The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS S ALL THE TIME” \OL lVI.. NO. 8472. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUH 23, |940 MEMBER ASSOCIAT[ D PRESS PRl('F TEN CENTS DEFY IS HURLED AT HITLER @ L4 4 @ @ @ L4 @ @ L4 L4 @ 4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BRITISH REJECT DICTATED NAZI PEACE SIZILING HEAT OVER PARTS, U.S. No Relief Is Predicted for| Wilted Sections-180 Persons Die (By A:soeuted Press) Cecattered thunder showers glvlng only temporary and slight relief to the heat waves is the best the weatherman could offer today to a sweltering nation. The United States Weather E\X— reau at Chicago reports a protract- ed hot spell, which is now a week old in some of the wilted section, may continue for probably three more days. Virtually the entire nation east of the Iocky Mountains is suffering from sizzling heat with tempera- tures of 100 de or higher re- ported yest ay 1id the outlook about the same for today. | At least 180 deaths are reported during the past 24 hours up to 8 o'clock this morning from 31 states. At least 140 persons were victims of drownings, come going beyond their depths, others prostrated while in the water and others in overload- ed boal Soviet Subs Reporfedin Bering Sea Coast Guard Makes Report Regarding Statements | * of North Eskimos SEATTLE, July 23—Officers of the Coast Guard cutter Perseus say that residents of the American own- ed Little Diomede Island report sighting considerable activity of ‘ming military nature on nearby Russian owned Big Diomede Island. | They say that a detachment of et troops is at present construct- | ing a large plane hangar there and that they also sighted a number of submarines. Soviet workers are said to be ron- structing a powerful radio station on Big Diomede Island, and to be leveling part of the barren land for | an airbase. | The Perseus, normally based in| California, made the voyage to the Bering Sea apparently for the sole purpose of investigating Russian ac- tivities. | Japanese Starting New Deal New Cabinet Has First Ses- | v sion — Ministers Told fo Talk Out Now TOKYO, July 23—Premier Desig- | nate Konoye told the members of | his cabinet at a first meeting that in order to cope with the present situation, there must be full cooper- ation of the military, the govern- ment and the public, also collab- | oration of all officials is necessary. 1 Konoye said that cabinet meet- | ings will be more or less formal, wherefore he asked his ministers henceforth to frankly express opin- ions on important. issues. The ministers:: decided to hold cabinet meetings daily until foreign policies are perfected. HEARINGS | between Seattle and Alaska, | interport as well, Among passengers the liner Washington brought to New York from Europe were (left to right): David Marchington, 6, Nashville, grand- son of the European manager of the United States ; Alec France, 9, born in Canada; James Scott, 5, born in San Francisco; Jocelyn France, 10, whose father is U. C. Consul to Mexico City; Ryan Stevens, 6, son of a former British Consul in New York; George Scott, 9, born in San I The France children are going to Cleveland Helxht\ 0. GARNER QUITS CAPITAL; REFUSES TO SAY WHEN, WASHINGTON, July 23.—John Nance Garner, Vice-President, still publicly silent regarding the third term, has entrained for Uvalde, Tcxns He refused to say when, if ever, ‘hv will return to the Capital. Senator Tom Connally and Rep- ‘xcxenlauvu Sam Rayburn, the lat- ter with tears in his eyes, bade farewell to Garner. | Senators George W. Norris and CommISSlon Beglns Takmg Carter Glass also farewelled him Evidencein Court " o' The trip is ostensibly to vote in This Morning complete , his term. !Lhe primary election but many be- | lieve Garner is not planning to John C. Russell, kixammner for the| The Vice-President said: “I'll re- United States Maritime Commis-|gserve my decision on that T have | sion, this morning formally opened g jeader who waits until the last hearlngs here on the question of ' minute to make up his mind.” rrelght rate increases of Alaska’ G arner said he was irritated and shipping concerns and - explained | ¢, "o newsmen satd: “You boys |that the hearings are not to0 De ynoy 1 never haye any news. I | conined solely to _freight Ta%eS) 4 not news, The public doesn't DUt care what T do.” and the matter | o of passenger tariffs and traffic over certain bonded carriers WM"">N0MINA"0N . the Territory itself. Pirst witness before the hearing was wholesale and retail meat man \Appointment to California High Court Rejected by Commission J. Ficken, manager of the Al- a.ska Meat Company who was ques- | tioned as to costs of his meats, Ireight costs and costs to the con- sumer Following questions as to the com- | petitive state of meat business in Juneau where Ficken declared Lhere; are nine meat markets, Alaska Steamship Company Attorney stan—\ ley Long brought laughter when| 'SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 23— he deduced: “Then it must be The California Commission of Jud- somewhere between highly com-lncial Qualifications today turned petitive and cutthroat.” |down Gov. Olson’s nomination of Second witness was Russell R,,Max Radin to the State Supreme Hermann, druggist operating the Court. Juneau Drug, while third witness| The action is unprecedented in of the morning was John C. Thom- California legal history. as of the Thogas Hardware. | Radin, who is a former college All three witnesses were subpoe- | professor, has been strongly criti- |cized by conservative -groups for what was termed “his radical views.” (Continued uvn Page Two) U.S.ISTAKING ACTION FOR FOR MANDATE {Proposal Submitted af Ha- vana Conference-Hull Chosen Presndent HAVANA, Cubn Jlllv 23. United States delegation today placed before the Pan American Chancellor’s conference a project designed to set up machinery im- mediately for an imter-American mandate over European possessions on the Western Hemisphere. ( | A German Example or Great Britain — The The mandate will become effective | in case such possessions are men- aced by a change of sovereignty American Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull was elected President of the Peace Commission at the meet- ing of representatives of 21 Ameri- can Republics and immediatel; there was started serious committee work. The Economic and Neutrality Commissions also got down to busi- ness and began deliberations. Willkie ls To Accept August 157 lRepubllcan Presidential ; Nominee Announces Tentative Plans | { | R | | COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. July IF EVER, HE'LL RETURN 23.—Wendell Willkie says that he will formally accept the Republican 17. He will make the acceptance {in a speech at his home town of {Elwood, Tnd. | He said tentative plans were to hold a short ceremony on the steps of the Elwood High School and a second ceremony at nearby Calla- way Park. Nominee Willkie - OnTour Starts Iwo Day Swing Around Parts of Three States-Rodeo Bound CHEYENNE, Wyoming, July | Wendell L. Willkie, starting a two day swing of Northern Colorndo. Wyoming and Utah, said “in this | country there is no such thing as the indispensable man.” crowd at Brighton, Colorado, as he spoke from the rear platform of the train bearing him here to attend the | Frontier Days Rodeo. Willkie said: “I know it is a ser- ies of circumstances that caused me to be nominated for the Presi- dency.” The nominee announced that Lem | Jones, of Davenport, Towa, former | press representative of Dewey, will serve as his press representative. - - ED GARNICK FLIES Ed Garnick, who flew to Sitka convention at Sitka last week, re- turned home, also aboard plane. = b . TRAVELER DUE lecturer, was to arrive here this afternoon on the steamer Colum- bia, enroute to Northern Alaska. Presidential nomination on August Willkie made the remark to a] to attend the Republican Territorial | Crombie Allen, world traveler and: The German censor passed this photo as a warning to England. It shows the destructive effect of German bombs on a French town where a French motorized umit was trapped by diving stukas. “This,” says t! | German caption, “is the kind of war England will shortly get a taste of—the war which she has wanted.” ‘U 5. NAVY ~ PURCHASES 2 LINERS | | | | | Where Windsors Will Live Will Be Cofierled Into Augxiliaries-Also High Speed Transports | WASHINGTON, July 23. — The Navy Department has purchased |the Grace liners Santa Barbara 7 X 9 and Santa Maria, 15,000 tons each, [ 1 ; i v § | for' $1,300,000 each. ” | The two liners will ed into auxiliaries, !the shipyards for more building. | Some reports assert the liners | will be used as high speed trans- | ports and kept constantly equipped | with artillery, tanks and other | heavy equipment so the Marines | can board them quickly and ready | for the panzer type of action any- whege be convert- thus i ng important ‘When the Duke of Windsor arrives at Nassau, The Bahamas, off the Florida coast, to take up his duties as governor of the British islands, he and his wife will live in this house, the “Government House” at Nassau. The duke's wife is the former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore. -oe —— 'UNITED STATES - FLEET SAILING "'EAT AMERICA FIRST" FOR MANEUVERS \Warships Leave Honolulu f IS SOON To BE NEw for Cruise Southward SlOGA" FOR GOURMHS of Hawaiian Islands | HONOLULU, July 23.—The Unit- | ¥ o ed States fleet maneuvered south- By JACK STINNETT (Swedish bread) to arrive here, Lo q'rrom the Hawaiian Islands to- came by way of Russia and Ja-|day for new secret war maneuvers pan. It’s only a quesuon of months in the Pacific. now, if things go on like this, that| The fleet has been based in the |the best smorgasbord in the land islands since April, apparently as a | will look as meager as Sunday's Warning to Japan and had engaged chicken on Tuesday morning. |in far more than the usual man- euvers. Imported sardines are no long_i Naval officials would not com- er just hard to get out of the ¢an yong on the last fleet movements, - it’s geiting 50 you can't even iy, i i ynderstod that some of the |get the ~cans. Polish hams ¢ ships will sail south of the equator. Hnurc often a memory than a ren}-‘ It has been reported that the |ity. One more winter, and people| ypjteq States will engage in a patrol from Sweden, who salve their summers with|of the Pacific islands east of the from Italy,|Rhine wine and soda will have 0/ international date line, to discour- Mediterranean | turn to gin 'n’ tonic. Ancient FBK‘iv._‘ge any changes in present owner- countries are far from as pltllli-‘blrd nests, and kippered octupus |ship of foreign possessions. ful or as cheap as they used to be.|still are coming through from China | =l | The imported Dutch, Danish and | put that's scant consolation, Oddly‘ MARIE FOX HOME ‘Smndlmvnn cheeses no longer enough, the gourmets are about the| Miss Marie Fox is on the Princess tickle the nostrils when you swing| only ones who are Weeping . . .|Alice due here this evening. She has the = delicatessen screen | harring Lhose nmpo!lera who are'been attending Bellingham Normal |Sehool and was graduated in the | spring. 23— Gas- WASHINGTON, July tronomical: Capital gourmets have an ache, but it didn't come from eating.Just the reverse, in fact, Russian caviar is up 100 percent in price when you can get it at all. The fine French champagnes are getting as scarce as bathwater in Death Val- |ley. The kegs of famous Holland | |and Munchen beers are getting down to the spigots. Matjes herring, 1Ls soaring. Olives sSpain and other \mrough doors, The last shipment of spnshrod[ (Conunued on Pua Eigh) [ FINAL WORD NOW SPOKEN BY EMPIRE German Pm_es Shower Fire Bombs-Atfack on Wales Beaten Off MANY (ITIES ARE BOMBED, AIR RAIDS Defending Planes '"Con- finually Racing Out” Meet Enemy Craft (Bl ASSOCIATED PRESS) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today tacitly affirme Great Britain’s “final answer” to Adolf Hitler that the British Empire will fight to a in'sh against the Nazi conques.. By avoicing cormment during the question period in the House of Commons, Churchill indicated the British Empire’s last. word. to Hit- ler's appeal for a dictated Nazi peace was spoken yesterday by For- eign tary Lord Halifax who |said there will be “no compromise.” Authorilative sources in Berlin | previously said Hitler would hold |off the zero hour for Great Bri- tain’s destruction only until after the British Prime Minister had spoken, thus practically ignoring the statement made in a world broadcast by Lord Halifax. Fire Bomb Shower Even as Churchill ended all talk of peace, German planes showered fire bombs on British cities in widespread_attacks. Nazi Berlin declared the “die is cast” for the blitzkreig against Great Britain. Hitler's High Command declares |that German planes have heavily bombed the citles of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Chatham, Sheerness and also attacked the airdromes near Portsmouth. Planes in Night Drone German raiders droned acroes the English Channel throughout the night dropping bombs on ship- ping and the countryside. British fighting planes are de- gceribed as “continually racing out to sea” to drive the German raiders back. One dozen marked Swastika planes flew over Wales at one time early this morning in the biggest sky attack since the war started but they fled, dropping many of thefr bombs on the open fields, in the face of hot anti-aireraft fire. SAYS ROOSEVELT BLOCKS BRITAIN IN MAKING PEACE Official Orga—n of German Foreign Office Takes It Out on President BERLIN, July 28.—The Germam newspaper, Frankfurter Zeitung, charges that President Roosevelt is responsible to a great extent for Great Britain’s refusal to consider veace terms. ‘The paper says that only a few America lize the responsibility of Mr. Roosevelt for the present war. It continued to say that England is iepending on the United States to a great extent in its uncompromis- ing attitude. The publication points out that Mr. Roosevelt is running for re- election and says that the close serutiny his record will receive, is welcome. At the same time, the of- ficial organ of the German Foreign Office declared uiat the ecabinet of Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill is driving England to ruin, 1