The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI,, NO. 8473. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 NAZI RAIDERS FOUGHT OFF BY BRITISH Rome Scared By Two Air Raid A_ larms Today SKY BATTLE BRITISH ON | WAY REPORT T0 ITALIANS Anfi - ircraft Gun Blast| Out-Shell Splinfers | Wound Many ‘ (By Associated Pyess) | Citizens of ancient Rome under-‘ went air raid scares twice before dawn today as anti-aircraft guns | blasted at a “phantom flight.” British warplanes were reported | heading toward the Italiap capital city and the air raid alarms were sounded and anti-aircraft batteries | immediately went into action. The excitement in Rome was in- tense. No bombs fell but the TItalian | High Command reported several persons were wounded by falling anti-aircraft shell splinters. | The air raid alarms were the first vivid signs indicative that Italy is at war and the reaction is said to | be pronounced but all exclamations | of resentment at entrance into the war are being suppressed, by threats. D Good N ews F or Wulla(' Henry Wallace, Secreury of Agriculture, was in rare good humor in Chicago after learning he was President Roosevelt's choice for Vice- Presidential runnm; mate. He received the nomination. KING CAROL MAKES BIG | GRAB OF OIL Rumanian aernmeni by | Special Decree Seizes British Company | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) i In eastern Europe, the Pro-Nazi| Rumanian government, headed by King Carol, who once marched with reat Britain's present King George the Sixth at the funeral of George the Fifth, today seized the largest British Oil Company in Rumania, under a new Rumanian decree. The confiscated oil may now be sent to supply Germany's armies in a climactic offensive against| England, | CHARGES MADE AGAINST EIGHT | TOBACCO FIRMS Twenty -six Other Corpora- | fions, 33 Individuals | fo Face Trials WASHINGTON, July 24. — The Justice Department announces it| has filed criminal charges under the Anti-Trust Act, at Lexington, Ky. against eight major tobacco companies, 26 other corporations and 33 individuals, The Justice Department said the charges are the outgrowth of a two-year investigation by Thur- man Arnold, Assistant Attorney General and are based on allega- tions that the major companies built up marketing systems of leaf tobacco and . tobacco products| “which are deliberately designed to dominate and dictate terms to growers of leaf tobacco,” and whole- salers and retailers of tobacco pro- ducts. DALE DAY HERE FOR PROSECUTION Elmer Elsworth Day, Jr., alias Dale Day, was brought here from| Ketchikan on the steamer Colum- bia in the custody of Deputy U. S. Marshal John Cashen to face prose- cution on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is held under $2500 bond. Other prisoners brought here by Cashen’ included Arthur Headstrom, to serve six months for being drunk and disorderly, and Willlam Gor- don, to serve six months for larceny, Umled States Fleet Io Far Padfic PolmcaIDope IsGiven Hitler in New Adtion, 'Diplomacy’ Looks Like Rumama Must| Gnve Up More for "Protection” (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany today set a course for “diplomacy in the East and Far| West of Europe.” The diplomacy move in the East will center Friday in a conference| with representatives of Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. Some German circles said Ru-| mania will probably have to trade part of her Province of Transyl- vania to Hungary and part of Dobrudja to Bulgaria to win Hit-| ler’s guarantees of protection, — e ARE T0 COMBAT ACTIVITIES OF FIFTH COLUMN| Many Prop(;sa—ls Submitted to Conference of Pan American, Havana HAVANA, July 24—An imposing|. . - array of proposals to combat fifth Column activities and build defenses were offered at the Pan American Conference today by the United States and various Latin-American delegations. The United States delegation pro-| posed Inter-American machinery to firmly suppress activities of any group ~ acting upon orders from abroad and designed to produce in- ternational disorders or establish regimes not acceptable to the American way of life. The number of projects submit- ted mounted to twelve, many of them defense measures. — .o LEIVERS ON VACATION Deputy Clerk of Court Wlllhm Leivers began a month’s vacation today. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 24. — An- swering the mail orders: Mre. J. T. K., Indianapolis — In| | spite of all those stories you have read, the United States fleet still is in the far Pacific and is likely | ‘ln remain there unless some dras-| fense conditions. G. T., Rutherferd, N, J. — Your old friend and brother in the bond, Jimmy Aswell, is out for | the congressional race in Natchi- | | toches, La., and it looks at this pnmmg as though he would be nmund these parts soon after the ‘1|ruL of the year. He was one of| the principal platform ramrods in| |the fight against the old (and de- | feated) Long machine, Since then |the winds that drift up from the southland have been bringing me consistent reports of Jimmy's | candidacy. If Jimmy comes up this way after the first of the year, guess we'll have to have a | get-together and talk of the time you wrote a glowing column about what a swell guy Jimmy | Aswell is and some South Caro- |lina editor (or was it Virginia) |got confused and ran it under a head that said “By James Aswell.” | They tell me Jimmy still keeps the Pullman shades down when he goes through that city. H. ;query about all that gold that's stuck in a hole down in Kentucky not only has your humble corre- | spondent guessing, but all the | best economiSts and money the- orists around here as well. I'm| trying to find out, but it's begin- ning to look as though I'll have| to get a Ph. D, a thesaurus and couple of Morgan pdrtners on my side before I can even discuss it And even then I'll have to write above the column: The facts | contained herein bear no' resem- blance to -anything Hving or dead. G. P, San Diego, Cal—Based on the 1936 popular vote, Wendell L. Willkie would have to swing a lit- tle more than 5,000,000 votes that went for Roosevelt and hold the 117,000,000 votes considered Repub- |lican under any circumstances. The ing that Mr. Willkie probably will get a lot of normally Democratic votes (being so recently a Democrat himself), but for that very reason probably will lose some of the ordinarily die-hard Republicans. Personally, I think it's a little too early to tell about any of these supposed trends. The political pic- |ture, based as it is, almost en- (Continued on Page Three) s | tic change occurs in Atlantic de-\ M. L. Dallas, Texas.—Your sideline guessers here now are say- | _ MILITARY TRAINING TO START | Four Hundred Thousand Men fo Be in Camps by October 1 | dier General William Shedd, As- sistant Chief of Staff, told the House Military Committee today that the Army, under the now | pending legislation on compulsory military training, planned to start | training of 400,000 men by October 1 and 400,000 more men by next April and another 600,000 men by October 1, 1941. Shedd flatly said that “never in peace time” would the legislation | require men with dependents enter mimary training. e Lot EARL LONG - MUST FACE ~ TRIALNOW 'Former Governor of Louis- | iana Indicted, Em- bezzlement ! | | | | —_— | b | | NEW ORLEANS, La., July 24— . | The Parish grand jury has indict- ed former Governor Earl Long on} | charges of embezzlement involving | employment of “deadheads” on the | Dock Board payroll during the last | election in which he lost the Gov- | ernorship. | Four others were also indicted. The charge is the first to be( filed against Long in accusations | | which wrecked Huey's political ma- | chine. e ! WASHINGTON, July 24—Briga- to | | = RNERO POINT Two Fliers Forced Down Alaska River Tryto Escapal Raft which Breaks Up - Finally Found, Rescued FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 24— John Hood and Clyde Stevens, air- plane mechanies of this city, flying a private plane McKinleyward, were forced down by engine trouble on | Wood River, 35 miles south of Fair: | banks. | They abandoned the plane, con- ;stracted a raft and attempted to float down the treacherous Wood River. The raft struck and broke up on a sandbar and the pair swam |ashore safely. Hood and Stevens then struck |across the country separately. In the meantime, four planes started on a search for the two men. Both were finally discovered and brought to Fairbanks. The plane is not believed to be damaged and will be recovered la- ter. RAF SENDS DOWN SUBS CARO, Egypt, July 24—Royal Air force planes this morning bombed a jetty at Tobruk in North Africa, according to High Command re- leases. It was said that several Italian submarines at anchor apparently lwo Ketchikan Women Are Bridge Champs NEW YORK, July 24, — The World Bridge Olympic Commit- tee today announced the win- ners in the International 1940 contest which was held on April 4, as follows: North and South — J. M. Learmouth and E. Learmouth, of Maracaibo, Venezuela. East and West—Mrs, A. C. Bryant and Mrs. C. H. Drury of Ketchikan, Alaska. ATTACKS ON HENRY FORD RESENTED OTTAWA, July 24. — Chairman Coldwell of the Cooperative Com- monwealth Federation group has renewed his attack against Henry Ford for refusing to make aircraft engines for Great Britain. Coldwell said that four directors of the Ford company were in Can- ada while five were in Michigan. Liberal member Paul Martin of the House of Commons called the attacks against Ford unfair. Mar- tin said that no other company had | aided the British Government as much as the Canadian Ford Com- pany in war effort. ———v———— | |NEW WOOLEN SALESMAN COMES IN ON COLUMBIA, R. J. Bowers, of Ogden, Utah, is making the first trip to Alaska for Inter-Mountain Knitting Mils of Ogden. . His wife is accompanying him and they will remain at the| ‘were destroyed by the bombs that exploded along the jetty. Gastineau Hotel for a few days be- fore going to the Westward. How Axis Powers Hope to Capture Gibraltar BARRICADED @ ROADS BATTERY This map shows how the Axis powers are preparing to conquer Gibraltar, the entrance to the Mediterranean. Spain’s entrance into the war is reported hinging on Italy’s success in WINTER MANEUVERS FOR ARMY IN ALASKA IS NOW PLANNED BY COMMANDER | of snowshoes, packboards and sleep- | dead of winter to learn how to live ,‘111 1r x | the mighty fortress that guards '-hn Mediterranean, | SKAGWAY PROTESTS NEW RATE Tom George—béclares Cost of Leftuce Is Less than Freight Hearings of the Maritime Com- mission here on increase of water freight rates to Alaska went into their second day today with possi- bility the hearings will be complet- ed this evening. Highlights of today's session, bringing spectators out of the fog| of a drear procession of figures| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 24.— The Army has ordered 6,000 pairs ing bags for winter maneuvers in Alaska. Col. Simond B. Buckner, Army Commander in Alaska, made this revelation today. Col. Buckner said he would ac- company one or two battalions on a trip into the wilderness in the in sub-zero temperatures. Col. Buckner also revealed that the Army is giving consideration to the development of parachute troops. He also said that transportation is the biggest and most baffling problem in planning Alaska defens- were the statements of Dr, Clayton L. Polley, President of the Cham- ber of Commerce in Skagway, de- es. New roads will also probably claring his city's business men feel the freight rate increases are un- |fair in comparison with Juneau- Skagway and Ketehikan-Juneau have to be built, the Colonel said, for military purposes e | rates, and the refusal of W. 8. Pul- a a Ier 'len, Manager of the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company, to | answer commission attorney David rl H I d ! Scoll's question as to the dividend NIwWhne | T ! Polley’s Statement "on the stand by attorney Scoll, that “merchants of Skagway feel the freight rates to Skagway are too A high in comparison with other| Fofmef Ffen(h Pl'emlef, from five to ten cents a cubic toot‘ . from Juneau to Skagway, and only | Others fo Be Investigat- usouc v cents trom Ketchisas to Juneau.” { ed Abou' wal' En"y Questioned as to relative econoi ‘» VICHY, France, July 24, — The Dr. Polley declared he had been Petain Government has ordered for- advised by a Juneau furniture deal-| mer Premier Daladier and several er to make his purchases direct others confined in the Marseille from Seattle as it would be cheap- prison while launching an investi- er than paying the additiona! gation of Frenchmen allegedly re- Alaska Steamship Company at-| the war. torney Stanley Long explained that Daladier has just returned from Skagway is served by 39 trips a Morocco where he fled at the year and brought out that the| time of the armistice. town’s population is relatively small HERE FROM SITKA | Rates “Very Good” e W. S, Pullen, Manager of the Ray Burke, whose parents own Alaska Electric Light and Power over by plane yesterday and is at Company, first witness for Long, the Bayview Hotel in Sitka, came — (Continued on Page TWo) payment rates of his company. ' i | Dr. Polley declared, when placed n Priso towns—the rate has been increased of shipping furniture to Skagway,| sponsible for France’s entry into freight from Juneau to Skagway. - et — —a little over 600. the Gastineau. ) RAGES OVER ENG. CHANNEL Sixty Germa_n—PIanes, De-- fenders Engaged in Terrific Conflict ZERO HOUR IS NOT YET DATED BY HITLER Fuehrer's _fiwspa per Heaps Scorn on Halifax for Peace Failure By Associated Press) Great Britain, now reported near- ing a parity with the German air force, fought off slashing attacks hy Nazi raiders this morning. I'he London spokeman said the Reich has lost a total of 4,000 to 5,080 planes since the war began. This morning a terrific sky battle raged for several hours over south- east coastal towns. More than 60 German and British planes whirled in combat. Two Nazi craft were shot down and four other German raiders are reported to have been dropped by the swiftly counter attacking Royal Air Povu fighters elsewhere. erman Alibi The Nazi High Command blames bad flying weather for the lack of massed activity yesterday but claim the German air forces sank a sub- marine in the North Sea and de- stroyed two patrol boats and a mine sweeper in the English Channel. Up to noon today there were still no signs that Hitler had ordered the zero hour of his threatened huge assault on the British Isles. German “Scorn” With Hitler’s bid for a Nazi dic= tated peace spurned as a subterfuge of “anti-Christ,” Hitler's newspaper today heaped scorn on the man who rejected the bid, calling Lord Hali- fax, British Foreign Secretary, a “funeral orator,” who signed Eng- land’s death warrant, The newspaper declared that the peace move has failed and now “weapons will speak.” gl - 5. S R Half of Nafion Wilting Terrific Heat Prevails An- other Day-Death Toll Reaches * 247 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A wilted half a nation today cried “Uncle” again but the blazing sun gave no sign of relenting from the eastern seaboard to the great plai: nd the story today of ter- rific o was the same as it has been for one Week, and in some sections, longer. There has a rising tempera- ture and possibly scattered thunder showers but no real relief is in prospect. At least 247 deaths are reported, un attributed to heat and drown- reached 115 de- South Dakota. I‘l temperat grees at Pierre, RECALLED ROME, July 24—The newspaper Popolo Di Roma this morning pub- lished a dispatch from Bucharest saying that the Rumanian ern- ment has recalled its lister to England. Quoting the Popolo di Roma: “Po- litical circles have affirmed that his recall is in direct retaliation for the hostile attitude recently assumed by the British Legation at Buchar- est,”