The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCI ATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS — —— VOL. LVL, NO. 8460. FRENCH FLEET SURRENDERS TO BRITISH Germ HEARING REVEALS FINANCES Alaska Steamship Co. and Northland Profits Are Bared by Commission | July 9.—The Alaska Steamship Company’s net income | from its operations during 1939 | were $326,069, the smallest since| 1934, according to an ‘exhibit of the U. S. Maritime Commission | hearir here on freight rate in-| crease \ The Commission’s exhibit regard- | ing the finances of the Northland | Transportation Company shows that concern made a net profit of $121,- 000 in 1939. | G. M. Carlson, accountant for the Maritime Commission, com- piled the finance exhibits, which also devote many pages to a sur- vey of the exact type of cargo car-| ried by the companies, miles travelled in the Alaska service, the number of passengers carried, and | the assets. | No such exhibit was entered re- | garding the Alaska Transportation | Company. Baker Testifies L. W. Baker, Manager of the Al-| aska Steamship Company, claims his company gave ‘general testi- | mony yesterday in telling of the company’s problems in serving Al-| aska. | Baker, however, recited statistics| showing Alaska as a huge expanse of land, depicting the seasonal var- jations encountered and the num- | ber of ports of call, ! He asserted his firm ‘does all it/ can to encourage and help indus-| tries of Alaska.” ‘ Labor Difficulties | Baker described labor difficulties of the Alaska Line vessels since the marine strike of 1934 and said the difficulties have growm more | acute since 1938 when cannery em- ployees came under the unions. The Ale Line manager de-| clared: Before 1938 when our| cargo was loaded by unmion long-| thoremen and handled by union | crew men in Seattle without com-| ment, we were fairly certain the| cargo would be discharged without | difficulty. Now we never know whether or not we will be able to discharge the cargo when it arrives at cannery ports in the Terriwry,"‘ Iliustrating the difficulties of | SEATTLE, & 4 any, Ekpléi:{ifig Compulsory Service Forty million Americans would be sort of home duty if the bill introduced by Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska should become law. Senator Burke is shown, left, explaining | his compulsory military service Garner, in o]tce!lye Pla MARTINIS TO DIRECT CAMPAIGN Willkie Makes Appoint- | ment of Chairman, GOP | National Committee WASHINGTON, July 9.—Joseph | W. Martin, Jr., Representative in Congress from the State of Massa- | chusetts and House Minority lead- | Jer, has been named Chairman of | the Republican National Committee |and will direct the Willkie Presiden- | | tial campaign. | | John Hamilton, former Chairman |of the Committee, has been select- ed as Executive Direc™r and will | | work under Martin. Willkie personally made the ap-| | pointments during a conference with newsmen today. registered for active servicé or some bill to Vice President John Nance ‘Washington. Wil Stratoliner Breaks Old Air Record ‘Four-MoIor;deiant Cross- es Nation in 12 Hours and 14 Minutes NEW YORK, July 9.—A giant new Boeing stratoliner roared into La- Guardia Field at 9:290 A. M. (EST) to set a new West-to-East trans- continental record for commercial aircraft. LKIE INTRODUCES NEW METHOD, LINING UP VOTING STRENGTH NEW IS HANDED | 10 PETAIN Third French Republic Dies as Tofalitarian Govf. Gathers Shape By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 9. — Notes| VICHY, France, July 9. — The from a Philadslphia diary. French Parliament today gave the| | Government of Marshal Petain a| Looking back over the record, I| Itind there are many things to| free hand to write a new totalitar- | ian constitution. “make the G.O.P. convention stand gt 7 i |out like a sore thumb as practi- The swift parliamentary action cally precedent-shattering (a poli- vgrtually‘ sealed the qoom o\: thv: tical privilege almost completely Third French Republic after the r E = Chamber of Deputies voted 39 to usurped for a good many years by | She Mrabhie Delsne Roosevelm.is in favor of the bill granting the 3 & Petain Government full powers to Such as: | write a new constitution. | Wendell ~ Willkie's unorthodox| The Senate concurred, with 225/ method of soliciting delegate yotes against one lone ballot. trength, Instead of holding for-| All that is needed now is final mal conclaves with delegation lead- | formal approval by the National ers. Willkie went button-holing — | Assembly composed of the two| and alone, A half-dozen times dur- | houses sitting together. 1‘ ng the preballoting period, I saw| 'The vote of both branches makes | him wandering by himself, grabbing | the outcome of the Assembly meet- 1 little delegate here, a delegation |ing a certainty. chieftain there, to ask, “If you're| This means the end of the Dem-| against me, why?” and if they ocratic Third Republic which rose .were, launching a debate as ear-|from the ashes of Napoleon the | | cannery labor situations, Baker said| * The big ship left Burbank Field, the steamer Dellwood had returned |Los Angeles, at 9:15 P. M. (EST) to Seattle with 1,200 tons of freight|last night, stopped briefly at Kansas that could not be unloaded be-|City and continued on. cause union crew members refused| The flight was made through the to pass picket lines of cannery strik- | so-called substratosphere at an alti- ers, |tude of about 17,000 feet and was Baker added the Dellwood is now about an hour and eleven minutes at Woman’s Bay on Kodiak Island awaiting settlement of labor dis- putes in five Kodiak cannery ports. | - - eee — — Republicans Are fo Meet This Evening Republicans are to meet at 8 o'clock this evening in the City Hall, according to an announce- ment made by Howard D, Stabler, Committeeman of the First Di- vision, The purpose of the meeting is to hear the report of the delega- tions that were seated at the Philadelphia convention. MRS. BASSETT, SON TAKE CLIPPER SOUTH Mrs. Clark Bassett and her young son, Sammie, are passengers on the Clipper to Seattle today. Sammie will spend the summer with his grandmother in Shelton, Washington, and Mrs. Bassett, wife of the PAA airport manager here, will return after a short visit, | ahead of schedule. The four-motored ship, weighing 23 tons and costing $450,000, span- ned the continent in an elapsed time of 12 hours and 14 minutes, com- pared’ with the time of 12 hours, 44 minutes, set by TWA on a scheduled pasenger flight March 16, 1935. Faster trips have been made by transport planes but not on regular flights. BRITISH SEIZE FRENCH LINER LONDON, July 9. — A Reuters British News Agency dispatch to- night quoted Japanese reports that the British have seized the 43,000- to French liner Ile de France. — EIGHT KILLED IN AIR RAIDS LONDON, July 9.—Eight persons are reported to have been killed in daylight raids on Great Britain to- day, six in southwest England and two in a Welsh town. - GEO. WHYTE ENROUTE George Whyte, who has been at Laurel Beach Sanatorium in Se- attle for the past several months, is_enroute here on the steamer Al- aska, night, he wandered into a room where there were six Taft men and one Vandenberg rooter and for half an hour did as neat a bit of | spellbinding as any callous-tongued | politician who ever talked his way | to power. His dark hair awry from| constant hatlessness, his roomy, un- | pressed blue suit making his big| frame seem more bear-like, Willkie | finally stalked out, And no mat-} ter how their votes were cast, there wasn't a man in the room who| wasn't sorry to see him go. | Robert A. Taft's spontaneous wit- ticism about Vice-Presidents, Or narily very serious in his press in-| terviews, the Senator usuallyl weighs every question and gives it! a weighted answer. But when one| of the boys asked him if he had| selected his Vice-President, the| Ohio man with the biggest four-| letter name in the Republican| party, tossed off this nifty: “It| makes less difference to the Presi-| dent who's Vice-President than to| anyone else” That sounds to me like a motto for all Throttlebottoms | come. Charming little Mrs. Willkie's | first big press interview. Informed of it, the diminutive lady sald, “Oh, my, what'll I do!” What she| did was something out of ordi- nary. In the first place, she re- fused to be seated. “If 1 sat down. I'd be scared to death,” she ex- plained, “but if I stand up and you sit down, then I'll feel almost as big as any of you.” To almost every question, she answered, “Oh, my, I don't know anything about politics.” And left the assembled press charmed, but thoroughly con- | vinced that she could sing “Back W;fl&nn) WILL nestly as if he were addressing the Third’s Empire. whole convention. At 1 a.m. one AP WASHINGTON, July 9.— Wen- dell L. Willkie, Presidential candi- date on the Republican ticket, has arrived here for a series of con-} ferences with Republican leaders. Willkie said he will be in the White House for eight “and only eight years.” Willkie flew here from New York and a group of advisers greeted | him at the airport, also a Con- & 4 nning 4 ‘CanAaI Gun That Now Points Towards Europe .@\\ Zone. (anadaPlans Regisiration 0f Everybody fort fo B;fiade fo De- termine Responsibil- ity, War Service Ef OTTAWA, July 9.—It is dis- closed that Canada plans reg- istration of every man and wo- man over 16 years of age next month in an effort to deter- mine availability in responsi- bilities in connection with the war service. e Gordon Ingman, Family fo Visit Gordon Ingman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Ingman of this city, with his wife and young son Fred- erick, arrive here on the Princess Charlotte. They will visit in the Capital City for two weeks before returning to gressional reception committee, their home in Seattle. Extorfion Plot Attempled At Wrangell; Arrest; Confession Made WRANGELL, Alaska, July 9. Eugene Jackson, 16, Wrangell In- stitute student, has been bound over to the Grand Jury by United States Commissioner Richard Sur- att on a charge of extortion. Jackson signed a confession, of-| ficers said, admitting attempting to| extort $50 from J R. Brown, Wran-‘ gell Theatre manager, on the threat of personal injury or burn- ing Brown’s home. Jackson said he studied crime magazines for three years and mdl Youth Under it “to see what a criminal feels like.” The youth wrote to Brown to leave the money at a spot on the Highway, The money was left, but Jack- son, who the officers described as shrewd, failed to go for it, sens- ing danger. Later he was traced by Deputy United States Marshal James No- lan through handwriting. Jackson has a mother and grand- mother in Sitka. He was formerly Adding Machines, came in on the west and stayed for awhile at Soap listed as residing in Petersburg. This great 14-inch coastal defense rifle Sitka SWamped with Fish; Fishermen Make Demands; Trolling Iigup Th is one of the many with which It is reported that two batteries of these h i h 5 guns have been transferred from the Pacifi i end of the canal while the zone’s army of 30,000 troops has been placed on dn: Ai‘lerr]t iz‘&‘:fifilfl"fi avproaches hava hason minad reatened SITKA, Alaska, July 9.—Close Lu‘ one million pounds of troll-caught | salmon was landed at the Cold| | Storage Company dock from June |28 to July 7, establishing an all- time record here. Approximately 425,000 pounds of salmon wnr(" landed on the dock over the week-| nd, the highest total in Sitka's| fishing histo choking the stor- age facilities nd swamping the buy Because nearly half of the ceipts are cohoes and freezer space is taxed to capacity, most of the dock’s six buyers sold the cohoes to the Pyramid Packing Company here for canning operations which started Monday. No more cohoes will be sold to the buyers at the dock and instead the Pyramid Com- pany will pick up the fish daily )n the grounds, thus relieving the at the Cold 'Storage | re- congestion Dock. This arrangement will continue until the buyers are willing to meet the fishermen’s demands for six cents a pound for cohoes, in- side the present price of four cents. Other salmon price demands have been presented to the buyers by the representative of the Alaska Trollers Adsociation and United Trollers of Alaska. Thesc demands include 14, 10 and 8 cents instead of the prevailing prices of 12, 8 and 7 cents. If the price demands are not met by Thursday noon, July 11, the unions threatened to tieup all troll-| ing activities in Southeast Alaska THalibufers ~ Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, July 9. — Halibuters selling here today are as follows: From the Westward banks—Ton- gass 35,000 pounds, 10 and 9% cents | a pound; Helgeland 40,000 pounds, | | | eer 40,000 pounds, 10% cents a pound straight; Addington 20,000 pounds, 9% and 9% cents. |97% and 9% cents a pound; Pion-|and bombed aircraft ¥ ] Uncle Sam is arming the Canal AIR - SUB RAIDING KEEPS ON Berlin HigI—Command Claims Heavy Toll Brit- ish Ships amj Factories BERLIN, July 9.—Heavy damage to widesiraad military objectives in England, a rising toll of British shipping by German air and sub attacks is reported by the German High Command. The Nazi air force, scored hits on British shipyards at Devonport, oil tanks at Ipswich, several places in Essex, explosive plants in Harwich, chemical plants in Billingham, and a cruiser, de-| stroyer and five merchantment in| the North Sea | This toll was announced in addi- tion to the alleged sinking of the British destroyer Whirlwind, which a communique declared had been sunk by a sub. It was also reported a British pa- trol boat was sunk by speedboats off the English south coast. - GERMAN WARSHIP BOMBED tion Dumps Set Afire in Norway by British RAF LONDON, July 9—Tonight's Air Ministry communique said a Ger- manman warship had been set afire during a British bombing raid at Keil and Wilhelmshaven yesterday The communqiue also declared British bombers set fire to an am- munition dump at Bergen, Norway lined up at the Sola Airport in Stavanger. it is said, | From the local banks—Summitt 113,000 pounds, 10 and 9% cents a pound; Unimak 15000 pounds, 10% |10% and 9% cents. | R BURROUGHS MAN ARRIVES W. E. Hempstead, of Burroughs JAleutian. He is at the Gastineau. and 9'% cents; Irene J 10,000 pounds, | ALBERT WILE ON " STEAMER ALASKA | Ambert wile, postmaster, sailed | from Seattle today for Juneau on| [the steamer Alaska | He has spent the past several | weeks visiting in the Pacific North- eTreipIOe Attack SEAPOWER OF EMPIRE THREATENED ' Axis Partners in Agree- ment for Assaulfs on Land, Water Air ' DEFIMITE PROGRAM BEING WORKED OUT Next B aHI_e_|ndicaIed fo Take Place on Medi- ferranean (By Assoclated Press) Surrender of the French fleet at Alexandria to Great Britain is re- ported today as Rome dispatches |disclosed a purported German-Ital- ian agreement regarding a three- fold attack on the British Empire. The decision of the French Naval authorities to turn over the French Fleet at Alexandria leaves the Brit- ish free to seek out the Italian Navy on the Mediterranean in a “future engagement” as promised last week by Prime Minister Churchill. The surrender came at-a time too when it was reported that German move- ments hinted at a Nazi attempt to wrest Great Britain's control over the Mediterranean stronghold Gib- raltar. # Triple Attack Scheme A triple scheme of attack on Great Britain is outlined in Rome by Vir- gino Gayda, sometimes known as Premier Mussolini’s “mouthpiece.” This scheme calls for a blockade of the British Isles, destruction of Great Britain's Empire contacts, which might include Gibraltar, Mal- ta, and the Suez Canal, and the de- feat of the British at sea and in Imperial territories. Both Germany and Italy have specific tasks to reach these goals, further declares Gayda. Ittaly has been assigned, according to Gayda, to strike at four places to harry British. shipping on the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Sea but above all to immobilize Great Britain's sea pow- er on the Mediterranean. - ee——— NATIONALS WIN FROM AMERICANS Max West Po—kes Out Four- Base Clout with Two Aboard ST. LOUIS, July 9.—Max West’s first inning three-run homer was the big blow in a 4ie 0 victory of the National League over the Am- erican League today in the eighth annual All-Star baseball game play- ed this afternoon. The fourth National run came in the eighth inning when Cleveland's Bob Feller walked Mel Ott and Hank Danning slashed a single to right field. Rollle Hemsley errored then on Lou Finney's throw-in and Ott scored. BREAK OFF RELATIONS LONDON, July 9.—The Second Secretary at the French Embassy, Marquis de Castellane, formally notified the British Government that France had broken off diplo- matic relations with Great Britain. De Castellane said that he had been instructed to withdraw the French Embassy Staff from London Lake in Washington, in accordance with the decision of his government.