midnight | and the strike would have sent the | CI0 Marine Cooks and Stewards fo satisfactory —progress was being made in negotiations and the full membership of the union at 2:30 o'clock in the morning of the Fourth voted with an unanimous roar of approval to ratify the memoran- dum of the peace formula adopted after midnight by their negotia- 5. trine might be attempted. Strengthening of the Panama Canal locks | tors. The Cooks and Stewards won a 10 percent wage adjustment and a flexible eight-hour day. lines to blockade 175 | American flag ships, including those operating to Alaska, When midnight was HULL - FARLEY TICKET FORECAST BY THREE SIDELINE GUESSER | suisediinn’ s ipartablé .imdio, Adlied ] 1> Biket two detectives and others in the British the World's fair. The blast tore a gaping hole,| smashed windows and declothed the victims. ! The blast shook the lower end of | ithe foreign section of the fair and| {frightened the holiday crowd of| 168,000 | | five of injured pavilion reached, | The victims of the blast were ‘Joscph Lynch and Ferdinand Socha. | POWERFUL BLAST 1 \. NEW YORK, July 5—The bomb |that killed two detectives at the “wnrld's Fair here was. powerful 'enough to blow out the wall of the ‘Brmsh pavilion where it had been lanted, the police report. | prulice Col":lomission‘;or Valentine | Rone of 4'.hem reliable—comes the |said the bomb was of a dynamite conclusion that the Democratic | land shrapnel variety and weighed |ticket will consist of Cordell Hu]l,i terest is in promulgating the for-| 'about 20 pounds. |of the Pickett County, Tenn., Hulls, | eign policies that his Administra-| — et |and James A. Farley, the wizard tion has set up and the only del- GIBRALTAR | inite assurance of that would he‘ r | # A ' By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, July 5. — From | three widely divergent sources | obtain this by running for a third | term and diverting public atten- tion to the business of shattering a precedent. (3) His greatest in-| |of Grassy Point (N. Y. The sources are: (1) A south-|the selection of a man in sym- : : | erner who has for two genera- pathy with those policies and ye'.i |Llons been an outstanding leader | OP¢ in whom the politicians and lin the Democratic party ouzside}mc voters could have confidence. | Since the only such man on |of Washington. (2 A prominent| ¥ | New Enzlznd mpublicnpn pomi_}l,he horizon is Hull and, from a cian. (3) A mid-western political practical political standpoint, Hull| observer without an axe to grind Would have to have the strongest | | either way. | Democratic party running mate if ments and cargo handling are at a | standstill in Seattle’s harbor and | other coast ports today as the mari- ‘ time workers observe the annual | “stop work” program in memory of | the strikers killed in the 1934 strike. | The “stop work” here caused post- | ponement of the sailings of the | Northland and Columbia and they are posted to sail for Alaska at noon Saturday. The sailing of the Tan« lana has also been postponed until ometime tomorrow. R Bunders Arresied, Released Three Prominent Leaders Charged with Inciting Racial Hatred 1 E NEWTON, N. J, July 5. — Three German-American Bund leaders |ernor, means “ruthless extermina- | including war materials, over the | RUPERT IN PORT Canadian National steamer Prince Rupert arrived in port last eve- ning with over 100 tourists aboard but no passengers for Juneau. The steamer returns from Skagway southbound at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. i —— | DUCKWORTHS RETURN | Mr, and Mrs. Robert Duckworth ! returned on the North Sea from a vacation trip through the States They were accompanied by Joyce Kolasa, Mrs, Duckworth's niece. spirit” who still hold ideals of humanity.* Last Citadel “America,” the Governor said, “has become the last citadel of liberty on this planet, If we lose this liberty we will lose infinitely more” than our Revolutionary fore- fathers imagined they could be de- prived of. Declaring that the time has “for a “more militant appre- (Continued on Page Two) {tion for all men and women of Swedish railways to Norway. e MISS KEARNEY HERE Miss Claudia Kearney = arrived | here on the North Sea after spend- |ing the past few weeks visiting' | with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kearney, in Seattle. - ————— MRS. BLOMGREN BACK Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren returned home on the steamer North Sea after receiving medical treatment in the States, - 5% NO SUCCESS GIBRALTAR, July 5—Airplanes have attacked this British naval stronghold three times without suc- cess. The air raids have been suc- cessfully beaten off. s HEINZ MAN HERE A. W. (Bil) Douglas, represen- |tative of the H. J. Heinz Company, \returned to Juneau on the steamer Mount McKinley from a sales trip Jto”the Westwara, ! | he is to win, the only possible per- None of these three could pos-| o, i parjey (5) Farley not only have been released on $1,000 bail [ !flb’y have any contact. I can't “E'{ would have great strength at the |each after having been arrested on |ure how they could have arrived| o,y would have the confi-|charges of inciting racial and re- did . .. and that's the point, if|yn, politicians in the party. | The bail was furnished by Gus- there is any. | That t4v Ebner, National Bund Treas- | | there very likely is something to ‘W"AT THEY SAY |the rumor that President R:ose_ William Kunze, Acting National | leader of the Bund; Klapp Rott, | was something like this: (1) Presi-| jipiicans with the assurance that|C®MP Manager and President of |dent Roosevelt, no matter What p. would not run for . third|the New Jersey Bund, and Mathias ily’ interested in the unification of | ;004 o politician not to be aware| Were arrested yesterday at an In- America ‘in the present -crisis. (2) L s | dependence Day rally at the Bund's l (Continued on Page Seven) at the same conclusion. Bul they|gence and support of all the old- |liglous hatred. | | These r'ncn also argue: ;lfl'fil. | A synthesis of their reasoning| yeit offered cabinet posts to Re- his political convictions, is primar-| ;... That the President is too Kohler, Bund officer and trustee, He is convinced that he could not camp at Nordlund, SEAFIGHTS - TAKEPLACE - ON3DAYS Vessels Bottled Up With { Ultimatum Facing Them ~Three Alfernatives (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In prelude to yesterday's de- struction of the French fleet by | ships of the British sea force, ships | of the Royal Navy kept powerful French units bottled up today in Alexandria harbor, ready for the | first gesture of deflance as the | German mastered French Govern- | ment broke off diplomatic relations | with its old ally, Great Britain. | British circles in Alexandria de- | clared: “We don't know what will | happen or when the French will | make a decision. We only know |that no French ship will ever leave Alexandria to surrender to the enemy.” | It was early clearly indicated that |any French attempt to slip out of the harbor would result in a repe- tition of Wednesday and Thursday's Anglo-French naval action in the Western Mediterranean, and the greatest sea battle of the war, Wednesday night, leading up to the great clash, the French Naval | base of Oran in the Mediterranean, disclosed in a French Admiralty communique that the French bat- tleship Bretagne had been blown up and that the battleships Dunkerque, | Provence, and flotilla leader Moga- dor, had been set afire by long | range British shelling. 6-Hour Ultimatum The French asserted a six-hour ultimatum had been delivered -to them by the British to either sur- render or scuttle their ships, but |that time wasn't even given for the French fleet to weigh anchors before fire was begun, Apparently many French ships had no steam up when the ulti- matum was received. On receipt of the ultimatum, Vice Admiral Gensoul replied: | “There can be no question of the | French fleet joining the British ,‘Heet or being scuttled. We must meet force with force.” The French communique further said that while the British acted decisively to prevent the French fleet from aiding Hitler’s project- ed invasion of the British Isles, German and Ttallan warplanes sniped at two British naval bases. Italian planes on Wednesday twice showered bombs on Alexan- dria, England’s great base in the Mediterranean, attacking both French and British warships at anchor in the harbor, killing fif- teen and wounding seven. r | | | i BRITISH MAKE MOVE LONDON, July 5—Great Britaln has disabled or destroyed in battle or taken over under the British colors a “large proportion” of the French Navy lest it fall into Ger- man hands. The British-French engagements started late Wednesday and con- tinued yesterday. One French battleship of the Bre- tagne class was sumk, another dam- aged and a third battleship ground- ed when it attempted to escape. Several destroyers and also an air- plane carrier were torpedoed. Makes Dash A battleship, either the Strasbourg or Dunkerque, made a dash toward the continental French base at Tou- lon and was given the choice of surrendering, being torpedoed or scuttled by her own crew. Other battleships of the French fleet joined the British fleet in the Mediterranean without trouble. Prime Minister Winston Churchill unfolded the story at a tensely quiet House of Commons and to those packed in the galleries. Join British The Prime Minister also revealed that many French warships have entered the English ports at Ply- mouth or Portsmouth during the past 10 days. The Prime Minisfer later revealed that the British fleet seized three French. battleships, six cruisers, elght destroyers and also the sub- marine Surcouf, which is the world’s largest undersea boat. Ultimatum " Churchill said that the British had given French units at the North (Continued to Page Two)