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

= > - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI, NO. 8506. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CENTER OF BERLIN Iy BOMBED NAZI FORCE IN RUMANIA FOR PURPOSE To Resist m Encroach- ments of Russia-Ter- rifory Ceded (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) German air bases have been es- tablished and tank corps and oth- er motorized units set up bases on Rumanian soil. This was agreed to when Rumania ceded half of Transylvania Province to Hungary and also to a Nazi demand for re- pelling any Russian attempt to grab off more Rumanian territory. Rumblings of discontent are au- dible over Rumania as the Nation went into national mourning with demobilization of 1,300,000 men. Greece Preparing Greece has called up virtually all reserve officers. Leaders said that they believed the opening of Par- liament in Albania on next Tues- day night will be the occasion of further Italian vocal blasts against Greece. HUNGARY CELEBRATES BUDAPEST, Aug. 31. — Govern- ment circles said formal occupa- AConunucd on Fage Slxl = ® RobertS. Alles P 60" N WASHING’ FON — Backstage, the most vital phase of the Anglo- American discussions has not been island bases around the Panama Canal—though they are important —but the disposition of the British fleet in case of a Nazi victory. The United States wants Bri- tain’s island bases in the Western Hemisphere, but these are not near- ly so vital as defending New York Boston and Philadelphia. And ii the British fleet falls into the hand: of Germany, no force now in the possession of the United States can prevent successful attacks on the Atlantic seaboard if Hitler wants to make them, so long as the Unit- ed States still has a once-ocean navy. g At present, the number of U. 8. warships in t he Atlantic is not enough to ward off even the Italian fleet, let alone the combined Ger- man and British navies. And even if one-half of the United States fleet is shifted from the Pacific, leaving California open to Japan- ese attack, this half could not pre- vent a joint German-British land- ing in New England, New Jersey or Maryland. Therefore, what Roosevelt has been worried about, and is defin- itely discussing with the British. is what becomes of the British fleet in case of defeat. This is where the destroyer trade first entered the picture, i. e, U. S. naval help for Great Britain NOW in return for British naval help to the Unit- ed States later. WOULD ENGLAND SURRENDER? In this connection, one of the things considered by American dip- lomats was whether the Britisk could deliver their fleet to the Unit- ed States and Canada in case of defeat. The Nazis might threater to wipe out entire cities in retalia- tion if the British fleet dashed across the Atlantic to the United States. Might not the British sur- render, as did the Prench fleet, is the important question. This discussion brought out the obvious fact that Brittain is in a different position than France, since large parts of her empire are in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. If her fleet could escape to aid the remainder of the Empire, Bri- tain might in time weld together the dominions in cooperation with the United States, into the Ilast remaining barricade to Nazi dom- ination of the world. Even more significant is the feel- ing of some Englishmen that the Empire might be better off if it were reconstructed around Australia (Continued on Page Four) into the background connections of | FBI TAKES OVERCASE OF BRIDGES SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 31. —Spurred by the presence of Chief | J. Edgar Hoover, a picked group of FBI agents pushed a special inquiry | Harry Bridges, Chieftain Hoover told the reporters that| new amendments to the laws make | any alien deportable if he is or ever had been a member of any subversive organization. Union Closes Three Ports In NLRB Row Pacific Coast CIO | TACOMA, Aug. 31.—The ports of | Tacoma, Anacortes and Port Ange- les, the only ones on the Pacific Coast over which AFL - affiliated | longshoremen hold sway, were‘; closed to traffic today. | Alden Thronson, Coast District | Secretary-Treasurer of the Inter- rational Longshoremen's Assocla» tion, said the closure was not a strike but a protest against a Na- | tional Labor Board ruling that the | Longshoremen’s and Warehouse-| men’s U nion headed by Harry Bridges should-be bargaining agent for all longshoremen of the entire Thronson said the Sailors Union of the Pacific and waterfront team- sters were pledged to support the stoppage, which will last lndelm-‘ itely “until we can get a satisfac- ory adjusrmvm 3 18 Aboard Columbia For Juneau SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—Steamer Co- lumbia sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at 11 o'- clock this forenoon with 116 pas- sengers including 16 steerage, nine round trippers and two Golden Belters. Juneau passengers include Miss Corrinne Jenne, Geraldine Cline, Shirley Cline, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lind, Mrs, R. L. Boucherie. Miss M. Plemons, W. D. Gross,| Mrs, H. E. Jacobson, T. M. Tay- lor, Mrs. Eugene Robertson, Miss Margaret Dunnigan, Mrs. Dabold, [sobell Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harke, Louise Kolitach, Mrs. A. F. Knight. B To make a road survey at Haines, Llukwan and Angoon, three Office of Indian Affairs officials left Ju- reau this afternoon on the boat Institute No. 1. Those making the trip are Gen- :ral Superintendent Claude M. Hirst, District Highway Engineer Harold | 1. Doolittle and Assistant Mechani- :al Engineer Ralph W. Mize. .- Sid Thompson, Deputy U. S. Marshal, flew here from Yakutat yesterday with Pilot Shell Simmons | and plans to return to his post'from here early this morning with| on the Coast Guard cutter Haida| Monday. - - eee Everett Erickson, former teacher in the Juneau High School and for <he past three years a professor at the University of Alaska came in on the Yukon this morning for a orief visit with Juneau friends. Erickson has spent the summer vacationing in the States and took time to make a Central America trip, spending two weeks in Gua- temala, where he reports Nazi party members are being rounded up as fast as their identities be- come known to a militant Gov- ernment, While in Juneau, awaiting the Westward bound Baranof, Erickson will be the house guest of Juneau friends, r—— - John McCormick today resigned irom the Juneau Police force. He nas been patrolman for the past year. | son, ATLIN MINER IS SENTENCED FOR GOLD SALE HERE| Has Happy Ba;s in Juneau | But Runs Afoul of New Wartime Law ATLIN, B. C.,, Aug. 31.—Pleading guilty to two charges under For- eign Exchange Control, Olaf John- miner, was today sentneced to six months in jail and given a fine of $500 by Magistrate H. F. Glas- sey. He was given an additional three- months sentence for failure to pay his fine. Johnson pleaded guilty to ex- porting about 40 ounces of gold from Atlin to Juneau by plane without a license from the Control Board, and also pleaded guilty to a charge of deceiving a Customs officer. TRACED HERE Johnson flew over here from At- lin in July with Northern Airways pilot Ernie Kubicek, chartering the |plane for the trip and bringing a lady friend along. The gold was sold to a Juneau jeweler. Former Atlinites now in Juneau recognized the gold as At- lin gold and put Provincial police on Johnson's trail. After a sortl in Juneau, he was| |arrested in Atlin when he and his lady friend returned with the plane. | Money remaining from the sale of the gold and the sorti was report- edly confiscated by Provincial po- lice. - e Charlotte Has 20 for JuneauPort Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- cess Charlotte, making the last trip of the tourist season to Southeast Alaska, is due to arrive in port at 7 oclock this evening with the following passengers aboard for this port: George Baroumes, mes, Irene Baroumes, Baroumes, Velma Bloom, Edwards, Howard Gambling, Harrell, Delma Hanson. Rodney Johnson, Alice Johnson, Eunice Logan, John McLaughlin, Ruth McVey, Valerie Skov, Carolina Skov. Merle Schroeder, Muriel Thomp- Alice Barou- Alexander Marian Helen son, Iva Tilden, Eleanor Warren, Geore Griswold, Edna =~ Harpole, Hichard Holmes, Sanford Knapp, Pauline Monroe. For Tulsequah, via Juneau William Barnard, Cherry Robert, Lochnie Hewthorne and T. D. Gra- ham. g DENALI IN EARLY; IS ON WAY OUT After bringing ten passengers here from Lynn Canal ports, the steamer Denali sailed southbound nine passengers, eight for Seattle and one for Todd. Arrivials were Dorothy Gore, B. F. Kane, Miss Lizzie Peterson, Harriet Peterson, Theresa Peterson, A, VanMavern, O. J. Vincent, Mrs. Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. L. 8. White and infant. Sailing to Todd was Mrs. King. To Seattle were Mrs. J. B. Jolly, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young, Ernest Daugherty, Mrs. F. McElhaney, Elsie Pasquan, Charles Markle, Mrs. Chester Ellis. BAR ASSOCIATON MEETS IN COUNTRY The weekly luncheon meeting of the Juneau Bar Association was held today at the summer home of Grover C. Winn on the Fritz Cove road, with Winn and l(aurlce John- son as hosts, E. | | WALKER IS SUCCESSOR TO FARLEY WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — Ad- ministration quarters heard reports today that Frank Walker, 54, New York City Attorney and theatre chain owner, longtime friend of President Roosevelt, has agreed to accept the Presidential offer to succced James A. Farley as Post- master General. Walker at one time was Treasurer of the Democratic National Com- mittee. [ REVOLTS FLARE INTWO FRENCH DEPENDENCIES VICHY, France, Aug. 31. —The French government today acknow- ledged rebellions had broken out in French Indo-China and French West Africa following action of the French Equatorial Africa in going over to the British war cause. The African uprising was con- fined to ‘certain Europeans” and has not yet spread to the native | population, officials here said. In Indo-China the revolt was said to be under the leadership of French General Catroux. Its extent is un- known, — e Fire Hits Raiiroad FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 31.-— Fire of unknown origin last nu;hL swept the Healy Station shops of the Alaska Railroad. The railroad roundheuse, a ma- chine shop, new water tank, snow plow, switch engine and several cars loaded with coal and railroad ma- terial were destroyed. - OCCIDENTAL T0 BE SALVAGED T0 BUILD CHURCH Lumber which has more than 50 years in the historic Occidental Hotel here is to be used to build a new church building on Fourth Street for the Bethel Mis- sion, Assembly of God. The City Council last night awarded a contract for wrecking of the Occidental to the Rev. Ralph Baker and W. Elbert Day, who sub- mitted a low bid of $96. They plan to salvage the lumber for their new Pentecostal meeting house. Other bids on the razing were as follows: Frank Chinella and E. H. Hill, $1200; W. J. Manthey, $1125; A. J. Kupoff, $445. A contract for new heating and plumbing installation in the City Hall was awarded to Rice and Ah- lers on a bid of $1485 John Hermle appeared before the Council to ask that the City re- lent on its decision, backed by a| Court order, that he move his gar-| age from a City alley. The matter was taken under consideration. Baseball Today The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Philadelphia 4; Boston 9. New York 6, Brooklyn 7. « Chicago 4; Cincinnati 5. American League Washington 1; New York 7. Boston 10; Philadelphia 6. — e Wallace Calvert from the Forest Service office in Washington ar- rived today on the steamer Yukon to become Assistant to Florence Shafer in the Engineering Drafting Dpartment of the Regional Office. 2 VR, NO EMPIRE MONDAY There will be no issue of The Empire next Monday, Labor Day. seasoned for CONSCRIPT | BILL SURE OF PASSAGE WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Var- ious sections of the Burke-Wads- worth Compulsory Military Train- ing bill has aroused scattered op- position in the House but all critics are agreed that even a combination | of forces will be able to defeat It when it comes up next week. Informed House members predict that the principal fight will be over the provision of fixing the 21 to 44 age range, which is above the Senate range with 21 to 30 in- clusive, anfi giving the Govern- ment power to take over industrial plants for defense purposes. .- —— LARGE RED KINGS HIT 20 CENTS | Since Wednesday, salmon trollers | {have been receiving new record | | fish prices for 1940, receiving 20 | cents a pound here for large red | | kings, 10 cents a pound for small reds, 8 for whites and 6 for cohoes. Few reds are showing however, | and the bulk of catches is made up | of silvers. | Heading the list of salmon cargo dischargers at the local fsh mart today was the packer Elfn, comng in _a heavy load weighing out 45, unds ‘of Iy Strails kings | | and cohoes. Several trollers were in today, | also, among them the Avis, Martha I'T., l[a[.cl J., 31A63, Imp and 31C199. | Baby GII’| Born At Anchorage fo A.F. Ghigliones| Announcements have been re-| ceived here telling of the birth of | a baby daughter, Ann Palmer, on| August 24, at Anchorage, to Mr.| and Mrs. A. F, Ghiglione, Mr. Ghiglione is assistant super- intendent of the Alaska Road Com- mission, Mrs. Ghiglione is the for-| mer Alice Palme:, who taught vo- cal music and art at the Juneau Public Schools. - e With the opening of the duck| | season only a month away, gun-| ners are expected to be out in full| | force tomorrow at the Juneau| Shotgun Club traps to limber up| on the claybirds. | As a special event tomorrow (shooting begins at 10 a.m. and| ends at 2 p.m., everyone invited) club officials announce they will| hold a special ten-bird contest for| women. IR T Mrs. William J. Roberts, the ror-‘ mer Barbara Winn, arrived on the steamer Yukon today on a sur- prise visit with her parents, Mr. | and Mrs. Grover C. Winn. Mrs, Roberts is now residing at Wallace, Idaho, where her husband is assayer with the Hecla Mining Company. - e — BEAR IN PORT The Alaska Game Commission vessel Bear arrived today from Sitka to spend a few days. Don Gallagher is Captain and Douglas | Swanson Deputy Wwildlife Agent. GLOVER RETURNS Regional Engineer A. E. Glover of the Forest Service returned to- day on the steamer Yukon after |a tour of official duty in South- east Alaska, — e DIVORCE CASE | Suit for diverce was filed in Dis- trict Court today by Alma Ellis against Rodney W. Ellis on grounds of non-support, e o S After a hearing today in District Court, Clarence W. Farlin was ord- ered not to occupy any part of a | mining claim at Mendenhall Glacier | until a dispute-as to its legality has | been settled by the General Land | oftice. Farlin .was also ordered to remove all dynamite and signs from the property. | |42 years of reign that she was ever Drulys End BACK T0 SCHOOL TUESDAY RAF PLANES Just when we were having the most fun, too. The Juneau High and Grade schools will open for the 1940-1941 season | next Tuesday. The doors will be open at 10 a. m. All entering high school as freshmen should have their report cards. | should take their cards. The school bus on the Fritz Cove route will leave and will leave the school on the return trip at 3 o'clock on September 3. The Auk Bay bus, via the loop road, return in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. 9:30 a.m., worked out later in the winter. ;More Ihan One Mllllon Working 'WILHELMINA CELEBRATES; | IS IN EXILE Netherlanders Gather in London-Observance in Holland Banned LONDON, Aug. 31.—Netherlanders gathered today in Queens Hall to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Queen Wilhelmina, in exile in Eng- land. It is the first time in her| abroad. | Queen Wilhelmina remained quietly at her home here. | Celebrations were observed in all Dutch possessions with the ex- | ception of her homeland, where the Germans, now in control, put a positive ban on any recognition. VESSEL IS TORPEDOED NEW YORK, Aug. 31. — The |Mackay Radio has picked up a mes- sage stating the Belgian passenger ship Ville . de Hasselet, a former American liner, has been torpedoed. The message was picked up from Station GKT, England, and no fur- ther details were givne, B Visit Here Leaving on the Mount McKinley this morning were L. L. Druly and Miss Helen Druly, returning south to their homes in Minnesota and Wisconsin, respectively, after a brief visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Collis Druly of the Alder Terrace apartments. L. L. Druly is father Students are urged to register on the first day. and will leave the school at 3 o'clock on the return trip. The | two«mile voute bus will‘leave: at 8 o'clock and will rturn at 3:30. After ‘the first day, the same schedule as last year will prevail for school busses. | Due to a change in time in Juneau, some other arrangement may be | tween Point Barrow, Alaska, Little America, Antarctica Something like 86,000 of the| | nation’s new helpers have been| added in the last year. The defense drive, of course, is given as the reason. About 70,000 of these are new employees of the War and jon |over a million. The World War of Collis Druly and Miss Druly is the latter’s sister, All grade school students there at 9 o'clock will also leave at 9 o'clock, and will The Thane bus will leave Thane at for U.S.and Us By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — The number of persons working for the United States Government is now well over one million. The Civil Service Commission has given out figures for June. They| | add up to 1,011,066 working for you | | and me and Uncle Sam. Approximately 134,000 of th:se} work in Washington, the rest out| over the land, or somewhere be- and Navy Departments, the Civil Aero- nautics Board and the Panama Canal Zone. This is the first time the number the Federal payroll has gone payroll peak was 987,857 CAPITAL BUSINESS BOOMS Note to merchants: How are you doing? We are doing fine. For example, “Washington mer- chants are looking forward to the busiest autumn on record. Fore- shadowing the fall advance, de- partment store sales here reached - MAKE RAID, NIGHT TIME Fires Are Set in Heart of Nazi Capital-Holes Are Blasted GERMANS RETALIATE WITH ATTACK, LONDON Warcraft Ffl) Penetrate Defenses of City on Three Thrusts (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bombs were dropped in the center of Berlin during the night by Royal Air Force raiders for the first time in history. The bombs started fires in two large apartment houses, a terrific hole was blasted in the Fire De- partment headquarters, only four blocks east of Wilhelmstrasse on which important Government build- ings are located, and damaged an electrical appliance factory In the west end. Germany Replies Germany replied to the direct at- tack on the heart of Berlin by send- ing waves of war planes in an at- tempted thrust directed on London. Air raid alarms were sounded in London and residents scurried to shelter. Three times in five hours, the Nazi raiders attempted to pene- trate -the defenses of London but were repulsed by powerful anti-air- craft guns and hwrricane fighters. Twenty-two raiders are unoffic- ially reported to have been shot down. HOW RAID WAS MADE LONDON — An Air Ministry news service bulletin issued late today revealed detalls on last night's damaging raid on Berlin. The pilot aboard one R A F bomber over the Reich capital picked out the Unter den Linden and used it as a guide to his objective. Crews of two other bombers car- ried on conversations Ly radio tele- phone with the first, and found their objectives. Parts of the Nazi capital were covered by patcfies of clouds and the British bombers found some difficulty in locating all their ob- jectives. However. the RAF re- port said, the pilots swept down below the clouds to attack selected military targets. One of the pilots was credited with bombing a great factory in the northwest. section of Berlin. The British pilots claimed to have started numerous fires in various parts of the Nazi capital. The Air Ministry declared that, in spite of the bad weather, all R A F pilots had bombed either their primary or secondary targets. BERLIN REPORT BERLIN, Aug. 31. — Authorized German sources report that 73 British planes have been shot down and 12 German planes are missing as the result of today's air battles over England. “Surprise” ' attacks have been carried out against a number of airports in Southeast England and barracks and hangars have been . set aflame. e new all-time highs for both July and the first seven months of the year, July sales were 16.7 percentl above July last year . ., . gnd stood 26.5 percent above the same month in 1929. The first seven months| were 65 percent ahead of last year| and 212 percent over the same) period in 1929." ‘ FROM BOTH SIDES Excerpts from the comments on the Wendell L. Willkie acceptance| speech: | Senator Vandenberg (Rep.) — “This speech is one of the greatest in our generation. It sounds thei challenge of a crusade I have long been waiting for.” | Senator Minton (Dem.)—"It was| the worst major political speech I‘ ever listened to.’ | Representative Schafer ‘ReppA “Willkie'’s endorsement of some form | of selective military service does| not mean that he is for compul-’ sory military service." (Continued on Pm e Stx) Hurricane Is Nearing East Coast WILMINGTON, Aug. 31.—A trop- ual hurricane is now menacing North Carolina’s eastern seaboard while mountainous western reaches of the state still counted heavy damage as the result of flooded streams. The Weather Bureau warns that a severe storm, with full hurricane intensity, will be near Cape Hat- |teras tonight. Three weeks ago another storm killed more than 30 persons and* millions of dollars worth of prop- erty was wrecked in South Caro- lina and Georgia. i |