The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1940, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940. —— . PRICE TEN CENT3 VOL. LVL, NO. 8470. "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ] HITLER'S THREAT IS IGNORED BY BRITISH Fire ONE HOME DESTROYED; ONEVICTIM, Native Senminui_ Girl Meets Death in Flames —Two | Others Rescued Alive BETHEL, Alaska, July 20.—Fire of an undetermined cause, yester- day destroyed the home of Morav- jan Minister Harry Trodahl. | Alice Lewis, native servant girl, was burned to death. Trodahl rescued his wife and baby | from the second story of the frame house. ! All furnishings in the house were | destroyed. | The United States Commissioner office was also razed but the bulk | of the important records were saved. For a time the office of the Sig- nal Corps, United States Army, was | endangered but the fire fighters ex- | tinguished the incipient blazes. | Trodahl is a former resident of Detroit, Michigan. | (CCYouth Is Trapped, Brush Fire Meets Death in Flames as Wind Shiffs - Two | OthersBurned | BOISE, Idaho, July 20.—Fire fight- | ers today counted one CCC youth| dead and two others burned on the| | head and arms, also several square | | I miles of brush and timberland| blackened as a crew of more than| 400 fought the flames, Joseph Galluzzo, 19, of Reading, | Ohio, was trapped on the hillside when the wind changed and was burned to death. Two others were burned but escaped alive from the fire in the Boise foothills. | OPERATIONS IN ALASKA MINES | REMAIN NORMAL | The mines of Alaska are operating | at a normal rate, according to Com- missioner of Mines B. D. Stewart, who returned on the steamer Mt. McKinley after a field trip to the Westward, Interior and Seward Pen- insula. Stewart said Livengood Placers, Inc., is proceeding on a large scale to develop its property at Livengood. A large earth dam is being con- tructed on frozen ground and a dredge is under construction. At Livengood the Commissioner saw Milton Lagergren, formerly of Ju- neau, and his family, Extremely dry weather has parch- ed the entire Interior and railroad | belt, .Stewart said. ELECTRA DUE: CLIPPER WILL LEAVE SUNDAY Six persons boarded a PAA Elec- tra at Fairbanks this morning for | Juncau and are due in this afternoon about 4 o'clock, while the Alaska Clipper flight was cancelled out until tomorrow morning because of bad weather below Juneau, Arriving on the Electra with Cap- tain Al Monsen and Officer Walt Halt are B. L. Kerns, B. Jacobs, T. M. Lurry, Darrell Naish, C. L. Baker, C. O. Peterson. — e, NATURALIZED Two new citizens were naturalized here today in District Court. They are Mike Fuchs, native of Austria, and Magnus Mortensop, native of Denmark, . Rages In Town In Western Alaska 2 GUNMEN | BROUGHTIN AFTER FIGHT One of Two Escaped Con-| victs Shot Down in Sunday School ST. JOSEPH, Mo, July 20.—Two bursts of gunfire in a Sunday School room of a church and a blind street brought about the reeapture of two escaped Iowa convicts who had robbed a bank, kidnaped motorists, stolen cars and fought a pistol bat- tle in their flight. Lowell Haenze, 27 of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, slumped to the floor of a church in Marysville, Kansas yes- terday, from bullet wounds in the legs when City Marshal Schramm beat him to the draw. Ivan Sullivan, 29, was confused in a dead end street in Atchinson, Kansas today, jumping out of his stolen car when trapped, and was captured near the river. The two had yesterday robbed a Diller, Nebraska, bank of $4,300. R BIG NAVY MEASURE IS SIGNED Unifed Stafes fo Have Pow- ful Fleets-701 Fight- ing Craft WASHINGTON, July 20. — The White House disclosed today that President Roosevelt has signed into the law a bill authorizing $4,610,- 000,000 for Navy expansion which is designed to give two ocean fleets capable of meeting any possible hos- tile combination. When the expansion program is completed, the Navy will have 701 fighting craft built around the world’s most powerful single aggre- gation of capital 4hips with 35 dreadnaughts. Seizure of Narcofics Is Reporfed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 20. —The Customs discloses that of- ficers have seized one of the largest illegal shipments of nar- cotics ever taken here, 17 pounds. The narcotics were found in the boiler room of the Japanese freighter Nanman Maru. One Japanese sailor, K. Wade, has been arrested. The Customs officials estimate the narcotics are worth a “couple of hundred thousand dollars” at il- legal sale prices. STABBING LANDS ONE IN HOSPITAL AND ONE IN CITY JAIL Engaged in a stabbing affray early this morning, Armanda “Sun- shine” Osborn, negress, is held in the City Jail on an open charge and Ole Nielson is in St. Ann’s Hospital with a possitle kidney injury, according to Chief of Po- lice Dan Ralston who made the arrests. ‘The affray occurred at 2 o’clock this morning at the home of Ar- manda Osborn on South Franklin across from the Juneau Lumber Mill. Nielson, it is charged, was stabbed in the back with a butcher knife by Mrs. Osborn. Both were taken to jail and when it ap- REPUBLICANS AT SITKA CONDEMN COCKTAIL BARS Willkie Endorsed af Ter- ritorial Convention of G. 0. P. SITKA, July 20.—The Republican Territorial convention, meeting on Thursday and yesterday in this his- toric former capital of Alaska, en- thusiastically endorsed the Willkie- McNary ticket of nominees and condemned cocktail bars in Alaska. The convention delegates voted full favor of the Territorial liquor control referendum. Appointment of bonafide Alaskans‘ only to public office in the Terri- tory was demanded by the conven- tion. BIG PLOT IS UNEARTHED BEAUMONT, Tex, July 20. ==| Members of the Dies Committee vestigating un-American activiti declare they have learned the Com- munist Party has obtained informa- tion through which the party could demoralize, within a few hours, the | City of New York. Maps and photostats of every in- dustry essential to communication and transportation, were obtained through , WRA, writers of- yarious projects. Committee investigators took the evidence before the committee which will have to be checked and maybe hearings at New York will result, Chairman Martin Dies said. The investigators are George Hur- ley and Steve Birmingham and much evidence was secured here. HOT WAVE HITS AREA MIDWEST CHICAGO, Ill, July 20. — The hottest weather of the year today scorched the midwest area. Five drownings are reported up to noon. Six deaths had occurred up to 1 o'clock this afternoon, Temperature of 100 degrees is registered in Minneapolis and 106 and up in South Dakota and Ne- braska where the corn has started| to wilt. American Clipper On Rilum Flight SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—The American Clipper is on the return | flight of the inauguration of the United States-New Zealand service and is today at Nouma, New Cgle- donia, at the end of the first leg. The flight to Auckland from San Francisco was made in 54 hours and 11 minutes flying time. e MacLEAN GOES WESTWARD Kenyon “Spike” MacLean, of the MacLean Metal Works, is 8 pas- senger aboard the Baranof for An- chorage on a business trip to re- main away from Juneau about two weeks. BRSO ER o PAULS TO WRANGELL Mr. and Mrs. Willilam L. Paul left aboard the Mount McKinley for Wrangell to stay during the remainder of the summer months. D MISS FRASER BACK Miss Jesse Fraser, employee in the Territorial Treasurer’s office, re- turned on the steamer Baranof after a vacation in the states. Pl e 51 DANIELS GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels are passengers aboard the Mount Mc- peared that Nielson's injury was possibly serious, he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance, Kinley from Juneau for Seattle. Their stay in the south is indefin- ite, PORTLANDER 'BELIEVED T0 BE-SUICIDE Edgar Zehr;h; Thought fo Be Writer of Note Found | on Bremerton Ferry | BULLETIN—SEATTLE, July | 20.—A “Dr. Madison Campbe surrendered to the police this af- terncon and has been identified | as Zehrung. MYSTERY NOTE PORTLAND, Oregon, July 20. — Portland detectives investigated a | suicide'note found today on a Brem- erton ferry believed to be in con- nection with the disappearance of | Edgar Zehrung of Portland and in |the shortage of Portland Postal Em- | ployes Credit Union funds. Seattle authorities found the note Oregon license as the Ferry Chip- pewa docked at 9 o'clock this morn- | nig. | The note said: “I am going over- in- | hoard, goodby, notify 11056 Schiller | | Street, Portland, telephone Sunset | 2740, Edgar.” It is the same address }and telephone number listed under | Zehring, who left home- last night. | George Mead, union attorney, ad- | vised police that Zehrung, Secretary- Treasurer for the Union, told other exccutives that she had taken ap- || proximately $25,000 and that a pick- up order had been issued. HATCHBILL ~ SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Polifical Aaivities Meas- | |~ ure Is Now in Laws | of Nafion WASHNGTON, July 20.—Presi- | dent Rocsevelt has signed the Hatch bill extending to many thousands of state and local government em- | ployees the existing restrictions on | political activities of Federal work- |ers and also limiting the size of the| campaign contributios i - e | ANCHORAGE BASE WORK IS RUSHED 1,000 Men at Work Next Week-Post fo Service in an abandoned auto bearing an | | ored, carry two six drawing (top). The arms that look coil. The truck, which may b fled from the barricade. WILLKIE ADMITS THAT HE SOUGHT HIS NOMINATION Republicanfindidaie for| Presidency Makes Talk | af Denver Luncheon * Sabotage Suspeded-- An attempt to destroy what is believed to be h anti-tank guns, powerful m: investigation by the Los Angeles police arson squad. The truc! pictured next to an ordinary automobile. The guns are in a ecome a vital element in the country’s defense, mysterious origin swept the Trojan Truck Company's barricade at night. REVIVAL OF MONROE DOCTRINE; JUST WHAT IT MEANS, EXPLAINED 4,000 Soldiers ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 20.— COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, July 20.—Wendell L. Willkie settled back Major Edward George, Construction | | Quartermaster for the Army in Al- aska, said today that more than 1,000 men will be employed on the Anchorage air base next week with the arrival of the transport Liberty and a heavy cargo of lumber, ce- ient and other supplies. Temporary barracks, a water sys- tem and other facilities will be com- | pleted by the first of November, George said, to serve 4,000 soldiers. IR TP RAINY PASS 10 GET NEW FIELD WORK WITH (AA| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 20.— | The Civil Aeronautics Authority has | launched construction of an emer- | gency airfield at both ends of Rainy | Pass with men and equipment llown‘ into the remote mountain area to spend the rest of the summer there. The fields were greatly needed | there because of frequent bad | weather in the pass, which is used | Dy planes a great deal, 3 into his vacation routine after tell- ing those at the Denver Union stockyards luncheon he would “make | no pretense of noble motives” in| seeking the Presidency. { “I frankly sought the opportunity | to run for President because I have some deep seated convictions I want to present to the American people | and which, if elected, I want car- ried into execution.” Willkie was asked at a confer-| ence with newsmen here regarding | statements that several Democrats would support him and he replied: | “My telephone has not stopped | ringing sinee the Democratic Na- | tional converition because of im-| portant Democrats over the country saying they will come out for me.” L b AP | | TEACHERS STOP | | Mr. and Mrs. John E. Paden, | Government teachers at Alitak until a year ago, returned to Alaska on the steamer Baranof enroute to a new assignment at Cordova. They will remain in Juneau for a month to assist with disbursing for the Office of Indian Affairs, New "“War Truck” the world’s largest truck, a giant machine that can be arm- achine guns and travels 65 miles an hour, was under k, tested by Fort McArthur engineers, is 360-degree mobile turret as indicated in the ground to take up gun re- was endangered when fire of A watchman reported two men like vacuum cleaners can be lowered to Bullitt Is BackinU.S. From France 'Says Frenct;PeopIe in Oc- cupied Nation Sfill Have Benefits By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Wriler WASHINGTON, July 20.—Behind the Monroe Doctrine headlines you've been reading is a deliber- ate battle of wits between Wash- ington and Berlin—with Washing- ton on the offensive. NEW YORK, July 20. — United States Ambassador to France, Wil- | lia Bullitt, arrived here today The primary aim in Washington| "%, . sfjaniic Clipper and will go is to bring strikingly to the at-|y;megiately to Washington to con- tention of the American publlcf fer with President Roosevelt and both . above and below the Rio|gocretary of State Cordell Hull. Grande—the original Monroe Doc- | Bullitt sald: he waa. tséated with ‘:;:m :nd i ch"",mk',“mm 0: :::;;um “utmost respect and courtesy {eRenaenre fc_'r e asions. o by the Germans when they entered | Western Hemisphere as well a5 its| poiow and that in German occu- warning to European to pied France the “French people keep. off. have the same magnificent quali- In effect it is a curtain raiser ties they have always had." for the meeting in Havana late in| When reporters asked if he be- powers | July of the 21 American republics. |lieved England has a “chance” Bul- It might even portend a mutual|litt waved this aside by saying: Monroe Doctrine for the hemis-|“That is in the future, isn't it?” phere to supplement the purely| Pormer Empress Zita, of Austria, United States doctrine pronounced | and her daughter were also aboard by Monroe in 1823. the same clipper as Bullitt. American State Department of- i ficials have been itching for some time to get the Monroe do(-l.rlnc| SIO(K ouoIAIIONS on Page One, so to speak, in the same breath with the strange talk} . SR of Monroe Doctrines in Europe| NEW YORK, July 20. — Closing and Asia, and to show them in|auotation of Alaska Juneau mine contrast with each other |stock at today's short session of 4 . oo _.|the New York Stock Exchange Is These officials have been rcddy“:&v Americah Can 9%, Anaconds lf) leap at a chance to prove Uncle| 19, Bethlehem Steel T4%, Common- Sam is on the level and devoid of | L liy o hg Southern 1%, Curtiss all desire to set up any PUPPel|yyright 7, General Motors 43%, In- regimes in_ this ‘hemisphere. ternational Harvester 43, Kennecott 2 25%, New York Central 11 17/8, Northern Pacific 6'«, United States Steel 50'%, Pound $3.89. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ____|Jones averages: industrials 12187, |rails 2626, utilities 2230. ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE The conquest of Holland almost gave them the opening they were| waiting for, but not -quite. For the| sovereignty of Holland is obscure (Continued on Page Two) AIR RAID EXCHANGES - REPORTED Aerial Fleefs of Two Na- tions Engaged in Battle | -ltalian Prediction (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany turned radio propaganda | on the British public today, telling | of the death and destruction they may face if Hitler's “final” road to peace is rejected. Great Britain turned a deaf ear to the threat and last night bombed German industrial centers. | The English translation of Hit- ler's speech yesterday was broad- cast again and again to England. Italy’s authoritative Fascist week- | ly predicted the vast impendnig of- fensive is now ‘“oniy a question of | days.” | Informed Berlin sources agreed | that the first reception of Hitler's | message to England was “rowdy |and rude,” but said the man in the | street there might feel differently. | Nazi Claims The High Command sald Nazi bombers blasted harbors and anti- aircraft defenses yesterday, sinking | a 5,000-ton merchant ship and dam- |aging three others. The communique declared only three Nazi planes were lost, while it was sald 27 British planes were shot down, : Ttalians have admitted" the loss of the cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, but said a British warship was sunk by bombs in a three hour fight. On Western Hemisphere Becretary of State Cordell Hull arrived in Havana today for the Pan American Conferences opening to- morrow to consider problems of the Western Hemisphere's defense and economy. It is reported Hull may carry some plan to overcome Argentina’s un- willingness to go along on measures L _|to hamper trade with Germany and | Ttaly. | 545 ARE RESCUED CAIRGO, Ggypt, July 20. — A British communique says 545 men | were rescued from the Itallan cruis- er Bartolomeo Colleoni which was sunk in a battle with British ships yesterday in the Mediterranean. There were no British casualties. e | | VICTIMS OF AIR RAIDS GIVEN OUT British Sfalem_en' Is Issued Regarding Month’s Casualties LONDON, July 20.—The Ministry of Home Security announced today that “for The month beginning June 18, when large scale bombing raids over the United Kifi§dom began, a total of 335 civilians were killed and 576 seriously d. The larg- est number killed in any locality on any occasion was 32.” e ENFORCEMENT OF WAGE AND HOUR LAW HERE PLANNED John R. Dille, Supervising In- | spector of the Wage and Hour Di- | vision of the Department of Labor, has taken temporary quarters at the office of Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart during his stay in Juneau. Dille, who is making a study of what the wage and hour enforce- ment problems in Alaska may be, intends to remain here a few days next week, after which he will go on to Fairbanks. After his study is completed, Dille will report to Administrator Flem- ing in Washington. His headquart- ‘m is at Seattle, it e RN gt