The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1941, Page 8

, CHAPTERS OF ACTIVE LIFE_ L & & (Continued from Page One) 1911 Wilhelm startled the world by sending a warship to Agadir to “protect German nationals.” In re- tarn for withdrawal, he got a slice of territory in the Congo region. JLAND took pride in in the Indian ¢ cenn to Great Britain, in 1890, for In Ielgoland in the North Sea. He i amediately fortified it heavily and it became an outpost of the Ger- man guarding the strategic approach to the Kiel Ca IRRITATIONS He irritated Great Britain during tae Boer war by telegraphing “Comn Paul” Krueger his best wishes foi cefense of the independence of the aal, but, nevertheless, main- neutrality throughout Trans tained strict ihe war He cultivated the friendship of the Czar of Russia and the Sullan of Turkey: endeavored, without suc- to wean Russia from its alliance ith England and France In 1908 he gave a startling inter- view with the London Daily Tele- graph in which he said Germany was building up its fleet, nct against Fngland but to be prepared for eventualities in the Far East. The Japanese saw in this statement a varning that some day Germany aad England might join in a fight against them REACTION Chancellor Von Buelow of Ger- many, in his memoirs, said the Lon- FOR HIGH SPEED AT LOW COST SPECIFY— Th g c it el ER oo shipments — any shape, size or weight — from and to the States Low rates, including automatic in- surance without extra charge. Fast, economical routing to all principal points in Alaska Consult our Jdocal agent. RAILWAY@ EXPRESS NATION.WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE ( AIR EX ( su) d use B ey miles & ruinule=S7* % cral pick-up = Specral delivery OF EX-KAISER was “a Popular don newspaper interview sudden slap in the face.” reaction was such that and Hamburg, lest he encounter hostile demonstrations. He was called a meddler ! British press mocked him as “the winner of the Boer w Russian journals said he had dealt “tactlessly and treacherously” with France and Russia; Italian commentators ac- cused him of attempting to embroil the whole world in war. Criticism reached such that the Emperor finally not to take future political actions except with the advice and consent of the Chancellor SILVER JUBILEE In 1913 war talk hummed in Europe, for no apparently signifi- cant reason, aside from distrust of Germany’s policies and sabrerattling speeches by the Kaiser. Yet, in that year, when he celebrated his silver | | the social democrats in turn pro- jubilee, he asserted he had only iwo aims—avoidance of armed conflict and the advancement of his peo- ple's welfare. He was greeted by some as the preserver of peace in Europe. SARAJEVO The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne at Sarajevo in July 1914, seemingly did not impress Wilhelm as serious. He went on a vachting trip to the Baltic, con- vinced there would be no inter- national complications. When he came back Austria and Serbia were at war; Russia was mobilizing. He sent a personal telegraphic appeal to the Czar; exchanged messages with his cousin, King George of England; advised Austria to accept | Nothing devel- | The Kaiser sent a 12-hour | British mediation oped ultimatum to St. Petersburg. THE WORLD WAR On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia; general mobilization was ordered. In the next ten days, as Commander-in-Chief, he sent troops to east and west; personally | against the verdict of war guil visited the battle fronts; made the |declared his conscience was clear. Crown Prince normal head of the |He got solace from his life-long | army. As his troops overran Bel- |interest in religion; he had em-| vept almost to Paris, drove braced the Protestant faith early in gium the Russians from East Prussia and | life. crushed Rumania, he exulted and showered decorations on his soldiers. AMERICA WARNED In the early war vears he kept up | an active show of friendship with the United States. When America refused to embargo munitions ship- ments to Germany's enemies, he told Ambassador James W. Gerard: “I shall stand no nonsense from Am- after the war.” At the time unrestricted submarine warfare was at its height—a step for which the Kaiser was personally blamed by | Admiral von Tirpitz — it was said NOTICE AUCTION SALE JUNE 18, AT 1:00P. M. On Premises At 55 Willoughby Avenue Two Apariment Houses (FULLY OCCUPIED—GOOD INCOME) Will consider part payment on terms to right people. Wwilhelm | abandoned a projected visit to Kiel The | " | They had six sons and one daugh- DAYLIGHT ~ AR RAID REPORTED Royal Forces Believed to Be Shelling Along French Coast FOLKESTONE, England June 4 he had determined upon an in- demnity of $30,000,000,000 from the | United States if, and when, Ger- {many was victoribus. Meanwhile, |most of the world had become em- | broiled in the gigantic conflict. THE TIDE TURNS The German navy, his special pride, was bottled up and the allied blockade slowly strangled the life | out of the German nation. When | the “Hindenburg line” was broken, | in which American troops partici- | pated, he began to see the hand- | writing on the wall. As the tidel turned against Germany, a crown council was held August 18, 1918. | He was told that his ally, Austria-| Hungary had started negolimion..j for a separate peace; that there was discontent in his realm; that Berlin public. Nevertheless, proclamation urging the nation to |daylight air raids on the French “fight on to victory.” | coast, especially at Boulogne, which THE HOUSE FALLS | is said to bg the main target. On Nov 9, Prince Max of Baden, | the Chancellor, urged Wilhelm to heard Aacross the Strait of Dover abdicate. The Kaiser said he would | Which is shrouded in mist. deliherate; but the Chancellor did | not wait for the reply. Later in the | day, he proclaimed that the Emperor | had renguneed the throne and the | Crown Prince the succession. He | said a regency would be formed but i the channel has experienced seve: shakings. e e—— [t 4 claimed a republic. On Nov. 11 the | armistice was declared. A x I S S H I FLEES TO HOLLAND After Wilhelm signed his abdica- | tion on Nov. 9, he entered an auto- | mobile and sped across the Dutch | frontier to the chateau of Counti | Bentnick at Amerongen. He re- mained there more than a year; then purchased an estate at Doorn. The Versailles peace treaty placed | the blame for the war on Germany. R on Jan. 20, 1920 the anies mace| SUccessful Raid on formal demand that the Nether-i lands_deliver “Wilnelm Hohenzol-| ¢ (ONVOY, Report lern” into their hands in order that b L) he might be judged before an inter-| ca1po June 4.—Britisk o national tribynal Holland refused ... . “highly su“%bfi:l.}w:t‘r:cl; on the ground that the country Was .. o, axis convoy off Tunisia oo not a party to the pact. il T of EXILE | terday, blowing up one 8,000-ton | Doorn. The new Germany republic yeoqquarters passed a law forbidding him to set foot on its soil. He grew a beard | and wrote his memoirs. Fme‘y‘(OASI GUARD OFFICERS, MEN Occasionally, he preached on he defended himself and Germany | 1t and | | Sundays in a little church if no| WASHINGTON, June 4.-—Pre: | visiting clergyman happened to be dent Roosevelt has issued an E present. | ecutive Order directing an unspe For exercise, he chopped trees and fied number of Coast Guard offi | physical activities ceased and he de- operate certain naval vessels |voted himself to his extensive rose The Executive Order said | gardens. i SECOND MARRIAGE it is the ed his early exile. Prince Joachin, time authoriations.” | his youngest son, committed smcidni o, iyt . in July 1920, which caused him p A | great grief. The former Kalscrln,; H l' l NOIB worn and home-sick, died April 11, Ak | 1921, after 40 years of married life. | her home in Juneau last night from T | 8t. Ann’s. Her new-born son will re- On Nov. 5, 1622, he surprised the {main in the hospital for a few days iworld by marrying for a second | CPAREL 5 < time. His bride.was the widowed | orore Bfing faken to the Princess Hermine of Reuss. His| — family objected but later became ' reconciled. | HIS DECLINING YEARS | The world heard little of him as life began to fade. On his 70th birthday in 1829 all his children, 1grand-children and relatives went to Doorn to help him celebrate amid | o200 william of Angoon was a all the splendor of imperial days.| oqica] dismissal from the Govern- ‘Subsequent birthday celebranons‘mem Hospital today. were held regularly and the towns- 4 folk congratulated him. Hopes for a return to power rose and fell from time to time. But | ter. sion at St. Ann’s early this morning. After receiving medical treatment, Charles A, Hooker is returning home from St. Ann’s today. John McKinley, medical patient from Hoenah, was discharged from the Government Hospital today. Mrs. Arthur Martin returned ' to family | A. J. Wood was a medical admis- | Also Outside Willougl—\;)y Avenue Property Known as KEENY FLOAT—Including Dock and Building. Owner Reserves Right to Bid. (Signed) R. M. KEENY. Juneau Dairies Pure Cream nd Srawberries! Americe’s Most Delicious Dish Pure Cream a Another Health Idea MILK TOAST Plain, simple, unpretentious — milk toast is relished by all. For Delicious Nourishment JUNEAU DAIRIES MILK is tasty and shing in its natural state-—but es there are ‘rebels’ among bels we recommend straw- with milk or cream as one of the many ways to include milk in the diet. TRY IT TODAY. JUNEAU DAIRIES, Inc. PHONE 638 e S e e e e . |-when Hitler assumed power in Ger- many the Nazi leaders dashed his hopes by declaring: “Hitler is not ! just keeping a seat warm for a i Hohenzollern.” When the new European war | |started in 1939, the former Emperor evinced much interest and followed | the troop movements with his mili- tary maps. But nothing ever leaked | ! out of Doorn as to what his thoughts were, | WILHELM, THE MAN Trained from babyhood in a school of imperialism he lived up to his education . The memoirs of | |his oldest son pictured him as a stern father, an emporer by divine right rather than an indulgent | father. Prince von Buelow described him | as emotional, changeable and prone to accuse his_ministers of treating him as an unfily child. His mother, from whom he be- came cstranged in the early years of his reizn, wrote her mother, Queen Victoria of England, com- | plaining of his impulsiveness, lack of tact and vanity. He had a uniform for every regi- ment in the German army and | weighed himself down with medals. | But, at Deorn, his uniforms gave way to tweeds. | He inherited a talent for drawing | from his mother and ‘took pride in | some of his paintings. He consid- ered himself an authority on dram- | atic art and musie. When he wro'e letters, as an em- Lorena Young, who entered the Government Hospital Friday, under- went a major operation this fore- noon. | tend the true figures are much less.| | Blownup DE 3 2 | ship. This is according to an official —1Ihe defense has Wilhelm remained in seclusion at gatement by the Royal Air Force POrtation hearing }slm'd at the close of the session | sawed wood As he grew older, his and enlisted men transferred (o help | unionis | | | | Naval Patrol has substantiauy A rumble of loud explosions was duced the effectiveness of the Gcr-; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941. Navy Unable To Check On Nazi (laims Secretary Kgx_ Says, How- | ever, Pafrol Effective Against Submarines WASHINGTON, June 4.-—Secre- crowds had demonstarted for a re- | —The Royal Air Force is believed to | tary of Navy Frank Knox said thi | he issued a be carrying out a series of heavy |? ternoon the Navy Department ha been unable to determine yet wheth- the expansion of the American man submarine operations. Secretary Knox said the Germans The ground on the British side of |are claiming a tremendous number of sinkings while the British con- The Secretary added: “Hitherto the British have been generally right.” e — o BRIDGES FENSE ISENDED Twenty -seven Witnesses Give Testimony-ClO Chieftain Is Grilled SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 4. rested in the de- CIO Chieftain of the Pacific Coast. Twenty-seven witnesses have giv- en testimony before Judge Sears, Trial Examiner. Bridges was released yesterday afternoon after a Communist Party. The final witness interest of work and w to violence and sabota 5 opp:! | Tragedies in his family interrupt- Defense within the limits of peace | hection with Communists. - Legion Auxiliary Chooses Delegates Alaska_C_onvemionl Members of the American Legion Auxiliary chose delezates for the conventicn to be held in Seward next Augzust at the meeting last evening in the Dugout. Mrs, Katherine Davenport was chesen delegate-at-large and the fellewing as delegates: Mesdames Ethel Johnson, Edith Davis, Ted Jchnstone, Mabel Lybeck, Fiorence Mutch, Marian Hendrickson, Dollie Stewart, Agnes Keifer, Esther Gul- !ifsen, Lucille Stonehouse, Dorothy Manthey and Aileen Olson. Alternates chosen are: Mesdames Edith Skeelor, Beth Nordling, Alba Newman, Ann Day, Edna Polley, Ida Carnegie, Ruth Meicali, Ma.y Hagerup, Anna Bod- ding, Fanny Robinson, Evan Gruber and Paul Hudon. of Harry Bndges,‘vESSEls B from the pro- tracted cross examination by Gov- ernment attorneys seeking to show he had active affiliation with the was Henry Mel- | nikow, director of the Pacific Coast r Bureau. He said that in his Bridges was a “good trade| and acted sincerely in the dian Affairs, white traders and the in| _ Melnikow Alaska will get their usual quota | essential to make such transfers for | said Bridges had never given to him|of winter supplies this season, de- rengthening of our National | the least indication of direct con-|spite the transfer of the motorship Myrtle .Neat,| ’ Arrangements were meeting to hold a food with Mrs man. ussed at a | ale June 21/ Ted John:tone as chair- | James Lee, of Haines, received surgical treatment this forenoon at the Government Hospital. — .. Subscrive > the Dany Alasks Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. ‘Mother of New Hampshire Quads | | —————— | The Daily Alaska Fmplre has the | iargest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. . peror, he usualy concluded with | “Gott mit uns.” | | As the World War raged, he prob- | ably was the most hated man in the world. The healing process of time changed this feeling to tolera- tion and the world eventually look- | ed upon the lonely evile as a harm- | less old man puttering among his flowers. | ——— The city of Alexandria, Egypt.' became a naval base more than 2200 years ago when Alexander the Great founded it to aid in his campaign against ‘Persia. - » Mrs. Arsene Daneau, 23, shown with her husband and other chifdren in her Manchester home, gave birth to the first quadruplets in New Hampshire’s medical history, but three of them died within a few hours. The fourth infant, a girl, weighed two pounds seven ounces at birth. Aggregate weight of “"e’%‘fib&'?!»' _WAS | ALSO IN STEINIE BOTTLES AND CAP ERING, | BOXER 10 BRING FREIGHT NORTH Ships Take Over Indian Affairs Alaska Job of North Star i natives of villages and posts North Star to the Coast Guard on | the East Coast, according to J. R. Ummell, chief of the Seattle pur- chasing office of the Interior De- [Danment. | The steamship Bering of the Al- |aska Line, scheduled to sail July 20, will move the freight north this year, Ummel said, and will stow | Kotzebue to Point Barrow. Inter ‘mcdlate calls will be Kivalina, ;Pmnz Hope, Point Lay, Wainwright |and Point Barrow, farthest north- | west “corner” of the continent. Be- |sides this freight for the govern-| !ment, the Bering also will book| | available space for private inter- |ests at northern points. | Since commercial service cannct be obtained to Hooper Bay, Nelson, | Nunivak, Umnak, Atka and Attu |Island, the motorship Boxer will| |be brought from: Bethel to Seattle |to carry supplies for viliages at | these various ~locations, Ummel said. | Boxer Out of Ice Held in the Kuskokwim distri |last fall because of a damaged pro- | peller, the Boxer was laid up for the winter in a slough seven miles down stream from Bethel on the Kuskokwim River. With the break- ing of the ice she was moved to Bethel a few days ago and now is enroute to Good News Bay in tow of the motorship Meteor, which op- erates on & mail run out of Nome! during the summer. At Good News Bay the Boxer will be picked up by a Coast Guard cutter and towed to Seattle for installation of a new propeller. Capt. §. T. L. Whitlam, noted master in the service of the Oi- 1 fice of Indian Affairs and regular skipper of the North Star until she was sent to the Antarctic 0 Employees of the Office of ln—‘ cargo for government posts from The world-wide demand for Schlitz is a fitting tribute to this magnificent beer. Its absolute uniformity and supreme quality have made it the unchallenged choice of lovers of fine beer the world over. Until you try Schlitz, you'll never know how really good a bottle of beer can be. COPR. 1941, JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING CO. MILWAUKEE. WIS. VanderLeest sang appropriate se- lections during the Mass. Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was given at the home of the groom’s mother, Mrs. Anna Haydon. Places were set for eight members of the immediate families { | uf the groom and bride. l A reception will be given tonight | between the hours of 8 and 11 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, | | Mr. and Mrs. John Ritter, to which all friends of the young couple have | been invited to attend. | Last Emperfif Germany Succumbs Following lil- ness of One Month | (Contimed trom Page One) B!Lll's PARCEL of the responsibility for une loss of nzl-lvnny From rule over a huge empire and, command of the world’s mightiest SCOTTY'S BARBER SHOP On Triangle Corner . military machine to wood-chopping PHONE 701 | land rose-gardening exile— From adulation as “the all high- est” of a nation of 67,000,000 to the abusive invective and scornful cas- | tigation of most of the civilized world LOW FARES EAST Circle America from Seattle From inspiration of dread on two two continents to toleration as a harmless old man— | Such was the range covered by!' Friedrich Wilhelm Victor ‘Albert Ho- | henzollern, scion of a long line of Prussian kings, and third and last emperor of the Inperial Reich which Bismarck, the “iron chancellor,” forged on the anvil of French defeat in 1871, §i. Ann's Church Scene of Ritter, Haydon Wedding At a 7:30 o'clock nuptial mass at| St. Ann’s Church this morning Miss | Helen Ritter and Mi. Raymond Hay- don were united in marriage with the Rev. Father W. G. LeVasseur offi- ciating. { For her wedding the bride wore an egg shell afternoon dress with accessories of navy and white. Her shoulder corsage was lilies of the; valley and white and pale pink roses. Mrs. Stanley Rekosh, sister of the oride, the matron of honor, wore a rose afternoon dress with rose and black accessories. Her corsage was pink and white gladioli. | Mr. Ernest Gilligan, brother of the groom, was the best man, | | $90 IN COACHES $135 IN sLEEPERS $34.50 for upper berth $45.00 for lower berth - 'mfl car extra. Liberal return limits. W Somorer Go on the electrified OLYMPIAN Enjoy 656 smokeless, the' nmdum: a0t electric locomotives. giant ooy ves. Special open low. -Tray service—sand- wiches 10, pie 107, milk 107, cofioe 5¢. | A i, l-lc-u-.fl-dlr Pourth Ave. and Union Seattle, Wash, ( e your tickot reads via bring back the Byrd expeditioa, went north on the North Pacific Mi the Santa Ana Steamship Com-| pany to meet the Boxer at Good News Bay. On bhoard he will find | Chief Engineer J. B. Wilson who wintered on the Boxer to keep everything shipshape. These offi- cers and natives will constitute the personnel of the motorship for the trip south. ———— ! Bishop Rowe Enroule To Juneau for Sunday Confirmation Service The Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, will arrive in Juneau the latler part of the week and will preside at confirmation services at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Sunday. 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