The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS A ASKA EMPIRE LL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8464. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS CAPTURE BRITISH FOOD SHIPS Mobilization U. S. National ROOSEVELT ROOSEVELT PROPOSES NEW MOVE Are fo Be Called Up | H i 4 for Defense WASHINGTON, July 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's proposal to put 50,- 000 militiamen into active service hrought the controversial subject of National Guard mobilization back for a decision. The recommendation for calling out almost a quarter of the National Guardsmen of the United States ached yesterday by President and Secretary of Congress, now recessing for the Democratic National must give approval to the proposal, however. When President Roosevelt, special message last May 31, asked for authorization to mobiize the Na- tional Guard as a defense emer- gency measure, it received a bar- rage of criticism. The President’s present plan is to call out four of the eighteen divi- sions of the National Guard, seven anti-aircraft regiments and an in- definite number of coast defense units. —————— EXPLOSION ON VESSEL OFF COAST Greek Fremter Goes Down, Crew Escapes— Is Mystery Case BULLETIN—ASTORIA, July 13, — The Coast Guard cutter Onondaga radios she has found the smouldering hulk of the Hel- Jenic Skipper. Federal Marine Inspectors have started an in- vestigation as the vessel was without a compass or other navi- gation instruments and the course was set by the sun and stars. ASTORIA, Ore, July 13. Twenty-one seamen of the Greek freighter Helenic Skipper are safe tonight after the vessel mysterious- ly exploded off the ‘Washington coast. The seamen took to the life boats to arrive at Astoria, apparently none the worse from their experience. The steamer, loaded with lumber. was bound from Aberdeen, Wash.. to Hongkong, when the explosion occurred, Company agents said that the vessel had no explosives on board and are at a loss to explain the explosion. They said the vessel im- mediately sank but all the crew members took to the lifeboats and escaped. FORMER ALASKA CRAFT ASTORIA, Oregon, July 13—The survivors of the Hellenic Skipper were brcught here by tuna fisher- men after being picked up from the abandoned ship and all were vol- ubly thankful to have salid ground under them again after S0 hours in open boats. 3 The survivors said the ship, the former Curacao, recently purchased from the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, and a 45 year old vessel, caught fire 130 miles out at sea and| then blew up. Chief Engineer Merrtzais was critically burned and is also suffer- ing from exposure. None of the other was seriously injured during the fire, all having abandoned the ship before the ex- plosion. Pirst mate Catselides said the ship caught fire mysteridusly at 8 am. Wednesday and soon put the wireless out of commission.” War | Convention, | in a| | i 1 | l ] e REPUBLICAN SHRINE_Here's the schoolhouse in El- | | wood, Ind., where Republican presidential nominee Wendell ‘Willkie will formally accept the nomination. G.O.P. stalv arts point | out that a sign over entrance r “The hope of our conniry. NOTED PUBLISHER, HORSE ES AWAY | - BREEDER, PASS | I | , 2 | BINGHAMTON, N. Y., July 13.—| | Willis Sharpe Kilmer, 71, publisher | [of the Binghamton Press and owner | of three of the greatest horses on the |} American turf, Exterminator, Sun | | |Briar and Sun Beau, died suddenly |last night at his home here. { ; Kilmer was one of those excep- ticnal men who could do many things at once—and do théem well. | A successful publisher and manu- | facturer, he was best known to the | public as a breeder of thoroughbred horses and cwner of a stable that || | made his colors famous on all major N | tracks. Herses Make Fortune At his stud farms, first at Bing- |hamton, N. Y. and later in Virginia, through his uncanny knowledge and studies of blood lines, he bred win- | ners of more than $3,000,000—an av- |'erage of $200,000 a year. | He founded, in 1004, The Bing- hamton Press, housing the paper in the city’s first skyscraper, as a mem- orial to his father. In early life, he had charge of the advertising of the proprietary medi- cine firm operated by his father, |Jonas M. Kilmer. A fortune was made in manufacturing an old-time medicinal product known as Swamp- root. Malfa Again Bombed;Air Raids Made ROME, July 13—A Stefani news agency dispatch says renewed bomb- ing raids have been made today on the British air and naval bases at Malta. Was American Born Mr. Kilmer was born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1868. While still a boy his parents moved to Bing- hamton. His father was associated with his brother, Dr. 8. A. Kilmer in the manufacture of medicines. After attending Cornell University, Willis entered his father’s firm. Mr. Kilmer traveled extensively abroad in building up his breeding strings. While in England on one of his tours he purchased a yacht which he transferred to the United States Navy for patrol service in the early days of the World War. He was a member of numerous clubs and fraternal orders. He mar- ried, in Paris, Sarah Jane Wells. i Willkie to the airfields and planes on the ground. It is said dive planes machine- gunned hangars in low sweeps. A R LR, BULLITT IS INMADRID | MADRID, July 13 —William Bul- | litt, United States Ambassador to| France, has arrived here to “get| back in touch with Washington.” Bullitt said communication from DENVER, Colo, July 13—Califor-|the new French Capital City of| nia Gov. Olson told Colorado Demo- | Viehy is slow and difficult. crats that Wendell Willkie repre- iz o sents the viewpoint of reactionary 12 "ali Raiders Shot Down, 6 Days big business promoters. The California Governor is en- route to the Democratic National Convention as Chairman of his state’s delegation. LONDON, July 13. — A British G Ry e Ly | communique last night said that |72 Nazi planes had been shot down during the six days of Nazi air raids over the English coast. The communique listed planes 4 COUPPLES FOR SEWARD Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Coupples and their two children are aboard the shot down off the ‘southeast coast of England as well as off the coast Jol Scotland, .Mount McKinley bound for Sew- ard, | dential nominee. { | “serious mistake” if a candidate was Attention of the raiders is dlrecmd‘ THIRD TERM PREDICTED In the Stars” Says McNutt, ~Farley Urged fo Re- main Party Head CHICAGO, T1ll, July 13—Paul V. McNutt today predicted that Roose- | velt will accept a third term nom- ination. Receiving newsmen in his headquarters here, McNutt declared “that it seems to be in the stars. I think Roosevelt will be nominated | and he will accept.” Asked if he thought Roosevelt would be re-elected, McNutt replied: “Certainly.” | McNutt said he is undecided yet | whether he will be a candidate for | the Vice-Presidential nomination. | " MOVE ON FARLEY CHICAGO, 11, July 13. — Tre-| mendous pressure is being brought to bear on James A, Farley to con- tinue as Chairman of the Demo- | cratic National Committee, regard-| less of next week’s choice of a Presi- | Leaders of the third term move- ment regarded Farley's statement made yesterday that he would not “take a walk” if Roosevelt runs | Guard Planned Chinese A As Japan moved to stop shipments of munitions and supplies into Ch busied themselves “somewhere in Western China” making their own cadets are shown in full battle dress (note German type steel helmets). BEING APPOINTEDTO again, is at least a partial victory in their efforts to persuade him to/ handle the campaign, at least in' the early stages. | Facing nearly 200 newsmen today, | Farley had a regular field day fend- | |ing off questions. Farley did say the Presidential | nomination would come on Thurs- | day and the Vice-Presidential nom- | ination on Friday. ’ Farley reiterated it would be a" chosen without a roll call of the| convention delegates. | Farley said he has not yet de-! cided who will place his name in nomination for President. > Next Move Is Now Up To Nippons Japanese Do Not Like Re- ply Made by Marine Head, Shanghai | | SHANGHAI, July 13.—The Domei News Agency reports that Col. De- | Witt Peck, Commander of the Unit- |ed States Marines in this district, |has “failed to give a satisfactory reply” to the complaint made by | Major General Miura against treat- ment of 14 Japanese plainsclothes | men arrested on July 7. The next move.is now up to Japan. One American newspaper boldly prints that if the Japanese, armed |and in uniform or in plain clothes, | think they can go into the Amer- | ican-controlled section and “raise iHell it is a Hell of a mistake.” 1Baséb5il'fiday Scores of games played this after- noon in the two major leagues are as follows: National League Brooklyn 6; Cincinnati 7, first game. Boston 5; Chicago 0. American League Cleveland 6; Philadelphia 4. Chicago 5; Boston 0, first game. St. Louis 4; New York 10, first game. Detroit 4; game. I —————————— MISS BAILEY TO WED 1 ANNOUNCER AT KFAR Washington 3, first Miss Rosa Bailey of Cosmopolis, Wash., is enroute to Fairbanks on the steamer Mount McKinley to be- come the bride of Mr. Al Bramstead, announcer at radio station KPFAR. DEMOCRATIC OFFICE - NOTNEW TO STIMSON — By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, July 13.—Being appointed to high office by execu-| tives of the Democratic party is| nothing new to Republican Henry | Lewis Stimson. He has been horored by every| President from Roosevelt to Roose- PLANNING | velt. Only in President Harding's | administration did he not hold high office and even then he was mentioned for cabinet and legal posts, appointment of Stimson as| ary of War isn't even the time that F.D.R. has recog- ho| The Se first nized the talents of the man w had nothing to do with politi until he was 40 years old. In 1938, Roosevelt named him to the Nippon Indicates Risking Trouble with British, nswer Jl:;mnvs;'_'I:hrm? at Supplies| u i BOA]’S IN NEW ATTACK ON CHANNEL {Shipping Is Sent Down_ Further Dire Assaults on England Planned | BULLETIN — LONDON, July | 13.—It is officially announced that five enemy raiders were shot down today, one falling in flames in the English Channel. Several other planes were seen “fluttering” away. The Nazi formation of planes was driven off before reaching its ob- Jective. | | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Command says {today the sea war on Grfeat Britain has been marked by the capture of a number of merchant vessels with valuable cargoes, food stuffs and also war material. It is also claimed that ships totalling 24,000 tons were sent down yesterday by U-boats. Worst To Come Louis Lochner, Associated Press correspondent, one of the American newsmen closest to Fuehrer Hitler, says in a dispatch from Berlin that the Germans describe the present war against Great Britain by air and sea as “only child’s play” in compari- son as to what is coming. Lochner says the Germans are so confident of “levelling Great Bri- tain” in an annhilation campalign and so convinced that victory is cer- tain, that thousands of soldlers are moving eastward away from the Seigfried Line, where they are no longer needed, to the east, ready for use if necessary. Hifs Scored On Warships Brilifish Fleet Italians, However, Admit ina from French Indo-China, Chi- 2 arms and training troops. Chinese | | | TROLLERS AT SITKA TYING UP Three Hundred Forty-two Boats, Seven Packers, Delivering Fish SITKA, Alaska, July 13.—Trolling boats in the port of Sitka remained [tied up since yesterday afternoon as the result of the action taken by the United Trollers of Alaska and Alaska Trollers Association unions | at a mass meeting yesterday fore- | noon. The members of the two unions voted to remain on the beach until the price of king salmon is advanced The trollers demand pr of 14, 10 Y.und 8 cents and the buyers have been | 50 notified. The buyers were also’ Also U. §. | SHANGHAI, July 13.—The Japa- |nese army and navy have agreedon | a program of vigorous expansion in East Asia and the South Seas.| British and American interests. | This is the information given by | a very reliable source, As outlined, the program calls for taking over the foreign concessions in China; an intensified blockade |of Hongkong, looking toward even-| |tual occupation; sending armed |forces to occupy French Indo- | China; penetrating Borneo, and the Netherlands East Indies. RUMANIA LINESUP NEW WAY Makes Th;;i Upsetting Balkan Entente-Move Is Up to Turkey (By Associated Press) The major development in the {topsy-turvy Balkans is the report |that Rumania is cleaving more to | the Rome-Berlin axis and will with- |draw from the Balkan Entente un- |less Turkey. turns out her officials who engineered the alliance with Great Britain and France. Hague Court and, on another ocC-|told that until the demanded price | casion, asked him to be one Of!is paid, no fish will be delivered to two men on an important tr%fiyium Sitka dock after the noon hour | One of Their Destroy- ers Is Sunk mission to South America. So certain must Stimson have never relinquished ownership of historic Woodley, a lovely old house on a 16-acre estate at 3000 Cathedral Avenue. The rambling old mansion of pre-Civil War con- struction, was bought by Stimson when he was Secretary of under President Hoover. It used to be the summer White House of President Cleveland, HE RODE INTO POLITICS It’s only a stone's throw from the spot in Rock Creek Park where Stimson actually galloped into poli- | tics. Elihu Root and President Ted- dy Roosevelt were out for an early morning horseback ride. Root saw Stinison riding across the creek and remarked to the President that| he probably would be a good man for the post of District Attorney in New York. The President said, “Call him over.” Root hailed Stim- son and the latter, disregarding the steep bank, dashed into the creek at breakneck place caught up his horse as he stumbled in mid-stream jand brought him lathering and | rearing up the near bank. T.R. cried “Magnificent horse- | manship! Magnificent!” and wiv.h-I |out further ceremony asked him | to take the New York Federal| Prosecuting Attorney job, Stimson probably is the only Secretary of War (he also held the post under Taft)* graduated from the Army War College. | Before that, however, in the State | |on Sunday, July 14. | Pishing receipts continued phen- They have agreed to this regard-|peen that he would come back fo|omenal up to the tie-up with 342} |less of the risk of colliding With|wgshington some day, that he|boats and seven packers delivering | more than 605,000 pounds of king| salmon last Saturday The Pyramid Packing Company re- ceived 50,000 cohoes with an average | weight of seven pounds each, for| | canning. | There is a possibility the troller’s. strike will be extended to all South- g Alaska, if the Maritime tion gives sanction. - >e British Children Sliy_ Home LONDON, July 13.—Postponement | of the scheduled removal of Brit- |ish children to the Dominions and to the United States is formally | | | ea | PFedera formation, The reason given is there are not | enough warships available to act as convoys. Hoover Gefs Fish, Sunburn announced by the Ministry of In-| BULLETIN—CAIRO, July 13. —It is officially announced that the British troops, although out- numbered, are holding all posi- tions against the assaulting Italians in the Moyale sector. (By Associated Press) The Italian High Command claims notable successes in the nav- al engagement against the British fleet in the Mediterranean Sea which started five days ago, and is still going on. The Italian communique said Italian bombers scored hits on a British battleship and two Brit- ish cruisers yesterday. The Italian forces which since Wednesday have been besieging a British fortified” town near Moyale on the Kenya-Ethiopian frontier, has been captured. It is admitted by the Italians that an Italian destroyer has been lost by “enemy bombardment from the air. e, ——— SENATOR NORRIS - IS FOR ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, July 13.—Senator Norris, 79-year-old Independent, of Nebraska, expects to take an active part in the coming Presidential elec- tion. Convinced that President Roose- velt will be the Democratic nom- inee, Senator Norris said that he would make a few speeches for him, principally in the Middle West. - e — MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued to- |and industrial technicians and re- One of Rumania’s totalitarian World War as a colonel, he was regime’s new anti-semetic decrees appointed to the judge advocates’ takes the wives of Jews out of gov- division. Then, although over 50, ernment positions. he was assigned to command in Another decree has also demob- the 3lIst field artillery where he ilized thousands of farm workers served for the duration and got decorations from both Britain and (Continued on Page Eight) turned them to produce -civilian Jjobs. i dav by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray to Robert Forrest and June Boggan, - e — DIVORCE CASE BEND, Ore,, July 13. — Former | President Hoover is not worrying| about politics as he fished the streams near here. | Suit for di - The former President came back | pring curx.rt vmmd“,'.;ymg;:hni from his day’s fishing with eleven gegvers against Allen Seavers on trout as well as a sunburn, grounds of desertion,