The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1940, Page 1

THE DAIL “ALL THE NEWS ALASKA EMPIR ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940. - MEMBER ASSOC IATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVL, NO. 8474, GERMAN BOMBS DROPPED NEAR LONDON British Retaliate, Shell (OLONEL JOHNSON RESIGNS 8 ! Assistant Secretary of War | Leaves Department- Successor Named WASHINGTON, July 25. — The White House announces the resig- nation of Assistant Secretary of War Col. Louis Johnson and the nomination of Robert Porter Pat- terson, of New York, Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, as his successor. | Stephen Early, White House Sec- retary, told the newsmen that “since time immemorial” a cabinet officer has the right to select his assistant and . Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asked that the President: name Patterson. Early said Col. Johnson resigned yesterday and has flown to Bo-| hemian Grove near San Francisco, cal Early also said that as scon as k the President gets around to it he will wire Johnson acceptance of his resignation and “advise him that he confidentally is expeuunqj him, as soon as he takes a rest, to return to Washington and con- tinue in the service of the Gov- ernment.” Early said Col. Johnson will be nffered an Administrative Assist-| ant’s position, It is the President intention to have him as an offi- | cial member of the White House family and become the eyes of the LENCTHENING FLIGHT FROM WAR_Former Queen Geraldine of Albania is shown in London with her young son, Prince Alexander, afier flights from war zones that began in April, 1939, when Italy took over Albania, continued with her escape from Paris during Germans’ invasion of France. Queen's mother was an American; her husband is former King Zog. President on the progress of the entire question of National De- - 3 . TG % T A Judge Porter is 49, a Republican | named Federal Judge in | REASONAB[E ‘Three Thousand Craft fo Be neau for his several important of- ficial trips made to the northland. { Built Monthly for Overseas Nation It was Col. Johnson who recom- mended and then strongly insisted LONDON, July 25.—Lord Beaver- | brook, Minister of Aviation and that Army bases be established in | Production, declared in a broad- Alaska. cast I night that the United States will approve a production plan to supply Great Britain with 3,000 planes a month. and was 1939. FROM BRITAIN PLACED IN U. . |Goat Farmer Profests at | Hearings fo Costs of | Shipping Grains i Maritime Commission hearings on ® lincrease of freight rates between J |Seattle and Alaska, closed yesterday Rl S FRENCH WILL SEEK BLAME | with Examiner John Russell ad-| Lord Beaverbrook said that his | journing the session until August ministry has purchased 12,115 air 2 in Anchorage. | plane engines in the United States. | On the stand yesterday after-| |noon, Wallis S. George, Manager |of the Juneau Cold Storage, testi- |fied as a steamer line witness that |he "did not feel the increase in | rates would hurt movements of fish, REPORT CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, July 25.—Secre- | tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau !said the United States has pledged 5 | “every facility” to enable the Brit- ::zugezh;r:g :izhgr:f)ugm the Tate| ;1 to buy 3,000 military planes a Francis McDermott, Vice Presi- Month in this country in addition dent and Assistant Manager of Lhe‘wT’;‘zgg ordfrs alrea:ly génc;’d e ial tri- Juneau Lumber Mills testified that! scrRlary coniive! . bm“glc}!;[:s'bg:,l,ys;s“pAmsl::;l:‘l,";er,he felt the lines were rendering|nouncement from London by Lord Premier Daladier and other former |“very satisfactory service” and that Beaverbrook. Government, leaders for the respon- |the increase in rates is justifiable Secretary MorEE{\thau also sald sibility of France's entry into the|in his mind in the light of increased | Previous orders will require con- war and her defeat. | wage and business operations costs.|struction of new faetories, adding t was indicated the esmbhsh-! Tom Morgan, Vice-President of that the British seem to have ment of the tribundl is expected | the Columbia Lumber Company, also‘Dlen!¥ of money for the colossal shortly and some journalists may beitescined it was his belief the steam- |sum involved. tried along with Government lead- |€r service was “good” and that he| The Secretary said the Treasury, ers. |had no objections to a boost in! War and Navy Departments are Newspaperfin Are Like- ly fo Be Put on Stand Also in New Probe A military court will**look into cases of men in the armed forces at the time of incurring @lleged re-| sponsibilities for the war. They will be investigated for responsibility for unsuccessful military leadership. FISHING IN WRONG AREA (OSTS HALIBUT CAPTAINS $250 EACH Halibut fishermen Olof Westby and Martin Krandall pleaded guilty in U. S. Comn:issioner’s Court here yesterday to charges of illegal fish- ing. They were fined $250 apiece. The Fish and Wildlife Service charged Westby and Brandall with fishing in an area for which they had no licenses. ———— Mrs. E. N. Noble of Minneapo- lis, Minn, was named U. S. crochet champion in /1839, freight, rates with business costs ev-in complete accord on the com- erywhere having taken a jump. | mitments, After Alaska Steamship Agent| William Knudsen, production |Horace Adams and Northland| member of the National Defensz iTmnsportation Agem_Henry Green | Commission, has agreed to under- had given routine testimony on con-|take to work out the details for dition of freight arrivals, the first|the manufacture of the planes. real volunteer witness took Ql?‘ BT P stand. | The volunteer was goat dairy op-| erator Hermon Hanson from Mile STOCK ouoTAIIONS 12 on the Glacier Highway, who| . E | declared that shipping of hay and ! grain, inclusive of wharfage chmg-} NEW YORK, July 25. — Closing es, represents to him 41 per cent |Quotation of Alaska Juneau mine of the cost of his shipment. |stock today is 4%, American Can Hanson also'declared, in producing |93%, Anaconda 18%, Bethlehem freight bills, that a shipment of 111 | Steel 96, Commonwealth and South- pounds of paper milk bottles from 6rD 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, Gen- Portland, Oregon, had cost him | €ral Motors 43'%, International Har- $1422 freight and wharfage. fvc-s.ter 43, Kennecott 24%, New York | Hanson declared the value Of'Cer}tx'nl 11%, Northern Pacific 5%, the bottles was $2002 and that he United States Steel 50%, Pound “could have shipped them from the|$3:88. ‘factory in New York to Juneau,| parcel post, for $12.” DOW, JONES AVERAGES “It seems to me,” Hanson said,| The following are today’s Dow, e « |Jones averages: Industrials, 121.93; (Continued on Page Six) lraus, 2636; utilities, 21.92, EMBARGOON PETROLEUM, SCRAP IRON President Sfin; New Order Placing Commodities on Export Ban List WASHINGTON, July 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has added petroleum products, scrap iron ~and other scrap metal to the list of commo- dities subject to possible embargo. The President has signed the order subjecting these commodities to a ystem of export li¢ensing, should it be deemed necessary Soon after the order was signed and announced, Secretary of Treas- | ury Morgenthau confirmed the| stoppage of two shipments of oil to Spain. Kecp Escentials Here The ogder placing the commodi-| ties on the embargo list amended the proclamation issued July 2 and designed to keep in this countr materials essential to national de- fense. White House Secretary Stephen Early said the order did not pro- vide control of shipments to other| countries while Secretary Morgen- | thau could supply no reasons for| oil shipment stoppages. | It is learned elsewhere virtual embargo has already established to prevent oil reaching Germany and Italy through Spain Oil Stoppage that a been | | | Approximately 200,000 barrels of | oil were aboard two tankers whose | sailing from a Texas port was | naited two days ago by the Mari-| time Commission. They are the| tankers Aryan and Nevada andi sailing was stoppd by the “office of Merchant ship movements,” set up by Roosevelt recently under Sec- retary Morgenthau and to super- vise departures and arrivals of both foreign and domestic ships.| Scrap iron has been going (o Japan by the thousands of tons ;«lurmg the p several years and against protes JAPANE! PURCHASES SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.—Oil and shipping men revealed today that Japanese purchases of high test |aviation gasoline have mounted tu! millions of gallons on the Pacific | Coast during the past few weeks. [Additlonal purchases were said to |have been made in Gulf of Mexico | ports. It was estimated that about 15,- 000.000 gallons of aviation gasoline ‘Iubuve normal purchases, have been contracted by Japanese purchasing agents on the Pacific Coast and about 5,000,000 gallons on the Gulf. Shipping men said that a pro- vision of the gasoline purchases is | {that the fuel must be delivered in | the Orient by September 1. It is| to be delivered in 50-gallon drums | which can be easily and quickly handled, rather than in the bulk by oil tankers. THOUSANDS MISSING IN EVACUATION Cunard -linfiinking Fig-| ures Revealed After French Escape LONDON, July 25. — Authorized sources said today that 2,823 persons are missing in the sinking of the| Cunard liner Lancastria, anchored | off St. Nazaire during evacuation| of British troops from France. Of 5300 aboard, there were but | 2477 survivors, although it is be- lieved others may have saved their| lives by swimming or wading ashore | and falling into German hands. | Bases of Germans i F.D.R. Jrs. V(fi'flliofiillg | | | Franklin D. Roosevelt, J are pictured vacationing in Seattle, guests of Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. John Boettiger. F klin, Jr. recently graduated from the University AID FOR STRANDED CITIZENS Army Transport fo Be Sent fo Finland for Left- over Americans | WASHINGTON, July 25. — The| LONDON, July 25.—An American State Department announced today|made dive bomber, seized by the the Army Transport American Le-|Germans from the French, was| gion is sailing from New York for gshot down yesterday and another the Arctic port of Petsamo, North-'ya.c damaged by British spitfires Spitfires Of Brifain - Fight Nazis {America fiuilt Plane, Among German Raid- ers, Is Shql Down MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 25 i GET FAIR MONEY Mayor Harry G. McCain, of Ket- | chikan, has been notified that the | Territory will appropriate $500 for | the Ketchikan Fair held this fall. Fair plans are already well in hand. | It is said there were several Am- | (1] | | of Mississippi. | HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 25— gloves to join the U, 8. Army Air the Red Cross from all over the EIRE—A HITLER STEPPING STONE? _Here are several pilots of the air force in N Eire. which some consider a possible springboard for threatened ™'~-% invasion of Britain. |Otto SIasse?Exiled, Also |BIG FRENCH LINER IS SENT DOWNTODAY New Speed—firpedo Boat Sinks Wrong Ship-RAF Make Great Raids (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Nazi air bombs early today fell | on the outskirts of London, 12 miles | from the central part of the British | Capital City, according to the Ger- man High Command while in an- | other daring operation, a 50 - mile- |an hour Nawi torpedo speedboat | bounced 60 miles across the English | Channel to sink an armed merchant | ship near Great Britain's great na- | val base at Portland. Skittering over the rough water | of the English Channel, too fast | for the long range guns of the Naval —=——4| Base to make effective shots at the target, the German sea raider got |its knockout blow on the 18,000~ llun craft and then darted home v § | | | | | [ | | [ [ | | |again, Its trench Ship Sunk | The Nazi Command makes a great | splurge of the ctacular feat but ML is quickly mtered by Great Britain's First Lord of the Admir- |alty who declared that the craft | was the Frenci ship Weknes, with | nearly 1300 French officers and men B aboard enroi home to German A conquercd Fiar The Admiralt; Minnie Motschmann Does ‘" e 1 ermapichgd from (he the boat Not Infend fo Refurn |“ing e cncncn fiag the | French colors were painted on the fo NOf'hIafld deck and cides and the ship was Serait llnminated.” ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 25.—Miss' Lhe Geiwan High Command as- Minnie Motschman today announc- 3 German planes bombed ed that she is engaged to John|the DS Vickers Alrcraft factory at Ebert, of St. Louis. She has been| Weybridge, near London, where the on a good will tour as Miss Alaska|lamous auto race track is also lo- and announced she first met Ebert ~'ed: sert Attacks on Germany at her home town, Fairbanks, Al-| | - aska, three years ago | The German raids came as Great e {4 ._ | Britain claimed the first major vic- Miss Alaska has met noted per- tony 10 the ik Raaket ald ‘st 1 sons, including Mrs, Franklin D sy SR i e 5 ' against the Nazi conquest of Eng- Roosevelt on her month's tour, b“"‘]amd. by repeated violent attacks on remarked “my biggest thrill Was|Geynan plitzkrelg bases” across the Wheti T saw ohuRY): SRS, | channel and at the same time tight- Miss Alaska arrived here 1ast|gn.q the plockade of the Reich with Sunday to visit Johnny and his pore than 1,000 mass air raids. parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ebert. | The London spokesman says the No date has been set for the|pritish Air Force has now “made wedding but Miss Alaska indicat- iy extremely difficult for Germany ed she does not intend to wtum}m the new Anchorage airbase and to Alaska, |country as airdromes in Holland, Ebert went to Seattle to greet| Belgium and France, and bases of her on arrival but said: “All she the enemy in German-held Norway, had time to do was to wave to me | have been and are being successfully from the steamer. That's the last raided.” time I saw her until she came to P — JEW SLAYER OF FROMBOMBS Brifish Ruler Goes Through NAZI OFFICIAL FOUND, FRANCE Raid Calmly-Stays In- side Few Minutes LONDON, July 25.—King George was forced to take to cover in an Reported in Ger- man Hands BERLIN, July 25—Otto Strasser, exiled from Naziism and who is charged by the Gestapo with or- ganizing the Munich bomb plot aimed at Hitler, and Hershel Gryn- szpan, young Polish Jew, who killed a German diplomat in Parls, are reported to have fallen in the hands of the Germans, taken during the German conquest of France, Well informed German sources said Grynszpan was found in the Lesante Prison in Paris where he had been held pending trial for the 1938 slaying of Ernest von Rath, Secretary of the German Embassy there. What their hinted. ITALIAN BOMBS STARTING FIRES ROME, July 25.—The Italian Com- {mand reports that oil refineries and depots have been set afire by the fate will be is not ern Finland, to remove stranded i, o fierce bomb raid. | erican built planes, all seized x‘rum} | | Steve Wilkersen was good enough In the last two years he has president Roosevelt told newsmen Corps, where he figures “my fight-| country of a fifth colmn effort to American citizens. The battles cost the Nazis twelve | -+ the French, among the raiders. as a fighter to win a national in- fought professionally. | today that they might quote him as ing might do some good if it's sabotage the raising of funds for e planes yesterday. tercollegiate title for the University | PRt 2 Now . Steve has put away his caying that reports are reaching needed.” the suffering people of Europe. 'Hafia, in British mandated Pales- tine, Ttalian bombardment of the port of | ;mr raid shelter today during an | inspection of naval training camps on the south coast of England, but |no bombs were dropped near. His party was just leaving camp |when the alarm came. The King lighted a cigarette and strolled leisurely to the bomb shelter where witnesses said he remained {only a few minutes and after a look at the sky, ordered the tour con- | tinued. Hitler Offical TakesRapatU.S. BERLIN, July 25.—Hitler's Min- |ister of Economics, Walter Funk, |attacked the T'nited States for what he termed its diseriminatory tactics against Germany disparaging efforts to evoive the I \merican plan for e my. ridiculed the vast tores of gold 1 stored in the United States as useless.