The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME V()L LVl., NO. 8488 JUNl:AU ALASKA SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1940. MflVlBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PR]CE TEN CENT3 NEW ATTACK MADE ON ENGLISH COAST BIG FIGHT IS STAGED IN SENATE No Comproinge Will Re-| sult, However, on Con- scription Plan, Report WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Admin- istration leaders today turned a cold shoulder to the talk of a compromise in the big Senate fight over con- | scription | Democratic Floor Leader Barkiey | expressed belief the reports of con- scription and voluntary enlistments could not be linked successfully in a military training system as Sena- tor Joseph C. Mahoney, of Wyom- ing, proposed as a substitute for the Burke-Wadsworth bill which would register men between 20 and 31 but delay the draft until January 1 dur- ing the period of voluntary enlist- ments. | Opposition Senators are also re- ported discussing the possibility of a referendum vote on conscription . % at the November elections. Robert S. Alleu ¢ '?}'GO,QQ | WASHINGTON. — The British have done an excellent job of root-| ing out Fifth Column elements and| preventing a repetition of what happened in Norway and the Low- lands, But how hard this is to do| was indicated by an uncensored re-| port just received here that asearly s July 1 German parachute Lroops were being landed. in Four were nabbed that day north Wales. They were not ordm- ary soldiers. Attired as hikers, the; spoke perfect English, carried gcn- uine English registration car which could have come only from‘ British sources, and apparently had | specific instructions whom to con-| tact. ' ‘ One of the spies, before being ap- prehended, telephoned a man who later was discovered to be a Fifth Columnist. The purpose of the| parachutists was to get in touch with individuals in England who would furnish them with informa- | tion and help to undermine resis- tance against invasion. It was also learned from the cap-| ture of these men that Fifth Col- umnist fishermen in the region| were servicing a Nazi submarine. I MILITARY TRAINING 1 The Army is up against a much tougher task than most people realize in getting ready for com- pulsory military training or for thc special call of the National Guard. | The main problem is housing such a large number of men, To do this takes time. It takes time to con-| struct barracks, to put in sewerage,| to bring in water supplies. As much as possible of this work must be done before bad weather sets in. | This is why the War Department | is so impatient over the delay in, Congress. If the legislation flnally passes, then the Army can begin | letting contracts. But until then ‘Another Honor for F. D. R. Seldom a day passes that President Roosevelt isn't the recipient of some special honor. Here he is at Hyde Park, N. Y., being pré- sented with a jeweled medal for his 25 years of mcmhFrshlp in the Park lodge, Indnpendont Dies on Hike; Hear! Atfack Major VanDalsem Suc- sumbs in Field Hos- pital at Centralia CENTRALIA, Wash,, Aug. IU—‘ Mujux L. J. VanDalsem, command- | ing the Second Battalion, 190th In- | fantry, of San Jose, Cal,, died as the result of an heart attack in field hospital during the night. Major VanDalsem collapsed at the end of a night-time practice march. He was a World War veteran. | Officers and several soldiers pass- | ed out during the hike but were the Order of Odd Fellows. ‘Army Officer iBAllOON BARRAGE DROPPED Mazi Pilot Gives Descrip- fion of Shooting Down Convoy Protector BERLIN, AH[, 10 Hans Wagner, Thursday’s air attack on the balloon barrage that protected a British convoy, told the German broadcast- ing station that he watched six big rubber balls crash in blue red flames. “The six balloons went down leav- | ing long sheets of smoke behind them and those miles of steel chains 1'55“50“5'-9“ must have caused confusion and U TR ‘v'unml:r The balloons were at a !height of 6,500 feet and were just below the cloud ceiling,” Wagner’ More Revenue Is Required for Defense Plans Secrefary ofir—easury Asks Congress fo Prepare Revenue Source WASHINGTON Aug 10.—Secre- | not one order can be placed for|,yy of Treasury Morgenthau, fore- barracks or anything. else. | casting a $5,700,000,000 Federal defi- All the plans are ready on paper,| ¢ for this year, urged Congress| and the Army has scarcely OV~ | to open another source for Govern- | looked a detail in these advance| .n: revenue. | preparations, But that is as far Morgenthau asked that “better | B8 IO, 80 | distribution” for defense costs could | the National Guard this month ‘S‘proms tax. conducting its most important| maneuvers in history. And if Con- gress grants Roosevelt’s request to| STO(K ouo]ATloNs | permit him to call out the Guard | for a year’s training, it will be nec-| —_— | essary to send the men back (0| NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Closing | their homes to arrange their pri-|quotation of American Can at to- | vate affairs, then send them back day's short session is 95, Anaconda | into the field. 20, Bethlehem Steel 782, Common- | This doubles the cost of trans-|wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss| portation. If Corigress had acted|Wright 7'¢, General Motors 487%, | earlier it might have been avoided.| International Harvester 43%, Ken- | WHO'S KIDDING WHOM? |necott 26%, New York Central 12, aid (HUNGKING IS AIRRAIDED Fires Break Ouf Near U.S. Embassy CHUNGKING, Aug. 10—Large Ilrcs‘mgm BY JAPANESE ‘Many Believed Killed- ARMY PLANS 'HUGEOUTLAY FOR ALASKA Stralegi( Importance of‘ North Emphasized by Congressman For the next two, three or years, the Army will spend from 12 to 15 million dollars per year in Alaska to establish airfields, bases and posts, Rep. J. Buel Snyder of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Army Na- tional Defe] Appropriations, said today on his return to Juneau after inspecting the Anchorage and Fair- banks bases now under construc- tion Snyder, thre other members of the Congressional Subcommittee and their military guide, Col. S. H. Sherrill, flew here by PAA Elec- tra last night from Fairbanks. They| | size when the h\lldln‘ prflxram authorized 1 will go Outside by Alaska Clxppfl' tomorrow, Alaska Barrier Explaining the importance of Alaska defense works, Representa- tive Snyder said: “We as a nation must assume after what we see human beings doing across the water that hu- man nature isn't going to change so rapidly in the next century or so that they wouldn’t do the same on this side, if they had the op- portunity. “Nations in a position to attack the United States through the northern gateway and Alaska have demonstrated in the last few years that they do jump on nations and crush them when it seems to be to their | s0. | "“with ‘airplanes as the main | { four material advantage to do How Expansion Program Will Boost Navy @~ r BEFORE TREATIES DIS This chart, based on the new navy warship at the left represents the strength in 1921 before disarmament treaties. sents the 237 ships disposed of by navy in 1933 and includes v JEWS ARE ATTACKED IN NEW A(TION New laws Driving Hun- dreds of Thousands | from Positions 1 | BUCHAREST, Aug. 10.~The Gov- | TREATY els laid down, but not completed. “ UNITED STATES NAVY SINCE 1921 PRESENT BUILT, BUILDING, AND AUTHORIZED BY THE CONGRESS AFTER TREAT!ES LUDES VESSELS POSALS (INC e LAID DOWN N program, shows four phases of American sea fighting strength. The The second vessel repre- The third, vessel shows the comparative size of the The dotted area indicating the comparative housand JUNEAU MAN WHO NEARLY Ten Thousand Evacuated in DIED IS BACK Dick S(hwa;fz Tells of Eat- La. Rice Belt ing Old Mink Carcass- AII Residents s of Crowley Taken Out Because es fo Subsist treaty limitations. of Rain, Flood Starving and alone in the wilds weapon of modern warfare, it be- ernment, compelled by Axis desires hooves the U. S. to put a ban'lertlo negotiate the forthcoming ces- of defense across Alaska.” sions to Bulgaria and Hungary, CROWLEY, Louisiana, Aug. 10— The Coast Guard and American Red Cross moved today to evacuate all of | the 10,000 residents in this Rice Belt of the upper Taku River valley and | debating as to whether or not a bul- let through the head wouldn't solve Anchorage Criticized The Congressman coupled his discussion of the national defense problem with a “word of advice to Alaskans.” Said Snyder “The business men of Anchorage, — Nazi Pilot | who participated in | as I see it, are making a mis |As soon as they learned this $12,000,000 was to be spent at An-: | chorage they shot up their rrnL, | anywhere from 50 to 00 percent| and foodstuffs and clothing ac- cordingly. “It's different at Fairbanks found merchants and business men there did not raise their prices any, or if any very little. “As a result of the situation at | Anchorage, Army officers are get-| ting together in a group to build their own houses instead of pay- ing these enormous rents—and you c.mt blame Lhem for it. 1L,onunuefl on P&ze Two) TAX RATE IS - ESTABLISHED City PropeTty Valuation Increases This Year fo $7,464,569 | A tax rate of 18 mills was estab- |lished for 1940 by the Juneau City |Council at a special meeting last The rate, amounting to $1.80 | were started today near the United | |on each $100 assessed valuation, is States Embassy on the south bank the same as it has been for a num- Another handicap is the fact that pe obtained by enacting.an excess|Of the Yangtze when 64 Jupancse‘ber of years past. warplanes, coming in waves, staged | | the worst bombing in weeks. Casualties are feared to be heavy as many persons were outside of the air raid shelters at the time. e Divorce Is Sought By Alaska Woman RENO, Nev., Aug. 10—A divorce Genial, barren-beaned Senator Burke, anti-New Deal Nebraska Democrat, is an enthusiastic jester, but the big question among his colleagues is: Just who is Burke| kifiding regarding his plan to stage public hearings on the third term| issue? (Continued on Page Four) Northern Pacific 6%, United States | Steel 537%, Pound $3.97 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 126.99; rails, 26.86. utilities, 22.60. - Lower layers of rock in the Ba- suit has been filed here, Leona An- | derson vs. Carl Anderson, of Fair- banks, Alaska. The couple married in Anchorage, Alaska, June 25, 1931. Cruelty is the charge brought. [ AR =3 o 30 | SINGER COMES IN Tenor singer Hillis Higley came hamas can be sawed out for build-|in on the Alaska this morning from ing material, Later it hardens. Ketchikan, The tax is expected to yield $134,- 36224, a slight increase over last year. The total assessed valuation of real and personal property in Ju- neau this year is $7,268,945 and of automobiles $195624 for a total tax roll of $7,464,569. Last year total valuation was $7.- 305,815 which brought in $131,504.61 in taxes. Half Already Pledged city’s tax income is to go for obli- Another 32 percent goes for the 1 AT 18 MILLS Approximately 20 percent of the | gatory bond interest and retirement. | \,('H(Pd wrath on the Jews today. New laws were put into effect which cuts off most of the coun- try's 755,000 Jews from public of- fice and eliminates them from many professions and other fields. Scores have been arrested and hustled off to concentration camps without warning, breaking up fam- ilies regardless, The Government is apparently motivated by the fact that most | of the Nationalistic elements which |are opposing any territorial ces- sions also are most anti-Semitic. ARMY AIRFIElD ~ FOR HAINES 1S | Visit Capital Aboard Tender Fornance Plans for a proposed Army air- | field at Haines were discussed here today with Federal and Territorial | officials by Lieut.-Col. Gregory | | Hoisington, commanding officer of | | Chilkoot Barracks, and a Haines | civic committee headed by Mayor| John W. Swets. The Army tender Fornance which broueht the party to Juneau yes- terday, returned up Lynn Canal this afternoon. Others aboard included Mrs. | Hoisington, U. 8. Commissioner O. E. Schombel, William Muncaster, Mr, and Mrs. S8amuel Troutman and daughter, Mrs. Carmen Lemieux,| Mrs, H. E. Hartison, Mrs. Roy| | Wheeler and William Johnson and mother. — e 'Riendeau Will |Make First Trip, 21 Years | For the first time in 21 years,| Arthur Riendeau, Mine Superinten-| | dent at the Alaska Juneau, will| make a trip Outside, leaving to- night on the Baranof Rieudeau will go back to his| home in Michigan for a visit, nnd\ ! eity DISCUSSED HERE ' Colonel, Civic Committee _W|II Be Chanrman of Coc | nounced today the troubles at hand—such was the experience of Alaska Juneau miner Dick Schwartz who returned to Ju- neau today with a heavy growth of The evacuation is the result of the greatest rain and flood in the history | of the state which brought as much | beard covering a haggard face, f8 36 iites BL. NIl AH 2‘4 hours | e hwartz was found Monday near following the tropical hurricane of ‘Tul\vmmh by veteran Indian river- B! man Tom Williams in a half dead Bread and milk are the only food | ag demented condition. Since Mon- supplies available. | day evening, Schwartz has been All residents are being taken out | | under doctor’s care at the Polaris- of their homes. ’Tsku mine 3.5 | Tale of Misery [] 1 | Coming in with pilot Alex Holden (arlbbean | this noon, Schwartz told a discon- | | nected tale of misery in the woods. | June ¥, Schwartz flew to Tulse- |quah to strike out into the King Salmon Lake country in search of lmhulcms molybdenum deposits. He | went upriver from Tulsequah twenty Imiles, made a camp and went into the back country. A partner was to pick him up { June 20, but he never appeared, and STTH Schwartz ran out of food Twenty - nine Hundred Marines fo Be Sent fo Guanfanamo Bay ~ |*,mm y | “I thought he was in trouble, and s | T started out at nine o'clock to walk WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Amid in to the lake,” Schwartz said. “T far reaching plans to strengthen the didn't get there until two in the defenses on the Caribbean, the Navy ‘morning, and I just saw his plane Department is ordering 2,000 Ma- taxi around a point and take off. I rines to Guantanamo Bay for in- |fired my gun several times, and I tensive maneuvers. | built a big signal fire, but I guess The Marines will be in a position nobody saw me.” One day, shortly after the first of July, an airplane landed in the lake to reach South and Central Am- Shoots Moose erica quickly. | On the tenth of July, Schwartz, R Xng caamp Schwartz had been oper- | back of the river near the prospect- | | eating squirrels and berries, man- aged to shoot a moose, but bears broke into his cache and he got little more than tallow. Trying desperately to find some- thing to eat, Schwartz struck out again for the river and left behind him a tin can with a note written on paper within, and another note scratched on the can itself with a ,kmrv His underwear he tied to a a_ | tall tree. “I'm a woodsman,” Schwartz said, | “but T couldn't find enough to eat |T ate berries every day, but they wouldn't stay with me. About every other day T would be able to shoot a gl L e . | pine squirrel and eat that. T shot W‘LMI"GTOFN : D".ll“w“:)’ AUE. o couple of grouse and ate them 10.-~James A. Farley has been ap- | ,; angd all J. A.FARLEY IN NEW JOB Cola Export Corpor- ation Now pointed Chairman of the Coca- | No Fish to Catch Cola Export Corporation. Board| «gye [ had fish hooks, but T Chairman Robert Woodruff an-' o .4 cateh a single fish. I ! couldn’t even find an old worn-out Woodruff said Farley has accepted | o 10n ajthough I walked all along the position and will be “in charge .o rjver looking for one. will then continue to the New York of all export®business, pnrtlcularlv, city's share of local school support. | ‘ | world Fair, after which he will “One day I found a mink carcass This leaves less than half of the| taxes for the support of all other municipal activities, including fire protection, police protection, library, health, cemetery, insurance, boat general administration, cross the country back to San Francisco and California’s big ex-| | position. Mrs, Riendeau will join her hus- !to be gone about two months. | the expansion of our business In |,qiteq out last winter and thrown in foreign countries.” [the crotch of a tree. I ate that, The resignation of Farley 88| 400 1t was like leather.” Chairman of the Democratic Na-| = prangic, Schwartz bullt a sort of |tional Committee is effective AUg- | ..r anq started down the river to harbor, maintenance of streets, side- | band in San Francisco for a few |ust 17, one week from today and | the bluffs nd which he walks, hydrants and sewers, and weeks ‘vacationing. Reindeau plans|he leaves President Roosevelt’s Cab- o T Wi S foh inet on August 31, (Conunu:d on Plze Eight) BOMBS ARE DROPPED IN EARLY RAID Tremendou;iEix plosions Heard - Air Warfare Confinues, Africa LONDON, Aug. 10.—-German air raiders, early this morning dropped bombs in the vicinity of a town in Southeast England. Tremendous explosions were heard as the missils fell in two places ashore and in several spots at sea. The attackers earlier were veered off in the face of hot anti-aircraft fire but circled back to deposit loads of bombs despite a big scale of anti-air- craft and machine gun fire from the ground. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The belligerents in the European " |conflict have settled down to a pun- ishing war of air power. Italy claims further gains in her land drive into British Somaliland. The Germans said their bombers are working “ on schedule” and have blasted Great Britain's Faversham munitions plant. Pebjob Aircraft works and Chathams Government shipyards. Anti-aircraft batteries in German- land have brought down two British planes on air raids, bringing the Nazi's war bag to a claimed 1500 plane: ITtalians said columns of infantry and motorized units have passed Edueons and planes have bombed Berbera, the main seaport. Raid Egyptian Coast Italian war planes are also claim- ed to have hit objectives on the Egyptian coast and the British bat- ‘leship Resolution And & destroyer: have been damaged by bombs. The British claim Royal Air Force planes have bombed an Ital- ian vessel in Tobruk harbor and set in in flames. French Aid British French pilots, aboard RAF planes, have struck at Ttalian positions near Hargeisa and have also made suc- cessful and damaging raids on Mas- sua and Eritrea. South African Air Forces blew up two Italian bombers and dam- aged several othef§’at the air base in Ethiopia Egypt, according to official re- ports, is prepared to change from a passive alliance with Great Bri- tain to active cooperation in Af- rica. New Raids After yesterday's baby blitzkrieg, in which both sides claimed victor- ies, Royal Air Force planes contin- ned this morning to make long drives into the interior of Germany, strik- ing at the heart of the Nazi ma- ~hine, bombing oll storage tanks, rail heads, and industrial centers. Other detachments of raiding planes struck at Amsterdam and German-held coastal towns, leav- ing smoking ruins in their wake. The Kiel Canal was reportedly another objective of last night's raids, but extent of damage in- fileted by the bombers was not re- ported. Japanls In Action TOKIO, Aug. 10.—In a terrific drive this morning, Japanese blue- jackets landed at Haimen and im- mediately attacked the Chinese gar- rison. The landing of the Nipponese troops was preceded by a several hours bombardment from warships anchored in the harbor and by strafing and bombing attacks from massed airplanes. Harold Craryls Juneau Bound SEATTLE, Aug. 10 Harold Crary, of Chicago, Vice-President in charge of traffic for the United Airlines, is a passenger aboard the Alaska Clipper for the north to study the possibilities of air traffic for his line between Alaska and United States points.