The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1940, Page 1

THE D “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” V()L LVL, NO. 8482. ATLY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY,, AUG 3, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRL‘SS CENTS o PRI €3 {"‘1 TH Japan Nearing ARRESTS OF NIPPONS IS NEW THREAT Two Prominent Japanese | Held in Custody-Others | Are Reported Jailed Friction between Japan and Great Britain point in the arrest of two of the most prominent Japanese business | men in London. Reports are also made that other Japanese are held in custody throughout the British Empire. | Rumors of the existence of a big spy ring centered in London today | as significant over the arrests which | have “flabbergasted” high Japanese. | The arrests came just two days after British sources expressed fear at the rapidly widening break in relations between Japan and Great Britain which might eventually pro- voke Japan to take military action. Japan has made strong protests to the arrests but the British deny they are in the way of retaliation to the | arrests of British newsmen in Jspan e — Orders for Japan Ships To Quif Sea LONDON, Aug. 3.—An uncenfirm- ed report is that all Japanese ships cailing for Great Britain have been ordered to make for Lisbon. This report was relayed here by the Exchange Telegraph which said the information came from a Ber- lin radio broadcast. W P MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued to- day by U. S. Commissioner Felix Giay 10 Ray Elton Look and Ger- aldine June Brostrom, both of Ju- neau. = ) 60 WASHINGTON—Inside fact re-| garding the scathing State Depart-| ment blast at Soviet Russia for seizing the Baltic states was that it was drafted largely in Hyde| Park and that Ambassador Wil-| liam Bullitt had a lot to do with the drafting. Under Secretary of| State Welles merely acted as the| mouthpiece. | The State Department had writ- ten a statement criticizing Rus-| sia’s seizure of Lithuania, Latvia| and Estonia, and sent it to Hyde| Park for approval. Here Bill Bul- litt, ex-Ambassador to Russia who now hates everything about it, completely rewrote the statement, putting in some of its most pun- gent phrases. The incident is significant, fo two reasons: first, it illustrates how the President and his favorite Am- bassador act as a super-State De- partment; and second, it igdicates that despite the increasing bel- ligerency of Japan, the Roosevelt Administration is loath to warm up to its most logical ally in the Pacific, Soviet Russia. The closeness of the Bullitt-Roo- sevelt tie-up has become rather embarrassing to the rest of the State Department, For instance, following Bullitt’s return from Eu- rope last week he did not even visit the State Department. He went straight to the White House, and after a weekend there, accom- panied the President to Hyde Park. As a result, the State Depart- (Continued to Page Three) RobertS.Alles S has reached a new high | | | Air Corps, returning here after Bu('h Bemto | BRITISH SMASHING AT GERMAN CITIE Break With Great Britain 4 oum Rulv Premier Benito Mussolini, who galloped his horse before a gallery of newspapermen to demonstrate his fitness as his 57th birthday nears, uses a less dangerous means of travel by rail Mussolini is shown leaving a special armored train which was given to him by Adolf Hitler. Note battery of anti-aircraft guns Rome. The picture was taken ‘at (Greafest Run of Salmon In Hisfory On at Cordova; Everybody Now Working : COLD WEATHER FLYING TESTS FOR FAIRBANKS Base Work Is 1s Advanced So Training Can Start Year Ahead of Schedule WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Major General Arnold, Chief of the Army trip to Alaska, said the work a the base at Fairbanks is so far ad- vanced and cold weather tests anc training could be made in Novem- ber, just one year ahead of sched- ule. — ——— SUSPECT SPIES COMING IN VIA DETROIT RIVER Immigration Nefs Raised as Aliens Suddenly AppearinU. §. DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 3. Suspecting alien smuggling, Federal officers intensified their watch of the broad Detroit River district. Immigration Director John Zur- brick said the arrival here of three Polish sailors who allegedly desert- ed ship in Quebes, aroused his sus- picions. “I believe spies and Fifth Col-| umnists may be coming into this country over this route,” Zurbrick declared, | CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 3.—With a record season in sight, the case | pack of Prince William Sound is believed to now have passed the| \lmll million mark. Citizens of Cordova, coming to| the rescue of the short-handed | \mckmg plants, business people, | store clerks and professional men | (even newsmen have gone to work) | are filling the gaps at the can- | neries created by the stupendous | run of the “silver horde.” Even preachers have slighted the | time usually devoted in getting up | | the Sunday sermgn, putting in full| shifts, warehousing and longshor- ing to help get up the pack. Everybody is working and will vork until the close of the Sound ishing season at 6 o'clock next i'uesday night. One of the greatest runs in his- ory has been in progress for the ast two weeks. Seven local can- ieries have been working 14 to 6 hours putting up nearly a mil- idon cans daily. Other canneries on Prince Willlam Sound are daily totaling a like amount, Approximately 72 percent of the pack is high with pink salmon and the balance cohoes, chums, reds and kings, Seine fishermen are making the best catches in years and are sup- plying the major portion of the fish. ; — e — WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California said today that Presi- dent Roosevelt used the “same old stiletto” in declaring yesterday that | Johnson could not now be consid- ered a liberal or even a Progres- sive Democrat, SEN. JOHNSON IS GIVEN RIDE JAPS YAP OVER BAN ~ ON PETROL |Formal Profest Lodged by Tokyo Through Ambas- sador in Washington [ WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — The Japanese Government today lodged |formal protest with the United States Government in objection to | the embargo Puesident Roosevelt ‘re(enlly announced against expor- | tation of aviation gasoline to coun- tries outside of the Western Hem- | isphere. | Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi | presented the formal communica- (tion to Under Secretary of State | Sumner Welles. He acted on instructions from fTok_vo. where spokesmen there had | previously declared the ban was an | “unfriendly act” and an effort to |exert pressure on anan FREAK PLOT - OFBOMBERS ~ BROKEN UP' 'Youths Had Tin Submarine - fo Make Escape and | Pick Up Money MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Aug. 3. | —A bizarre $100,000 - extortion plot has been broken up with the ar- | rests of Walter Minx, 23, his broth- |er Kurt, 27, and Daniel Carter, | 2 Police said the youngest of the| |trio admitted he planted the bomb which exploded harmlessly at a | Sears Roebuck store on July 24, land also confessed sending a ser- |ies of threatening letters to store nnmger Rowland Davie saying a “two hundred times larger” }Wll] t,O off next. | The trio planned to make their |getaway down the lake in a home- made tin submarine, found in their basement. They had expected to pick up ransom money to be dropped | by 'urp]sme TROOPS ARE ASSEMBLING PAC.N. W. YELM, Wash,, Aug. 3.—The van- guard of 40,000 soldiers of the Fourth United States Army and National | Guard in western states is assemb- ling here for three weeks of war | games. f The soldiers are also concentrat- |ing at Fort Lewis and Camp Mur- ray. Seventy troop trains are arriving here tomorrow and motor convoys are bringing others. — e ESCAPES FROM KIDNAPER;MAN UNDER ARREST AMERICAN FALLS, Ida. Aug. 3. —A young school teacher, Mildred into a sign post to escape from al allaged kidnaper. ‘The young woman jumped from the car unhurt and told bystand- ers. that the man inside the car {was trying to kidnap her. { Deputies took the man, who gave custody. violator from Minnesota. Ryan, deliberately crashed her car | his name as Monty Jacobson, into| Way on the steamer Yukon tospend The sheriff's office said |8 Week with her grandparents, Mr. that he is being held as a parole and Mrs. W. J. Mulvihill. Mr. Mul- Single Herring Plant in Southeast Alaska Closed; Blg Prolesl Is Sent East DIMOND TEllS INSIDE STORY OF CONVENTIO Alaska Represenied onAl Important Commit- tees af Chicago Alaska was represented on all the important committees at the Demoeratic National Convention at Chieago, according to returning Del- egates Oscar G. Olson and James V. Davis of Juneau and Harvey Smith of Anchorage, and accord- | ing to a letter from Delegate An- thony J. Dimond. Olson, new National Committee-| man for Alaska, was Chairman of the delegation and a member of the Credentials Committee. Smith was a member of the Committee on Permanent Organization; Davis| a member of the Rules Commu-i tee, and Delegate Dimond, a mem- ber of the Platform and Resolu- | tions Committee. Alaska’s six.votes at the conven- (Connnupd on page Six) SEATTLE, Aug. J-~1nl4-nmnm\.xl Pishermen and Allied Workers of | America have protested to Secre- ;l:n'y of Interior Harold L. I(kes |and United States Senator Lewis | B. Schwellenbach declaring the | Fisheries Bureau has arbitrarily | closed the lone herring plant al- | lowed to operate this season in }Scullleasl Alaska at Port Walter by | Arentson and Sons. The protest declares that all plants were originally denied per- | mission to operate, then the Bu- Ireau of Fisheries amended the or-| |der and declared five operators uld jointly operate one plant. This was agreed to and Arentson and Sons decided to operate a plant | alone. Men and boats were sent | north and some men were also sent |up to Alaska by the Alaska Clip- per. Then the Bureau of Fisheries re- | fused this single operation as a substitute for joint operation. George Lane, Secretary of the | Union, said: “Nothing has devel- oped since the original permission to operate a herring plant to war- rant any change now. Both oper- ators and labor have made neces- sary investments to insure opera- tion of the Port Walter plant.” é B it ol NATURALIZED Alexander Teefmel Kupoff, na-' | tive ‘of Russia, became a cltizen to-| day in District CourL here | co WEATHER IS GOINGTO BEPUT IN FIRST COLUMN | available this afternoon ANNETTE AIR BASE LOOMING 800 Men to Be Employed_ on Project — Many to Come from Qutside In the trail of a host of rumors| during the past few days, it be- came increasingly apparent today| that work is to begin shortly on an Army airfield at Metlakatla Major Dale V. Gaffney, Com- mander of the Fairbanks Ladd Field Air Corps Detachment, is due Juneau tdis afternoon. made a survey trip to Metlakatla. It is also understood that a Major George Nold is due here in the next few days’ from the States to assume charge of construction | work in connection with the Army project on Annette Island at Mvt« lakatla, Also with understood to be arriving two Army bombers, are Major John P. Dunn and Col. Beverly Dunn. Eight hundred men will be put to work on the Annette Island pro- ject, reliable sources declared, Mth | be CCC laborers, and possibly al| | will be brought from camps in the Pacific Northwest. Government officials were not to con- firm these reports, but it is be- lieved the project within the next lhlrty days. '(ONGRESS OF NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Over at the Weather Bureau they are start- ing to look beyond the ends of their noses. I thought at first they were just searching for a break in the heat wave. But Commander F. W. Reichelder- fer, Chief of the U. S. Weather Bu- reau, says that isn’t so. It's just the beginning of longer-range forecast- ing at which the bureau has been shooting for a long time. And, in- cidentally, it's part of the program to put the weather in the first col- umn of national defense. Within a few days, the bureau will start making forecasts for five days. They are going to try to get away from the vague generalities and great areas of coverage of the old weekly forecasts and try to nar- row it to specific localities and fair- ly definite predictions. For several weeks, the forecasts will be experi- mental, but after that they will be made public. WEATHER AS DEFENSE AID Maybe it's the beginning of a new day . . . when sports promoters can cut out that disappointing sys- tem of handing out rain checks . . . | when Aunt Minnie can plan the| week-end picnic without running outdoors every few minutes to search for a cloud. More important, it may be the| beginning of a day when the United States Army and Navy and air forc- es can plan defenses several days in advance with some certainty as to (Continued on Page Seven’ Lero Hour Is Nearing OnEngland Italian Edfio—r Seems fo Know All About Pro- posed Invasion ROME, Aug. 3.—The newly ap- pointed . editor of the Corriere Pa- dano wrote in his first editorial that the zero hour for the Britist | Isles is about to strike. The Corriere Padano was former- | ly edited by the late Marshal Italo| Balboa. Giuseppe Ravegnani, appointed by Premier Benito Mussolini to| take over Balboa’s newspaper, said | that when the zero hour arrives Italy will participate in final at-| tacks against the British Isles. -2 ) TO VISIT GRANDPARENTS Maxine Mulvihill sailed for Skag- Radio Operafor Gets Wife j On the Wing Tim Davis, operator for Pacific Alaska Airways| on Canyon Island near the Inter- national boundary on the Taku| River, gets a wife by airplane to- day. This afternoon, U. 8. Commis- sioner Felx Gray flew with Betty Pearce of Seattle, recently arrival here, to Canyon Island to perform | the ceremony that will raise Can- y yon Island’s population to two. | Judge Gray will marry Davis and | Miss Smith with R. W. McCrary and | Kenyon McLean as witnesses. Ceremony over, the Judge and his two witnesses will climb into the plane again with pilot John Amundsen and return to Juneau. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will set up hon- eymoon house behind them and| continue to send out the regular radio reports to PAA here on the state of the weather over that vital portion of the Juneau-White- horse air route. * e ! HAGERTYS CCMING Mrs. Donald W. Hagerty and chil- | dren are passengers on the steamer Columbia from the states, where [ lonely young radio : vihill is the Mayor of Skagway. they have been visiting. DUE HERE Three House Members Fly- ing Here Monday on Way fo Anchorage Three Congressmen from the | House Appropriations Committee, | accompanied by one Army man, are | due in Juneau Monday aboard the Alaskn Clipper on their way to | Anchorage to survey the Army field project. In the party, it is understood, are Representatives J. Buell Sny- | der, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, Da- ivld D. Terry, Democrat, of Arkan- sas, and Francis Case, Republican of South Dakota, The Army officer accompanying the group is Lieut. Col. Sherrill. In Juneau, the party will board the Coast Guard cutter Haida, leav- ing probably Tuesday morning for Seward. Movie Ador (an't Enlist SEATTLE, Aug. 3.—British-born movie actor Richard Greene passed through Seattle after his offer to join the Canadian Army was turned down. Green said that Canadian enlistment officers told him to go back to Hollywood and they would notify him when there was an open- ing. PAA SHIP DUE FROM INSIDE A full load of passengers is due in Juneau this afternoon on a PAA Electra from Fairbanks. Due in are A. F. Weinard, P. Strand, A. Buschmann, C. A. Rosto, Mrs. J. Davin, Mrs. A. Jewlin, Mrs. George Dana, Miss E. Dana, L. Dana and Major Dale V. Gaffney. in| He recently| Major Nold, believed to be| coming north with his party aboard | will be started| AIR RAIDS - SUCCESS IN - NEW ACTION Bremen, Other Industrial Centers Being Heavily Bombed, Is Report Great Britain and Germany are exchanging air raids with the Brit- ish inflicting the most damage, apparently. Nazi planes swooped over parts of England last night and contin- ued ralds this morning but the British War Ministry reports the invaders have been beaten off. British raiders swooped over \Bremen last night and the Bremen |radio station suddenly shut down indicating a stern continuation ot the British air raids. Smashing hits have been scored | against supply dumps, ports and airdromes and war industries in |more than 100 German cities and there is n odenial of this from Berlin. Hamburg is reported to be practically in ruins. The death list, however, is not announced. The British admit that several |RAF planes have failed to return rrom raids over Germany. Hundreds of Itallans are reported |to have been killed by the Royal | | strong possibility half of them will| | Atr Force in a raid on Libya and much war material is reported to | have been captured by land forces. Another contingent of Australlan | troops has arrived in England to Join the defense forces. 'WARNING IS GIVEN BRITONS Churchill Says Not fo Re- lax Vigilance on Nazi Invasion LONDON, Aug. 3.—Prime Minis- ter Winston Churchill warned his people this Saturday night not to | permit the “slightest relaxation in vigilance or moral alertnpss? in preparations against the German | invasion. | Churchill said the recent German rumors that no invasion is intend- ed should be regarded “with a dou- ble amount of suspicion.” Goes fo Defense 0fEngland Part of Britisfileet at Gib- ralfar Is Hurrying Northward GRENOBLE, France, Aug. 3. A dispatch from Tangier, Spanish |Morocco, says a British flest at | Gibraltar sailed west late yester- day apparently to aid in the defense of England. The fleet consisted of three cruis- ers, two plane carriers, five sub- marines and seven desuoyers Clipper r Gels Off to South The Alyka Clipper took off for Seattle this morning at 9 o'clock with seven passengers aboard from here, one of them for Ketchikan. Those leaving were J. P. Edmison, W. W. Martindale, Mrs. Dora Dyer, A. J. Wiebe, Corey Brayton, G. B. Dodge for Seattle, and A. Jensen for Ketchikan.