The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1941, Page 2

Will that Wheel Rank BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feature Service Writer i WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — The feud between the President and Montana's “Battling Burt” Wheel- pecome the No. 1 political y of the battle-studded | \dministration. It may | the clas ical his-} ne sit £ velt to be one of Ameri turn ou an silk-stock= homas Jefferson and Alex- Hamilton almost came to cabinet of President rs have aping days when ande blow ‘Washi! stirred of h feuds shot” paliticos. r Wheeler, long a rough mble political fighter, has generally recognized lead- opposition in President Roosevel two most spot-lighted struggles—over the Supreme, Court enlargement plan and over the country's war policies ! War, the threat of war and| party splits have dramatized the| nation’s famous political antago- | Most of these feuds have| been between members of the| same party. One deprived Maine's | brilliant James G. Blaine of tne| Presidency Se Se and beer At t et of t nisms. Sacretary of State Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton | frequently on the verge of| fisticuffs during cabinet controver-| sies over the rights of the individu- | al and the separate states as against | those of the federal government| with Hamilton the proponent of a| powerful central government Although Federalist Hamilton and Republican-Democrat Jeffe: said to have tried to re- other from the cabi- leader publicly in- were | son were move each net, neither * winning New York state’s electoral informed Mayor dulged in rabid verbal onslaughts| upon the other. Their duelling, fist | fighting followers, however, tossed torrid invectives. Federalists, shouting for war the France to which Je was {riendy, toast the new President, John Adams “To Adams, may he slay thou- sands of Frenchmen with the jawbone of Jefferson.” Republican - Democrats called Hamilton “an English monarchy- loving Tory” and spread mali- cious stories of “his affair with a Mrs. Reynolds.” break between President Andre Jackson and his Vice President, John C. Calhoun, came in “an era of political hydropho- bia.” Calhoun resigned as Vice President and won a seat in the Senate when OIld Hickory took a strong stand against “nullification.” States-Righter Calhoun held that if an act of Congress seemed un- constitutional to a state, the latter might properly suspend or “nullify” operation of the act- within its Jjurisdiction. When Calhoun’s South Carolina “nullified” a tariff act, Jackson is- against ferson thus ‘The sued a proclamation of warning to the people of the state, ordered a naval force to occupy Charleston harbor and said privately he would make Calhoun the first vietim of any open conflict. Calhoun lashed at system” under Jackson and sup- ported Senate resolution which censured the President for re- meving government deposits from the United States bank One legend has it son’s dying words were have hanged Calhoun.” the “spoils a that Jack “1 should Roscoe Conkling, Republican boss of New York, twice thwarted the popular James G. Blaine's attempts to win the G.O.P. presidential nom- | BARNEY GOOGLE singed cat.” The New Yorker never |oicor. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1941. er-Roosevelf Enmity Among Hisfory's Class ic Feuds! LN been | § President Roosevelt had the suppert of Senator Wheeler, right, long before the convention which neminated him in 1932. First break came when Wheeler refused to agree with President’s advocacy of economy in veterans' payments and U. S. participation in World Court. { tor NAVY ADMIRAL IN JUNEAU ON WAY FOR INSPECTION General Inspector for Sup- ply Corps Waiting for Denali | i | { i In Alaska to inspect the supply departments of the naval air sta- | |tions at Sitka and Kodiak, Admiral I'A. F. Huntington, general inspec- of the Supply Corps on the | Pacific Coast for the Navy, is in | Juneau today waiting for the north- ibound Denali to carry him ‘o Kodiak. Accompanied by Warrant Officer |and chief pay clerk H. M. Walling, Admiral Huntington flew to Sitka Sunday where he inspected supply activities in the disbursing, a | counting and supply departments. The Admiral was retired from Navy service on March 1, but or- dered to stay on active duty be- cause of the national emergency. ination. And when Blaine finally . | vote by a slim margin. The break between Teddy Roosc- vedt and President Taft, erstwhile warm friends and political allies, split the Republican party wide open in 1912 and resulted in Wood- of LUCAS' DEP % E Shipyard Strike in New Jer- was nominated, Conkling’s failure to support him prevented his elec-), OfU S S Juneau The: feud started while both ' o were mémbers of the House of | ;A strike of shipyard workers at the departure of Mayor and Mrs. when Blaine was making a|b ; ar! Chs r vacation, ipeech, Conkilng isterrupted i |Fiacry L Luchs on thelr v ) s 5 oo . One of the principal events of knight” said .Cunklln[; strutted | o lanned vacation is to be the like a gobbler” and resembled “a U. 8. S. Juneau, now near- forgave him for that. ing completion at the Kearny ship- Cleveland for the presidency, he | ship. sent an emissary to ask Conkling’s = Origina‘ly, the launching ‘was set answer was: “I have long since | planned to leave here via PAA given up the practice of criminal | plane tomorrow. A telegram from Lucas that due to the recent strike in the shipyards until October 25. Because of this chunge in plans, leave for their vacation until later this month. And because of their sion of the city couneil last night did not name a teniporary mayor Principal subject of discussion by the councilmen was the planned lin Streei io the Alaska Juneau Mine cffices. After talking the |cided to take no action on the start ed shooting at the conservative pol- | Of construction work until after icies the Taft administration. | ac- |Lucas, Frank Metcalf, city engin- cused TR. of adroit appeals eer, and J. A. Williams, superin- scontent and class hatied. It thien Bre o e et 1 slide above the sidewalk I meeting sang: “We'll hang Teddy | wnion ogaton, to a sour apple tree.” | building of a retaining wall or com- ing Taft wul? being "C!.NU al _U)‘ No decision was reached, either, every canon of fair play.” Alluding|regarding the wrecking of several cessor in the White House, Teddy|proposed sidewalk, It was indica- remarked: “It is a bad trait to bi‘e |ted that the city crew may do this The Republican convention re- |Tazing of the structures. nominated Taft. Progressive Repub- | e ot sevelt on the “Bull Moose" ticket.| The jovial Taft, who despised | NAYGROUNDS The ebullient Teddy, who loved | a scrap, said: “IUs a bully battle.”| I" S"‘KA ARE es my soul.” | | BER“IE jOHNSON ich!%(‘(‘l, and Wellman Holbrook, As- |sistant Regional Forester, flew to | Service and Navy officials there ¢ iregarding the development of re- Burnell Andrew Johnson 25 for-!creational merly of Juneau died in Sitka of| National Forest near the defense f ¢ | probably be made for the building son, PAA airport clerk in Juneau,!% Johnson left Juneau in February to giving groups of Navy and Army men stationed there an opportun- with Siems Drake Puget Sound in|it¥ to take outings in the woods Sitka. |Guring their - leaves. The two men Juneau, a sister Marjorie in Belling-|today or tomorrow. ham, Washington and his father,| e ————— ————— BUY DEFENSE FTAMPS BUY DEFENSE STAMPS NED PLANS MADE FOR FISHERY HEARING Fishermen, cannerymen and others concerned with the fishing | regulations in Alaska are going to have a chance to voice their opin- jlons regarding the 1942 regulations, {when Dr. Ira Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, |arrives in the Territory September 110 for a series of seven hearings. | With Dr. Gabrielson will be Se- |ton H. Thompson, assistant chief {of the Alaska division of the serv ice and Doyle C. Tripp, also of the Alaska division, who will act as official reporter at the hearings. |In Alaska, they will be met by W. |E. Crouch, chief of the division of game management; Clarence Ol- | son, Fisheries Management Super- |visor; and Frank Dufresne, Execu- |tive Officer of the Alaska Game | Commission. While holding hearings on the {1942 regulations throughout South- |east Alaska, Dr. Gabrielson will travel on the Fish and Wildlife Service boat Brant. Plans for transportation to hearings at the | made yet, Olson said today. First of the hearings will eld in Ketchikan on Septembi 10. | From there, the hearings will pro- ceed to Wrangell on September 12 | Sitka on September 15, Juneau on September 18, Anchorage on Sep- tember 24, Cordova on September 27, Kodiak on September 20, and a final hearing in Seattle on Oc- tober 20. SIMMONS FLIES TRIP TO HAINES On a flight to Haines this morn- ing, Shell* Simmons took off from the Channel with George Dale, Claude Hirst, Willard Beatty and to the Army post this evening to return with the four men. Five passengers flew to the Coast with Simmons on a later trip as Lawrence Freeburn, C, D. Cummins and Wade Paddock went to Sitka and Marjorie Baranovich and Flor- ence Wilson flew to Angoon. Sim- mons is scheduled to return with five passengers, - After making two freight flights into the Polaris-Taku mine, pilot Alex Holden took off for the Coast with Wellman Holbrook, Lynn For- rest, J. West, M. Covey and Dick Johnson for Sitka. He will return with five passengers from the Coast. Two more trips to Tulsequah, a trip' to Hoeonah and one to Yaku- tat are scheduled for later in the ay. BOSTON, Sept. 3—The New York Yankees clinched at least a tie by wringing dut a 2 to 1 vietory, 11 inning game this afternoon over the second place Boston Red SOX. National League Brooklyn 4; Philadelphia 1. e ————— Empire Classifieas Pay! his | Westward have not been dermilely‘ Earl McGinty., Simmons will return | for the American League pennant |- ¥ 'WEATHER STOPS 4MEMBERS LODESTAR FROM OFSPYRING | BokING FELD IN (USTODY Two PAA Planes Arrive| [ from Interior - Fly Three Men and Girl Taken Soufh Tomorrow on Chargesof Sending | maa veatver em on e gl HH g anes between Seattle an un Military Information tocay, " today, cancelling the scheduled _ northbound flight of a PAA Lode- star due to arrive here this after- noon from Boeing Field. Early this morning a Lodestar left Fairbanks with Raymond Young, Frederick Eastaugh and Lloyd Gomo booked to Juneau and Mrs. Ethel Mahan, Rufus Bean, Edwin Sutherland, Nickolas Kim- isella, Henry E. Carton for Seattle from the Interior. Tomorrow morn- ing the plane will leave for the NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Three men and an eighteen-year-old girl were indicted today on charges of con- spiracy to violate the Espionage Act as the Government moved to break up what Federal agents described as |an international ring of spies oper- lating in the United States, Spain, | Portugal, and Germany. The Government charged that the defendants, all held in custody, gathered military information and transmitted it to colleagues in Eur- | ope. Information of the movements | | and dispositions of American force: together with pictures and sketch |of strategic points of the Eastern | | seaboard are claimed to have been | {among the materials sent to Euro- | | pean points. | Reports indicated that the ring- [ | leader of the spies is Kurt Frederick Ludwige, about 40, who is now in custody in Spokane, Wash. Executive Order With- draws Islands, Capes from Public Land The girl, Lucy Boehmler, 18, lives |in New York City. She was born in stuttgart, Germany, and came to this country with her mother and | | sister in 1929. | | Other members of the ring taken WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — An ‘l‘xncunve order was signed today, | withdrawing more than 30,000 acres |of public land in Alaska from all |forms of ‘appropriation under the | Public Land Laws and reserving linto custody were Charles Pagel, | Brooklyn brewer, who was born in them for the military use of thel! |War Department. |Germany and came here in 1931, ‘ As published in the Federal | Sully and Master Robert Carter to Seattle from Juneau. A southbound Electra landed here from Fairbanks today with Bernie Hillman for Juneau. 43 5 5 R e WORK STARTS ONREVENUE IN SENATE and Frederick Edward Schlosser, 19 a New York born man who lived in Register, the order revoked andther {m‘dm- signed 18 months ago, which | Brooklyn. | withdrew Kodisk and other is- Body Adopts Proposal for :ificxuon. the new otder . tai In(reased Sunax Ra‘es | precedence over, but does not re- on Corporations |voke the executive orders of {_vc:\rs ago, reserving 168 parcels of land in the Territcry for lizht- | house purposes. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Starting |work on the record breaking $3,- | 679,000,000 revenue bill, the Senate iaccep'.e('l the Finance committee {proposal to ' raise an additional The War Department said the {lands withdrawn are those needed |$120,000,000 by increasing corpora- |tion surtaxes. |in conjunction with military bases | The amendment would increase in Alaska, but declined to give i further details. The land named, the House approved turtax rates |to five to six per cent on the first | followed by the number of acres $25,000 net corporate income, and |in each parcel, follow: Majhnati Island--610 a six to seven per cent on incomes| over that level. Long Island—110 acres. e ws COTIR SCHOOLS (ROWDED AT ANCHORAGE, CLASSES ROTATED Shoals Point—4,070 acres. | Cape Edgecombe, Sitka Kruzof Island—2,600 acres. | Beaver Point, Kruzof Island—370 acres. | All the above are in the Sitka| Short on teachers and school huilding space, schools are going to 'vpen at Anchorage on September 8, it was announced here today by | Commissioner of Education James| Ryan. vicinity. In the Seward vicinity, lands withdrawn and acreages are: Faced with almost double the en- rcllment of a year ago, the An- Rocky Point—4,065 acres, Resurrection Peninsula area—900 acres. Ruggad Island—1,020 acres. Cheval Island—330 acres. Barwell Island—36 acres. The following lands, in the Ko- chorage schools have increased their staff from 25 to 33 teachers and may have to add more, Ryan |stated. Although the enroliment for this year is not known definitely, it is not unlikely that it may reach 1,000 children, he said. Last year's aiak vicinity, were also named for War Department use: school enrollment at Anchorage was 1617 children. North Cape, Spruce Island—520 Until buildings are available, acres. South Point, East Cape Spruce classes will be rotated in existing buildings, Ryan said. in order to Island—1,980 acres. Cape Greville, Cape Chiniak—10,- 1380 acres. crowd all the school-age children into the classes. More teachers may also be needed at Sitka and Kodiak, Ryan said, and classes in these cities may also be rotated to meet the accomo- dations in crowded builcings. FROM PETERSBURG | Point, 2Halibufers Sell, Seatfle | | | | SEATTLE, Sept. 3—Halibuters ar- riving, catches and selling prices today are as follows: From the western banks—Chel- sea 40,000 pounds, 15% and 14% cents a pound. From the local banks—Unimak 1200 pounds, 16 cents ctraight. - eee—— HERE FROM WRANGELL Henry Roden, Attorney General, Visitors from Wrangell, now in returned on the North Sea from Juneau, include Mr. and Mrs. B, G. Petersburg. Grant and Mrs, A. Van Fisk. Mrs. George Ringstad and Gerald Ringstad are visitors in Juneau from Petersburg. D ATTORNEY GENERAL BACK B0TH POSTPO! tion Representatives. On one ogeasion | Kearny, New Jersey, hay (delayed it was le 1 here 'today. several times. The annoyed “plumed | Was learned her z | launching ceremony of the new When Blaine was running against | yards. Mrs, Lucas is to christen the aid in the campaign. The latter’s for October 7 and the Lucases w." Cleveland nosed out Blaine, |the Department of Navy last night the christening has been postponed Mayor and Mrs. Lucas will not postponed departure, a special ses- to act in the absence of Lucas. cement sidewalk from South Frank- sidewalk project over, it was de- an examination of the site by Mayor Talt, in a speech at Boston, | tendent of the Alaska Juneau Mine. ministration supporters at the! may necessitate either the The Rough Rider exploded, charg- | plete clearing out of the slide area. to his selection of Taft as his suc- old houses along the route of the the hand that feeds you." |Job or bids may be called for the licans bolted and nominated R,oo'PlAN FORES]’ squabbles, exclaimed “This wrench- | Lynn Forest, Forest' Service Ar- DIES |N S"K Sitka today to talk with Forest areas in: the Tongass a heart attack early this mormning.|center | vas the brother char - ores was the brother of Richard John it ahelben it oabES M T b Arens, accept a position as timekeeper He is ived by a brother /in|planned to return here either late C. A. Johnson in Bellingham. BUY DEFENSE BONDS AND'SNUFFY SMITH OAOVE ON,LADN = T AINT GOt T TWNE NER TH' INKLANETION -0 JABBER WIE EER' FEMALE LANHO'S CORTIAN LU i - FER T GON'MENT — y JeS' FLING \T ONER w SHES GOT: T BLLEST B\ES B TS W Sees AN CONBDN 7] FENCE ON' MAKE TRQCKS T KHOW THIS L\TTLE TER-POT \SNT WcH BUX TS REAL QALUMNLM BND T WANT To Do N BT FOR ! INCLE SAM » . By BILLY DeBECK A\ i “18"&‘%‘;1 P TWS PURTY LEETLE TER-K\TTLE - \E NE \WOILD \ONE TO ! 3“?%4 G0 HOME WIF \E AN WE-LINS CBN RUNNMDAE THROMGH ¢ QTTIC AN SILER QN FIND e O BENT WP STEW POTS OR SUNTHWN' FER T GON'MENT / . South, taking Mr. and Mrs. Henry| takes | |from three sides. |ing on the eastern front, the Rus {PROTECT THE WEATHER FORECASTS: Juneau and vicil : Clear orpartly cloudy and not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday; lowest temperature tonight about 46 degrees, highest ThursCay 67 degrees; light to gentle west- erly winds. Southeast Alaska: Clear or nortly cloudy tonight and Thursday except local rain near Ketchikan fonight; warmer in south portion Thursday; gentle to moderate vatiable winds except moderate north- easterly tonight near Dixon Entrance and moderate northerly winds in Lynn Canal. Juneau and vicinity: Increasinulf of Alaska tonight and Thurs- day: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate westerly to north- westerly winds, except moderate to fresh northeasterly near Dixon Entrance early tonight, clear to partly cloudy; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate variable winds, partly cloudy; Cape Hir inbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate northeasterly winds, partly cloudy: Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate northwesterly winds, partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 64 46 s 3 41 B4 calm 0 61 50 w 12 RADIO REPORTS Weather Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Time 4:30 pm. yesterday 29.74 4:30 a.m. today 29.59 Noon today 20.54 Max. tempt. last 24 hours 35 65 65 TODAY Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. temp. tempt. 24 hours 28 32 T 40 40 0 4:30a.m. Weather Overcast Foz Showers Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul .. Atka .1l Dutch Harbor ‘Wosnesenski Cordova Juneau Sitka ... Ketchikan Prince Rujert Prince George Edmonton Seattle San Francisco . =3 54 58 30 49 4 41 49 50 Overcast Overcast Overcast Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Overcas Ra Overcast Drizzle Showers Clear 3ga3eags 228EccsccoB8ococoe o WEATHER SYNOPSIS Due to the influence of a lok pressure center southwest of Dixon Entrance, light rain was filling this morning at a few points over Southeast Alaska from Petersburgh to Craig. Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed generally elsewhere. over Alaska except in the northwest protion where part'y cloudy to cloudy skies were re- ported. Scattered light falls of riain had occurred during the past 24 hours over the western portion of Alaska. The greatest. amount of precipitation was two hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Nome. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 66 de- grees which was reported at both Cralg and Cordova. ‘The lowest telnperature last night was 28 degrees at Barrow. Overcast skies with moderate ceilings and good visibilities in the south portion and scattered to broken high and intermediate cloudiness in the north portion prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Wednesday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 29.38 inches was located at 53 degrees north and 136 degrees west and was expected to move eastward during the next 24 hounrs. Relatively low pressure prevailed over the interior of Alaska, A high pressure center of 30.32 inches was located at 31 degrees north and 137 degrees west with a high crest extending northeastward to western Oregon. A high pressure center of 30.40 inches was located at 33 degrees north and 158 degrees west and a high crest extended northward to the Aleutian Islands. Juneau, September 4—Sunrise 6:02 a.m., sunset 7:51 p.m. VICIOUS RED | ARMY DRIVES BACK NAZIS (Continued from Page One) Sunday and Monday, with a loss of less than a third of that number by theiwr own air force. T e Haines Postmaster A. H. Kings- | burg, Jr., after a brief visit in Ju- neau, returned home aboard the ' Alaska. WHAT CAUSES EPILEPSY? A booklet containing the opinions of fam- ous doctors on this interesting subject will be sent FREE, while they last, to any reader MOSCOW ENDANGERED writing to the Educational Divislon, 535 The Germans claimed vesterday Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., Dept -:Us- to have driven within 20 miles of a “proximity threat to Moscow”, but the statement was never clarified. It is known, hawever, that the Nazis once passed beyond Smolensk to Vyaznia, and area about 125 miles southwest of the capital. A strategically important town, otherwise unidentified, is said to have fallen to a counterattack by, Leningrad’s newly inspired de- fenders, reflecting, perhaps new dif- ficulties encountered by the Ger- mans. A Hitler field communique was!|{] barren in detail of operations say- ing merely, “Successful fighting ac- tions are inprogress,” leading to! thoughts of' a pcksible deadlock aground, - especially with the war § position how in formation. FIERCE AIR BATTLES In World War tradition both Russia and Germany have steppedi up their aerial offensives. At Ger- any’s rear western front, Britain’s aerial offensive thus far has her prineipal active ajd to Russia,/}i andd has gained hitting power dally. & Dispatches from Berlin itself said the RAF night-raided Berlin in one of the liveliest assaults in months. Claiming the édge on aerial fight-| N SAVE Insured Salety sians are said to have shot down 198 German, planes over Saturday, IEARNINGS On Savings Accounis ® Accounts Government In- Sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any ® Start an account with $1 or more. Current 4% Rate Your Health! {{