The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ALASKA EMPIR K 4 VOL. LVL, NO. 8475. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT. FLAMING AERIAL BA JAPAN 1S RILED UP WITHU.S. Embargo on Scrap Iron and 0il Creates Tension in Nippon Land MORE TROUBLE LOOMS | IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE Balkan Counfries fo Be | Told What fo Do Under Hitler's New Era BULLETIN — TOKYO, July 26.—The Japanese Foreign Of- fice has instructed its Ambas- Washington, D. C., to nvestigate the curb of U. S. oil and scrap iron exports with careful consideration not to threaten any trade relations. | | | | | | | | (By Associated Press) | In the Orient, the Japanese For- eign Office spokesman said Japa-| nese reaction to the United States embargo on oil and scrap iron ship- | ments will “be very great.” | President Roosevelt yesterday| signed an order requiring licenses be henceforth issued for the ex- port of oil and scrap iron when deemed desirable. | In Southeast Europe | Germany’s plans in southeastern Europe also claimed attention in| another phase of the tangled in-| ternational situation. Rumania’s revamped pro - Nazi Government has sent envoys to Ger- miany for -the “first-of &~ serles of | weekend conferences which For- | eign Minister von Ribbentrop ex- | pected to define lines along which | Germany will mediate Balkan dif- ferences and tell the Balkan diplo- mats how their countries will oper-| ate under Hitler's new era in Eu- rope. | Frenchmen Expelled On the eve of the conference, Ru- | mania ordered twelve French oil company executives expelled and pledged every effort to pour 200,000 | tons of Rumanian oil into the Nazi | war machine this month, AMERICAN TRADERS IN CHINA HIT Japan Begfi?RetaIiatingi for Embargo on Scrap Iron and Oil SHANGHALI, July 26.—Coincident of the action of the United States in licensing all scrap iron and oil exports, embargo which was placed yesterday by President Roosevelt, is reported to have halted all ac- tivities of American traders in North China, The halt is because of resetrictions announced today by the Japanese Government control- ling this section of China. Also, as a result of Japanese pres- sure the British authorities are re- ported to have ordered the United States Marine Station at Tientsin to be closed, effective August 20. Lorefa AYoung fo Wed !ednesday HOLLYWOOD, July 26. — The wedding of screen actress Loretta Young and radio advertising execu- tive Thomas Lewis is announced for next Wednesday. They will be mar- ried in the Church.o 8t. Paul in Westwood Village. Death for Treason In Canada OTTAWA, July 26. — Th\e final reading of the treachery avt bill has been given to the Houxe of Commons. The bill calls for infliction o:&f death penalty in cases of tre: J Democrats Opposed to War Mrs. Thomas McAllister, Director Democratic National Committee, i cratic Convention as she addressed the state delegates. She said in part that thé Democratic Party i and that women Democrats are proud of President Roosevelt's present leadership in foreign affairs. - of the Women’s Division of th s pictured at the Chicago Demo- s not leading the U. 8. into war First Affack on (6nvoy Made by Na Waters Off Iri;h Coast SPEED. BOATS | SENDING DOWN BRITISH SHIPS Three Rep&tgd Sunk Off England's Coast-An- | other Set Afire | BERLIN, July 26—The German High Command announces in a spec- jal communique today that German speed boats have sunk three mer- chant ships, totaling 22,000 tons, off the southern coast of England in the region of Brighton, and another merchantman of 2,000 tons was set afire. Breakdown Still Continues in Wage Case of Stevedores SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 26. —A spokesman for the CIO Inter- national Longshoremen’s Union said it is up to steamship employers to make the next move following the breakdown in negotiations for a| new contract. | The negotiations broke off after union officials asked for a guaran- tee that past gains would be in- cluded in the new contract. The union later offered to nego- | tiate or arbitrate, if necessary, the| proposals of either party. Prediis that U. S. - To Soon Be in War BUTTE, Mont, July 26.—A former Ambassador to Germany, James W. | Gerard, predicted here that the | United States would be involved in | war within six months. | Gerard said that the most serious threat is from Nazi Germany. _Gerard served as United States | Ambassador to Germany prior to| | | | ziPlanesin BELFAST, July 26.—Heavy gun- fire was heard early today off the Northern Coast of Ireland Flashes of fire between ships and airplanes could be seen from the shore witnesses on the coast. It is believed that German air raiders apparently attacked a con- voy. British fighting planes sped to the rescue of the convoy. The raid on a convoy is the first witnessed in the north Irish wa- ters. Five Ships SentDown InChannel British Admiralty Admits Losses by Planes, Tor- pedo Boaf Affacks LONDON, July 26.—The British Admiralty acknowledges that the plane and torpedo boat attack yes- terday on a 21-ship convoy off the English Channel sank five ships, damaged five merchantmen and also two British destroyers, ‘The Admiralty also announces the loss of the trawler Fleming in a clash with dive bombers, Dutch Make Peacg_AppeaI It Comes, However, from German Confrolled Radio Station (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German controlled Holland radio is quoted this morning as say- ing the Dutch Peace Committee has | Fascist Com?nahd Makes (GIBRALTAR AIRRAIDED BY ITALIANS Claim of Thirty-Minute Atfack at Dawn (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Italian bombing planes renewed attacks on Great Britain’s great rock fortress of Gibraltar, gateway sen- | tinel to the Mediterranean The Fascist Command declares that the heavily fortified bastion was effectively bombed after a long night flight from Italian bases. Dispatches from Gibraltar said an | unspecified number of enemy planes bombed the stronghold in a 30-mif- ute raid before dawn today but was driven off by anti-aircraft fire. —.———— GIBRALTA ISHITHARD BY PLANES Twenty Bom—bs Dropped- Four Killed and Many Wounded in Attack LR “CADIZ, July™ 26--Four persons, were. killed- and -37. wounded as| enemy planes bombed Gibraltar to- day, it is reported. Great Britain’s rock fortress was reported considerably damaged with at least 20 bombs striking. | The high explosive missiles struck | the Ladrillios. Dock, the seaside | suburb of Caleta and Gibraltar it-| self, near the rock arsenal and a hotel in the area as well as its soldiers’ barracks. One woman was killed, national- | ity undetermined. - eee - — SEATTLEMAY | BUILD NAVY DESTROYERS Todd PeopE_Negoiiating, Now for Fifty Million Dollar Deal SEATTLE, July 26.—The Seattle Times today declares destroyers rep- resenting an investment of $50,000,- 000 will be built at new shipyards to be established here if negotia- tions contemplated go through. Todd shipbuilding representatives are now eonferring with the Navy Department in Washington, D. C. HAVANA PREDICTS SETTLEMENT OF TRUSTEESHIPS HAVANA, Cuba, July 26.—Promi- nent delegates to the Pan American Conference today optimistically pre- dicted agreement on the troublesome question of trusteeship of European possessions on the Westren Hemi- sphere after Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull and Leopold Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, con- ferred in an effort to iron out di- vergent views. Melo opposed Hull's espousal of Cuban and Brazilian ideas of a joint mandate over European possessions that may be threatened with a change of ownership as a result of the war. After the conference, Hull joined the Brazilian delegation head, Maur Icio Nabuco, and Cuban Foreign Minister Miguel Campa in Campa’s office, presuambly to inform them of Melo's views. Later the group appealed to President Roosevelt “in the United States entry into the World War, the name of humanity” to arrange' a peace conference, : was joined by Melo. The meeting has led other delegates to believe that an agreement is in sight. ED ED, IMPOR [ OR UNTEND coMP! T CO! Y STOPPED SSTRILITY_OF EXPORTS TO AXIS | OUS_BUT CR JiNcrREASING FoOD SHORTAGE; ADDITIONAL ,000,000 ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION BY WOM. LA MY BNS -LAND A ND JOTHER NONCOMBAT- NTS Chicago Needs s FOOD LINE 15 FORMING IN LONDON Dispatchesmit Egas Are Short as Resut of Aerial Raids on §hipping LONDON, July 26—The first food line of the war formed today when housewives in the middle class dis- trict of Shepherds Bush sought to replenish their egg supplies. The British censor permitted the sending of the dispatch which dis- closes the egg shortage is one of the first signs of Hitler’s incessant aerial |ralds on shipping and which has begun to pinch Great Britain's lar- der, especially on the English Island. WATER, PHONE INSTALLED AT BOAT HARBOR City Engineer Is Preparing Specifications on Electricity A water service reel has been in- stalled in the small boat harbor announced today. The reel, placed on the main float, contains 50 feet of hose. Specifications for the installation of electricity are now being pre- pared. A telephone for the use of the public without charge has been in- stalled at the harbor by Lu Liston. BURGUNDER T0 DIE FOR CRIME FLORENCE, Ariz., July 26.—War- den Shute has issued invitations for the execution of former college stu- dent Robert Burgunder, on August 9, at the State Prison. former King County, Washington, prosecutor, was found guilty of slay- LETEL! OMMANDEERED OR SLAUGHTERED ROPS REDUCED ON ACCOUNT. OF WEATHEN & M. FOOD_SITUATION PS_ARE MAND ~ Of Explaining, So Will All the Explap_alion&# 0 here, City Engineer Frank Metcalf | Burgunder, - whose father is a| ing two automobile salesmen on the | desert. near Phosnix, i p TS CUR ANIMALS POWERS._ SERL. L IF CoM. HOPEFUI NOT EERED. i 0D 1 v alo By JACK STNNETT | | WASHINGTON, July 26—Look- ing back on the early day of she Chicago convention, I can say hon- estly that neither I, pretty much a freshman in the field of politics, nor any of my seniors ever saw any- }mmg like it. When the last chap- | ter in the history of American pol- |ities is written, the conventions of 1940 will take a lot of explaining. At Philadelphia, it was because a recent political change-coat, Wen- dell L .Willkie, walked in and ran off with the nomination while old- line Republicans gasped for breath and cried for time to catch up with the march of amazing events. In Chicago, It was because the silence of “the man who wasn't there” left everybdy in a stats of utter confusion. | “SWEEPING” THE CONVENTION For a columnist to weep for words is heresy ...but I haven't | the verbal left jabs and right hooks to explain the consternation into which the Chicago convention was thrown by the silence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nevertheless, with this little per- spective, I'm going to try to put it down. Let's take the press first. Far be it from me to turn on my journal- istic brothers. Whenever I want the facts in a case and wantthem right, I go to the newsmen. There have been times when they were baffled, as, for example, what happened to Judge Crater but nine times out of ten, biases aside, they know more than they are able to get into print. Good taste, journalistic integrity, edi-| torial policy demands, and other factors sometimes forbid putting down every guess and calculation but they very rarely forbid put- ting down the known and tenable facts. But what happened in Chicago? In the course of 48 hours, I saw | John N. Garner, Burton K. Wheel- er, Paul V. McNutt, Cordell Hull, and James A, Farley announced very solemnly as ‘“sweeping the convention” in a drive for the presidential nomination. I heard all of these, plus Gov- ernor Lloyd Stark of Missouri,| Senator Scott Senator “Jimmy” Byrnes; liam O, Douglas, of the Supreme Court; Attorney General “Bob”| | Jackson; boomed as Roosevelt's definite selection as a running 1msu, THEY DIDN'T KNOW Through it all, I talkéd to Byrnes, | Secretary of Commerce Hopkins,| |and Prank Walker, of New York,| (Continued on Page Seven) DRAFT BILL First Peacetime Constrip- REPORTED NEE| OF 390, MONTH FOR IS PREPARED tion Bill in U. S. His- tory Is Completed WASHINGTON, July 26.—The first peacetime conscription bill in American history has been completed by the Senate Mili- tary Committee and will become official legislation by next Tues- day as it is predicted there will be no dissenting votes. One of the final sections ap- proved penalties of five years in prison and $10,000 fines for “draft dodgers” or those con- victed of aiding them. The committee bill also auth- orizes the creation of the office of Director of the Selective Serv- ice to handle details of the vast proposal registered all men be- tween 18 and 63 years of age and intensive training for part of them. - WALLACE PLANNING CAMPAIGN GHT BRITISH, * GERMANS CLASHING | Raiders Drone Over Brit- ish Isles as RAF Go Up and Meet Them LOADS OF BOMBS AR DROPPED ON ONE TOWN Mercha anHips, Under ~ Convoy, Attacked-Sev- | eral Are Sent Down BULLETIN — LONDON, July 26.—Oil supplies at six points in Germany have been set afire by Royal Air Force bombers, carrying out extensive opera- tions over & wide area, the of- ficial communique tonight states. (By Associated Press) | The war between the British and | Germans started briskly again early | today Nazi raiders droned over the British Isles and met the scrappy British Royal Air Force planes. One German load of bombs English - towns when pursued by Royal Air Force fighters. t Another Nazi sky raider was shot down, three of the crewmen were dumped 8 southeast plane over | [ a lish farmer ran out and captured the uninjured pilot of the plane. Another flight of Nazi bombers were chased off the southeast coast of England. The British Air Ministry count- led 28 Nazi planes bagged in yes- terday’s flaming aerial battles, the | biggest day’'s haul of the war Hitjgr's Command reports that 23 British planes were shot down | while “only nine of our planes are | missing. The Germans also report the de- struction of 15 merchant ships, totaling 63,000 tons, as a result |of y rday's dive bombing attacks on the English Channel. | - League Nations Busted Death Sentence, as Polit- ical Body, Sounded by Official Resigning GENEVA, ;;Iy_zs — Joseph Avenol, Frenchman, Secretary General of the League of Na- tions since July 1, 1933, announc- | | | killed in the crash and an.-Engei. o -| resign a WASHINGTOH, July 26.—Henry | A. Wallace sald today he plans to or take leave of absence, without pay, from his Cabinet post of Secretary of Agriculture, as soon | as he begins active cnmpalznlnu‘ for the Democratic Vice-Presidency. | e L DIVORCE GRANTED Ella L. divorce in District Court dren. S ES Sl e e 0000000 00 ARK COMING Paul Satko, with his family, in the Ark of Juneau, was reported passing Dupont at about 3 o’clock this after- noon and was expected to reach Juneau about 4 o'clock, presumably going to the small boat harbor. As soon as word spread of the near approach of the Ark, hundreds began lining the waterfront to get a look at the craft and occupants. The Ark left Petersburg last Tuesday at 10 a. m. and has been stopping overnight at various inlets. e e 0 0 0 00 0 00 ed his resignation today. Avenol stated that the “reali- ties” at the present time made his office no longer necessary. It is believed that Avenol, by his resignation, has signed B. Johnson was granted this afternoon from W. O. Johnson. She was awarded custody of the chil- what may be the formal death sentence of the League of Na- tions as a political body. FRENCH WARSHIPS BEING MANNED 10 WAR FOR BRITAIN Vessels in British Porfs Be- fore Armistice, Pre- paring for Duty LONDON, July 26.—The British e Admiralty announces that “steps ® are already well advanced for man- ® ning French warships which arrived e in our ports before the signing of ® | the armistice, e| “The French ships vary in size @ and are being manned and prepared e | for sea entirely by officers and men ® |of the French naval forces, headed e by Admiral Meselier.” ” |