The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1940, Page 1

THE DAL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” LASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVI., NO. 8483. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 5 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e ENGLAND AWAITS Comm 2 ARRESTS NOW MADE ON PACIFIC Invesligaticfof 22 Months Is Ended-Assassina- tions Planned LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 5— District Attorney Burton Fitts an- nounces that the investigation of Communistic activities in Southern California that has been underway for 22 months has resulted in the arrest of two men and the accumu- | lation of a “startling amount of evi- | dence” pointing to a plot to assas- sinate prominent Americans and violently overthrow the govern- | ment. Brittain Webster, a longshoreman, has been jailed in connecttion with | the five-year-old slaying of an anti- red maritime unionist, John Riley, of San Pedro, who was beaten and | kicked to death in a free-for-all be- | tween five unionists and 30 Com- | munists to gain control of the San | Pedro union. | Clyde Champion, San Joaquin Valley Cannery Workers' leader, was arrested Saturday at Bakers- {ield. Officials decline to make a detail statement on the charges but Fitts said the grand jury will meet to- morrow to hear a mass of evidence about efforts to influence Hollywood film personages toward Commun- | istic ends, and capture and destroy | labor unions. Red leaders are sought in San | Francisco, Portland and Seattle. e, ——— 3Halibufers = VASION OF NAZLS unistic Plot Now Revealed On Coast Ha ppier Over Outlook President Roosevelt emphasizes a point and Senator Morris Sheppard (right), Texas Democrat, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, grins in assent during the President’s preparedness day survey at Langley Field, Va. The survey convinced the President that Washington could “feel a lot safer in a year from now.” Dr. Frederick A. (ook; ; Ardic Explorer, Passes Away Afer lqng Illness LARCHMONT, N. Y., Aug. 5.»Dr.! Frederick A. Cook, onetime Arctic Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 5.—Halibuters ar- riving here and selling are as| follows: From the western banks—Electra 40,000 pounds, 12 7/8 and 12 cents a pound; President 25,000 pounds,| 15 and 13% cents, | From the local banks—Forward| 2,000 pounds, 14 cents straight. —— FROM KETCHIKAN Opal More, of Ketchikan, is reg- | istered at the Baranof Hotel. | WASHINGTON—Senator Wheel- | er's prediction that the compulsory| training bill faces a “rocky road in the Senate” only tells half the story. | What Wheeler didn't disclose was| that he and the other isolationists| are secretly prepared to wage a| filibuster to prevent passage of a draft act. They believe that with an election in the offing the threat of a knock-down legislative battle will frighten the politicos and make them drop the bill until after No- vember. Then, they figure, it will be too late to do anything until next spring, by which time they are confident developments will show that such a drastic step is mnot needed. This is a tremendous gamble, of course, with the nation's security as the stake, But that doesn’t faze Wheeler and his isolationist friends. They have been gambling like this for months, always guessing wrong but still insisting they are right. They derided Roosevelt’s warning that a European war was:imminent and when war did break, they pooh-poohed. it as a “phoney” con- flict. They fought his repeal of explorer, died here today after an illness of many months. During his illness, President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon. Dr. Cook came into world prom= inence in September, 1909, through his announcement that he had dis- covered the North Pole, only to be shorn later of all the honors that had been heaped upon him because of his claim to that achievement. | Five days after Dr. Cook’s an- nouncement, a similar one was made made by the late Admiral Robert E. Peary, the claims of the rival explorers precipitating one of the most spectacular and wide- spread controversies involving the long search for the top of the earth, Messages Out of Arctic The two men gave their messages to the world while enroute to civi- lization from the north frigid zone, Dr. Cook being on his way to Den- mark and Admital Peary at Indian Harbor, Labrador, When they Work with that expedition he was reached points whence it was pos- decorated with the Order of Leo- sible to give more details of their Pold and received gold medals from explorations Dr. Cook claimed to the Belgian Royal Society and the have discovered the pole ‘on April municipality of Brussels as well as 21, 1908, one year and five months & silver medal from the Belgian i I~ FREDERICK A.COOK ASSOC!ATED PRESS . . | before ‘he had sent out his first Roval Geographical Society. message. Admiral Peary announced' On Alaska Climb that his discovery of the pole was! 1n 1903 Dr. Cook headed an ex- made on April 6, 1909, just five pedition which undertook to reach months to the da)'ube;m"e he was the summit of Mount McKinley, in a position to tell of it. Claim Denied Eventually, the data submitted by Dr. Cook was held to be insuf- ficient to substantiate his claim that he had been at the pole and Admiral Peary insisted that when he was there in April, 1809, he could find no evidence of any one having prece;ieg hién ;O !I}‘:‘ StllJ_‘Olt-‘nounced they were prepared to prove The claim of Dr. Cook after that that Dr. Cook made no effort to generally was discredited, while !h(‘{reach the summit of the mountain data submi;&eg m{l A;n:‘irall!'éary‘and that he had faked a picture was accepted by the National Geo-| which he had printed. graphical Society and he was thEre-; Mail Fraud Case after accepted as the discoverer ur’ For some time -aftér e lost his th;“g‘:;:{ ::é:n AR L | fight for recognition of his claim, . " Dr. Cook dropped from public no- ture shortly ‘_‘"_'” he concluded ;‘: tice, He became involved with the ?ui::::: g?“:;*-Pz‘:ryW’:c‘:;"'g;‘pe {government, in 1922 through the| ! promotion of oil s | dition in 1891 and thereby Kamed‘&lonh Tex;s.oM:::e;‘:sl:v:s:x‘:: his first experience in the North g, h‘e was convicted of using the Polar regions. In 1893 he led an .5 45 defraud and was sentenced expedition along the west coast of . mederal : ¢ penitentiary at Fort| Greenland and made a second Visit| y o, venworth, Kansas, for 14 years to that section in 1894. Three Years| ,ng fined $12,000. He began his later he went as surgeon with the. sontence in April, 1925 { 5 , and was Belgian Antarctic Expedition, where o ;Lhe highest point on the American| contirient. The effort was a failure| and a second attempt, financed by the doctor, was made three years later. At that time he announced that the expedition succeeded in reaching its goal, but that claim subsequently was contradicted. Other explorers and societies an- (Continued on Page Ive, lhe remained until 1899. For hlSj (Continued on Page Eight) JUNEAU AIRPORT PLANNED Military Men Visit Men- | denhall Flats in Sur- vey Today 400 CCC WORKMEN FOR METLAKATLA | | | for Ketchikan Dis- frict Field | An Army airfield on the Menden- | hall Flats is apparently a definitely ‘planned project for the near future, | |it was apparent today, as service engineers made a visual survey of | the site, but it appears that con- | struction of the field hinges on the | question of which arm of the Gov- ernment will undertake the job. Examining the site this after- noon were Major Dale Gaffney, | Commander of Ladd Field air force, |who arrived here from Fairbanks Saturday; Col. B. C. Dunn, District {Engineer from the United States Engineers Office in Seattle, and West, Point Professor Major John Paul Dean, who. arrived here yes. terday on the Baranof after in- specting the Annette Island air field project; and C. A. Rosto, of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. | | Major Gaffney declared this! }mornmg that construction of an |Army landing field here is con- tingent only on favorable Congres- | sional action on the recommenda-| (tion for the project in Rivers and Harbors monies. Gaffney expressed the belief that facilities for servicing Army planes are definitely required here and |will be installed, but a matter of construction jurisdiction is appar- ent, Site Surveyed Civil Aeronautics Authority en- gineers have surveyed the site. Ter-‘ ritorial engineers have examined | the possibilities. U. S. Engineers ‘have made exhaustive study of the |plan to dredge a small boat chan- inel and use the tailings to build up an airport. The Army itself has made its own survey. Roughly, the airfield project would involve construction of two or three mile-long runways, using the pres- ent Pacific Alaska Airways airport as the base point from which to work. CAA official Rosto, who has spent the past two weeks touring the In- terior, described the airfield poten- tialities at Mendenhall as ‘“beau- tiful.” When constructed, the Juneau |field will represent with Metlakatla, Yakutat, and possibly at some fu- (Continued on‘l;ag; El;hi) MILITARY - TRAINING UP, SENATE Committee Sends Measure for Action-Registra- fion from 21 10 30 WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — The Military Affairs Committee today voted 12 to 3 to send to the Sen- ate’s floor, the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training Bill. The measure as finally arranged, requires registration of about 12- 000,000 men from 21 to 30 years, in- clusive. ‘The action clears the way for the consideration of the measure by the Senate this week along with the belated measure contemplating Presidential authority to call the National Guard into active training. Considerable opgosition to the Ready for West's War Maneuvers oo * This tent city at Fort Lewis, Wash., housed the 2nd Battalion, 99th Field Artillery, as the army prepared for the far west war games in which 40,000 men wi Plans fo Make America Invuinerable; Big Seel Plant for Pacific Coast ATTACK ON GIBRALTAR DISASTROUS ‘Ammunitioaaump Is Re- ported fo Have Been Blown Up ALGECIRAS, Aug. 5—Thunder- ous explosions and huge columns of smoke indicate raiding planes have blown up the ammunition dump at Gibraltar, opposite here. ‘The war planes, it is said, dumped bombs before the anti-aircraft guns could fire a single volley. On the second venture the guns barked out and the raiders disap- peared. Willkie Is Quizzed On Issues Governors, Farm_ Leaders Meeting Candidate for Personai Talk, DES MOINES, Ia., Ang. 5—Wen- dell L. Willkie sat down today, with | Governors of Towa, Minnesota, Colo- rado and South Dakota, and about 44 farm belt leaders to talk- over farm problems and also to get the Presidential nominee’s views on the Republican platform plank, also the Democratic Administration’s agri- cultural program. Train Is Wrecked: Sabofage Suspedie CALCUTTA, Aug. 5—Thirty In- dians were killed and 70 injured when a Dacca-Calcutta mail train was wrecked . early this morning about 75 miles from here. . The au two measures is expected on the floor of the Senate. thoritles said they suspected sabo- tage. take part. BRITONS, JAPANESE [ IN CRISIS i masonwice mosdeu s Diplomatic Relations May aturday afternoon, Stephen Early, Be BI'Oken Over Af- private secretary to President Roo- sevelt, caid a “great effort to make : ried out “by Democratic procedur | yong and with a real sense of national| BERLIN, Aug. 5—A radio to- night quotes the Tokyo newspaper unity.” Enroute here by plane, Early said Nichi Nichi as declaring that “Ja- in an interview at Los Angeles that(Pan will, if necessary, break off diplomatic relations with England” the President wishes to establish a huge steel plant, similar to those at Pittsburgh and Gary, on the | Pacific Coast and the National De- | fense Advisory Committee is now| udyin, the proposal. e | if the Japanese Government fails to obtain satisfaction over the ar- |rests of prominent Japanese na- tionals in British territory. DRAFTS THIRD PROTEST LONDON, Aug. 5.—It is officially announced that the Japanese Am- bassador here is drafting a third protest over arrests of Nipponese citizens in England especially. | o | | | | UAWLines | H WITHHOLDS DECISION | p e In TOKYO, Aug. 5—The Foreign | Office is withholding decision on | | whether England is acting on re- | prisals over arrests of Britons on |Japan by arresting Japanese in England. Second Largest Union in U. S. Supports Presi- Tuna p rice dent, Third Term | ¢ S Oaring up ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5—The United War Between California, " Roosevelt Automobile Workers, CIO, the sec- | ond largest of unions in the United | | States, have thrown support behind i::fdenl Roosevelt for a third | Astoria Buyers SendS The support came on a vote 501! Fish 10 $140 Per 'I'on to 40. e ASTORA, Oregon, Aug. 5. — A | price war between California and ' ' hadwick ‘S'ephen ( adw" | local buyers today shot the price| H f Albac a o | Announces He Will [2inet e v tia ™ Run for U.S. Senate The price here has increased $15 | a ton since the season opened three | | weeks ago. SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 5—For- mer American Legion National Commander Stephen Chadwick, has STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 5. — Closing U. 8. Senate on the Republican|guotation of Alaska Juneau mine ticket. | stock today is , American Can Chadwick is a lifelong Democrat| 96, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem Stee! | {but his filing on the Republican 79%, Commonwealth and Southern | ticket was not surprising as he re-| 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General cently announced his support for| Mntfors 45%. Tnternatinnal Harvester | | Wendell L, Willkie for President. |44%, Kennecott 26 3/4, New York ! e — Central 11%. Northern Pacifie 6 | MRS. HELLENTHAL LEAVES United States Steel 53%, Pound et $3.88. | Mrs. Simon Hellenthal, wife of | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | | | Judge Hellenthal of the Third Judi-| The following are today's Dow, cial Division, left for Valdez aboard | Jones averages: Industrials, 126.44; | the Baranof. . Jrails, 2688; utilities 2272, 'CONDITIONS PROPITIOUS FOR ATTACK Weather, Tides Now Ripe for Great Assault to Be Made on Isles (By Associated Press) Weather and tidal conditions make the time propitious for the Nazi invasion of the British Isles. No indication of the time when the strike will be made, however, is seen, The the British Air Force reports jermans are busy preparing for the invasion at French ports, also in Norway. The British are ready, says the War Ministry. Royal Air Force planes kept smashing at continental objectives over the weekend to hinder the as- saults. The British report three Nazi planes were shot down over Eng- land during Sunday and that one British plane was downed in the battles. The Berlin report declares that much damage was dohe Sunday in Southern England by Nazi air raid- ers and admit British planes pene- trated northern and western Ger- many but aver that although many bombs were dropped the damage caused was exclusively againstnon- military objectives. FIRE HITS APS PLANT ATALTHORP Five Line Cén_nery Burns in Swift Blaze Safur- day Night Shortly after midnight Saturday night, fires swept the cannery and main warehouses of the Port Al- thorp cannery owned by the Alaska Pacific Salmon Company. The blaze, starting in the loft of the five-line cannery from unknown causes, completely leveled the can- nery, two main warehouses, the car- penter shop, salt house, machine shop and several storage buildings. The company store, and living quarters above it, in which Super- intendent Oscar Larson and his wife resided, were also consumed in the blaze which passed so quickly from building to building that cannery hands were powerless to stop it or save a thing. Bunkhouses, mess house, Oriental house, native cabins, the dock ware- house and oil dock, were all that was saved. Loss Unknown Extert of the loss is unknown, and the amount of canned salmon burned is also unknown, but August Buschmann, pioneer canneryman, who built the Port Althorp cannery and was there yesterday several hours after the blaze had subsided, said “Cans were still exploding all over.” 1t is believed the bulk of the pack already put up had been shipped south and but 7,000 or 8,000 cases were lost. Buschmann said he believed fish- ing operations of the cannery will be switched to Kake, where APS operates another plant that will be able to handle fish taken in Port Althorp traps. Buschmann Flies to Scene Flying in heavy fog and rain with Shell Simmons yesterday, headed for Port Althorp, unknowing of the night fire, Buschmann said: “We had a difficult time finding the place. We could see the docks, but no buildings, and doubted our loca- tion until we realized much of our fog was actually smoke, and then we noted burned timbers and cable reels all over the bay.” Superintendent Oscar Larson told Buschmann, a stockholder in the APS, tkat he was standing in the radio room a few handred feet away