The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL “ll TIME” “ALL TIII' NEWS ’()L LVl., NO 8459 JUNLAU AL/\SK/\ M()NI)AY ]U[Y | ‘)4( ). MF MBLR ASSO([AH D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS MAKE NEW ATTACKS ON ENGLAND 4 Plans For General Invasion Not ALASKA RATE. HEARING IS NOW OPENED Testimony E;i;lg Given at | Seattle — Examiner Commg North SEATTLE, Jlllv 8. —le!ir‘ulllcs in | maintaining adequate water trans-| portation with Alaska was told to- day at a hearing of the United States Martitime Commission, on fncreases of freight rates, by Law- rence Bogle, Seattle attorney and Executive Vice-President of the Al- aska Steamship Company. He was| the principal witness as the Alaska‘ Steamship Company pr2pared to de- fend the rate increases. | Bogle declared trade between Al- aska and the States is largely seas- onable but the Alaska Steamship | Company must maintain a large fleet of vessels to handle particu-| larly large cargoes during some| months whereas other months | “about half the fleet is tied up lnl Seattle.” The hearing is being conductedi by John A. Russell, examiner for| the Maritime Commission. Representatives of the Seattle and Tacoma Chambers of Commerce are | also attending the hearing. | Rate increases on the Seattle- Alaska Route are now in effect and the hearing is to determine wheth- \ er the higher rates will continue to| prevail. Princess Turns Nursc Princess Mary Jose | Pictured in her Red Cross nurse’s outfit is Princess Mary Jose, wife of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy | and sister of King Leopold of the Belginns. RooseveH Farley in (Conference Alaska waters is particularly diffi- | President and Chai!man 0 cult but his company must maintain | . . a competent personnel a¢ il umes| Demo Committee Dis- cuss Converdion even theugh such help is not need- | ed at all times. | Bogle also testified that the| “principal routes are well marked | s HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 8— but those to the outposts it Is & pregigent Roosevelt and Postmaster question of piloting rather than|c. ..o\ james A. Farley con- tiol 55 ’ Sy AT i) s In|forred for a considerable period ‘Sllnd&‘l afternoon, The hearing here is expected to| last four days and then moves to| When questioned by newsmen Io]- Farley an- Ketchikan to open Tuesday, July|lowing the conference, 16, to Juneau opening July 23, then |nounced he and the President had to Anchorage and back to Seattle.|reached a complete agreement on Representatives of the Northland | matters of Party strategy to be Transportation and Alaska Trans-|put into effect at the Chicago con- portation Companies will also testi- | vention which opens July 15. fy at the present hearing. Farley said he and the Prebi- Bogle, this afternoon, was ques- |dent fully discussed the settlement | tioned at length by David Scroll, |of the third term matter but that counsel for the amount of working capital re- | decision, quired by the Alaska Steamship | Farley Company. Bogle said the company ‘mencm.,m National requires a working capital of $1-|and an avowed candidate for 250,000, and this, he added, is far | nomination for the Presidency. larger than the amount requiried by | Neither the President nor Farley | companies operating in intercoastal | revealed Roosevelt’s answer to the| services. \most baffling political question of Scroll also questioned Bogle re- |, decade, that of the third term. gardnig operation problems. | Farley did find out what the Albert Stephen, an other counsel | president proposes to do when the for the Alaska Steamship Company, | two laid their political cards on said testimony regarding Opefatiflnlthe desk in Roosevelt's library. and problems of labor and naviga- | Ul o o e tion will be given by other officials | ‘ Planeson Committee the TYEE IN PORT SUNDAY WITH SIX FOR HERE The steamer Tyee was in Juneau Sunday with a load of freight and six passengers for Juneau, leaving for Seattle via Sitka with seven passengers, Arrivals were, Mrs. M. X. Rice, | Betty Rice, Matie Lindberger, Aileen Sherril, Paul Phillips, and Mrs. Emma Whipple. ¥ Sailing to Sitka were Gertie Ol- sen, Lenora Olsen, Leonhard OIl- sen, F. J. Waite and Lester Boyd. To Seattle—Maurice Melvin and Edward Melvin. — - FOUR CARGOES OF HALIBUT LANDED Off Attempted At- fack of Nazis LONDON, July 8-The British Air Ministry in a communique early Sunday morning stated “Ger- man aircraft attempted several at- tacks on the northwest coast Sat- urday night but were driven off by our antiaircraft defenses with- out .any military objectives being reached, Some cottages were dam- aged but casualties were small, several citizens being Kkilled, how- ever.” Four halibut boats arriving here with their loads yesterday and today were the Thelma, 9,000 pounds; Ford, 7,000 pounds; 31A303, 3,800 pounds, and Tundra, 11,000 pounds. e, KANE RETURNS Traveling man B, P. Klne is in town calling on his trade and at the Baranof Hotel. ———— ACCOUNTANT HERE Adolph Meyer, San Francisco ac- countant who has been to Mayo, flew in {rom Whntehorse Saturday is |and is at the Gastineau on his way south, k the commission, over |he was obligated not to reveal the| is also Chairman of the ‘|the Shanghai area, reiterated the Night Rai British Anti-aircraft Drive| ¢ ELECTION DISORDERS IN MEXICO {Death List Mounts fo Over | 100-Nearly 1,000 | Are Injured | | MEXICO CITY, July 8-—Political | quarters estimate that the toll of | death is more than 100 as the result | |of disorders in Mexico’s Presidential | | elecnon yesterday. As reports are received, those in- | jured mounts and at noon today had | reached nearly 1,000. The police counted 19 dead and‘ over 250 injured in Mexico Cxty‘ alone. Among the casualties here are two l American students. Edward Mellen, | Jr., of Frannie, Wyoming, is report- | ed near death as the result of a| )nsvnl wound in the stomach. Leon- | |ard Durso, 18, of Uncon City, N. J., | is in a grave condition as the result | of a rifle bullet wound. | ‘The Mexican electoral system pro- vides that the first citizens arriving |at a polling place may organize an | }elm tion board. Disorders resulted |in efforts of various groups to con- | trol the polling places. Both Gen. Manuel Camacho, ad- { ministration candidate, and his in- depenlent rival, Gen. Juan Almazan, issued statements claiming an over- | | whelming victory. | The actual canvassing of the re- turns will not be made until Thurs- | |day and the official result may not | be announced bv the Mexican Con- l |gress until Sep'embm | | MARINES SHOW UP JAPANESE | Gendarmefi Start Trouble, Shanghai Area—Are "Humilioted” | S | | SHANGHAI July 8- The Japa- nese army spokesman accused Uni ed States Marines in the Shang- 'hai Defense Area with a ‘“grave | |insult on the Japanese Army” in| treatment of 15 Japanese plain clothes gendarmes, arrested Sun- \dny i The Japanese Army spokesman |asserted the gendarmes were hu- | miliated, clubbed and otherwise ;maltreatedA He denied that an apology had been made to the| American authorities but Col. De- witt Peck, Marine Commander of leader of the Japanese gendarmes, | personally apologized to him rnr‘ “starting trouble,” whereby thr-‘ gendarmes were released and es-| corted from the area. AR S Ole Hanson Passes Away LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 8—| Ole Hanson, former Mayor of Se- attle, died at his home at San Clemente last Saturday night. Han- | during recent years. Hanson was 66 years old. He‘ broke a bitter general strike in Se- attle in February, 1919. He had lived in Southern California since 1921. e, BRITANNICA MAN WILL FLY NORTH ON ELECTRA J. A. Ford, representative of Bri- tannica, who has been in the Ju- neau distrist for several days, re- turned from a trip to Sitka yest.er- day and Is at the Gastineau HotN, | He will fly to the Interior tomorrow. {Lebrun to R‘es—ign as Presi- | |in | policies that will “bring this country | portant |into war.” son had been living in California Pthe world” of American umLy |today from Fairbanks. investigating Alaska public! write the Constitution on a pin-/' __ ¢ 04 ~ CANDIDATE WILLKIE MEETS THE NEWSMEN g i Informal was the word for the overflow press conference Wendell L. Willkie held in his hotel i g ] suite, l‘rl‘udi‘ntlnl nominee seated on the edge of a lahh- between two flags ns he discussed the coming camnaign. UNOCCUPIED FRANCE TO HAVE HEAD dent-Petain fo Be Successor GENEVA, July 8. — Censored newspaper dispatches from unoccu- | pied France report that the Petain' Government is “only transitory” and will make way for a new re- gime with Marshal Petain as “Chief of Slate” like Francisco Franco is| Spain. A censored dispatch from Vlchy forecast the resignation of Presi- | dent LeBrun and his replacement ' by Petain, ‘ Other reports assert that former Premier Laval, Gen. Weygand and Adrien Marquet, former Minister | of Labor, will dominate the gov-| ernment of unoccupied France un- | der Petain’s direction. > STIMSON IS FOUGHT BY | Phillip. They are shown they looked to fri This general view shows the Republican Divulged & ’3\. AR RAIDS - ARE MADE ON COAST Continuous Bombmg Re- ported-Explosive and Incendiary Shells 'HITLER, CIANO HOLD IMPORTANT SESSION French Navfi)rces at Al- exandria fo Demob- ilize, Is Report BULLETIN — LONDON, July 8.—The Air Ministry issued a communique tonight saying that “six enemy aircraft im all are known to have been shot down today in attempted raids on Great Britain.” ;| (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) May be America’s Next “‘First Family” The smiling countenances in the first row belong t» Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Rersidential nom- ince, his wife (left) and their son, ioned American party” staged in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Willkie for President Club, PHILADELPHIA HAS TAUGHT Navy Chief “ REPUBLICANS YOU CANNOT In Surprise nds at an “old fash- VANDENBERG STREAMLINE PARTY PLANK Return Home Bucks Confirmation - Says | He Will Lead This | Nation to War By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July fl —Footnote |on Philadelphia: Among the stories 15 how the vention bogged down WASHINGTON, July 8—Senator |¢8n relations plank Arthur H. Vandenberg today op-| Before the posed the Senate confirmation of smiling Alf M. Landon, titular head Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, |of the party, former Governor of because he said Stimson favored | Kansas and Chairman of that im- committee drafting the foreign plank, told us about plans Vandenberg took the floor after for streamlining the convention Senator Sheppard urged the con-| There would be none of this slow- firmation on grounds that Stimson’s | train-through-Arkansas business, he appointment would “give notice 10| said. The Republican big guns had been mechanized and were travel- ing with the speed of Nazi tank i A week before the convention mned’ Herbert K. “Slick” Hyde, | part-Indfan from Oklahoma and anothcr of the convention's ac- FROM FAIRBANKS {cents on youth, called his resolu- Dr. Courtney Smith and Dr. W Umn committee together. Thatl's D. Ramsey of the Territorial De- how they wtre going to do it this partment of Health and Dr. Carl time. And by opening day, that Buck of the American Public Health | “postcard platform” would b Association are passengers for Ju- ready and waiting. If thal neau on the PAA Electra, due here posteard platform, then you They have I, using bold Spencerian, now-it-can-be-told Republican con- on its for- convention started, B DOCTORS FLYING was A and could been health requirements, head. | gang- | pires The trouble with a nl,fl'unn that no matter who gets in, got to fit, When it comes to Inunl outlines, there might not be s0 much difference between Taft and a Vandenberg Hoover But when you start considering a busting young district attor- director of utility em- who changed party banners only a few years ago, you have to go in for language juggling in the grand manner. That goes for any party’s convention where the didates are numerous a candidate out of any hat ring, but if he can’t wear the fedora, going to the polls bare-headed. And you can't get into the White House, you know, without a topper, The idea is to make the hat fit everybody and that's how come the Landon-Hyde stream- | lining plans went astray. Instead having the platform ready and they werc a little over a day late and held up the bal- loting for hours. You eédn't pick a man until there's something for him to stand on . . . that’s a con- vention rule. a or a ney and a can in the party he's of waiting, (wnunued on Psze mm) | ELECTRA IS Pacmc Fleet Head Shows Up Suddenly in Main Offices 'TON, ary WABHIN ing Secret comman as of the fleet 1 German air raiders dropped tons {of incendiary and explosive time fuse bombs in widespread new at- |tacks on Great Britain but still Ltacks on Creat Britain but unce:- tainty still masks the scene of the .projected invasion that Hitler plans. { Raids are being carried on by {almost a constant strafing of cities {and military objectives that began | June. 18, The weekend raids and | those of today struck the English | coastal towns. The British Alr | Ministry, in an official communique |reports that “some damage has been done, but there were few casualties.” F The air raiders made attacks on widely ‘scattered sections. ‘ Reports from Berlin said that | even the men usually in the know \dre unable to say when Hitler will | give the word for the nexs phase of the war. L | Hitler-Ciano Confer | Hitler and Italian Foreign Min- ister Count Ciano conferred Sun- day following Ciano’s tour of re- [cent battlefields in France. The | authoritative Fascist Editor Gayda |said the conference “means a new stretch of a combative, construc- |tive road for the new Associated Nations.” One report from Rome said Hit- ler and Cigno are due to meet again on Wednesday. | Move on England, Ireland It is also reported from Rome \LhnL at yesterday's conference be- tween Hitler and Cilano, plans were discussed for the offensive against England and Ireland as the first objecuve of the British-German war. Air supremacy went ahead at |a deadly pace. It is officially an- nounced that British Royal Air Force and shore batteries brought down seven and perhaps eight planes of the foe, At least three British fighting planes were lost. Broadcasting Stops | The big broadcasting stations at | Bremen and Hamburg went silent early today, which usually indi- | cates British air raiders are near- JHIV 8.—Travel- | he& Admiral J. O. Richard- Planes identified as belonging to | Great Britain's fallen ally, France, son arrived unexpectedly in the Navy | o 404 Gibraltar again Sunday but Department. offices mada is now stationed. The Navy Department did You can pull| disclose the presence of the fleet's until the day Commander-in-Chief after he had reached Washington, and announced only that he came “confer with cfficials regarding rou- tine policies of training the fleet.” >oo DUE TODAY Bill Knox and with a PAA Electra and eight pas- sengers Arriving here are ¥. T. Been, Dr. C. Smith, Dr. C. Buck, Dr W. D. Ramsey, George Mooney, D. Ben- — |nett, Miss E. Reinhardt and Dan!E: A. Hoffman, R. D. Nicholich. from Hawaii| where the United States battle ar- not | ¥ no damage was done. The TItalian Air Force was active esterday in Africa and also made attacks on Malta, Saturday night a report was given out in Cairo, Egypt, that the French to naval forces at Alexandria had de- cided to demobilize instead of eon- tinuing the war or attempting to | flee from the British. RUPERT PASSES " THROUGH SUNDAY | 'The steamer Prince Rupert passed | southbound through Juneau Sun- |day morning and took four pas- sengers from here. Those sailing were Frank Clark, Ogden, and Hermann Joslyn are scheduled in town this evening | W. C, Brown.