The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LVIL, NO. 8739. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941. “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BRITISH, GREEKS LUFTWAFFED FRANCE T0 BE GIVEN WARNING Actions Will Speak louderg than Words-U. S. fo Make Move WASHINGTON, May 31.—Auther- itative quarters report the United States will soon notify France that future acts and not words will be the basis of American judgment of the French-German collaboration. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 31.—Closing quctation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session after the holiday yesterday and the last of the present month, is 4, Ana- conda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 367, International Harvester 49, Kennecott 35%, New York Cent\! 12, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Stesl 53, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 115.76, rails 27.43, utilities 16.90. —————— A hundred years ago married wo- men had no legal right to money they earned. Only one American college, Ober- Jin, admitted women a gentury ago. theG e et Al 60 WASHINGTON.— When white- baired, Danish-born OPM boss Bill Knudsen issued his recent an- nouncement of a boost in produc- tion of heavy bombing planes to 500 a month, he made what military ex- perts believe will be one of the most strategic moves of the war. For these giant bombers, rang-{ ing more than 5,000 miles, able to penetrate all the way from England to the Skoda munitions works in! Czechoslovakia and the aviation plants of Austria, may in thé end turn the tide of war. This is a field in which the USA has a head start on Burope. The U. S. fighter planes sent to Britain so far have been none too good. But this country pioneered heavy: bomb- ers; the famous “flying it were the first of their Kind.in the world. With this in mind, take a look at the changed bomber construction program just anpounced by Knud- sen: 0Old Plan—Called for 200 medium bombers monthly, plus 100 heavy bombers. Total bpmber output, both medium and heavy—3,600. New plan—Oalls for 500 heavy bombers monthly, plus 300 medium bombers. Total 6,000 heavy bomb-| ers, plus 3,600 medium - bombers. This means a total of nearly 10,000 bombers, and it may go even higher in a few months. GERMANY'S SLOW START Encouraging thing about the big bombing plane situation is the ad- vance start of the United States. Only six months ago no other coun- try in the world produced four-motor hombers. Today, Germany is just getting in- {0 heavy production of its four-mo- tor bomber, the Kurier, at the Ficke- Waulf plant in Bremen, which is one explanation for the constant British bombing of that city. Also it ex- plains the smashing air raids on the French seaport of Boulogne, from which several Kurier squadrons op- erate against British shipping. Accurate figures ‘on Kurier out- put are lacking, but best informa- tion is that it will not match the combined American-British output| Leaving Seattle June 5 aboard the Baranof for an extensive visit of the Territory will be Darwin Meisnest, Chairman of the Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber iOf Commerce, and Forest L. Mc- {Govern, Assistant General Manager of the Chamber and in charge of its Alaska activities. They will arrive in Juneau Sun- will return by plane from Fairbanks on Thursday, June 19, and remain for several days. They will obesrve the progress being made on the defense bases |now under construction, confer with {local Chambers of Commerce and business leaders and talk to local and Federal officials, all with an eye to obtaining a first-hand know- tions in Alaska. Meisnest is General Manager of the Washing- ton Athletic Club of Seattle and is {one of the city's active business leaders. He has visited the Terri- tory several times with the Seattle Chamber’s Good Will Tours and 'has a wide acquaintance with Al- professional men and considers all | Alaska matters coming before the Seattle Chamber. " McGovern has long directed all ot the Seattle Chlmbew tivitiesvand’ for- the p yearst has, in addition, been Assistant Gexteral Manager of that Chamber. He has performed many services for Alaska and is known in every corner of the Territory. —_——-o——— SPLIT UP FLEET IS PROPOSAL | Senafor Norris Wants Main : Body Sent fo Atlan- tic from Pacific WASHNGTON, May 31.—United States Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, the only living legislator who voted against entering the first World War, today suggested the Ad- American Fleet to the Atlantic from the Pacific. others who seid there was danger {of mvns!on from the Pacific. - Former Kaiser BERLIN, May 31.—A slight im- outstanding business executives and i of shifting the main body of the| Immediately this was opposed by | provement in the condition of form- | er Kaiser Wilhelm is reported by | Two Seattle Chamber 0f Commerce Officials (oming Here Next Week day, June 8, for a short visit and | | ledge of developments and condi- Vice-President and ‘ i The Alaska Committee, of which ' he is Chairman, is composed of 70 | | DARWIN MEISNEST Chairman, Alaska Committee of Seattle Chamber of Commcrce, Vice-President and General Manager, Washington Athletic Club. ministration consider the possibility | = | FOSTER L. McGOVERN Assistant General Manager of the Seattle Chamber of Com- | merce in charge of Alaska ac- | tivities. FREYBERG 1S ALIVE IN.CRETE Brifish Make Denial Com- mander Imperial Forces members of his family, who hast- | 2 ? ned to. the bedside of he exte . Di€S in Plane Crash Doorn, Holland. 7Flie orute TRAMGE: MaMg strick- | LONDON May 31:—The British en several weeks ago With an ob- war Office announces that Gen. B. scuge Intesiinnt deoediz. | C. Freyberg, Commander of the A I g SRR | British Imperial Forces in Crete is DR. RYAN VISITING | T offcial statement refutes the WESTWARD SCHOOLS ! German claim made yesterday that Gen. Freyberg was killed in a plane (crash while fleeing to Egypt from Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial Crete: Commissioner of Education, left on the Denall to visit schools to the Westward. The Commissioner will call st' Anchorage, Palmer, Wasilla, Cook ! Inlet schools and Anchorage. ———— HELLAN RETURNS ———————— THREE HALIBUTERS SELL Three halibut scheoners unload- ed their catches at the Juneau Cold iStorlge dock this morning to seil a total of 22,900 pounds. The Diana |aold 6,400 noundu and the Hecla {sold 5,000 to ‘E. E. Engstrom at prices of 9.05 gnd 7.70 cents per Deputy U. S. Marshal'Walter. G. jpound. The Utimak sold 11500 when both countries hit their stride —_—m C = | Hellan returned on the Denali from | poundswmmumm mg!umnmmmpomnapxh’mes ltnflulo!l.lo-nd 790 ‘oners south. NEUTAL DUBLIN RAIDED 'Unidentified Planes Drop! Three Bombs-52 Per- sons Are Killed (By Associated Press) Unidentified planes roared over neutral Dublin last night dropping three bombs. Official advices this morning re- . port that 52 persons were killed and it is estimated that over 200 persons were injured. One of the bombs blew out the glass skylight near the front door of the United States Legation. None of the occuants of the Legation were injured. —————— New Jersey Bund (amp Is Raided Place Closem Deputies- Hundreds Dispersed- One Arrest Made ANDOVER, New Jersey, May 31. —Camp Nordland, where thousands ; of German-American Bund mem- bers and associates have paraded during the past four years beneath waving swastikas and photographs of Hitler, has been closed as a meet- ing place. Deputy sheriffs raided the 210- acre camp of rolling farmland yes-! terday and dispersed hundreds of persons who were picnicking. The deputy seized pamphlets and swastikas and arrested Paul Hulssel, 38, of Poughkeepsie, New Yérk, who was charged with attempting to resist search. NORTH COAST RETURNS HERE BOUND SOUTH Bringing neau from Sitka, the southbound; steamer North Coast, Capt. August, Ekholm and pursér Paul E. Richers, arrived from the Coast at 8:30 o'clock last night and sailed for the South at 7 o'clock this morning with 20 passengers from Juneau for Se- attle and Southeast Alaska. ports. Passengers arriving from Sitka were Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shiels, Mr. G. Dean, Mrs. Lorene Young, D. J. Davis, Dr. J. Weston, Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Sutton, V. C. Marso- lan, Mrs. H. Belden, Norma Lando, Mrs. Ada Willlams, Hazel Hanson, E. R. Otto, Robert Ridley, Bud Hunt- ington, E. J. Conkle and Harry Oga- la. Passengers leaving for Seattle were: Theodore Hodwalker, Mrs. William Rudolph, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Deisch, C. Winston Deisch, Mr. and Mrs, L. Puustinen, Alice John- son, Marjorie Tillotson, Mr. and Mrs. Orton Allen, Walter Swagerty, and George Toher. For Petersburg— J. W. Russella and William Hempstead. For Ketchikan—Arlie Dahl, I. A. Thatcher, O, H. Dunlap, Ray Ward, D. L. Agasiz, Miss G. Sheridan and Dr. G. H. Quillan. For Wrangell—Willfam Smith. ————e———— Railroad rails are measured in pounds per yard in length. 19 passengers to Ju-; rla st Ruler of Land of Sacred Elephants Passes Away on EngllsllEI—a_Ig LONDON, May 31—Former King Prajadhipok 47, oi Siam, died of «ah attack of the neart today. He was the last ruler of the land of the Sacred Elepnanis of Siam, now Thailand. Prajadhipok, king of Siam for | nine years and three months, was prugressive in thought and action -and fostered reforms in his gov- &rnment, only to lose his throne when a two-year-old parliament, dominated by politically - minded military commanders, took advan- tage of his absence from the coun- try to enact laws taking away the' last of his royal prerogatives, the right to affirm or set aside death sentences, Threatened with blinaness from cataracts of both eyes and frail |in health from dental troubles and recurrent attacks of pronchitis, the king, then sojourn- ling in London after a second opti: cal operation, on March 2, 1935, stepped down from a throne which he had occupied since November [ 26, 1925. He retired to an estate ml Burrey. His physical uis, rather than his political troubles, made the dimin- utive potentate widely known to America. He 'and his queen spent five months in the Onited States and Canada in 1931, coming for an operation which cleared up his eft eye. They were planning an- visit, following his second op- eration in London, but his abdica- tion caused cancellation of this journey. The thousands who saw him on his 1931 tour remembered him as a slight, brown-skinned man, barely five feet tall, whose silk hat in formal attide accentuated the con- trast with the American officlals who towered beside him. But they recalled too his precise and fluent English, ready smile and keen in- | terest in things western. America 'liked his devotion to golf, tennis, baseball and polo, and his prefer- ence for bacon and eggs for break- fast. In 1918 the king married his 14- | year-old cousin, Princess Rambai- barni. The union was childless. From 1921 to 1924 he and his wife were in Paris where he studied tac- | £ ieure, the staff college of France. Enroute: home he made visit to 'America, | York from the Leviathan on Sep- tember 21, 1924, and staying six weeks befare proceeding to the Orient via the west coast. On this visit he first consulted Dr. John M. Wheeler, noted eye ‘surxeon who found incipient cat- }:\rlcu in both eyes and prescribed |a course of treatment. Seven years later Dr. Wheeler discovered that the left eye had not responded. In November, 1930, it was an- nounced that the king and queen would journey to the United States the following spring ‘for treatment {ot the monarch’s eyes. They left Bangkok March 20, 1931, sailed via China and Japan and debarked at Vancouver, B. C., April 16, after a record crossing in which steamer, the Empress of Japan, hama in seven days, 19 hours. The Wasningion stay was inter- rupted on April 30 for a trip to Johps Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. There it was found that an opera- tion on the king's left eye was im- perative. The operation was per- malaria and tics at the Ecole Militaire Super-; his first| landing in New, their, covered at 4,280 miles from Yoko-| fx-KlNC RAIADHIPOK 'NEW JOB IS GIVEN dinalor Tor Nafional .. Defense by FDR HYDE PARK, N, J., May 31.—An- nouncement was made today from the temporary White House of the | | appointment of Secretary of Inter-| jor Harold L. Ickes to the new | job of keeping gasolne and oil flow- ! ing in an adequate supply to civil- | ian and defense needs.. He was | National Defense in addition fo his pravious title of Federal Oil Ad- ministrator. President Roosevelt has instructed tions he deems necessary. Last Thursday Ickes predicted civilians might have to give up Sunday drives and return to gaso- lineless Sundays as during the World War days. e e ‘GOVERNOR FLIES T0 KETCHIKAN, Alaska Off}(—ia—ls Move in Anti-Sabotage Drive Now Under Way Gov. Ernest Gruening intended to spend Memorial Day in Anchorage. Instead he spent it in Ketchikan. A flight to Anghorage on national defense business cancelled due to chikan to confer with Coast Guard Commander F. A. Zeusler and Cap- tain J. F. Van Gilder of the National ! Guard on anti-sabotage precautions to be taken in the Frst City as part of the nationwide drive against fifth | columnists. 10 ICKES. Named Pefroleum Co- Of-| named Petroleum Coordinator for | Ickes to make what recommenda- | NOT ANCHORAGE changing conditions, the Governor | flew with Secretary of Alaska E. L.| Bartlett and - Assistant Director of | Home Defense J. J. Ryan to Ket- | ‘jormed by Dr. Wheeler May 10 at Ophir Hall and after a quick re- covery and a round of sightseeing, the royal couple left for home July 28. For six weeks they toured Can- |ada. They salled from Victoria on September 12 and retraced thelr 1Continued on Page Seven) The pnrty retumed last night BRIGHT WEATHER CONTINUES; TODAY BISMARCK WA WITH OFFICERS, MEN AS TORPEDO § BRITISH, PORT, May 31 — The, battleship Blsmarck, pride of the German navy. mwndedwnh 2; ,ofllqsp and men, 400 of e-dcm 20 years of age, when $ (ROWDED Crowning a series of five sun- | shiny days, today was at noon the | warmest of all. At 12:30 o'clock the temperature, as reported by the U. S. Weather Bureau, was 70 degrees. This is day and four degrees warmer than the warmest 12:30 reading of the year. ENT HER DOWN = she wils torpedoed and sunk by the Britiéh n the recent naval battle One ‘of the German survivors 13 Mfimmwmmu ishh. roscpers, - Temperatures during the past few days hlve heen as !ollowl 61 WARMEST OF ALL seven degrees warmer than yester- | » |the steamer Denali enroute to the| (10 HEADS ARE CALLED TO SESSION efense Me—tii—étion Board! Summons Washington ' D dent Philip Murray of the CIO, also a member of the Defense Mediation Board, has joined Chairman of the | Board, C. A. Dykstra, in summoning| ; Washington State leaders of thel striking CIO lumbermen to the Cap- | ital City. | This action was taken after Board xomcmls sald they “have received no | evidence” that their appeal to set- le the strike has been brought to | the attention of the union member- ship. The Washington State leaders have been summoned to appear here next ‘Tuesday. The Board declines to state " what action will be taken. O. M. Orton, President of the Ine ternational Woodworkers of Ameri- ca, and Ilmar Kolvunen, Vice-Presi- | dent, wired last Thursday that they 1 had rejected unanimously any medi-~ | ation, saying this was the action of | “our committee.” LOUISE BACK FROM.LYNN. CANAL PORT Canadian Pacific steamer Princ- ess Louise, Captain 8. K. Grayand purser E. Cornelius, returned to Ju- (neau from Skagway atlo'clock this afternoon for a one-hour stop be- fore continuing south with 54 pas- sengers from Juneau. Passengers booked for the south on the Louise are L. Stalper, E. Larson, S. Merrooriee, Mrs. Tom Selby, H. Anderson, R. G. Holmes, Mrs. Iva Tilden, Merle Janice | Schroeder, the Rev."H. P, Bessett, A. J. Bessett, D. Yorkston, H. Froese Jr., H. Froese Sr, C. Wol- }flnl, M. J. Wright, H. Hoskus, A. Danielson, E. Erickson, Miss M. Wendling, Mrs. H. Wendling, Mr, and Mrs. E. Hunter, E. Hunter Jr, Miss W. Burford, Mrs. N, Buflord Mrs. R. L. Nichols. Miss D. Cahill, Mrs, Cahill, Mrs. | L. J. Walker, N. Anderson, Mr.and Mrs. C. R. White, Margaret Abram- son, Velma Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. F. Dryden, Thelma Akridge, Miss P. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mre. Duckering, Bobby Goldstein, 1. Goldstein, Miss Harpole, Miss Monroe, Mrs. B. Miller, Mrs, D. | Lozzie, ,Helen Hendricks, W. E. | Blaskouski, Mrs. C. E. Harland, M. Balich, V, Snoddy and W. | Hackett. LODESTAR DUE SOUTH A southbound PAA Lodestar is | scheduled to land in Juneau early |this afternoon bound for Seattle with five passengers from the In- | terior. Mary Rogge and Edith Oh- man are passengers to Juneau from (Fairbanks on the plane, i Passengers boarding the plane in | Juneau for Seattle are R. V. Bor- leske and Mrs. Kathleen Vickers. Through passengers from Fair- banks to Seattle are Mrs. Marjorie | Becker, John Dunn, Walter Grohnert, Willlam Renfrew and Gustav Olen. BURTON HOLMES IN JUNEAU BOUND NORTH Burton Holmes, world traveler and author of the Burton Holmes | Travelogues, arrived in Juneau on Westward with his wife and pho- tographer, Thayer Soule. The noted lecturer and author was last in Alaska in 1903 when he made a trip to Nome. Staying his party will take the next north- bound ship, stopping over in Ju- neau because the Denall does not pass by Columbia Glacler. Stafe Strike Leaders | WASHINGTON, May 31.—Presi-| at the Baranof Hotel, Holmes and| DEFENDERS IN FLIGHT, AIRRAIDED Forces in Crete Make Way | o Gavdos Where Nazi Bombers Attack ISLAND WAR IS NOW PRACTICALLY AT END (British Win Vin Out in Iraq Where Mofored Units Reach Baghdad (By Associated Press) With the envelopment of Crete seemingly complete except for the formal British acknowledgment of the Axis victory, Great Britain has won a war within a war in Iraq as British motorized forces pressed into the outskirts of Baghdad this morning. According to dispatches, Baghdad is filled with riots and the Government has asked for an |armistice following the fleeing of | Rashid Allis ' Algailanai, pro-Axis Iraq leader, who took the child king, six-year-old Feisel the Second, with him, In the Greek debacle for the Brit- uh. the German High Command decllm that the British and Greek forces are fleeing eastward over the mountains te the coastal plains and the vise is being tightensd on the last defenders of the islwnd. Italians are landing on the eastern end of Crete. Some British and Greek forces fled to the island of Gavdos, 25 miles south but a luftwaffe is smashing them. CALLS FOR GREAT AID TOBRITAIN Isolafionislsie Scored by One of Heroes of First World War WASHINGTON, May 31.—Before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, yesterday, Sergeant Alvin York call- ed for immediate all-out aid to Eng- land and added: “If that means the use of convoys then we should use them.” The Tennessee mountainser be- came one of the outstanding heroes of the first World War serving with the AEP and was invited to be the prtnclptl speaker at the Memorial Day éxercises in Arlington Cemetery. York struck out at the advocates of isolationism and declared that Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon- tana, leading isolationist, “ought to know_that you cannot protect your- self “fgatnst a bullet with an um- brella.” Troop Laden lfalian Ship Senf Down Liner Confe Rosso Torped- oed-British Destroyer Is Blown Up ROME, May 31.—The 17,000-ton Italian liner Conte Rosso, laden with troops has been sunk by a torpedo, south of Syracuse, Sicilly. Most of the soldiers aboard were saved ac- cording to the Italian High Com- mand. In a subsequent statement, the High declares that . the 1300 ton British destroyer Hereware | irescued including 26 seriously wounded.