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

- VOL. LVI, NO. 8511. " [CKES TOLL SYSTEM HIT BY LEGION Law Is Urg—ed—io Prevent Aliens from Working in Alaska Industry Legionnaires yesterday afternoon voted their approval of another list of resolutions running the gamut from subversive activities to child welfare. In the wake of this summer’s bit- ter fight in the Interior between Richardson Highway truckers and the highway toll collectors, Legion- naires also passed a resolution con- demning such tolls. Resolutions passed yesterday recommended (1) the House Com- mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries foster a law to expedite prevention of anyone not a citizen of the United States from being employed in the industries of the Territory of Alaska. (2) That the Secretary of the Interior remove the toll on the Richardson Highway and that no tolls be put on freight or passen- gers on any highway in the Terri- tory where such highways have been built of public funds. (3) That The American Legion is opposed to our Government’s permitting dumping of European refugees in Alaska. (4) That the Territory correct, by law, its problem of child de+ pendency. (5) That the Territorial Depart- ment of Health should be given legal status in the Government cf the Territory. (6) That the Territory create its own hospital facilities for tubercu- losis and crippled patients. (7) That the Territory require its employees to take the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. et — Conscripfion Bill Is Still in Debate, House WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — The House, usually in recess on Satur- day, met with the leaders striving to pass the' conscription bill by night. One amendment adopted would facilitate financial settlements on the installment plan by drafted men permitting them to negotiate agree- ments on payments falling due whie they are in training, Another amendment provides that no Com- munist or German American Bun- der can be hired to take the place of men drafted. Maine Nears Election Now PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 7. — This state, the first in the Nation to have an glection and which is only two day$ away, rang off with echoes of praise and criticism for Roosevelt. Col. Theoddre Roosevelt Jr., por- trayed his distant first cousin as having “supreme contempt” for the American people and their abili- ties. Senator Robert F. Wagner, in a campaign speech, eulogized Presi- dent Roosevelt as a great President “with love for fellow man in his heart.” EILER HANSON IN FROM SITKA HOME Eiler Hanson, Superintendent of the Pioneers’ Home, was in Juneau today conferring with Territorial officials, He plans to fly back to Sitka tomorrow. —————————— OLSON TO KODIAK Clarence Olson, Pisheries Man- agement Supervisor, will leave on the steamer Mount McKinley for 1 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Gross Sees Dream Near Realization Theatre Bumg fo Open Soon-Penthouse Is Dream Castle The Twentieth Century Theatre- Apartment Building, which pioneer theatre man W. D. “Dave” Gross laughingly says he has been building on the “five-year plan,” is expected to be thrown open for business this month. B | Three years a-building, Gross has persevered through persistent finan- cial stress and today is watching workmen put the finishing touches on a structure that has finance men marveling that a single individual could complete it. The theatre, 200 feet long and 65 feet deep from floor to ceiling with- out a single pier is shaping into what might easily represent Alaska’s finest theatre. A shipment of 1,250 seats is being unpacked and set up, streamlined seats with red corduroy-like mater- ial covering springs and foam rub- ber. When vou get out of your seat, the seat itself springs back of its own accord. There’s no groping to raise and lower seats. Up in the 24 apartments Gross has built to withstand the years, hardwood floors, hardwood paneling, tile, solid mahogany doors. Many apartments are two-bedroom apart- ments. All are served by automatic elevator. And on the roof in the penthouse, Mrs. Gross is preparing to set up housekeeping in the type of an apartment that every housewife dreams of. There are we don’t know how many rooms there, but we do re- member there were five baths—a pink one for daughter Selma, a blue one for daughter Sonia, a cream one for Mr. and Mrs. Gross, one for the guests and one for the maid— and all in tile. of those rare individuals who plans for the future continuously, has left space in one room for two nine or ten-year-old boys, and contemplates putting a high fence and tennis court on the roof for the children. And for Mrs. Gross there is the last word in electric ranges, a sink unit with electric dish washer, and over the stove, a fan to draw off cooking fumes, In a laundry room, there is an el- ectric washing machine of the box type, two sanitary tubs, drying space and a radiatort to aid the process. No, the fireplace hasn’t been for- gotten. That's there, too, and the harbor view is there as well. FIRES ARE SE, ITALIAN BOMBS (By Associated Press) Italians claim to have set large fires by bombing raids on Hafia. The fires are raging, according to the Italian High Command, on oil tanks and refineries. Italian planes are also reported to have bombed other British ob- jectives in the Near East. M. D. WILLIAMS IS LEAVING TO ATTEND TWO CONFERENCES District Engineer M. D. Williams of the Public Roads Administra- tion will leave on the steamer Bar- anof enroute to Seattle and San Francisco. After a brief stay in Ketchikan on PRA business, he will be joined by Mrs, Williams, who is l2aving on the steamer Columbia Monday, for the trip to the States. In Seattle Willilams will attend the convention of State Highway Engineers and in San Francisco will attend the annual regional conference of the Public Roads Ad- ministration Later he will enjoy eave. - The Weather | ! | Forecast for Juneau and vi- | vinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., | September 7: Fair with not | much change in temperature tonight and Sunday except partly cloudy Sunday; lowest | tonight about 48 degrees; winds | the Westward tonight to coriduct a Fish and Wildife Service hearing at Kodiak on the 1941 regulations. variable tonight, becoming mod- | erate southerly Sunday. Just to top it off, Dave Gross, one : JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1940. END NEAR FOR 1940 CONCLAVE Legion Finifig Up Busi-| ness Today - Big Dance Tonight Pour busy days of the American Legion's 1941 Alaska convention will culminate tonight in a banquet in| the Gold Room of the Baranof Ho- | tel followed by a grand ball in the Elks ball room. Today Legionnaires and Auxiliary were finishing up their business| programs and installing officers for the new year to come. Last night, Marshal Frank Met- calf started a colorful parade led by the Juneau High School Band marching through the business dis- trict and finishing at the Coliseum Theatre where conventioners staged a riotous show for a packed house. Ketchikan Auxiliary actre ss walked off with first prize honors.; doing a melodrama and pantomime farce by Oscar Gustafson, in whichi the burlesquers “stamped their fceL"‘ by hitting the soles of their shoes| | with rubber stamps, made appeals| on bended knees by peeling a ban- ana, and found the appealing fruit- less when a wit ate the banana from within its peelings. At 9 o'clock this evening, all con- ventioners will gather for banquet in the Gold Room of the Baranof, | with the Grand Ball to begin at| 10 in the Elks ball room, public in- | vited. | Legionnaires, reviewing the past few days, labeled this year's con- vention “the best yet.” This afternoon joint installation of officers was held. e - legionfiaires Urge Great Highway A resolution passed this morning |by conventioning Legionnaires boosts the International Highway. | Need for the road, the resolu- tion declared, has increased due to war possibilities and would be of “inestimable value in case war came to this hemisphere.” The Alaska Legion asks the Na- tional Convention of the Legion to make every effort to press the need for this road upon Congress. Capt. Parker For Alaska WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. — Capt. Ralph Chandler Parker has been named as Commander of the Navy's expanding defense forces in Alaska waters. He is already on an inspec- tion tour of the section aboard a destroyer and with him is Brigadier | General Simon Buckner, Command- er of the U. S. Army troops, in Al- laska. Capt. Parker will be in command of naval establishments at Unal- aska, Sitka and Kodiak. He is a native of Batavia, New York. DOBRUJA IS CEDED (By Associated Press) The Bulgarian Government an- nounces a formal agreement has been signed with Rumania to re- turn to Bulgaria the southern Do- bruja area of 28,000 square miles with a population of 375,000. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session of the Exchange is 4 7/8, American Can 98, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 79%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 48%, International| Harvester 46 3/4, Kennecott 29%,| New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.03 3/4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | GREGORY TRADE VIEWS ON LIQUOR Admiral L. E. Gregory, Chairman of the Washington State Liquor ‘;Cnmrol Board, who recently gave |his opinion on the Territorial li- quor stores question as “it is my belief you will find the licensing system a better method than the | monopoly system for Alaska,” has replied by letter to criticism of his giving such advice. “With the knewledge that I have gained of the Territory and of the| handling of liquor I gave what I thought conscientiously the best views for the Alaska problem. I still hold them,” Gregory states in a letter to Mrs. Ella D. Smith of Juneau, Chairman of the Legisla- tive Department of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Smith Protests Mrs. Smith had written Gregory. and also to Governor Clarence Mar- tin of Washington, protesting that Gregory's advice was “entirely out of order.” The Washington Chairman, de- claring that he still considers the present licensing system in Alaska superior to the Territorial control on which Alaskans will vote in Tuesday's referendum, advises Mrs. Smith of his views: “You do not have to accept them. Tf you consider that you are in a better position to give advice you are at liberty to have your own opinions.” Mrs. Smith’s letter to Gregory, written on stationery of the Alaska Federation of Womens Clubs, was as follows: Letter to Gregory “Admiral L. E. Gregory. “Chairman Washington State Liquor Control Board, “Olympia, Washington. “Dear Admiral Gregory: “In a press release from the Of- s | fice of the Governor, I wish to call your attention to the following let- ter—‘the reason why I feel that the system used in this state would not be economically feasible in Al- | aska. The very large distances and | |extremely sparse population, to- gether with infrequent and diffi-| cult means of communication and | transportation, clude any monopoly system such as |the one in Washingtoh. It appears almost obvious that the problem of | inventory control, the problems of | delivering liquor from the central- ized warehouse to retail stores, the | problems of supervising and audit- ing and the problems of transmit- ting funds accruing from the sales, ete.” 3 “Pirst I would like to ask how long it was since you were in Alaska? “This paragraph sounds like you might have been here in ‘dog team’ days when it did take a long time to get places—but since the event of airplanes we do not find dis- tances great anymore. One can very easily leave Nome in the morning and be in Juneau in the afternoon. There are no outlying places that are inaccesstble, nor are the prices of planes prohibi- tive. In fact all other branches of the government find it not too ex- pensive to transact business by that method—and a business as lu- crative as the liquor business could surely stand that expense and still !make a profit for the Territory. “We have held the State of Wash- ington up as a model in regard to State owned liquor stores. We have felt" that you have made a compre- hensive study of all other states and then choose the best from them and embraced it int oa law for your | (Continued on é;g’e.”Eight) SEWARD IS CONVENTION CITY IN 1941 Waller B. Kl_ng Is Elected Department Command- er for Next Year WALTER B. KING New Department Commander Seward is to be Alaska’s Ameri- can Legion convention . city in 1941 and Walter B. King of Ket- chikan will be Department Com- mander of the Legion, it was re- vealed this morning after a count of ballots cast by Legionnaires winding up four days of conclave. First Vice Commander is J. C. Morris of Anchorage; Second Vice Commander is E. M. Campbell of Wrangell; Department Ekecutive Committeeman at Large will be Bert Lybeck of Juneau and Ed Elliott of Ketchikan; National Ex- ecutive Committeeman is R. H. Stock of Anchorage; Alternate Na- tional Executive Committeeman js is A. A, Johnson of Palmer; Judge Advocate is Dixie Hall of Fair- banks; Sergeant-at-Arms is Frank Cooper of Seward; Service Officer is George Gullufsen of Juneau; and Chaplain will be Russell Clith- ero of Sitka, while National Com- The following are today’s Dow, Jones ,averages: . industrials 132.78, rails 29.21, utilities 23.05. E. M. Polley of Juneau; Historian FLORENCE O'NEILL NEW PRESIDENT OF LEGION AUXILIARY Anchorage%man Heads Department-Installa- fion This Afternoon Florence O'Neill of Anchorage was elected to succeed Elizabeth Nord- ling of Juneau as Department Pres- ident of the American Legion Aux- this forenoon in the Dugout. Other officers include Ruth Mor- gan of Ketchikan, First Vice Presi- dent; Hertha Baker of Fairbanks, dent; Bertha Baker of Fairbanks, Second Vice President; Betty Mc- Cormick of Juneau, Secretary- Treasurer; Helen Bernhofer of Ju- neau, Historian; Lavina Lund of Fairbanks, Chaplain; and Margaret Webb of Seward, Sergeant-at-Arms. Elected as Department Executive Committeewomen were Aileene Ol- son and Catherine Davenport, both of Juneau. Natfonal Executive Com- mitteewoman is Elizabeth Nordling of Juneau, with Florence O'Neill of Anchorage as first alternate, and Betty McCormick of Juneau as second alternate, The Auxiliary and Legion were to hold joint installation services this afternoon in the Elks Hall. Scrapbooks of the year's history were also judged and honors went to Ketchikan, with Juneau’s book given second prize. President of Finland, Dies BERLIN, Sept. 7.—A DNB dis- patch from Helskinki says Presi- dent Kyosti Kallio, of Finland, died today. TWO LIOUOR SELLERS ARRESTED AT YAKUTAT Max Daga and Joe Burgarin, who pleaded guilty at Yakutat to a jcharge. of selling liquor without a license, were brought here on the would almost pre-| you | iliary of Alaska at a meeting held| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS HEMISPHERE DEFENSE FOR ALL NATIONS ‘Naval, Air Bases, Recently Acquired from British, Are Cooperative WASHKINGTON, Sept. 7. — The United States has notified all American Republics that the Naval and air bases recently acquired from Great Britain will be avail- able to them on the fullest cooper- ative basis for “common defense | of the Western Hemisphere.” Secretary of State Cordell Hull has sent messages to the above effect to the United States dip- lomatic missions in the various countries. g e e L DEFENSE ~ PROJECTS ~ TIED UP ‘laborers on Work at Both Ends of Panama Canal | Are Out on Strike BALBOA, Sept. 7.—The strike of laborers on secret defense pro- jects in the Panama Canal section spread today to-the Pacific side when from 300 to 400 men refused to check in for work as pay in- creases were denied. Pay increase sfrom 18 to 20 cents an hour to 30 cents for la- borers and from 25 cents to 40 cents for skilled workmen are sought, . Six hundred men are out on the east side of the canal. Aflen;pfl’ls Made On Life of Carol BELGRADE, Sept. 7—An attempt on the life of Carol was made to- night as his private train crossed iLh(-‘: Rumanian-Yugoslavia frontier. | His car was riddled with bullets, | presumably from Iron Guardists |but the bullets failed to penetrate | the heavy steel protecting his quar- ters. | | | | JOHN HELLENTHAL ADMITTED 10 BAR John Simon Hellenthal, Judge Simon Hellenthal of the Third Division and Mrs. Hellen- thal, was admitted to the bar here | today. He took his oath in Dis- trict Court this morning before | Judge George F. Alexander. He |is a nephew of Attorney J. A. Hel- lenthal of Juneau, ‘Vincents Are Enthusiastic | Alask_a Boosters son of Enthusiastic boosters for Juneau are Mr. and Mrs. Otto J. Vincent of Seattle, who are visiting in Ju- neau as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Kearney. The Vincents, who had intended to make only a short stop in Ju- neau, found such good weather that they remained for more sightseeing and salmon fishing, they say. Both Mr. and Mrs. Vincent are experienced anglers from the Puget Sound country and Mrs. Vincent is taking colored movies on her trip with which to entertain Se- attle friends on their return. Mr. Vincent is owner of the BEMC Manufacturing Company and has recently perfected a revolution- method of dispensing draft beer and completed patents on “Frost Kist” frozen food cabinet for freez- ing and storing vegetables, fruits and meats for home and commercial use. PRI L0 MISS FOX RETURNING Miss Lucille Fox, employee of the Governor's office, left Beattle to- mittee Delegates will be E. M. Coast Guard cutter Haida to serve|day on the steamer Aleutian to re- PRICE TEN CENTS STRATO AIR SERVICE IS ~ NEXTMOVE Bixby SaysfHTgh Flying| Craft fo Come as Soon as Airports Stratoliner service between the l | states and Alaska will come with development of proper landing field facilities, according to Panair Vice | President H. M. Bixby of the New | York offices. Bixby, returning here last night' abard a PAA Electra after a one- week tour of the Panair system in Alaska with other aviation notables, said “over the top” stratoliner ser- vice would come for Alaska “just as soon as you have fields up here to accommodate them.” Stratoliners must have concrete runways, Bixby said, and cannot op- erate from the soft fields as the Electras do. These new ships will cruise at 180 miles an hour, carry 32 passen- gers, take along 1,000 additional pounds of baggage and mail, and will operate in the optimum flying conditions zone at 20,000 feet alti- tude, high enough to clear even very severe storm conditions. To accommodate stratoliners, def- initely planned by PAA, and not just a dream, the Territory must be able to offer at least three major airports on the Juneau-Seattle leg of the route, and at least four in the Interior. Clearances will be made from Se- attle, but not unless two of the three needed fields are “open,” or rather, experiencing favorable flying weath~ One such field is now in the pro- cess of construction at Metlakatla, and Juneau is expected to get air- port development in the near fu- ture. Those two ports, with White- horse, or Atlin, will make it possi- ble for the stratoliners to operate between Seattle and Juneau. Clipper service, so far, between the States and Juneau, has been “satisfactory” in Bixby's opinion. Growth of Pacific Alaska Airways business during the past year, es- timated roughly at twenty-five per cent up over 1939, Bixby termed, “a pleasing growth.” Weather problems encountered in the clipper service were “anticipat- ed,” Bixby said, but declared the company hopes to better the service gradually as more improvements are made. In the party which made the sur- vey flight over the Territory were, Croil Hunter, President of Northwess Airlines, R. O. Bullwinkel, Traffic Manager of Pacific Alaska Airways; Mrs. C. M. rchibald, Vice-President of Pan American Airways; Captain Ralph Wood, Commandant of Sand Point Naval Air Station, and Lieut. Comdr. J. 8. MacKinnon, Naval at- tache, and George Kraigher, PAA Operations Manager at Brownsville, Texas, who joined the party in the Interior after flying direct to Fair- banks from Seattle with Joe Cros- son in a new Electra. ‘The party of officials were met by Crosson at Whitehorse, flown from there to Fairbanks and thence to Nome, across the International Date Line with the usual accom- panying ceremonies, back to Fair- banks, down to Anchorage, and thence to Juneau via Cordova and Whitehorse. Tomorrow the party is to go fish- ing for salmon and fly south aboard the clipper Monday, Crosson ac- companying them. GOVERNOR GRUENING LEAVES HONOLULU FOR SAN FRANCISCO| Gov. Ernest Gruening was in Honolulu yesterday and due in San Francisco today, according to word received by his office here. The Governor is returning after a Pan American Airways Clipper trip to New Zealand. COURT PARTY RETURNS FROM YAKUTAT TRIP Returning from a court cruise to Yakutat, the Coast Guard cutter Haida reached Juneau at 10 o'clock last night. Passengers included District Judge George F. Alexander and son George, Jr, U, 8. Attorney William A. Holz- heimer, U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney, Clerk of Court Robert E. Polley of Juneau and William M. terms ©f 10 months in jail. Each turn to Juneau after a vacation in Coughlin, Bailiff Carl Hupp and Floyd of Kodiak. was fined $250 in addition. the States. Don Gould of the Weather Bureau. BOMBS SET FIRESIN BERLIN, LONDON MRS. SMITH, ADMIRAL 2 CAPITAL CITIES ARE AIRRAIDED Dead Being—PEked Up and Debris Cleared Away After Night Attacks TERRIFIC ASSAULT IS MADE LATE TODAY Nazi Planes Again Come in Waves Over Brifain’s Heart-Description BULLETIN —LONDON, Sept. 7. — Measured in might, hun- dreds of German bombers smashed through London’s in- ner defenses late today and to- night in repeated waves of at- tacks unsurpassed in intensity and ferocity of any previous raids. The sky was lit with fire’ as the attackers returned this evening in a second raid. It is believed several million pounds of bombs were dropped and tre- mendous damage is believed in- flicted. BULLETIN — LONDON, Sept. 7. — Huge waves of German bombers, attacking in groups of more than a score of planes each, swept in against this city late today and the dull boom of bombs is reverberating. The sky directly oves the As- sociated Press building in the heart of London, speckled with anti-aircraft bursts as nine raiders roared high overhead. Waves of 150 attackers were spotted from the A. P. office as they broke up into formations of five to 20 or more. Reverberations of booms shook the table from which this dis~ patch is written, The attack is the heaviest thus far on London. There must be at least 55 bombers attacking in groups over one section while other bombers wheeled awaiting their turn, The sky seems like a blanket of smoke as it rolled up off east side streets which have been crowded with curious people but which were suddenly deserted. The all clear signal was finally sounded after the air alarm had sounded for 1 hour and 40 min- utes. At least eight raiders were shot down in flames. These were seen from the Associated Press office windows. Several fires have been started by the dropped bombs. EXTENSIVE ASSAULT BERLIN, Sept. 7. — Authorized sources said the attack on London and harbor late this afternoon was the “most extensive assault” so far in the war. The DNB says the at- tack was in retaliation for Britishat- tacks on non-military objectives in Germany during recent weeks. (By Associated Press) Bombs-set fires blazed early today in both German and British capital cities as the result of night raids. Both Berlin and London, the lat- ter especially, gathered their dead and removed debris as the result of the bombings. London, early tgday, momentarily had a breathing spell after the worst day of the war, yesterday and last night. The an‘nr planes during the night confined attacks mainly to |areas of northwest and southeast England. Spectacular Attack The Royal Air Force made a spec- tacular attack on Berlin shortly after midnight dropping explosive and incendiary bombs in open de- fiance of Hitler's recent threats he would raze England’s cities if as- saults were not stopped. Scores of buildings were wrecked in Berlin proper and many civilians were kill- ed and wounded. # The Germans claim to have set fire to docks in East London, oil tanks on the Thames and also at Haven. The British acknowledge a num- ber of civilians were killed in yester- dayl’s assaults. ‘The British claim 19 of their own planes have been shot down during the past 24 hours but 45 German bombers were also downed, the ma- Jjority in flames, Berlin claims 67 British planes have been downed and 24 of their own bombers are missing.