The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1940, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI, NO. 8485. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WE DNESDAY, AUG. 7, | 940. MEMBER ASSO! CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS RAID ENGLAND WITH PAMPHLETY British Vessel Sunk, Heavy Loss Of Lif SHIP ACCRA SENT DOWN BY NAZISUB | British Claim—iS Missing—; # Other Sources Are in Disagreement NEW YORK, Aug. 7—Unconfirm ed reports in shipping circles said | the British passenger motorship Ac- | cra, 9300 tons, was sunk off the coast of Ireland with heavy loss of life, including many child refugees being sent to New York and Canada. These reports are that the Accra was torpedoed only three days out of port and only 30 survivors are known. Last Thursday the Mackay Radio picked up an SOS from an uniden- tified ship saying she had been tor- pedoed 400 miles off Ireland, but nothing further was heard. WAS TORPEDOED LONDON, Aug. 7.—The motor- ship Accra was torpedoed and sunk when in convo! Twenty-five per- sons are missing. The ship sank | within half an hour and it is be-| lieved the attacking submarine was | also sunk. Four hundred and fifty | persons were rescued and landed at{ | " ‘Continued on Page Eight) MRS. BARTLETT BACK WITH YOUNG DAUGHTER | O | Returning here on the steamer Columbia was Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, | wife of the Secretary of Alaska, | and her daughter, Doris Ann. They have been vacationing in Seattle. The family has taken the Gold | Street residence formerly occupied | by the W. B. Kirks. N Robev:;sAlleu ‘gressmen aboard are Representa- | WASHINGTON—Jim Farley made| $68,500 from his best-selling book,| cluded Gov. Ernest Gruening, who National Guard will be borne by warships and troop ships have “Behind the Ballots"—the inside story of how Roosevelt won the presidency in 1932, Jim is now convinced he has the material for “RARE CASE 1 1 1 ] 23, ill with infantile paralysis and encased in an “iron lung” gave irth to a normal 8-pound son July 30 in a Los Angeles hospital She was placed in the respirator 24 hours before the child’s birth Dectors said the mother had an “cxcellent chance” to recover, but would be kept in the “lung” a few days longer. -+ (ONGRESSMEN 1IP THROUGH TOWESTWARD Congressiien enroute to the West- ward to view progress on Alaskan defense works spent very little time in Juneau yesterday before con- tinuing their journey. In fact, two of the members of the House Subcommittee on Army and National Defense didn't even come to Juneau. Representatives Terry of Arkan: left the Alaska Clipper at Auk Bay and boarded a PAA Electra at the Mendendall air- field to fly to Fairbanks. Two other members of the sub- | committee came to Juneau to board | the Coast Guard cutter Ho‘da, which | already had steam up and which left at 6:30 o'clock for Seward. Con- tives G. B. Snyder of Pennsylvania and George A. Mahon of Texas. Col. S. H. Sherrill accompanies the Congressmen as military advisor. He is aboard the Haida. Others leaving on the Haida in- is going to the Westward to organize National Guard companies and to attend a meeting of the Alaska ‘Headquarters Of Nafional Guard Here Order Signed by Governor —Adjutant-General fo Command Here An order creating an Alaska Na- tional Guard was signed yesterday by Gov. Ernest Gruening shortly before he left on the Coast Guard | cutter Haida for the Westward to| organize National Guard companies | at Anchorage and Fairbanks. | Juneau is to be Battalion head- | quarters for the Alaska Nationa]‘ Guard, with an Adjutant-General here in command of the military forces under the Governor, it was disclosed last night by Major Jesse E. Graham, Army officer who has been assisting the Governor in or: ganizing the National Guard. Major | ham left on the Haida with | HOVernor. Medical Detachment A Headquarters Detachment and | | Medical Detachment are to be set | | up here at the Capital. Juneau, in | | addition, will be the base of one| | of the four Infanry Companies ten- | tatively planned for the Territory. Others will be at Ketchikan, Fair~‘ banks and Anchorage, | | Major Graham disclosed that| William Walther, employee of the Alaska Juneau ¢iold Mining Com- | pe had been appointed Captain of the local company. One medical | ! officer with the grade of Captain is to be stationed with each com- ! pany as are also a First Lll’ul('n-‘ ant and Second Lieutenant. | The Adjutant-General has not | yet received his appointment, Ma-| jor Graham said. ‘ One Heavy Weapons Company | Three of the Alaska companies | are to be rifle companies, Major | the | Joe Stanes of Alabama and D. D.| Grapam disclosed, and the fourth a | heavy weapons company. The last will probably be based at either| Fairbanks or Anchorage, he said Governor Gruening said yester- day that authority was also being sought to organize a National Guard Air Squadron, with one flight based at Neme. cers in Alaska will be part-time em- | ployees of the Government, carry-, ing on the National Guard work in addition to their regular civilian pursuits. | The expense of maintaining the the for will Federal Government, except constructing armories, which be a Territorial responsibil- | Rural Rehabilitation Corpoartion at | ity. The Governor has written to another book that should be worth|Palmer; Major Jesse E. Graham, | legislative candidates asking their at least $100,000. It's the inside story of his re- lations with the President as a member of the Cabinet, of their| rift over political policies, the thh-d‘ term, Jim’s own presidential am-| bitions, and the hectic behind-the- scenes events at the recent Chi- cago convention. | Jim has filing cases of carefully| preserved material for his mem-| oirs. Only intimates know it, but he has also kept a detailed diary of every day's events since he tied up with Roosevelt nine years ago.| The first thing Jim did after the| Chicago convention was to hide| himself away for three days to| dictate his own account of what| happened behind the scenes, in-| cluding two brief telephone conver- sations with Roosevelt and an equally brief personal meeting with ‘White House generalissimo - Harry Hopkins. A But one important part of Jim’s| new book is still missing—the last| chapter. He still has to secure the Presi- dent’s explanation of two key points: One, what caused him, be-| ginning early in 1938, gradually to ease Jim out of the picture as po- litical helmsman; and two, whether the President really did oppose Far- ley’s presidential ambitions because he is a Catholic. RELIGIOUS ISSUE Farley's friends lay much of the blame for his shelving upon Hop- kins, Hopkins always has professed to be a strong Farley booster, but | Jim’s lieutenants claim they have Lieut.-Commander J. S. MacKinnon, in charge of the Juneau branch of- fice of the 13th Naval District. NEW STATUS FOR WOMEN, FRENCHLAND VICHY, Aug. 7.—Marshal Petain’s government has announced a fun- damental change in the status of French women in the state. The anouncement is made through the Minister for Family and Youth in the newspaper -Paris Soir. It was pointed out that the French women now had the responsibiltiy of raising strong men for the State. The announcement followed in line with similar declaratios made by Adolf Hitler In connection with Nazi Germany. More British Confracts Come In United Sfates WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. The British Government has started negotiations for “hun- dreds of millions of dollars” worth of tanks, artillery and other war supplies, This is in addition to all previous Allied (Continued on Page Two) orders, | organizing the National Guard, and | support for an appropriation for| | four armories costing $150,000 apiece. CANADIANS ALARMED AT JAP BOATS \Vancouver Residents Pro- | fest Operafions of Nippon Vessels | VANCOUYGER, B. C., Aug. 7—A| special civic committee today pre- | {pared a resolution expressing alarm | |at the presence of Japanese flshing; ibonts off the coast which “could | | readily be transformed into torpedo- |carrying warcr aft by a hostile | group.” In presenting the resolution to | the City Council, Alderman Wilson, “a spokesmen declared, “We have come to believe Japanese residents |are ferociously working for their | own gods in far off Japan.” e McLEAN FLIES PARTY IN FROM KETHIKAN Chet McLean flew up from Ket-| chikan today with Public Health En- |gineer Kaarlo Nasi and Mr. and Mrs. Risley. Nasi and Risley, Food and Drugsi Administration man, have beeni making a survey of canneries. The above members of the House Subcommittee on Army National Defense per, arrived at the Auk Bay terminal late yesterday afternoon and were whisked over the highway Coast Guard cutter Haida and left shortly after 6:30 o'clock last evening for Seward. The subcominitt fense preparations and incidentally further appropriations are to be made for / ward, are left to right: Congressmen George Mahon, of Texas H. Sherrill, their guide. COMPULSORY MILITARY sylvania, C man, and Col APANESE WARSHIPS ON MOVE Troop Ships_A&Eo Reported Seen Moving South- ward from Formosa LONDON, Aug. 7. — The British Exchange Telegraph news agency reports from Hongkong that mer- chantmen arriving there sighted many Japanese warships and trans- All of the National Guard offi-| ports southbound from Formosa, | mission, however, unknown, NO COMMENT TOKYO, Aug. 7.—The Japanese Admiralty refuses to comment on the Hongkong report that Japanese been seen heading southward from Formosa. .- EXCESS PROFITS LEVY UP WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — The House Tax Subcommittee agreed last night on the excess profits levy of 25 to 40 percent on a certain proportion of industry’s profits from the defense program, estimated to yield possibly a half billion dollars. The subcommittee agreement also permits concerns expanding plants for government arms contracts to charge off the expansion cost | against the earnings within five years or sooner if the emergency ends. Truman Leads Senafor Race ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 7.—Sena- | tor Harry Truman, who was termed a “Pendergast Senator” by his two | opponents in the Democratic pri- mary campaign, rode on a swelling tide of votes in the cities of St. Louis and Kansas City into a lead on his bid for renomination. Senator Truman ran behind Gov. Lloyd Stark and former United States District Attorney Maurice Milligan in the rural areas. Josep TRAINING U MEASUR | WASHINGTON, Aug. 7— enactment of the compulsory mili- | tary training legislation is recorn- Prompt ;lm‘ndcd to the Senate by its Mili- | | tary Affairs Committee, which | added: [immodimv substantial increase in |our armed forces. It would be criminal to give this nation a false se of security by the mere pos- n of defensive armaments with corresponding lack of trained men.” The Senate i scheduled to begin ?Reiidénls of W | | | i By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—It be- | gins to look as though the people who live in Washington are going to get to vote. The 60-year battle for suffrage is coming to a head. For the first time, so far as I can find out,' citizens of the Nation's Capital got one of the major parties to/ stick g sliver of a plank in their platform saying: “We also favor the extension of the right of suffrage to the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia. It happened at Chicago and un-| der ordinary circumstances action' on the plank would be deferred until after the elections, or in other words until the next session| of Congress. But it seems certain that Congress will work right on through, and already a congress-| man has thrown down the glove to Rep. Jennings Randolph, of West Virginia, saying in effect: “If you and your party are 50 eager for this suffrage, why don't you get up a measure at once and pass it?” And Mr. Randolph an-| swered, . in effect: “That's exactly what we hope to do.” | s | 700,000 WITHOUT VOTE | It should be some kind of a com- mentary on the loopholes in Am-| erican government that the nearly, 700,000 persons in the District of Columbia do not have the right to] J Appropriations left Seattle yesterda ska. The members of the h Starnes, Alabama; RGED NOW; E UP IN SENATE ! consideration of the legislation to- | morrow The committee approved of the | legislation by a vote of 12 to 3. The measures requires registra- tion of all males from 21 to 30, in- | clusive. | “Reasonable prudence demands an | AGAINST CONSCRIPTION DENVER, Aug. 7.—John L. Lewis told the convention of the Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, that conscription would create a milita e sys- tem under which the “average citi- zens will be esteemed only as a | servant.” | aihinglon May Get Vote; Keep Your Eye on McNutt; He's (omer, vote, self-government, or represvn-l tation in Congress. There are 14 states that have less or only slightly greater pop- ulation than the district yet each| has two Senators, some as many | as three Representatives, and all| have votes in the electoral col-| lege. | What form the suffrage mea-| sure will take is anybody's guess, but mine is that the district will not get the right of self-govern-| ment nor representation in Con- gress, They tried the former once and it didn't work. Besides, even a measure just providing for the distr] right to vote for Presi- dent is going to run into difficul- ties. There are a lot of persons, in Congress and out, who feel that district residents should be kept (out of the political melee. McNUTT BANNERS HIGH With the conventions out of the way and politicos settling down to picking over the bones, there's a growing conviction here that Paul V. McNutt came out of Chicago with colors flying. All over the place you heurl how the Indiana boy made good.! First, he was wise enough to duck| the Presidency long before the} convention started. A huge pic-| ture of Roosevelt covered one| wall of his palatial Chicago head-| J (Continued on Page Five) " CONGRESSMEN COME NORTH TO INSPECT ALASKA DEFENSES 'AFRICA NOW NEW CENTER OF WARFARE Claims Made by lalians of y morning aboard the Alaska Clip- to Juneau and immediately went aboard the ee members are to inspect the Alaska de- Juneau visitors, now bound west- Dave Terry, Arkansas, and J. Buel Synder, Penn- THOUSANDS MAROONED, SOUTHLAND Tropicl Disturbance Sweeps Along Coast ~Headed Inland NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 7— Thousands are marooned by tidal waters as the tropical disturbance moved westward today along the Louisiana coast to Texas. Forecasters predict the gale will move inland near Arthur. The wind reached a velocity of 50 to 60 miles an hour. Nineteen persons on a fishing trip out of Morgan City, La. in-| cluding a Catholic Priest and State | I¢gislator, were reported missing last night, but this morning it was reported they were found safe. tropical STORM TO MOVE INLAND ORANGE, Tex., Aug. 7.—Warning that the tropical storm will move inland along the Texas-Louisiana line near here, sent hundreds of perscns along the coast scurrying for safety this forenoon. STOLEN JEWELRY RETURNED NOW Theft from Exposition on Treasure Island Still Mystery SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 7— Authorities announce that the $27,- 000 worth of jewelry recently stolen, at the San Francisco Exposition had been returned. The five pieces of jewelry were returned to their owners, Shreve and Company, in a cardboard box mailed from down-town San Fran- cisco. Authorities said that the return of the jewerly will in no way halt their investigation of the case. The jewelry was whisked away from a show case at the Cafe Lafayette on Treasure Island. A hat check girl said a man and a woman had been near the counter just before the jewelry disappeared. e A. B. PHILLIPS AND SON RETURN HERE A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of the Juneau Public Schools, accom- panied by his young son, Bob, re- turned here on the steamer Co- lumbia., The two have been vaea- tioning in California. Port | Successes in Bomb- ing Assaults BULLETIN—BERLIN, Aug. 7. The German High Command said successful aiiacks were continped this afternoon and tonight on England with air raids on airplane hangars, mu- nition dumps. The night communique alse announced that German sea raiders in the South Atlantic ocean have sunk 30,000 tons of British shipping. No details of the movements of the German sea raiders are given, however. LONDON, Aug. T.—While the British Isles are preparing to re- sist the overdue invasion of the | Nazi and Fascist forces attention is directed toward Africa where con- centration of at least two Italian Divsions is .reported on the Lib- yan frontier near the Mediterran- ean Coast. The British military circles de- clared that it “looks like the Ital- ians are ready” to advance against Egypt. Cairo sources however deny Ital« ian reports that Italian forces have | already gone across the border. The Daily Express, Lord Beaver- brook’s newspaper, today warned | the British public to expect “some Italian successes” in the African War and said Great Britain must concentrate on cutting the supply lines and second “prepare to resist the invasion here.” Suspicious While Nazi raiding attacks on Britain were and have been neg- ligible for the last few days, creat- ing an atmosphere of suspicion over the British Isles, the Royal Air Force continued this morning with mass attacks over northern Ger- many, Holland and Belgium. Kiel, Hamburg and Munster were | attacked viciously during the night, but details of damage incurred are not yet known., Although German reports are not in evidence, British communiques claim direct hits on their objectives and say that serious damage was done Pamphlets Dropped ‘Thousands of propaganda pamph- lets fluttered out of the skies over British coastal towns, warning Eng- land and the British Empire of the impending destruction for the Brit- ish civilization if the Empire does not accede to Nazi demands and stop the “coming bloody and com-s (Conunued on Page Eigh) HAIFA AIR RAIDED BY ITALIANS Fascist Fliers Also Claim Other Successful Bomb- ings in Africa ROME, Aug 7.—The Italian com- munique today says planes bombed the oil center of Haifa, Palestine, for the third time, setting fire to more gasoline tanks and hitting the port works. All planes returned and the pilots and observers said fires caused by the first bombardment several days ago were still burning. The communique also claims the air naval bases of the British at Aden and Berbera have been “sue- cessfully bombed.” It is also asserted that the Brit- ish encampments south of Sollum, also the Alexandria-Matrun Rails way have been bombed and Italian colurans have crossed the British Somaliland frontiér at several points,