The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1941, Page 1

'FORMER KAISER DIES AT DO "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8742. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941. ORN " Fire at Ketchikan Does $75,000 Damage 'e FRENCH AGAIN BOMBED; RAF! ™ DESTROYS OIL British Clamor for Action-| Precautions Taken- in Syria (By Associated Press) With the British public clamor-' ing for action, the Royal Air Force today sent out warplanes which bombed the oil depot at Beirut in French ruled Lebanon in what may ' be the opening blow in the next great campaign of the war. Simultaneously, authorita tive quarters in London said Britain has now taken “necessary precautions in regard to Syria” and the neighbor- ing French colony. The Middle East Imperial headquarters at Cairo announced that British troops have occupied Mosul, center of Iraq's oil fields, as war momentarily threat- ened to boil over in this new theatre of war in the Eastern Mediterran- ean. The Syrian High Command de- clared the army in Levant is ready to defend its territory against any attay In Berlin, a Nazi spokes- man said France has taken “certain protective measures” along the bord- ers of some of her colonial posses- ' sions. It was evident that the state- | ment referred to Syria and Lebanon. A group cf Shriners from Oakland and Sacramento, Cal, as wel above before going aloft in a Northwest airliner for: & bird’s-eye-view of the Evergreen country. Steward- ess Dorothy Beughman went along as guide. All Seattle gave the gathering Shriners a hearty welcome. | r——. Reports reaching Vichy .said that British planes this morning attacked Beirut, blowing up reservoirs and bombing - the oil depot there, re- capitulating fot the battle of Crete. | German sources asserted that 12,- 000 more British and Greek troops have been captured on the blitz ravaged 1sland, making a total of | 25,000 men captured by the invad- | ers. Previous British reports said | that 15,000 troops had been safely withdrawn out of the original con- tingent of some 30,000. —————— Rauroads In the United States handled an average of 850 tons of freight per train .in 1940, the greatest total on record. —————— [ “'e WASHINGTON—The five Dem- ocratic and Republican congres- sional leaders to- whom Roosevelt * MERRY IN SEATTLE | | forenoon, IBIG BLAZE RAGES FOR ONE HOUR ‘Watehouse_;nd Several Business Houses Gutted -Smoke DoesDamage | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 4. —Fire of a mysterious origin gutted the -Alaska Steamship iCompany warehouse and stores on the street side of the same building. The Walker Drug Company, Hunt's Book Store, Charles In- surance, Agencies and Kubley's Liquer ‘Store and Beer Parlor have all been wrecked along with | the steamship ocmpany’s office in the same building, and three | apartments upstairs. The - fire spread so swiftly, starting after 10 o'clock this that the apartment tenants had to be taken out by | ladders. Dr. Norman R. Walker lost all prescription files and was able |t get only his cash register | Bfter the fire was brought under | control, which was about an { ‘hour after it started. 7% Smoke damaged the stock of o he adjoining Ryus Drug Com- pany. . Two Coast Guard boats joined /7the Ketchikan Fire Boat and | fickally at $75,000. i Although guards have been patrolling the waterfront, appar- ently to guard against sabotage, there is no officlal inclination to credit saboteurs with starting the blaze even though the origin is uncertain, FASTEST PLANES ROLLING OFFLINES = FORMER KAISER WILHELM From picture " CHAPTERS OF ACTIVE LIFE taken in 1935 The following is a condensed form 1 was then 29, took counsel from him. i MARTIN GETS WORD | A telephone message was received | |by Ralph Martin, of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, | from Laurence Erickson early this | | afternoon stating that a fire had |done much damage in a forenoon | blaze at Ketchikan and giving the names of the firms that were burned out. lalians in AfricaBeing ’ Lockheed “Lightning” P38 interceptors, America’s fastest planes and probably the speediest in the world, ('eaned ou' are pictured above just after they began rolling off the assembly lines at the Lockheed, plant in Los An- geles. The P-38 is a heavily armed single-place fighter, can climb a mile a minute and flies at more than 410 miles an hour. Its mass production was held up for latest improvements. gave a pre-review of his fireside chat tried to pin him down on the details of convoying. But they got no more information from him than the throng of newspapermen who tried to cross-examine him the next day. Roosevelt was in a cheery mood when he: greeted the Capitol Hill group in the Lincoln study on the second floor of the White House. Although this is the President’s private office, it is not air con- ditioned. But Roosevelt, in his shirt sleeves, did not seem to mind the sweltering heat. After his visitors were seated, he By JACK STINNETT read the speech through carefully| WASHINGTON, June 4 — There and seemed to get a big Kick out gre nearly 200 training camps in of the phrases that dotted it. He the nation now, with anywhere scemed particularly pleased Wiih from 2,000 to 78,000 trainees each, the paragraph in which he told anq actually hundreds of new de- the Latin American rep\;blma;:?:l fense plants. “You may disregard those few clii- yo,y goy of these were locat- zens of the United States whg wn‘; ed with any serious considera- tend that we are disunited and yjon of accessibility by highway. cn:g:thlr:;é e s Lo b When you need thousands of 2 ~ acrés for gun ranges and mass ;L"ag‘m::’; {:e::ltlem'lm:ppe‘md %0 maneuvers, you can't always pick After e had finshed, the first UL e o plant. space on question from the intently Usten- o554, rivers and harbors, you (This is the second of three articles by Jack Stinnett on the highways and national de- fense.) ing group was, “What about con- can't worry about the highways| voys?” “Draw your own conclusions,” was Roosevelt’s cryptic reply. “Exactly what do you mean b freedom of the seas, Mr. Presi- dent?” asked Speaker Sam Ray- " (Continued on Page Four) that feed them. When you have to put on big- y scale army maneuvers like those held in the East two years ago; in last year; Louisiana and Texas Tennessee in May and June, you 'BOTTLENECKS ON OPEN ROADS, UNITED STATES ‘When | ;and those scheduled to center in, can’t decide on the site of opera- [ tions solely on a basis - of how much private traffic you are going [to disrupt. Concerning these last you can | take the sweating and swearing of i hundreds of thousands of motorists who already have been through it and of the several states, counties | and cities which had to spend hun- |dreds of thousands of dollars re- pairing damaged highway surfaces, broken-down Shoulders, and rickety bridges. | ;l)()WN TO CASES | As for the camp and plant areas, let me give you a few individual 1eports made to the American Automobile Association by Army |and Navy officlals and by local motor clubs. California, which prides itseif on its great highway system, needs| immediately about 300 miles of ac- cess roads, with an estimated con- | struction cost of $28,600,000. At «Continued nn_page’ six) caund . Claim 17,000 Prisoners, EDELSTEIN "jcsricviiee DROPS DEAD AFTER TALK Represenlam from New York State Dies Sud- denly ‘in ‘Capital CAIRO, June 4—Ethiopian troops lead. by British officers today cap- tured the village of Debarech for | the third time after extremely bitter | fighting, British military headquart- ers announced today. Seventeen thousand prisoners have | been taken by the British thus far in & drive to stamp out the last Ital- ian resistance in the south central lakes -region, said the communique. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 4 — Closing WASHINGTON, June 4.—Repre- sentative M. M. Edelstein, 53, of New | York State, dropped dead this after- noon outside of the House Chamber | a few minutes after making a speech on the floor. Dr. George Calver, Capitol physi- cian, was summoned and said a sudden attack of the heart was the cause of death, ——e 78%, Anaconda 26%, Steel T1%, Commonwealth an Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, Harvester 50%, Kennecott 35 3/4, New York Central 12%, Pacific 6%, 54%, Pound $4.03%. quotation. of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 4, American Can, Bethlehem| General Motors 37%, International| Northern | United States Steel! of the more important phases in the | Gradually, a breach appeared; Bis- | life of the former Emperor of Ger- | many: i BIRTH | Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert | Hohenzollern, last Emperor of im- | perial Germany, was born January |27, 1859. His father, Emperor Fried- | rich, reigned only 99 days, dying of tuberulosis of the throat. His mother was the then Princess Vic- toria, eldest child of Queen Victoria of England. BOYHOOD He was physically handicaped with a limp left arm, which withered with years, Babyhood was spent at Potsdam. Commencing when he was six years old, he was trained rigor- | ously for the next twelve years. His daily regime began at 6 a. m. and he was hardened by hiking, calis- thenics, swimming, riding, fancing and shooting. He was a skilled one- |handed hunter and wing shot. At 10 he became.a lieutenant in in- fantry; at 12 he rode a war horse in the procession that celebrated Germany’s victory over France and marked the formation of the Ger- man empire. COLLEGE Precedent was broken when he and his brother, Prince Henry at- tended public high school. It was something of a sensation to have royalty rub shoulders with com- moners. College days were spent at the University of Bonn-On-Rhine. He joined the “Corps Borussia” and participated in the weekly “beer fests.” For two years after his col- lege days he hi in the foresls | He killed 61,730 wild things, includ- ing 4,000 stags.. FIRST MARRIAGE He married, on Feb, 27, 1881, at Berlin, Augusta ' Victoria, daughter of Duke Friederich of Schleswig- Holstein. They had met casually in England and became friends at a hunt. The wedding was a colorful pagent. The young Prince, at the head of a full battalion of troops welcomed his bride who rode in a carriage drawn by eight black horses. Tens of thousands cheered in the streets. EMPEROR The failing health of his father hrew many duties of state upon him. He represented the empire at various occasions in other mon- archies. On June 15, 1888, his father died and he became Emperor. His grandfather, Wilhelm I, had died shortly before his father; there was foreboding at the rapidly changing imperial scene caused by the deaths of two rulers within three months. | BISMARCK But Bismarck, “the Iron Chancel- lor,” had been at the helm for some time and the country felt safe, For DOW, JONES AVERAGES A patent has been granted on | THe following are today’s Dow, a flying automobile, designed |Jones averages: industrials 117.68, to carry troops by air to the |rails 27.68, utflities 17.13. scene of battle and, after land- B ing, shed .its wings and man- Schools in Iran increased from euver Into fighting position. 612 tor 1921 to 5000 in 1937, a time. the untried Emperor, who marck was dismissed and the Em- | peror announced he would take | command of the ship of state him- | self. Concern was felt in Europe. | But, before this, he visited various capitals {n Europe and became | known as “the traveling Emperor.” DIVINE RIGHT At Brandenburg, in 1890, he de- livered his famous “Divine right” speech. He said he regarded the | welfare of the German people as his I “responsibility conferred by God”; | that it was his duty “to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give ac- count.” He added: “Those who try to interfere with my task I shall crush.” | COLONIES EXTENDED l He developed a colonial pollcy! based on opportunism. While the | “Open Door” policy in China was | occupying the attention of the world he obtained a rich concession at| Kiaochow from China in 1898. He got Portuguese colonies in Africa when Portugal was having financial troubles; bought the Caroline and Ladrone Islands from Spain at a moment when that country was ex- hausted after its war with the Unit- ed States; protectorates over col- onies in southeast and east Africa were dissolved and became German crown colonies; he acquired a foot- hold in the Samoan Islands. PEACETIME GERMANY Alongside peaceful progress Ger- many built up an army and navy| based upon universal service. “Deutschland Ueber Alles” super- seded “Die Wacht Am Rhein” as the | national song. He preached “Der Tag” the day when Germany would get her place in the sun. Diplomats in Europe built up ententes and alliances to maintain “the balance of power” The triple entente of Great Britain, France and Russia hemmed in Wilhelm’s realm and grew stronger as the triple alliance of Germany, Austro-Hungary and Ttaly weakened Meanwhile, Germany moved for- ward in culture, science, trade and industry. Articles “made in Ger- many” were known in all world markets, Foreign students flocked to her universities. MOROCCO War clouds appeared over the Morocco situation in 1904. France was striving for expansion there; the Kaiser spoke up for independ- ence of the northern Africa sultan- ate, picking a time when France's European ally Russia, was engaged in its disastrous war with Japan. Trouble was staved off after long negotiations and in 1906 France's “paramont interest’ in Morocco was ~stablished. " Continued on Page Eight) WILHELM 11 PASSES AWAY EARLY TODAY |Last Emperor of Germany | Succumbs Following lll- ness of One Month BURIAL WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT MONDAY [Full Military Honors Will Be Accorded by Nazi High Command .| BERLIN, June 4—Former Kaiser lof Germany, Wilhelm II, aged 82, \died at Doorn, Holland, at 1:38 | o'clock a.m., Pacific Standard time, following a month’s illness, Several of the family were at the bedside. | Gen. Wilhelm von Dommes, ad- |ministrator of the Hohenzollern | properties, said burial of the former ,German ruler will be at Doorn. | The death was officially anriounc- |ed through the DNB, official Ger- ! man news agency. An intestinal disorder, complicated at the last by lung embole, caused | death. | Military Funeral § On order of Hitler, burial will take | place next Monday at Doorn, a mil- | ttary Tuneral, with full homors, ac- corded to Imperial Germany's last Emperor, The German High Command will take full charge of the military phase of the funeral, a token, per- haps, of recomciliation between the Fuehrer and former Emperor. At the bedside, when the former Emperor passed away, were only a few close members of his family, his second wife, Princess Hermine, and his grandsons, The eldest living son, successor to the head of the Hohen- zollern family, Crown Prince Fred- erich Wilhelm, was at his father’s bedside early last week but left Doorn when the former ruler appeared to rally. Wilhelm’s body will be interred temporarily in the little chapel on the Doorn estate since no mausoleum or crypt has been built. Wilhelm, it is said, expressed the wish that the only mourners at his tuneral be the innermost members of his family circle but DNB says that some delegations of the Reich are expected to attend. German Comment The German newspapers today de- clared that the postwar research ab- solved the Kalser from the World War guilt but the Dienst Aug Deutschland, Nazi news commentary, added that he “carried a great deal (Continued on Page Eight) Nile Cabinet Resigns; New One Tomorrow Egyptian Go-;é;nmem Has Shakeup as Nazi In- vasion TEalNears CAIRO, June 4— The Egyplian cabinet resigned today and 1t is un- derstood that Premier Hussein Pasha has been designated to form a new cabinet tomorrow. The shakeup, declared authori- tative quarters, is occasioned by the “present grave circumstances” in- volving the fear of a German thrust into the rich Nile valley. Observers said the thrust of Axis columns |along Egypt's borders near Libya aroused widespread feeling that Egypt is nearer the front line of the war than ever before. The present threat of Germany's |vanguard is considered much more serious than last Autumn when Ital- ian troops advanced at Sidi Barrani.