The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE \ OL. LVL, NO. 8479 JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY JULY 3| 1940. TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATPD PRESS —— e — PRICE TEN CENTS e INVASION OF ENGLAND GROWS CLOSER Five Billion Dollars More For U. S. Defense ARMY, NAVY ARE GIVEN MORE FUNDS House Appropriations Committee Makes Recommendation WASHINGTON, July 31. — The House Appropriations Committee has recommended spending nearly n Navy and also equip the Army which might number nearly 2,000,000 men, to a combat status. This is the amount which Presi- dent Roosevelt said is necessary to give the nation “total defense.” The amount would bring this ses- sion’s record of $10,040,000,000. appropriations to the total | On Alaskan Committeemen said that “piece- | 2 meal programs will mean piecemeal preparations.” PACIFIC COAST BENEFITS WASHINGTON, July 31.-—More than $6,000,000 have been allocated | to the Pacific Coast naval defenses | in the five milion - dollar :;upp]e~‘ mental defense appropriation bill the House Appropriations Commit- tee has submitted to Congress. The Alaska awards include sums for Kodiak Naval Air Station, sea- plane and taxi-way in Saint Paul Harbor of $250,000, additional gaso- line storage $255,000, Sitka Naval Air Station $500,000, Dutch Harbor for additional radio facilities, $30,- Shipping Sent Down | BERLIN, July 31.—An autaorized | German spokesman said German | sailors and German fliers have sunk 1.002,000 tons *»f British shipping since June 25. Major General H. H. left, is pictured at Juneau, with Air Corps head had recently been stopped overnight in Juneau. Arnold, Chief of the U. Gruening, who accompanied the general on a fishing excursion. Fishing Trip | | | i | | | s the Territory’s Army Air Corps, Governor Ernest The in Fairbanks and Anchorage, in- specting the Army's air fields now under construction there and ALASKANS, I'RUM lNLANI)S | The Forest Service vessel Ranger | IX returned last night with Junior| Forester John H. Brillhart from Hoonah and Pelican City. | — Bl I | Drew Peasol Rebents Alles Q | 60 WASH]NGTON*NOC many peo- ple knew it, but Andrew Mellon’s Aluminum Corporation of America . Was one of the U. 8. concerns co- operating with Germany to main- tain high prices on certain raw materials necessary for natioal de- fense. The Aluminum Corporation con- trolled the supply of magnesium for the United States. This metal is used as an alloy in substitute for aluminum in the manufacture of airplane parts. It is absolutely es- sential to the airplane industry. Yet the Magnesium Development Company, jointly owned by the Al- uminum Corporation of America and the I G. Farbenindustrie of Germany, has enjoyed virtually a ,Prosperlly Isfo Come, Says Ford Auto Manufadurer on His Bmhday, Issues Warn- | ing fo United States | DETROIT, chh July al—llnnrM Ford, observing his 77th birthday yesterday, declared that the future will bring prosperity “greater than we have known in the past. It wili | come when we realize that things| worth while and things worth hav-| ing are worth working for. The cost to society, of philosophy, of indif- ference and carelessness has been strikingly demonstrated in what has happened to certain European ha- tions in the last few months. of the utmost importance for our| own future that we avoid falling into that same situation.” B American Decoratfed | Delegate It is!. JOBS IN ALASKA FOR IS PLEA OF WASHINGTON, July 31.—Alaska Anthony J. Dimond has IUM\ the House that Alaska needs slation to®insure residents get- luu. work in the Territory. The Delegate said outside fishing contracting companies are import- ing labor from the States while| Alaskans are not working. “Our people in Alaska must have these jobs,” said the Alaska Dele- gate, “if they are to live in Al-| aska, I am reliably informed that many members of the Alaska Fish- ermen’s Union who fish in Alaska, regular jobs which they quit in order to go Alaskaward to fish because fishing is more profitable | than their other jobs. “Alaskans are denied this op- portunity generally. They have no| other jobs and so must fish or work in the fisheries if they are to live in the Terrm)ry Ly FOOD, FUEL ~ RESTRICTED IN BRITAIN |Government Makes Dem- onstration - Assembly have other in San Francisco,| w Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, told BIG ARMY - DEMANDED BY STIMSON Straight from Shoulder About U.S. Defense i | ? WASHINGTON July 31, — The | Senate Military Committee today mnnnimously amended the Burke- | Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training bill to require registration only of men from 21 to 31 years of |age instead of from 18 to 64 years. The committee took the action as | Secretary of War ‘was appearing before the House ‘commince, which is conducting a hearing on the bill, and said that | “prudent trutees” of the nation’s | defenses must realize that Great | Britain might be conquered within 130 days and that Japan is in sym- pathy with Italy and Germany. Secretary Stimson also said the | Department and Budget Bu- | | reau both approved of the measure. | War | The War Secretary further de- clared that the only way this na- tion could meet the “war situation” is by compulsory military service He stated voluntary enlistments are |a “costly failure. Secretary Stimson also declared |that a German victory over Eng- |1and “would give the Nazis a fleet | | outranking that of the United Sttacs | |and a shipbuilding capacity six | | times that of this couxmy " ‘ i NATIONAL - GUARDSTO DELEGATE A. J. DIMOND BETRAINED Senate Mahiary Committee' Favors Granfing Presi- dent Authority WASHINGTON, July 31. | Senate Military Committee, | yesterday, approved unanimously of | | legislation authorizing the Presi-| |dent to order National Guard Of-| Ilcers and Reserve Corps into |active training for any period of 12 consecutive months. The action was taken after Gen. the committee that “paper” Na- | tional Defence could no longe suffice and at least part of the | National Guard should be calle |to active training immediately. | have to work with and this is' ab- | solutely essential,” said Gen. Mar- shall, | The Chief of Staff also said the | National Guard called. NAZI RAIDER APPEARS IN 50. ATLANTIC Se(reiaryio? War Talks| Henry Stimson | The | late/| . VICE-PRESIDENCY MAY “We must know what tools we| shoud be given! training before any conscripts are! Soviel Sub, Air Base, 1 Mile from Maska | Reports Soviet Russia has estab- | lished a hangar, air field and sub- | marine base on Big Diomede Island, |in the Bering Strait, 130 miles northwest of Nome, Alaska, were verified recently upon arrival of the Coast Guard cutter Perseus at Se- |attle. The cutter visited Little Dio- | mede Island. U. 8, owned, one mile ;lmm Russian-owned Big Diomede. | Eskimos living in the tiny village on ‘;thtlc Diomede (Russia’s possession |may be seen in background) | | re- them from trading while the north end of Big Diomede was being lev eled. Four white residents confirmed | Eskimos reports, telling Perseus of- ficers they had sighted submarines operating on the far side of Big Dio- mede. Map, drawn by Artist C. G. | Sogartz, depicts proximity of the | Islets, Below is picture of cutter. - EXPANSION OFTVA IS GIVENO.K. WASHINGTON, July 31. — The | Senate and House have approved of the $25,000,000 appropriation for expanding the Tennessee | Authority power capacity in the | interest of production of National Defense materials. 60 TO WOMAN, BUTITS NOT FOR 10-20 YEARS convent on Lhnt Prc:fldenl Roose- | velt attended, he would have found; |a plank favoring a single term for | the President. Platforms reflect the issues and the threats of the day.| In spite of the stampede which|y, 915 tne threats to the Demo-| Wendell L, Willkie's unique meth- wcramc party were both President| Od of political blitzkrieg started ab| oy and former President Theo-| ‘Phllndclphm, no onc at Chicago| qora Roosevelt, f;mde any effort to duplicate it.| “pnere was flutter, mostly femi-| ames A. Farley did do a lob of|yine “ahout Rep. Mary T. Norton | lobby-hopping, but it was nothing| |of New Jersey being a possible| ‘“!ke :V“lk‘es lone wolf prowls on|yice_presidential candidate. Con-| |the hunt for delegates. Sen. Bur- gresswoman Norton, after laugh- |ing it off with the statement that By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 31.—Things |to be remembered about the Chi-| cago convention: | 1 | ton K. Wheeler generally was MILITARY ported Soviet soldiers had barred | Valley | N ISMOVING FOR ACTION Italian Tro_Gs Reported Ready fo Join Nazis- Assault on Gibraltar (By Associated Press) As Italian troops are reported moving up to the 800-mile Ger- man-held continental coastline to join the Nazi blitzkrieg vet- erans assault on England, Vir- ginio Gayda, Faseist Editor, cau- tioned his Italian countrymen not to expect the attack immed- iately but await until the British people have been weakened by bombs and the blockade. Whether this article actually spoke the mind of Italian Pre- mier Benito Mussolini or is in- tended merely to confuse the British is unknown, COMMUNICATIONS CUT On the other hand, the Vichy- French Government reports that coastal telephone and telegraph communications have been sus- pended, indicating that a major operation against England is closer. English Minister of Shipping Cross, said in a broadcast today to the Empire, that Great Brit- ain is prepared to meet the em- ergencies arising from plane destruction of some of her ports. It s the first offiicial con- firmation -that some of Great Britain’s busiest pre-war har- bors are now virtually closed from the continent. TO ATTACK GIBRALTAR Other reports have been made that Spanish troops are massed at La Linea and Halian war- planes are massed at Sardonia to join in an assault on Gib- raltar. The German High Command, in a communique this morn- ing, announced that the im- portant south English ports of Swansea and Plymouth were bombed last night, The early morning reports from continetal Europe continued to give |brief glimpses of a tremendous massing of man, marine and ma- chine equipment of war along the Channel coast stretching from Dun- kirk up near the Belgian frontier and opposite the North Ireland | shores to Brest, opposite Plymouth and the southwestern coast of Eng- land. Word slipped through the rigid censorship, which has been made even more strict during the past 48 hours, by travelers' report that the enurc zone of nctlvity indicates a (Continued on Page Eight) HULL WINS HIS FIGHT AT HAVANA American Countries fo Re- sist Change, Sovereign- Jdy, European Holdings HAVANA, Cu-l;a,‘-;ly 31—The his- toric conference of the American Ministers adjourned in a flurry of Line” Cooking Looms |Briish Armed Merchant o world monopoly of this metal. |cheers and speech making after all LG ound his headquarters, receiving| The 1. G. Farbenindustrie, of course, is now completely Nazified and dominated by the German Gov- ernment. Under the joint control, Mr. Mellon's company in the United States agreed to produce only 2,- 000 tons of magnesium a year, while Mr. Hitler's company in Ger- many produced 10,000 tons annual- ly. As a result, prices were high. Not long ago, the Department of Justice began to probe the mono- poly holdings of raw materials and the degree of cooperation existing between American firms and Ger-| man. Details of this probe were published in The Washington| (Continued on Page Thres) ‘ | “assembly line’ population to save fuel in cooking food This is considered following an| By Brifish LONDON, July 31.—An American serving with the British Army has received the Military Medal for Gallantry during the recent opera- tions around Dunkirk. He is Lance Corporal Harold Ar- thur Sims, the first American to be so decorated in the present war. Sims, a wireless operator and tank gunner in the Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, is a 21-year-old grandson of the late Admiral Wil- liam 8. Sims who commanded the United States fleet in European waters during the first World War. LONDON, July 31.—Government leaders are considering imposing " cooking upon the cxperiment which showed substi- tuting one stove for 1,000 stoves pre- pared a healthful three course meal at the cost of only 23 cents. ROACH LOSES APPENDIX Roy Roach, formerly of Juneau and now employed at Ketchikan as engineer on the Alaska Game Com- mission patrol vessel Grizzly Bear, underwent an emergency appendix operation yesterday at a Ketchikan hospital. He is reported to be re- covering satisfactorily, Cruiser Gives Battle, Says Admiralty LONDON, July 31. — The British rrought a battle with a German raid- Ker a fast converted merchantship, |in the South Atlantic and hit it but was unable to prevent its es- caping, the British Admiralty an- { nounces. The German raider used a smoke screen to get away from the Alcan- tara which chased it until hit her- self. Two men were killed and seven wounded when the hit from the Ger- man raider scored. The Alcantara |was not seriously damaged by the shot. ] armed merchant cruiser Alcantara | :dnlexnus and friends. Sen. “Jimmy” | | Byrnes was accessible when you {could catch him, but that was| about as simple as catching a bat on the wing. Paul V. McNutt) dropped into his palatial h('.ul‘ quarters occasionally to pose for | pictures. But Willkie still is the| one-and-only when it comes to up- | setting the traditional apple-cart| |of convention campaigning. LADIES’ HATS IN RING? [ It was Sen. Alva B. Adams, the| Coloradoan, who dug up that 44- | year-old plank in the Democratic | platform of 1896, that “no man should be eligible for a third term | of the presidential office.” If he had gone back to 1912, the first she didn’t think it time yet for a woman to cast her hat in the ring for the Vice-Presidency, said “That| time will come although perhaps not for 10 or 20 years.” 2 R | THOSE JITTERY POLICE \ Not even political conventions are free of the practical joker pests.| One stuck a firecracker into the vest pocket of one of the dele- gates and lighted it. It was just outside one of the Stadium en- trances and the speed with which the police descended on the un- fortunate, victim is a demonstra-| tion of how Jittery we are Lh&sfl‘ days. “Gosh,” one of the coppers.said (counnued o Pflge Five) ) Transferred | Pairbanks, Alaska, Alaska, To Northland WASHIUGTON, July 31.-—Major John Copenhaver, of the Medical| Corps, Kelly Field, S8an Antonio,| Texas, has been ordered trans-| ferred to Ladd Field at Fairbanks, Alaska, | signed the convention including the agreement, independent or mutual action, to resist any change of sov- ereignty of European possessions in |the Western Hemlsphere; mutual or single action against the Pifth Col- umn; mutual action to prevent ec- onomic domination of the Americas by barterings with Dictatorships. Argentina, which announced the signature must be approved by the | Legislature, was followed at the last minute by Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Uruguay and Peru, mak- Ing similar reservations. Major Sidney Page, of the Fin-| ance Department of the Army, has been ordered transferred from, to Anchorage, Observers however, minimized the importance of these developments and declared the conference was a triumph for United States Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull's plan for intracontinental cooperation.