The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s | V) VOL. LVL, NO. 8478. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZI MASS TROOPS TO ATTACK ENGLAND Submarine Nets To Be Placed, U. Hillman's First | NAVY PLANS REVEALED IN NEW ACTION Vessels Also fo Be Sta- tioned in Principal { American Ports - il WASHINGTON, July 30.—The al Defense Commission losed today that the Navy Department plans to station vessels at major American har- bors and also lay submarine nets at the entrance of the harbors. The net laying will be done at all large ports on both the At- lantic and Pacific coasts. In the emergencies listed to- day in a report of the Army and Navy, orders for a fund of $16,- 4 00 were made for construc- t of net tenders. An emergency award is made to the Lake Washington (Seat- tle) Shipyards at Houghton, for $1.916,000 for construction of net tenders. The Boeing Aircraft Company of Seattle is also awarded $31,- 871,000 for airplanes. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY 1S PULLED DEFENSE COMMISSIO! He dwells in Trio of Bandits $tage Bold Hold-up-Escape with $108,01)yn Cash ASBURY PARK, New Jersey, July | 30— A trio of bandits, armed with| TOKYO, July 30.—The Japanese shotguns, early this afternoon robbed Army spol nan announces that ‘Several Foreigners Taken in Custody in Korea, Espionage Charges Move, Defense PostMay Head (10, AFL Toward Peace NER SIDNEY HILLMAN marble halls. By MORGAN BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer old swimmin' hole, labor’s 'Sidney Hillman sets out to do the impos- sible again as a member of the National Defense Commission. is time it's his job to get Am- s idle men and idle plants | together, and, when that's done, to fill the gaps still left with youths newly trained and disciplined for the national defense job ahead. And if he's not swamped along the way, he's expected to help settle or prevent strikes, That's a big order, But Hillman’s as confident as he was that day in 1910 when he led WASHINGTON, July 30—Blithe cused the Republican Senators with as a schoolboy on the way to the attempting to play politics with tthe Fledgling PLANSFOR DEFENSES HOT ISSUE Stormy Session Is Held by| Senate Military Com- mittee-Gefs Riled WASHINGTON, July 30. — The Senate Military Committee today | delayed final action on the Burke-| Wadsworth Compulsory Military| Training Bill and ordered immediate | hearings on the measure to author- | ize President Roosevelt to call for | training of Naticnal Guard officers| and Reserve Corps. 1 Chairman Sheppard also said the | cemmittee.has decided to informally | censider the suggestion of Senator | Warren R. Austin, Republican of | Vermont, that registration of civil- | jans for possible conscription be| limited to men between 20 and 31 158 years of age. Fledgling pilots at the Opa-Lock Senator Burton K. Wheeler has| pemcticing the art of “spilling the njected a political note into the| jng. contreversy by challenging Wendell | + | L. Willkie to state his stand cn con- | —— e scription i The Senate Military Committee meeting today is described as one of the bitterest in years over the defense controversy when three Re- publicans demanded that President Roosevelt make clear his view. Democratic Senators Sherman | Minton and Josh Lee heatedly ag- ALASKAN 1S EXECUTED defense issue. EPE e, POSSIBLE Opa-Locka is to turn out 4,000 men annually for advancement to the Pensacola Naval Base, where two bank messengers of $108,000 in | 5¢ veral foreigners, names and na-'and won the seemingly hopeless casH, tionalities not disclosed, have been strike in Chicago’s open shop The robbery was staged in rront,‘arrmted in Korea in connection clothing industry. of the Post Office in ‘full view of |With an extensive campaign against He's as confident as he was in scores of spectators. alleged foreign espionage. 1914, when he led his little band The tri oescaped in a green sedan| Thirteen Britons have previously of 105 delegates out of the Ameri- with Pennsylvania license plates. |been seized in Japan proper. can Federation of Labor, formed ers of America. As urbane as that ALASKANS MAY VOTE | National Fra—nc—hise for Dis- | frict of Columbia Up Before Congress WASHINGTON, July 30.—Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told | {Chairman Sumners of the House Believed the oldest person ever executed by the State of Califor- nia, Robert C. Perry (above), 71, | died in San Quentin’s gas cham- ber July 18. Onetime Alaska sour- dough and bogus doctor, he was sentenced for the murder last year of a San Diego bank janitor dur- ing a robbery. | Pilots Learn Use of Chutes a, Fla., air base receive a lesson in parachuting. One of the hopefuls is air” from his "chute to avoid being dragged along the ground after land- hey will complete their aerial education, Third Term Boom Slow ‘To Start at Democratic Convention, Then, Bang WHEELER QUIZZING WILLKIE Senator W;as fo Know Stand of GOPer on Conscription WASHINGTON, July 30.—United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 30. — Add now-it-can-be-told stories on the Chicago cnvention: The number of times the Roose-| velt boom failed to spark in those | first few days of the convention | was something that will haunt his| managers in their nightmares for| years to come—but it shouldn’t. Let's start off with this: at the| outset, the third - term leaders claimed 900 delegates. The only| question was when start the stampede to give it all the necessary fire and drama. The first big' demonstration planned was when Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago made his ad- dress, The Mayor got in his build- up for a big demonstration and what happened? Nothing and how to S. Harbors MOVEMENTS OF SOLDIERS INDARKNESS ;Invasion Across English Channel Is Believed Indicated | OF RAF, WEST GERMANY (laims Regarding Outcome of Big Battle Over Dove( Disputed BULLETIN — NEW YORK, July 30.—Edwin Hartric, cor- respordent of the Columbia Breadcasting System, who has just toured Nazi occupied France, across the English Channel from England, report- ed today that heavy massing of German treops is underway, but the soldiers are moving only under cover of darkness. Hartric says this indicates conclusively that the invasion of England is apparently not far distant. | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany today is disputing the claims made by Great Britain that seventeen German planes were shbt down in yesterday's battle over Dover on the English Channel and only one British plane failed to return, The German High Command as- serts that wave after wave of Ger- man bombers were sent over the British Isles and only “several” failed to return. It s also claimed that many buildings were damaged, some set afire, in the Nazi air raids. Shipping Sent Down The Germans also claim that great |damage has been dene to Dover and |that four ships, totaling 35,000 tons, blocking the Dover Harbor entrance, | were sunk by bombs. The claim is |also made that a 10,000 ton cruiser was also sunk in the Channel and 15 British planes were shot down. It is announced by the British Admiralty that three soldiers were | casualties at Gibraltar yesterday | | & T the Amalgamated Clothing Work- East Still & § Judiciary Committee t6day that the 11 d Wendell L. Willkie C“le {day in 1933, when he accepted | Judiclary Committes hotay Ehat Iy has challenge kie| Why? Because all those hun-|from unknown causes. The Italians | AFL's invitation to march the to state his position on conscrip-|greqs who were supposed to be| | statehood.” | have been bombing Gibraltar. Amalghmated,. IENEREEE. SO Dimond made the declaration af:- s in the galleries to start the tor-| The Nazi High Command admits and powerful, back into the fold.| i | r is bill reducin; e ¢ | | i - ter Delegate King of Honolulu had | } Whesler said Dit 4 8 nado of cheers hadn't been able| ., “giypich Royal Air Force has And as unconcerned as he was| ¥ ' service to one year would ckets. T 5 3 i the Army sty ' to get tickets. The tickels Were|, ., o4 ingustrial centers of westérn urged that Hawaii be included in | £ 0 volunt without any legislation to extend mational | provide needed volunteers ) conscription and added: “‘fc@ Sweltering | more recently wh L him | - more recently when AFL kicked him | in the hands of the National Com | Germany and also admit that dis~ Leaving; | | Drew Pearsos | Do a8e franchise to the District of Colum- mittee, which was spelled JaMES|,qprou5 fires were started by bombs and | European Accent ey pans- | “The American people ought to| A parley. And, as Farley “‘dwdmp;‘:d A Dusselsdofl ml;y Offen- S Allen | rom ea | “Don't you feel out of your ele-| AT H be told why all this haste, why all| ouer and over again, he was not|pgcy RobertS.Alle , | ment in this_white’ paaghle- Fed-| SUTOeTS 16 Sponeotiie an Siend [ | ttis bysteria. are we going to war| going to permit nay third-term| " eral Reserve Building?” I ask, e " wa with Japan, and are we going to| . ,nede. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | States swelters in the continued heat | wave, which has now brought the 'GO‘Qg |total death list for the last eleven WASHINGTON—One of the U. 8. gays to 717 including 364 drown- Army's official observers, just jngg returned from London. brings op-f Relief is seen in showers but not timistic news regarding Britain's for the entire area. ability to withstand the Nazi blitz- krieg. {ture at Detroit was 98 degrees, at He reports that the morale of Chicago 95, Baltimore 94 and at the Royal Air Force is excellent,! St. Louis and Kansas City 102 de- that both British planes and pilots grees. are better than the German, and that two or three British fighters sometimes go up after 20 Nazi bombers and drive them away. Nu- merically, of course, Germany still| is far ahead of the British airplane | force. | What the Nazis have been doing so far in their sporadic airplane B EUET A RIS BIG CONVENTION IS MEETING IN The eastern half of the United Yesterday the maximum tempera- | He laughs. | “Not exactly; Julius Rosenwald | lonce told me the Amalgamated's quarters in Chicago were as fine, as his club, We have two banks, you know.” Sidney Hillman's accent is defi- nitely old world. His English is exact, grammar fair. He was born in Lithuania. His clothes throw you off. He's dressed like a business man, may- be a bit on the smart side. Sum- mer-cool pastel blue, white socks and shoes. With his gold-rimmed glasses, neatly parted hair, you might mistake him for a Rotary Club president. You'd think him lnuL a day gver 40. The record shows "he's 52, He’s Fought Communism However confident Hillman may be, his job’s not easy. J | would allow residents of the District in national | of Columbia to vote elections. Delegate Dimond added that he is temporarily undecided as to whether or not granting of immed- Flag May Be Liable \Vessel Under American| iate franchise to Alaska would hin-| der the Territory in its progress towards a goal of complete state-| hood. “Until I make up my mind, I LONDON, July 30.—Government shall take n oaction,” Dimond said.|sources said today that the Duke WAHI,NG'I'ON the risk of capture by'Ttaly or Ger- NOT 100 SAFE PRESENT TIME | Roosevelt —S—a;s Capital [ | fo Seizure af Sea States on the American Export liner Excalibur, The British Embassy at Lisbon said they are sailing Thursday for the United States An authority on international law said that carrying Individuals who |are members of the armed forces |of the enemy places the ship in the many if théy travel to the. United | | set up an armed camp between now |and election time. “The American people have a right to know how Presidential can- | didates stand -on the. conscription | proposal and what they think about iwan | “DEAR ALBEN" ON SPOT The second dud missed fire that Tuesday night when Senator “Dear Alben” Barkley passed along the President’s pronouncement. The | demonstration was terrific. A few |of the most ardent supporters felt the time was ripe for suspending the rules, nominating Roosevelt 48 | hours ahead of schedule. Florida’s | Senator Pepper was going to offer the resolution. And this time it was the | “Dear Alben” himself who put a { NO COMMENT | COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., July | 30.—~Wendell L: Willkie declined to- | day to comment on Senator Wheel- | er’s challenge to announce his views (on conscription One of Willkie's aides said | Republican nominee could not be | 50D l? it, expected to answer each abstract| Why? Because, anti-third term- | question handed him, but he would | €rs pulled a fast onet Warned of make his position clear on all major| What. was happening, they noti- issues during his campaign | fied Barkley that if he enter- - >o > 1 jamed Senator | Pepper's reso- \ERIC ERICK |to adjourn. A motion to adjourn, | under convention rules, has rigat | lution, they would make a motion SON DIE ARGENTINA 1S HEDGING OVER PACT Breakdown Reporfed Re- garding ""Adt of Ha- vana”" af Meefing HAVANA, Cuba, July 30.—Argen- | tina is hedging on the important American Foreign Ministers agree- flights over England is to look for| The man’s working with a labor Britain's new and hidden air fields| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Juy 30— | movement whose house is divided In Poland and Norway, the ““,“Bu.slness leaders are meeting h"ejngsmst itself. thing the Nazis did was to bomb| {0r the 38th annual national for-| “mey gealing, too, with Army and airports and the adjacent hangars. €1&n trade convention. |Navy men whose everyday work Learning from this lesson, the Brit-| They faced a chaotic world in|jeayes them indifferent to labor ish have now pushed old truck and| Which the prospects of foreign trade | povements, and many of whom automobiles onto their airports, @PPeared most unfavorable. The|gear off the record—that unionla- making them a burial ground for Chairman of the National F""“g“-!bcvr will insist on limiting appren- jallopies, Meanwhile, their realair-|Trade Council, James A. Farrell|(iceships in key industries to pro- ports are hidden. |of New York, delivered the key-|iect high wage scales, national de- The Nazis have been sending Dote address of the conference|fense or no national defense. position of a neutral ship liable for |seizure as gontraband. | Some of the D1 and Duchess’s luggage has already arrived in New | York. \CHAMBERLAIN IS OPERATED UPON; |of way, is not debatable, is sub-| ment on treatment of foreign pos- | ject to roll call. What would have | sessions in the Western Hemisphere, | happened? The demonstration would | by making a reservation to its sig- Eric Erickson, of Juneau, Was pave gone dead. ;nalur.. to the “Act of Havana." B A £ ot mffi mo""’;"é' Y| FDR HAS FUN | the signatures must be approved fi- l The remains are abt the (,'hm-](-s\’ If Roosevelt hadn't been a Presi-| nally by their own government, al- W. Carter Mm_'“my pending funeral | 9¢% he could have been an actor|though they declare t.hl.s is merely ‘fl“.an'g(‘mem_\ or a playwright. His sense of dra-|an “academic question. w5 | matic timing would have carried The effect has resulted in the | him to the top in the theater even breaking down of the unanimity on | faster . than it put him on top xn’ma America’s policy in case foreign Will Be Much Better Profected in Year WASHINGTON, July 30.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has returned to the White House after an inspection of defense operations around Nor- folk, Virginia, which he said con- | vinced him that Washington could | “feel a whole lot safer” one year | AT ST. ANN'S TODAY —_———eee ——— >-oo— ‘MH,S. HOLT GUEST OF scouting planes to find them, As When he spoke on “America’s Eco- far as the British can ascertain, omic Front.” they have been unsuccessful. | Council President Eugene Thomas The Nazis also have been wm_‘ot New York is presiding at the | completely unsuccessful in their Sessions. fifth column activities in England.| A message to the foreign trade (Continued on Page Three) ‘convention from President Roose- yelt will he read tonight. Also watching Hillman's step and trying to oust him in favor of |a military youth administrator, is | Georgia’s Congressman E. E. Cox, and a bloc of -other lawmakers. They say “Sidney Hillman” and (Continued to ‘Three) from now. The President said that | success of any attempt to invade | IS FEELING OKAY the Capital would “depend entirely on when it came and who it was’ making the attack. The President spent seven hours| “making progress” after an- intes-| William O. Johnson, at their resi- .. yesterday, under a scorching sun, tinal operation at one of the-local dence in the 1. O. O. F. Apartments. making his inspection, LONDON, July 30.—Former Prime |Minister Neville Chamberlain is hosptials; WILLIAM 0. JOHNSONS | politics. Mrs. Cora Holt, of Toppenish, | stayed behind in the capital who Washington, is the guest of her son|told me how FDR, that sultry and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J Tuesday afternoon when the con- | vention was floundering, had de- on N.fi;) (Conunued lsm will be here until Monday. attempts to change the sovereignty It was one of the boys who|oOf the possessions. The reservation was made smooth~ ly and many delegates at first fail- ed to realize its meaning. The “Act of Havana” would virtually give all nations prior contest to operations upholding the Monroe Doctrine,