The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” W | VOL. LVL, NO. 8476. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATE ~ PRICE TEN CENTS D PRESS BOMBS SINK GERMAN SHIP OFF NORWAY * time to present it in full to the | Pan Americas Agree ARGENTINA ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT Will PreveH‘E uropean Possessions in Americas Changing Ownership HAVANA, Cuba, July 27.—Argen- tine Chairman Leopoldo Melo at the Pan American Conference an- nounced late today agreement by the peace subcommittee on a plan to prevent European possessions in the Americas to fall into other hands. Previously announcement of vir- tual agreement on a program to pre- vent transfer of ownership of Euro- pean possessions in the western hemisphere was made by a sub- vommittee of the Anterican Foreign Ministers Conference. After meeting early this morning | y7ith the purpose in view of reaching a formula to prevent transfer of ownership of foreign colonies in commission on peace maintenance | at 10 a. m., that meeting was post- | poned until late in the day and the subcommittee decided to work right through to present the completed formula at the postponed session of | the commission. % \!ober\?kllenl | 7 60 0 WASHIN GTOANAjBlgsest chance for Western Hemisphere unity the | United States has had in all his- SATKOS IN !Hopeful Hanresteaderi | | A curious crowd of French men and women, notable for the lack of smiles, looks on as the first contingent of Nazi storm troopers arrives in Clermont to take over eivil administration of the city. These are Hitler’s own 8.8, men, the trusted strongarm apostles of Nazi doctrine. | PORT WITH WEIRD ARK Finds Most of Alaska Lands in geserve | A little over two years on their |way to their chosen land, rotund,| | drawling Virginian Paul Satko, his wife and seven children, landed with | their strange yellow Ark of Juneau late yesterday afternoon at the small boat harbor to be greeted by | a float swamping crowd that had | from a “Chicago diary: Hitler’s S.S. Men Move Into France 0DDS ARE ALREADY ON DEMOCRATS TO REMAIN RIGHTIN By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, July 27.—Leaves| Be sure to notify Wall Street| and the bookies that the odds al- ready are on the Democrats to remain in power. They are not wonderful odds, but they are an edge. They're 5 to 4. Here's how. Of the 18 men who have been nominated in Windy City conventions 10 have been blown right into the White House by November balloting. The first | forty-eighth v Alaska as Market for U.S.IsTops 1939 Purchases High-Are Double Any Central American Country WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.— {Secretary of the Interior Henry IL. Ickes sald today that Alaska | bought a record total of $44,262,710 |in merchandise from the United !Slul(‘s this year, a total up $2,000,000 over any previous year | Alaska's purchases for the last | year were more than double those of jany Central American country and | topped all South American countries except Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. | Manufactured articles, particular- | ly iron and steel, headed the list of imports to Alaska with a total of $10,611,119 purchased Machinery, including automobiles, was next. | “The status of Alaska as a cus- | tomer of the United States is plain- |ly indicative of the great trade ? | expansion which would be possible 1 |with development of the Territory,” 7 | said Secretary Ickes, pOWER N5 CANAL ZONE " DEFENSES IN three-sixteenths | two and one-| for Garner,| three and seven - thirty - seconds| votes for McNutt, and so on. You| add, T'll just groan. | OUT-VOTED HIS BOSS Funniest fillip that came out of the split-vote busines though, concerned Edward Higgins, secretary to Senator Theodore F. Green, of Rhode Island, The Senator was delegate-at-large but he only had Eleven and for Farley, ing. vote ["Enemy” I;Ianes, Swarm- ing Over Isthmus Are Reported Repelled GREAT SHAPE Major Jesse E ham of the Al Infantry, arrived in Ju- neau this afternoon ahoard the | steamer Mount McKinley, | transferred from Fort Lew | Washington, to work with Go Ernest Gruening in organi | the National Guard in Alaska. Major Graham is aecompanied g On Plan For Colonies 'Maska National Guard - ToBeOrganized; Major Graham Here for Duty ROVALAR FORCE HITS OIL DEPOTS Nazis ConiiTue Air, Sea Raids - Italians Claim Victory in Sudan | | (By ASSOCIATEB PRESS) | The Air Ministry at London to- | 7. | by his wife and daughter and he | expects to make Juneau his headquarters for one year. When the steamer was in port | at Ketchikan yesterday, Major | Grah: conferred with Ketchi- n City officials over the pos- ty of an armory and Na- tional Guard Unit there. | | | | | | | | | RETURNS FROM FRANCE night reported Royal Air Force at- | tacks on oil depots at Cherbourg, | 8t. Nazaire and Nantes and also suc- | cessful bombing of an enemy supply ship off the Norweglan coast. At home British fighter planes clashed with clouds of German bombers roaring across the south- east coast in the third successive day of unprecedented wholesale raids. A total of 29 Nazi planes is re- ported to have been shot down in | 24 hours. Germans Raid Shipping | Meantime, the German Supreme | Ccommand claimed further inroads | on Britain’s merchant marine with of more of her mer- destruction chant ships. Vessels totaling 32,000 tons were sent to the bottom or set afire, Berlin claimed. One U-boat sank six armed ene- my merchant ships off East Africa. War in Sudan War correspondents for the Ital- jan newspaper Il Gilornale d'Italia reported the capture of Curmak, | British fortified town on the fron- tier of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In the Far East, Japanese blue- Jjackets operating under cover of a bombardment. from warships land- ed at Honghal Bay, Chinese terri- tory 70 miles northeast of the Brit- ish Crown Celony of Hong Kong. The landing followed earlier mining of the coastal waters, bombard- ments and the landing of troops along the Chinese coast south of Shanghal. —————— HELP FOR e was Abe Lince v v ama ana 3 | tory presents itself this week at|awalted thelr arrival for hours. | 0% 1‘"”’]':3', i 1860, when , )t a vote, while his employee| BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone, B . Bt lso. {611 the tough.| Bscorted scoss the harbor by | TALABSrs fop cDatk; Horse Ace| . u.q gclegate from the Panama|July 31—The Oanal défenses have [ est. {regular flotilla of small boats, nmll‘;:“gk;:m “l(ewx]g,t'«lr:lffllx‘:zoskezf lt]l[:e Oldi(}iuml Zone could stand right up|been checked for possible loopholes j 3 y to th 4 ; e anr ST g i . after accorded a hot reception by e majorty of people i Latin | Bekee e oot Satko admonih. |2versed pit for cocktights) and | 8050 " L O U0 U owarms of “enemy”planes_which | over Hitler, feel more friendly to-|ing his family “Don’t everyone get swept their candidate into power| worth B 5 “| roared across the Isthmus last night ward the United States than ever|on one side now!” with as wild a hullaballoo as the| 7 ' ! during a surprise attack simulating before. But simultaneously, vigor-| Suddenly realizing he had ar-|CllY ever has seen. Habit lay heavily on House|, p qorn plitzkrieg. - s Irived at the point for which he| Cleveland (twice), Grant, Gar- | Speaker William B. Bankhead ‘"‘ R S TR ous minority groups in every coun-| field, Blaine, Roosevelt I, Harri-|day .. .and threw him into con- i 5 0 e TS ap- many of them already lined |“tarted in 1938 when he welded his try, | 2 bod up with Hitler, are doing their best|P0at frame to a truck ¥ “and |drove out of Virginia for the coast to sabotage Western Hemisphere| 4 with his canvas coverings flapping herwpny. in the tobacco field breezes, Satko Inside the Brazilian army, lnr] 5 653 tr instance, about 40 percent of the| is at a loss as to just what he will officers admire and lean wward‘; 2 “Reserved” the Borman m”“‘“yafiso'fi‘)“-mfi“; “I really intended to get myself Argesiing are, S0NS. SN " |a little homestead, you know,” he ians upon whose passions Musso-| geclared. “I kind of thought, com- lini can play. In Uruguay, even after a fifth column Nazi plot to| take over the country was exposed publicly, some members of the| Uruguayan. cabinet thought it was better to close their eyes, not of-| fend Germany, Hitler, they fig-| ured, would be too important a| customer after the end of this war | to risk alienating him. So it will take all the skill of Cordell Hull's artful diplomacy to bring anything out of the Havana conference save the usual collec- tion of pious platitudes regarding goodwill, uniform customs proced- ure and the eradication of the boll| weevil. RULING FAMILIES What most pedple in the United States do not realize about Latin America is that most of its re- publics never have been actual de- mocracies. They are a collection of oligarchies, in which the aristo- cratic families, many of them descended from the Spanish con- quistadores, and since grown afflu- ent on copper, tin, meat and cof- fee, have dominated their coun- tries almost as completely as the Nazis have Germany. The advent of Hitler, therefore, does not particularly disturb them, except insofar as he is likely to upset their system of land and min- eral ownership with a new nation- al socialism. & & Actually, the culing families of Latin America have disliked Roo-! (Continyed on Page Seven) ing to a wild country, without many people, there'd be lots of land. Well, I guess there is lots of land, but it seems most.of it is National For- est or something. Every time we see a place that looks good, some- one says it’s reserved—I don't know just who theyre reserving it for, but I guess they are.” At Anan Creek, south of Wran- gell 30 miles, the Satkos fell in love with the rambling salmon- filled stream and cast longing eyes on a well drained grassy bench where a hobe would have looked nice against the trees. “But they told us that was re- served too,” Mrs. Satko smiled rue- fully, and her husband put in, “No- body living there either. All there is is some trails cut for the tour- ists to look at the salmon scramblin’ up the stream. Seems kind of fun-| ny.” Offered Farm Five minutes after Satko landed here, he was offered a farm on the | Eagle River Highway rent free, but cagey Satko, who has been a farmer as well as a Marine and a welder, has already studied the Alaska prob-| lem of marketing produce and found it wanting—and “After all,’ he de- clares, “I came here to get some land of my own. I want to look out for the future.” | Big Family Crammed into Satko’s faded yel- low vessel is a happy family of sev- en children—and one due in a month. The children range in ages from 19 to 4 years, beginning with |ers biting their nails and using| (Continued o Page Eighh) son, Harding, Taft and Roosevelt“ II all got “mandates” herc—and}' | residences in Washington. Old-timers around here like Nash, the white-haired veteran of | Illinois politics, tell me that the “hottest” convention ever held here wasn't Democratic, but Re- publican. It was 1912, when| Roosevelt I, trying to rough-ride | over Taft, got his ears pinned back in a scrap over seating of | delegates and “took a walk” with! his Bull Moose party. The politi-| cians who figure Chicago is the| luckiest convention city in the| land add the Bull Moose conven- tion nomination of Teddy, too, bc-l cause although the didn’t win the| election, he did give William | Howard a licking at the polls. | WHERE'S CACTUS JACK? Keep working to uncover that| convention mystery: Why “Cactus Jack” Garner did a fadeout during| the early part of the convention | and for days couldn’t be reached byf telephorie or personal appeal. Even | close friends couldn’t find out| where he was. Maybe it's _a new political technique . .. but it sure was applied with a vengeance. If the “Cactus Coolidge,” as Heywood Broun once dubbed him, had been week-ending in Uvalde, he couldn't| have been any more scarce around Chicago. It had his back- the kind of language that would | have shocked the Texas rangers. Add to the most utterly ridicu- | lous of all political sappery, that| business of splitting state delega-' tion votes into halves, quarters, sixteenths, and on. What kind of | a vote is a forty-eighth of a vote, | anyway? Maybe it's all for a laff because you can get plenty of| 'em anytime you want, wnbchxng‘ convention kibitzers trying to keep‘ scorecards on that kind of ballot- fusion. When Pat| he walked into his| “(Continued on Page Six) . jCess, from both sides. ' parently were an unqualified suc- according to official reports WHAT'S AHEAD IN POLITICAL NEWS, WHAT'S IN BACK OF¢(POLITICAL NEWS Over there, war is in the open. Over here, presidential cam- paigners are clearing decks for action. For first flashes of what's going to happen, for exclusive flashes of why things do happen, follow Drew Pearson's and Rob- ert S. Allen's column of report and interpretation, in THE EMPIRE the Dixie Clipper. dent and Secretary of State Hull. turn to France, Third Party Is in'OIIing Republicanjs Accepfance Speech Will Denounce Machine Politics CHARLESTON, 8. C., July 27 Attorney Alston Moore today issued a call for a meeting next week for a “Jeffersonian Democratic Pa support Wendell L. Willkie for Presi- dent. DRAFTING ACCEPTANCE SPEECH COLORADO SPRINGS, July 27.- Wendell L. Willkie today began drafting his address accepting the Republican nomination as Presiden- tial candidate. Associates predicted that the ma- jor portion of the address will be devoted to an attack against “ma- chine politics,” renewing his prev- fous blasts against what he terms “the Kelly-Nashes, Hagues and Crumps.” Talk among his supporters is that he might seek to form a third party in an effort to capture Democratic yotes, For Willkie William Bullitt, U. 8. Ambassador to France, is shown as he was met by his daughter, Anne, as he returns to New York from Europe on He went to Washington to confer with the Presi- Dan Olson Fifty Million Dollars Worth of Supplies fo Be Sent ~Setup Starts WASHINGTON, July 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has set up machinery to purchase and distribute $50,000,- 000 worth of supplies to give to He indicated he expected to re- European refugees. An executive order designates Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to buy agricultural supplies and Henry Morgenthau other materials. The action is take under the re- lief act. When the newsmen asked if the British agreed to let them through the blockade, White House Secretary Stephen Early said that was a ques- tion for the American Red Cross as the relief was that organization's Dies While Southbound Miner Passes Away in Ketchikan Hospital job. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 27.—‘ BN B »an Olson, of Fairbanks, miner and | M a I I a | s prospector, aged about 65, died sud- denly in a hospital here last night. Bombed by Italians Olson was enroute to Seattle for medical attention but left the Al- aska Clipper here last Saturday night and went to the hospital. He recovered slightly and left the hos- | pital and intended taking the Clip- per south yesterday but instead re- :;;(n‘:;uu to the hospital where he: ROME, July. &1 R % R SN AR, {High Command reports that the }Bl'l”f,h base at Malta was bombed REVENUE AGENT ‘violently last night. Internal Revenue Agent Miles| RS % DT Price returned on the steamer /\l<j GREANY RETURNS |aska from an official trip to Skag- | way, Sitka, Wrangell and Peters- | J. Malcolm Greany, of the Alaska burg, |Game Commission, returned on the —re——— | stcamer Baranof from Seward where MRS. BOYLE VISITS | he delivered 100 young pheasants to Mrs, Frank Boyle sailed for Skag- | Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bell of Cooper way on board the steamer Alaska Landing for liberation after a for a short visit, month’s acclimating in pens, S