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

THE DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® *~ Helg LS 32 VOL. LVI, NO. 8507 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATEDPRESS ~ FRICE TEN LENTS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI RAIDERS BEATEN OFF OVER LONDON U.S. Secures Air, Naval Bases From Britain BIG DEFENSE MOVE MADE BY NATIONS Sirategic Poinfs Are Ex- changed for Overage U. S. Destroyers ROOSEVELT MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY AgreemenfEthed—Mosi Important Since Louis- iana Purchase WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today notified Con- gress of an agreement between the United States and Great Britain under which the United States will lease naval and air bases in British possessions in the North and South Atlantic and transfer 50 overage destroyers to Great Britain. The United States will acquire naval bases in Newfoundland and the islands of Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, An- tigua and British Guiana. Gift Bases President Roosevelt, in his special message to Congress, said the “bases in Newfoundland and the Bermudas sifls generously given and gladly received. The other bases mentioned were given in exchange for 50 of our overage destroyers.” The President enclosed with his message an opinion of Attorney Gen- eral Robert Jackson, dated August 217, “regarding my authority to con- summate the arrangement.” Officials’ said no action of Con- gress is necessary to put the agree- ment into effect. The Senate was not in session so the message went only to the House which ‘is meeting and debating the Senate-approved conscription legis- lation. Notes Exchanged President Roosevelt said the agree- ment with Great Britain was effect- ed through an exchange of notes be- tween the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, and Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull and signed September 2 (yesterday) and the Chief Executive declared the agreement “is not in- consistent in any sense with our status of peace and still less is it a threat against any nation. Agreement Epochal The President further said: “The agreement is epochal and a far reaching act in preparation for the continental defense in the face of grave danger; preparation for de- fense of a inalienable prerogative sovereign state and under the pres- ent circumstances this exercise of a sovereign state is right and es- sential to the maintenance of our peace and safety. This is the most important action for reinforcement of our national defense taken since The outposts are essential for m tection of the Panama Canal, Cen- tral America, the portions of South America, Anf , Canada and Mexico and our eastern sea- board.” “TO KEEP ENEMY OUT” ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN, Sept. 3. — Enroute to Washington, President Roosevelt said: “The chief value of air and naval bases ac- quired from the British Crown Col- onies are they will keep the enemy away from out front door. They will have to get through there before they will get to us.” BROAD GRINS LONDON, Sept. 3.—The British Foreign Office officlals broke into broad grins greeting the news of the British-American exchange of bases for overage destroyers. “This is the greatest possible sat- isfaction,” said one high Foreign Office official. It is understood the transfer of the 50 destroyers will give Great Britain a total of around 200 de- stroyers. — e A baby girl weighing 6 pounds and 8 ounces was born this morn- ing at St. Ann’s Hospital to and Mrs. Max Bolick. x LABOR APPEALED T0 BY ROOSEVELT TO HELP DEFENSE Union lead;rs—Pledge Loy- al Support-Conscrip- fion Is Atfacked (By Associated Press) It was Labor’s Day yesterday. Labor’s vital role in the task of National Defense gave the day its keynote holiday message as Presi- dent Roosevelt issued an appeal to the nation’s workers for cooperation by all to strengthen and defend the American way of life. Labor leaders, great and small pledged loyal efforts of their unions in furthering the preparedness pro- gram and expressed readiness to shoulder whatever responsibilities that might come, Conscription Attacked These expressions however were frequently coupled with attacks on the pending conscription legislnuon,‘ opposed by both AFL and .CIO. Wendell L. Willkie added another note to the day's statements charg- ing there is a “present trend to- ward placing labor unions under Government control.” President Roosevelt told the workers they will lose nothing by helping to build a stout National Defense. Green’s Statement William Green, President of the AFL, in his annual Labor Day ad- dress made in Denver, said the American Federation of Laber, ‘“realizing - that a time like would make industrial conflict dan- gerous and stupid,” would be ready to do its full part. He attacked the| conscription bill however. John L, Lewis, in a statement, sald his organization stood second to none in its determination for work for defense of this nation in its “democratic way of life.” Pro-German Agency Gels Dies Study NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Dies com- mittee agents today studied books, financial and payroll records and correspondence of the German Li- brary of Information which were seized yesterday in their offices ad- Jjoining the German consulate here and included a mailing list of 70,000 names and copies of “Facts in Re- view,” a weekly tabloid paper which carries Hitler'’s speeches and Ger- man versions of disputed events in Europe. BigDam|s Dedicated CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 3.—Amid thunderous applause of thousands of Southerners, President Roosevelt yesterday dedicated the mammoth Chickamauga Dam. The $30,000,000 dam stretches one mile across this Tennessee Valley River, The President also dedicated the great lake behind the dam one of the “great lakes of the south” cre- ated by the vast system of TVA dams which have assumed increas- ing importance in supplying power for defense works. SUB SPEEDBOAT BASE IS BOMBED LONDON, Sept. 3—Royal Air this| Rumanians Are Aroused Underfoot - Peasants Arm with Pifchforks BUCHAREST, Sept. 3—A mob broke into the German Consulate at Brasov Monday, ripped down pictures of Hitler and ground them into bits underfoot, Demonstrations have swept all Rumania and pitchfork-brandishing peasants lined the border of old Transylvania determined not to yield the Province to Hungary un- der the Axis cnmpulston TAI(U lODGE IS . . MECCAFOR BIG JUNEAU CROWD Juneauites went out over twenty strong to Mary Joyce's Taku River Lodge over the Labor Day holiday, and enjoyed cards, hikes, fishing ‘und hunting. | Going out aboard the motorship Triton, to connect with a lodge ‘Iunch Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. |J. J. Meherin, Mrs. W. S George and daughter Maydelle, Max Mum- ford, and Mr and Mrs. Alex Holden and Sandy Holden. Mary J., Dr.and Mrs. W. P. Bian- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Don Abel, Carol Ers- |skine and Neil Blanton. Dr. Blan- ton, Abel and Jenkins went moose hunting, but failed to connect. Flying into the Polaris-Taku mine Sunday morning, mine superintend- ent Frank McPherson and his wife stopped over the two day holiday. With them was Polaris engineer George Griswold and A. Neff. wild Life Service men Jack Jef- frey and Lance Hendrickson were also at the lodge, stopping there on patrol. — e —— MEWCOMERS STEAL GUN CLUB'S SHOW First time out to the Juneau Shot- gun Club traps, Ray Mansfield walk- ed off with Sunday’s honors, shoot- ing three straight ten bird runs of nine each time. Becond place went also to a gun club newcomer, M. Forrest, who broke 9-8-8. Lyle Hebert broke the only straight ten bird string perfect score. Scores of those who attended Sunday’s shoot were as follows: Ray Mansfield . 9 18 M. Forrest .. 8 17 Hank Harmon 7 16 Skipper MacKinnon 16 Harold 8mith . 7T 14 Vern Soley .. 9 Shooting only once were: Lisle Hebert M. Daniel ... Los Bernard Ralph Moreau James Connors, Jr. Earl Thatcher Doubles Lisle Hebert .. Harold Smith Vern Soley .. M. Daniel BB A RINES BALL PLAYERS T0 BE GUESTS OF FIRE (LUB At 7 o'clock this evening, baseball players and league officials of the Gastineau Channel Baseball League will be guests at annual banquet in Percy’s Cafe. The dinner, sponsored every year by the Juneau FPire Department, is the occasion on which the 7long list of prizes for baseball ability or the lack of such are given to ball 9 9 7 .8 7 3 TR - wona0 o - o Force planes have bombed the Nazi | piayers. sub-speed boat base at Lorient un — the French coast, mmlflnb—-.u.oo..o--oo try announces, and with good re-|e sults. e Rose and Joyce Goemett werele in tonight and dismissed Saturday afternoom from|e’ 'Mw mecovmmmtwwwh.u they underwent tonsilectomies. . WEATHER FORECAST o Rain, with not much change . . . . e 00000000000 Hitler's Pictures Ground| Mary Joyce topk out, aboard the, Registration Of Aliens Is BegunHere Forms, FingeTprinl Appar- atus Set Up Now in Room 104 Registration of aliens began today in the Federal Building here, with Mrs. Catherine Gregory in charge of the registration room, 104. All aliens are required by a new {law of Congress to register before December 26. The registration and fingerprint- ing takes about 15 minutes. Mrs. Gregory, and Postmaster Albert Wile, who is supervising the task, urge that aliens obtain sampie registration blanks at Room 104 and fill them out at home before com- ing to formally register. AlaskaRR. Fire Loss Is ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3.—- Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Mana - ger of the Alaska Railroad, says the fire that swept the Healy Sta- tion shops last Friday night, caused more than a $32,000 loss. The roundhouse was valued at $20,000 and a snow plow at $12,000. A switch engine that had value only as scrap iron was not affected by the fire. Other items lost were of nominal values because obsolete. Col. Ohlson said a new round- house will be built at once, the soonest possible. The fire started between ceiling and smoke jacket of roundhouse. 1904-41 SCHOOL the the The 1940-41 school years is under way,Juneau Public School, Parochial School and Government School stu- dents today turned off alarm clocks in time to don their new fall slacks and school frocks, hurry with a morning snack and dash away to 10 o'clock classes. tances from previous years. This afternoon textbooks and lockers were assigned and students were cautioned not to forget that to- morrow’s classes would be resumed at the usual hour of 8:45 o'clock instead of the 10 o'clock first day teaser. Prior to the opening of classes this morning, a two-hour teachers’ meeting was held and plahs for the winter schedule were discussed in part. At the Juneau Public School, first day enrollment was below that of last year, according to Supt. A. B. Phillips. In the Grade School 512 students registered, with last year’s total for the first day at 253 last year. MRS. ELSIE KNIGHT PASSES AWAY HERE Mrs. Elsie M. Knight, colored woman, passed away Saturday night at St. Ann’s Hospital after a brief illness. Mrs. Knight was born March 12, 1905, at Philadelphia. She was well known here and for some time has been manager of the Clark Rooms. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary pending funeral arrangements. —— MISS BLOMGREN TO SCHOOL IN STATES Miss Jane Blomgren, daughter of Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, sailed south on the steamer Aleutian enroute to Pullman. She will attend Washing- ton State College this coming winter. s o s s ' | from Sef$32,000 YEAR UNDERWAY 551, Only 240 pupils registered in| the High School this year against IRAFBombers Making Raids Axis Cenfers Salvos of Bombs Dropped from Home Bases- Records Made (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Italian High Command ac- knowledges that iong range Brit- ish Royal Air Force planes, flying 1,600 miles on round trip from their bases, raided Northern Italy, kill- ing two and injuring 15 persons at!the Axis slicing of the nm"hem‘maska where he has visited, as a Genoa. Other RAF bombers pounded German bases near Boulogne, Nazi held French Territory, dropping salvos of bombs. Explosions reververbated like thunder clear across the English! channel from France. Still other RAF bombing squad- rons, carrying on and strafing Axis territory, did good work. The British Air Ministry an- nounces that raids of RAF bombers have taken them 17,000,000 miles home bases, or 700 times around the world in the year’s struggle. Military objectives in West and | Southwest Germany were raided| early l.odny by British bombers. PAN RALSTON I FIRST HONORARY ROTARIAN HERE Chief of Police Dan Ralston today became the first honorary member of the Juneau Rotary Club. Ap- pointive officials are not eligible to regular membership in Rotary, so; Ralston was voted in under the | honorary status. Visitors at today’s luncheon in- cluded Dick Harris of Seattle, Herb Carbray of Seattle, Anthony E.| Karnes and Milton Campbell. Campbell, Assistant Director of | Child Welfare for the American Legion, spoke on the work of his | organization. He was a charter mem- ber of the Cincinnati Rotary Club. Campbelll returned here by Electra | yesterday to attend the Legion con- | vention. PYLES LEAVE FOR STAY AT KETCHIKAN Dr. Taylor J. Pyle, Dental Super-! | visor of the Office of Indian Affairs, The morning was spent getting| associated and renewing acquain-| left on the steamer Aleutian with his wife and daughter for Ketchi- kan to spend six weeks performing dental work. — e BANFIELD HAS TRIP DOWN YUKON RIVER Norman Banfield returned on the Aleutian from Seward after mak- ing a trip down the Yukon River and through the Ralilroad Belt.| Going from Whitehorse to Circle,| Banfield drove over the Steese| Highway and on to Fairbanks and thence to Anchorage and Seward. He has been gone three weeks, e COUPLE MARRIED BY COMMISSIONER PFred Harold Folette and Thelma| Elaine Archambault, the former Mrs. Forrest V. Smith, were mar- ried Saturday night in Douglas by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray. Attendants were Maureen Lovett and Ray McGinnis, — .. CAMPAIGNERS Cash Cole, Delegate to Congress on the Republican ticket, and Harry McCain of Ketchikan, Attorney Gen- eral on the GOP card, were to fly | to Fairbanks today to make a con- tact trip through the Interior. FEIST GOES OUT Martin Feist, PAA mechanic, sail- ed on the Aleutian for Seattle. He will take a posiition in the States and Mrs. Peist, the former Louise ‘Tanper, will follow him in about & month. el MOOSE WOMEN MEET Resuming the fall schedule, a meeting of the Women of the Moose will be held fomorrow night at 8 oclock at the LOOF. Hall and all members .are urged to be pres- ent, Regular business will be dis- cussed. NAZIS MAKE THREATON " RUMANIANS {Must Stop Nationwide Agi- ation or Nation Will ‘ Be Occupied (By AFSO(mD PRESS) east Europe, riotous anti-German land anti-Italian demonstrations | throughout Rumania, exploded a serious new crisis arising out of | Transylvania Proyince of Rumania | to meet the Hungarian demands. Semi-official German in Bucharest asserted that Nazi troops will march into Rumania and tinnwide acitation is not immed-; iately checkod 'SORENSONS NS T0 ; FLY; CLIPPER Paul Sorenson, Superintendent ot | the Hirst-Chichagof, flew to Juneau with his wife and daughter, and brother Allen, Sunday evening. The entire family is. scheduled to fly south on the Alaska Clipper. Sorenson will be south about a month ' on business, ‘While .in the Stales he will attend ‘the American Institute of Mining Engineers Con- | vention at Salt Lake City and will go from there to Colorado Springs | for the Mining Congress. Mrs. Sorenson and daughter will |remain in the States for an ex-| tended visit. e bt ey 'LIEUT. W. B. ELLIS ARRIVES TO RELIEVE f LIEUT. R. D. DEAN {by Mrs. Ellis and their two chil- dren, arrived on the steamer Bar-| |anof. Lieut. Ellis joins the Coa.st | Guard cutter Haida to relieve Lefut.| | Ralph Dean, recently Lrnns!erred |to the Florida district. Formerly stationed at Cape Mny, lNew Jersey, Lieut. Ellis has spent| the past three months observing naval gunnery in the Hawaiian Is- lands. He jolned his family at s-n Diego enroute tg Juneau. yLieut. and Mrs. Dean, who have| Imn stationed here for the past three years, plan to sail for the | south the latter part of the week. HALIBUT FISHING | Midnight of September 26 is the last date for halibut fishing in Areas | 3 and 4, the International Fisheries | Commission has notified the Col- lector of Customs here. | Midnight September 30 will be the late date of validity of permits. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's session, the first one of the month, is 4%, American {Can 95%, Anaconda 21%, Bethle- {hem Steel 9 3/4, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 48%, Interna- tional Harvester 45%, Kennecott 28'%, New York Central 13; North- jern Pacific 7; United States Steel | 54%, Pound $4.03%. DOW. JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones awerages: industrials 129.74, rails 28, utilities 22.50. Baseball Today ‘The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Leagues: National League 8t. Louis 3; Cincinnati 4. American League Detroit 2; Chicago 10. Fierce counter attacks in South-| sources | |occupy the entire kingdom if na-; Lieut. W. B, Ellis, accompanied T0 END SEPT. 26 15DEAD IN PLANE CRASH Senator Lundeen Among Victims-All Passengers and Crew Are Killed | WASHINGTON, Sept.3.—Twenty- | | five persons, all 21 passengers nnd; | crew of four, were killed late last Saturday afternoon in the crash| | of a Pennsylvania Central Alrlines Transport, near Lowettvilles, Va., | 42 miles northwest of here. The passenger list included Sena- tor Ernest A. Lundeen, Farmer La- borite of Minnesota, well known in | member of the Territories and In- | sular Affairs Committee. A State Trooper said the bodies were strewn over an area of sev- | eral hundred yards. The plane did not burn. Residents in the vicinity, who saw ;the crash, said the plane “collided with a ridge.” 'KRAUSE T0 BUILD | ANCHORAGE PLANT Emil Krause, who for many years 'has been in the concrete products and contracting business in Juneau, |is branching out. | | Krause, now in Anchorage, has | wired for his son Irving to come |north to aid him in the establish- ment of a modern plant at An- chorage for the manufacture of sewer pipe, chimngy blocks, and other building materials. The Juneau plant will remain the | headquarters of Krause's Alaska | business. B | lufherA League a Cruise Enjoyed Forty Luther League members and | their friends enjoyed an all-day| | cruise yesterday on the Wanderer. The group spent the day fishing ‘and in the afternoon gathered at Bear Creek for dinner and later enjoyed hunting and hiking. They! { returned to Juneau about 9 o'clock last night. R e Fish Won't Be (aught; But ' Calch Themselves When C. L Everetts, of the Sig- nal Corps, pulled in his skiff at| his Lena Cove summer home yes- ;berdny to go fishing, he found in| | the bottom of the boat a 15-pound | cohoe which had jumped in over the side, P. .. Everetts didn’t catch any- thing. BASSETTS BACK FROM TRIP OUT Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bassett and ison Sammy returned on the Alaska Clipper after a short trip to Se- | attle. Bassett made the flight to fa- miliarize himself with the Clipper run. He is airport manager and dispatcher here. Mrs, Bassett and Sammy have |been visiting with friends in the | Seattle district. : —_————— CLITHERO RETURNS FROM TRIP OUTSIDE Russell Clithero, former Juneau hotel man now managing the Sitka Hotel, flew in on the Alaska Clipper from Seattle after a short business trip. He returned for the American Legion convention. - - eee— — OLSON BACK Johnny Olson, well known truck driver for the Juneau Fire Depart- ment, came in on the Aleutian after a trip to Anchorage. Olson reports, “This is a bad time of the year to go looking for jobs in Anchorage, but it is a booming town.” ——ee- —— BREWITT WINS HONORS ‘The motorship Wanderer spent Sunday off Marmion Island, a party of 20 enjoying the day picnicking, fishing and sunning. Joe Brewitt took honors with an |ing to streak it to London, RAF HOLDING TERRITORY 1% ENGLISH KIR Waves of Ge_nnan Pianes Unable fo Penetrate Great Defense 'HIGH TIDES MAY BE AID, HITLER'S INVASION British Bombers Spread Eagle Over Parls of Germany, lfaly (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Waves of German Luftwaffe raid- ers, 300 in a single onslaught, twice sought to bomb London today but fell back under the fast Royal Air Force fighters and “wall of flames” of the defense anti-aircraft guns. By midafternoon, the British Alr Ministry reported that 23 Nazi planes had been shot down and 15 RAF planes were missing., In con- trast, Berlin said 54 British planes had been destroyed and 12 Ger- man planes failed to return to their bases. Two Air Raid Alarms The British Capital underwent two air raid alarms in the forenoon and one early this alternoon. The last alarm lasted for 142 minutes as the war entered the second year. Hard fighting RAF airmen cut “victory roll” capers in the skies after scattering the Nazi first mass attack and scattering the raiders in an hour long battle over Do- ver “Hell's Corner” region. The German aerial armada jet- tisoned bombs into the channel and raced homeward with RAF bombers in pursuit. Shortly afterwards, how= ever, the Nazi raiders roared back |to renew the assault in the same southeast coast vicinity, attempt- but again were beaten back. AXIS FOES POUNDER British RAF bombers pounded both Axis foes Monday, renewed in- tensity on bombing German long (Continued on Page Eight) Guardsmen Summoned WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has summoned 60,- 000 National Guardsmen for Fed- eral training in militarism. The training will start September 16. Refugee Ship Of Children Is Torpedoed LONDON, Sept. 3.—Torpedoing of a British refugee ship taking 320 children to Canada, is an- nounced by the British Ministry of Information. It is said that all children were saved and the vessel's purser 18 the only casualty. IVERSON (OMES AGAIN T0 MAKE 18-pound salmon, biggest out of 14 fish brought aboard.