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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8513. JUNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IO 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ENTRAL LONDON RAIDED; IS SET AFIRE RECORD VOTE BEING CAST HERE TODAY Perfect Wemer Brings Out Heavier Balloting Than in 1938 A heavy vote, even heavier than that of two years ago when an all- time record was established, was being cast in Juneau today. Perfect weather combined with interest over the liquor referendum and contending slates of Demo- cratic and Republican candidates to bring out the heavy vote. At 3 o'clock this afternoon 419 votes had been cast in'the First Precinct, 221 in the Second and 135 in the Third. At the same time on election day two years ago, 375 had been cast in the First, 202 in the Second and 131 in the Third. In 1938 the total vote in Juneau was 1517, which is more than dou- ble the number cast by mid-after- noon. In 1936, the last presiden- tial year, the Juneau total vote was 1505. Two years ago the weather was cloudy with light showers, which while not bad weather was not by any means as conducive to a heavy vote as the bright sunshine and clear skies of today. Polls close at 7 o'clock tonight. No registration is necessary and the polling places in Juneau are: Precinct 1, Fire Hall; Precinct No. 2 and Seward; Precinct 3, Building on E Street. FOUR TAKEN T0 ISLANDS TODAY Shell Simmons flew a load of freight and mail to the Polaris-Taku mine this morning while Alex Hol- den made a trip to the coast, and Barlow John Amundsen went out with a| hunting charter. Holden flew J. C. Russell to Chichagof, Lily Rose, Charles Naghel and John Nadeau to Sitka. Drewpem % RubevtSAllen § | | %60 WASH!NGTON—Eoosevelt‘s con- centration on foreign and defense problems was not the only reason he refused to debate with Wen-| dell Willkkie. That was what he told newsmen, but there was an-| other reason which he dropped to] Representative Adolph Sabath ofr Illinois, chairman of the House Rules Committee, The two were conferring on con—! gressional matters, when Sabath' remarked that he heartily approved | of the rebuff to the GOP standard | bearer. “You did right,” the white-| crested dean of the House said, “pbut at that I'll bet you would| have liked to take him en.” The President laughed and re- plied by relating this experience: As a young lawyer just getting started in New York, he said he| was retained .to handle a difficult | civil case. The opposing lawyer was| a very effective jury pleader and completely outshone his youthful| rival in the argument to the jury. “But he made one fatal mis- “take,” the President contined. “He talked too much.” The attorney orated to the jury for several hours, and as he thun- dered on, Roosevelt noticed that the jury wasn’t paying much at-i tention. So, playing a hunch when his furn came, he rose and mwe; this brief statement: | “Gentlemen, you have heard the| evidence. You also have listened to my distinguished colleague, -14 brilliant orator. If you believe him | and disbelieve the evidence, you| will have to decide in his favor. That’s all T have to say.” ‘The jury was out only five min-| utes and brought in a verdict for| Rooseve!l's client. “That was a good lesson, Adolph,” the President concluded, “and I (Continued on Page Four) Hixson’s Radio Shop at Second | o, S B et children. Price of Seal Skins In Advance Nearly 40,(%0-%’5 Sold at| s s sonn . Dempsey. Friends| Auction-Average $21.08 Each e A trophy from the Ametican Leagne of Moflltn naming her “the most glamorous mother in Hollywood” and “the ideal American woman” shown being presented to Joan Blondell, film actress, at Balboa, Cal., by Mrs. Jessie Armstrong, President of the league’s California chapter. In private life Miss Blondell is Mrs. Dick Powell and the mother of two ST. LOUIS. Mo, Sept. 10.7l“ll(y‘ coat manutacturers and fur job- “Most Glamorous Mother” * | Schwellenbach, is Dempsey Wagmg Polifical Fight Under New Rules of Hatch Ad; Is Going Ahead By JACK iTlNNh‘l‘T WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—If any of you readers or your acquaintanc- es are wondering about the Hatch Act, which keeps all Federal full or part-time employees out of poli- tics and otherwise makes a hazard of some objectionable tricks in the national political game, tip your hat to a man who is himself wag- ing his biggest political campaign under the new rules and regula- tions. call him Jack, He's around 60. He's white of hair and red of face, but he looks, acts amd talks like a post-graduate athlete in his upper | forties. For six years he has been New Mexico’s only representative in bers bought 30,787 Alaska sealskins the *House. Now he’s campaigning at the Unitec States semi-annual auction sale yesterday. The skins brought an overage of $21.08 each which is three and three-tents percent advance in price over the last auction sale. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Closing quotation - of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can \97, Anaconda’ 21%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 47, Interna- tional Harvester 45%, Kennecott 28%, New York Central 13%, North- ern Pacific 7, United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 129.61, |rails 28.12, utilities 22.31. ———ee— FEMMERS RETURNING Mr. and Mrs. Buzz Femmer re- turned on the Columbia last night from the Westward. Femmer has been fishing in the Valdez area all season. — e 5 If you have nof voted, do so now. Polls temain open until 7 o'clock tonight. from the snow-capped peaks above Raton Pass to the sandy bottoms of the Rio Grande for United States Senator. (Incumbent Senator Den- nis Chavez is his primary oppon- ent.) He’s not the only man in poli- tics who got there inadvertently, but he is one of the few. As a re- sult of a long personal friendship with (and mutual admiration for) | President Roosevelt, he was des- ignated to set up the New Mexico recovery program in the hectic summer of 1933. A year later he dropped in on the New Mexico State Democratic Convention' and found himself nominated for the state’s single seat in the lower house. SUCCEEDS WITH 109 BILLS For three terms he has elected with clock-like regularity. He has bills written into the statute books and has earned an enviable reputa- tion for personal popularity. That is not all. Dempsey’s story is that of a man who emerged af- ter years in the subways of New| York City and won success in the| wide open spaces. Jack Dempsey was born in White Haven, Pa., near Wilkes- Barre, His first' job—and he need- . (Continued on Page Two) : |more than been | seen 100 of his sponsored| WASHINGTON NOMINATING ATPRIMARY | Governor Martin Seeking Reelection Against ‘ Strong Dill Bid SEATTLE, Sept. 10. Partly cloudy weather and showers were in prospect in some parts of Wash- ington today as voters went to the polls to nominate the tickets of Democratic and Republican parties in the state primary election. Observers predicted a turnout of half a million. Pre- primary registration of 880,000 is an all-time record. The first hours| |of voting in Seattle were well up to average. Most hotly contested race was for the Democratic nomination for Gov- ernor. Clarence Martin, well-to-do | Cheney miller, is seeking the dis- tinction of being the state's first three-term Governor. Although three others are in the race, it is fea- tured by a dramatic and bitter | fight between Martin and former ‘é-cnalor C. C. Dill Wallgren Versus Bell Rep. Mon C. Wallgren, ct Administration supporter, | promotion to the Senate seat to |be vacated by Senator Lewis recently named to the Federal bench. Wallgren faces a field of six, headed by State Patrol Chief Harry Huse and Frank Bell, former U. 8. Commissioner of Fisheries. Aside from Wallgren, the state’s ‘uthr Congressmen are seeking re- | nomination. | B g REPUBLICANS ARE WINNERS, MAINE STATE Ralph Bre;/;Er Is Victor Over Brann for Senate by 50,000 Votes PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 10.— ‘Republlcans scored an unbroken |sweep in the State’s top offices yesterday in the Nation's first po- litical test. Representative Ralph Brewster defeatéd former Democratic Gov. Louis Brann by approximately 50,- 000 votes for Senator Frederick Hale's seat in the Senate. | Sumner Sewell topped Fulton| | Redmond by 70,000 for Governor. The three House aspirants won | their seats handily, { Brewster, in a statement, said: “The mounting majority in Maine means a change in the Adminis- tration in Washington, D, C.” — e — Carol fo Lose Out, Finances Former K;l_g's Stocks, Bonds, Efc., Ordered i fo Be Seized BUCHAREST, Sept. 10.—Premier Antonescau has ordered seizure of all stocks and bonds belonging to |former King Carol. He requested | that the securities be turned over to the goverriment within five days. | In his statement Antonescau re- ferred to Carol as, “A very rich Carol has interests in paper mills, arms and munitions factories, ce- ment factories, and banks scattercd | through Rumania in addition to his big estates and many castles. The new dictator declared that the property, since it was obtained by Carol through greed, in reality| is the property of the government and as such must be forfeited by | Minnesota, New Hampshire, state’s entire delegation in the atorial nomination in a four-man | trict Judge in the Third and Fourth Carol, Navy’s G AR New ‘Mosquito" Has 'l'ruly Lethal bi As swift and deadly as it is comparatively tiny iStates navy's new along the waters of the Potomac river at Washington as it is put thiough its paces one of the United boats” flash 8 STATES VOTINGIN PRIMARIES Five Seais_'fi.Senate, 47 in House at Stake in Balloting (By Associated Press) Maine Republicans won an un- broken series of victories yesterday in all major contests in the first statewide election of the Presiden- tial year. Party leaders promptly hailed the performance an omen of national success in November. By pluralities exceeding in most cases those of 1936 and 1938, Maine elected Rep. Ralph Brewster Senator. Congressional Battles Eight states today are holding pri- maries to designate candidates for five seats in the Senate and 47 in the House. Gubernatorial nominations are also on the tickets in all states ex- cept Louisiana. States holding primaries are Ari- zona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Ver- mont, Washington and Georgia. There will be a primary tomorrow in New Mexico and Saturday in Arizona. Arizona Mixup The Arizona election features a wide open race for designation of Democratic Presidential electors, with Willkie Democrats challenging three different sets of electors sup- porting President Roosevelt. Failure of Democrats to file nominating petitions for electors left the issue to be decided by writein votes. A victory for the Willkie slate would pledge Democratic electors to cast Arizona’s votes for him even though he might not carry the state in November. Louisiana Purge The Louisiana balloting carried echoes of the battle which destroyed Huey Long's political dynasty, with Democratic reform Governor Sam Jones appealing for defeat of the House. In Minnesota, Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite for 18 years, who left the party this sum- mer, is seeking the Republican Sen- race. FORMER JUDGE HILL REPRESENTS ALASKA AT SACRAMENTO FAIR| Judge E. Coke Hill formery Dis- Divisions, represented Alaska at the opening of the California state fair at Sacrmento recently. Judge Hill, who lives in San| Franeisco, was appointed to speak “mosquito Britain, clashes Draff Is | Urged by Willkie Nominee Comes Ouf for Selective Draft Pro- gram Immediately RUSHVILLE, Indiana, Sept. 10.— Wendell L. Willkie expressed hope today that the Senate and House conferees will eliminate that section of the compulsory military training bill, the Fish amendment, post: poning conscription for 60 days. The amendment was approved by the House but the Senate has not agreed to deferring the draft while voluntary enlistments were being given a 60 day trial. Willkie was up early today and issued a formal one sentence state- ment at breakfast time urging the selective draft program go into effect immediately. ———.e——— Embargo On Japan Endorsed WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. — The ‘Washington Evening Star editori- ally speaks in favor of a strong embargo on iron and steel scrap to Japan. The editorial said that such an embargo will serve two benefi- cial purposes for the United States. First, it would help to conserve the supply of scrap iron for domes- tic purposes. Secondly, the editorial said, the move will prevent Japan from ob- taining from the United States 8 material which is vitally useful in the continuance of her aggres- sive policy of expansion in the Far East. Shipping Men Mee! LONG BEACH, Cal, Sept. 10.— Problems facing shipping men as a result of the European war head- ed the list of topics at the con- vention of the Pacific Coast Asso- ciation of Port Authorities. The convention has opened with the leading shipping men from the United States and Canada gathered for the association’s 27th annual convention. Other topics up for discussion in- for the Territory at a flag cere-| mony in which flags of all nn states ‘and tetritories were un-| Pan-American ports as well as the furled, clude federal power over American parts as well as the protection of Pan-American harbors, before high-ranking naval officers. sueh as this one are participating in the Lttle of Torpedo boats between German and British “mos- quito flects” having been repoited. THERMITE BOMBING; IS IT ON Packages of Heat Bein g Dropped-Will Refal- iation Follow? By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Read the statements of the Reich High " | Command and the British Air Min- istry with the help of a man who knows his military planes and his| bombs and you reach the astonish- ing conclusion that the air war we're reading about every day is not even well started yet. It is true, of course, that many lives have been lost, much prop- erty damaged. It would be hard to explain to a man who has seen his neighbor die, or to a flier who has spun out of the sky, that the air war is not on. But, if the experts have it right, air fighting up to now is a warm- up for the war to come, and an effort on both sides to crack morale on the other. In the warm-up, each| side learns the toher’s long suits, his short-comings. By constantly driving civilians already fed up wita war to air-raid shelters, they're in- flicting a sort of third degree, in-| tended to crack nerves, make peo- ple ask for rest, even if their coun- try has to lose a war. BERLIN, LONDON MENTION IT The experts will tell you that air war—all-out air war—will begin with -an eight-letter word spelled “T-H-E-R-M-I-T-E!” We've al- ready had fleeting glimpses of the world in the communiques from Berlin and London. Thermite is a simple mixture of powdered aluminum and powdered iron oxide, all bound up with mag- nesium wire. Attached is a fuse to set off the magneseum, like a bai- tery sets off a photographer’s flash| bulb. When a big package of thermite is dropped, the fuse detonates, sets| off the magnesium, and the ther- mite, thus primed, heats up. Within a few minutes it is a white hot mass of molten metal capable of melting steel. It gets hotter than 3,- 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than any ladle of molten steel in a blast furnace. Therefore, it will set fire to anything inflam- mable, It is a small river of fire itself. PACKAGE OF HEAT All military men say thermite bombs, or incendiary bombs. But technically, th epackage is no bomb at all. Merely a heater-upper. It's no secret weapon, either. The military men of all nations know the formula, use it in practice bombing attacks. Secret tests by the American air service, for in- (Continued on Page Five) SALVOS OF NAZIBOMBS DROPPED Roaring Assault from Dusk fo Dawn Again Hits British Capital NIGHT-LONG RELAYS FLY OVER CHANNEL Attack Renewed Noon To- day Interrupting Lunch of Weary Millions (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) German warplanes stormed cen- tral London today with a tempset of giant bombs for the third suc- cessive dusk-to-dawn attack. Spectacular fires were set in the vicinity of historic St. Paul's Ca- thedral. In “The City,” London's Wall Street, a 9 hour and 2 minute as- sault of roaring salvos of bombs weighing 800 to 1,000 pounds each, crashed near the Bank of England, Guildhall, London’s Lord Mayor’s House, General Post Office, Loridon Bridge, Fleet Street, and Great Inns Court where Bnglish barristers for centuries lived “in chambers.” 8t. Pauls Escapes The 250-year-old dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was red-1it in the glare of flames from nearby warehouses, but the cathedral was saved by a wind blowing in the op- posite direction. Hundreds of firemen fought the water towers for eight hours with- out a break. Roya! Air Force officers estimat- ed that 50 bombers were shuttling in night long relays across the Channel for the bombardment. A British communique declared “The enemy has now thrown off pll pretense of confining himself to military targets.” Berlin retorted that the full blast of aerial siege of Great Britain has “just begun—there will be ever more planes over London.” NOON ATTACK German daylight raiders returned to their attack at noon today, in- terrupting the lunch hour of Lon- don's weary millions for 25 minutes of air raid alarm. In the night attack, 120 persons were reported buried in the wreck- age of 20 houses in a single dis- trict. Rescue crews, digging in the rub- ble, had by dawn found but twenty persons alive, DOCKS ARE HIT Nazi pilots, returning to bases from night raids, said direct bomb hits had been scored on London's Great East Indian and Royal Vic- toria docks along the Thames. This attack, it was claimed, fur- ther disrupts the capital’s vital wa- |ter horne flow of food supplies. ‘The newspaper Berliner Zeitung asserted London will share the fate of Warsaw and Rotterdam unless Churchill stops sending “his pirates over Germany nightly.” BERLIN IS AIRRAIDED BY BRITISH Naval Forms— Also Bom- bard German Held French Coast British bombers made a 43-min- ute rald on Berlin just before dawn today but the Germans asserted that only scattered apartment hous- es were damaged in Berlin's north- ern outskirts. The_industrial area of Wesermu- ende, northern Germany, was also bombed and it is admitted much damage was caused. Hitler's High Command acknovi- ledges a British naval attack on the German held French coast but says “some light enemy vessels aim- lessly fired several salvos which hit the hinterland without damage and the enemy was driven away Doy fire of our naval artillery.” warehouse hlazes: with the aid of. .