The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7901. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e T0 SACRIFICE CZECH NATION FOR PEACE » » * * * * * - » » * » * * * * * * » * * * * * * British, French Bow to Demands of Hitler Inside Story of Alaska Dramatic Incidents Are Unfolded for First Time as Valuable Papers Are Opened to Study of American Diplomats by the Soviet | Government By CHARLES P. NUTTER WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Long- secret documents disclose the plaint of a Russian diplomat who sold Al- aska to the United States His Czar's $10,000 gift was compensation, the diplomatic sales- man complained, for the years he spent in getting the maximum price from America for a territory al- ready endangered by American “fili- busterers.” The inside story of the Alaskan purchase, once called “Seward's Folly" (after the then Secretary of State), is contained in documents just opened to study of American diplomats by the Soviet Govern- ment. The Russian Minister and Privy Councilor Edouard de Stoeckl had been entrusted to sell Alaska for $5,000,000, but he brought his fif- teen-year-long efforts in Washing- ton to an able finish by out-trading the eager Secretary Seward, who was anxious to use the Alaskan pur- chase to reestablish his waning pop- ularity. $10,000 for Negotiations Seward offered $5,000,000 in the final negotiations, but the minister held firm for $7,000,000, made the United States throw in $200,000 as an exchange differential between dollar values in New York and Lon- don, and forced Seward to foot a $9,000 cable bill to St. Petersburg, in addition. Stoeckl was an old and tired man upon completion of this important work which these documents now hardly of Purchase Disclosed | brance, but to a friend, Westman, | holding the equivalent of Under Secretary of State in foreign office. Stoeckl was more outspoken. “As far as my pecuniary compen- sation is concerned,” he wrote, “I feel that one might have been more generous, if one considers that I obtained the maximum which had been fixed and that in order to con- duct this affair I passed up a post in Europe and God knows whether I shall have another chance. But after all it is something.” OPEN TOMORROW SAMTOTP. M, Only Voting Place Is City| Hall—Those Appearing | \ Polls will be open in tomorrow's special city election from 9 am. to 7 pm. and all voting will be | done in the City Hall voting pre- | |cinet, only the one voting place | lbeing designated by the City Coun- {eil for this election as only prop- |erty owners whose names appear | on the tax roll being eligible to | cast a ballot. Two Men Responsible Stoeckl's troubles were not over with the treaty of sale. It took near- ly two years before an angry Con- gress appropriated the money to pay Russia. During this time, Rus- sia considered sending a proud note telling the United States either to pay for Alaska or take it without paying for it. This plan was dropped | when it was suggested the alterna- tive might be accepted Two men and two alone were re- sponsible for the sale of Alaska . . bought for a song, and worth untold billions. They were Stoeckl who ne- gotiated with the backing of his Czar, and Seward who, trying for a political comeback, stumbled into purchase of America’s greatest ter- pritory. Alaska had been administered up to the Civil War by the decadent |’ |and unsound Russian - American Compamy, patterned along the lines of the Hudson's-Bay Company. Al- aska was Russia’'s problem child: Its defense a thorney problem, its Where property is held by a cor-' poration, no vote is permitted, | |Mayor Harry I Lucas explained, |and where property may be owned |by husband and wife only the name appearing on the tax roll may cast a ballot. If both names |appear on the roll both may vote. It makes no difference, he said, for | what you pay taxes, whether per- sonal or real property, if your name is on the tax roll you are eligible |to cast a vote. The following judges and clerks |have been named to handle the | voting: Helen Friend, the Rev. John Cauble, Gertrude Boggan, | Dean C. E. Rice and Mrs. Karl| | Alstead. | ; Approximotely 1,000 names ap- pear on the tax roll, officials said, |in stressing that it is necessary | for 65 per cent of the vote to be lin favor of the improvement proj- ects in order ‘for the bond issue to be approved. 1t also was pointed out that five propositions appear on the ballot Here is Chancellor Adolf Hitler as mitting himself on the methods determination.” This picture was show was begun in 1853 instead of | profits non-existent, its upkeep cost-| several years later as supposed. The |ly. There was a constant fear that Czar granted him 25,000 rubles,| American filibusterers would seize (about $10,000). | upon it, or, worse, that another Eu- His official dispatch was full of flowery expressions for this remem- (Continued on Page Six) | ‘Purge’ Joins ‘Mandate’ Now as Embattled Word | and the voter is required to give an expression on each proposition separately. The proposals appear elsewhere in today’s Empire. .- ———— Mink Ranchers Reap Harvest At Ketchikan | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 19.— Nurnberg, thence by radio to New AMER. LEGION | KEYNOTER IS AGAINST WAR # he addressed the final meeting of the Nazi Congress in Nurnberg, Germany, dangling the possibility of a peaceful solution to the Sudeten German problem but without com- he intends to pursue to compel the Czechoslovakian government to give the German minority “self- sent by wireless to London from York. STATES FIGHT IN PRIMARIES POLLS WILL BE; W/or( Listens as Hitler Talks EUVERTUEES ARE ' BEING STUDIED BYLITTLE LAND | Czechoslovakia Govern- | ment Is Considering | Proposals Submitted 'SPECIAL PATROLS ARE ORDERED OUT TONIGHT |Aid from Soviet Russia Is | Sought in Case Plans | Are Turned Down | PRAHA, Sept. 17.—The Czecho- slovakian Government, after anall- | day session, announces that the | British-Franco proposals of turn- | ing the Sudeten areas over to Ger- many are being “considered with |all earnestness that the situation demands.” The communique gave no indi- cation as to the trend of the di | cussions although informed poli | cal circles said the proposals might be accepted but only as a basis for future negotiations. | PATROLS ARE PLACED PRAHA, Sept. 17—The Czecho- | slovakian Government tonight | placed police and gendarme patrols | throughout the district to prevent demonstrations against the Anglo- French peace proposals of giving 1a | to Hitler. The Cabinet studied the proposals |at a lengthy session and urged the | people to refrain from demonstra- | tions. | SEEKING SOVIET AID nofficial Outline Proposed for Peace In Cenlrgl Europe |Solution to Prevent Crisis Reached by Two Na- tions, Is Claim | | | | LONDON, Sept. 19.—The unof- |cial outline agreed to by Great |Britain and France as a solution |of Europe's deep crisis, which in- |formed persons claim is authentic, |is as follows: First—Sudeten German districts in Czechoslovakia, which in district elections last May and June, voted 175 per cent or more for a Sudeten Germany Party, is declared to be |decision for a separate union. | Second—New frontier to be drawn |to include all such districts within | Hitler's Reich, so far as possible. | Third—Districts which voted be- 'tween 50 and 75 percent for Hen- lein candidates shall be grouped in | autonomous areas inside of Czecho- slovakia. Fourth — Arrangements shall be made by exchange of populations to safeguard liberty of the German | minorities which do not wish to come under German rule. There shall be similar arrangements for | Czechoslovakia’s Polish and Hun- | garian minorities. | Tive — New frontiers of Czecho- slovakia shall be guaranteed by the Great Powers and neighboring states and Czechoslovakia shall re- lease her alliance with France and Russia—in other words Czechoslo- vakia will become an “independent neutral state,” like Belgium which France and Germany. B has guarantees of Great Britain, | GENEVA, Sept. 19. — Czechoslo- | vakia is reported to have asked Rus-| | sian officials for support against de- | livering the Sudeten German area over to Germany. Edouard Heidrich, Czechoslovakia | Foreign Office expert, has con- | ferred with Jacob Surits, Russian | Ambassador to France and it is| | said he later conferred with Maxim | Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar of For- | elgn Affairs. HITLER TAKES FINAL STAND, GREAT CRISIS MKINLEY HOTEL T0 BE ENLARGED; By MILO M. THOMPSON Chief of the Washington Bu- reau of The Associated Press i (Guest columnist for Preston Grover) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—When a word of such diverse political | implications as “purge” happens to | can political speech, you can ex- Ranch raised mink here are facing | four ranchers have obtained an es-| the prospect of a good winter as Com’enlion Speakcr Urges All to Fight for Peace in Our Own Nation timated 3,000 salmon which died in the City Park when the tail-race| from the power house was diverted, | leaving the streams and pools in the | park dry. : 3 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19. — The The salmon died before sPAWNiNg. | ononing guns of the American Le-| 3 | gion’s new and vigorous power drive | | to keep us out of war was fixed by | United States Senator David Walsh | ? lpm:t the practical politicians to Secretary Ickes Announces |pect the practical politicians to Revision While Con- |3 " *** ™ SR {a rat. struction Underway It has happened before. It happened to “mandate” when it was the proud boast of Demo- cratic politicians that the re-elec- tion of President Roosevelt consti- tuted the people’s mandate to con- tinue with New Deal policies. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — The Department of the Interior has re-| vised the plans for the Mount Mec-| Kinley Hotel to include an addi- tional 38 rooms and private baths, also a larger dining room and lobby facilities. °si Secretary of Interior Harold L.|Smilingly Ickes said the revision of the plans |Darrow slips of paper, will not interrupt construction and acteristically terse line: will bring the hotel total cost v.oJChDOSE to run in 1928.” o $450,000. Some of the practical politicians It was originally planned to have!Of the Democratic party are ad- a hotel with 52 bedrooms and eigh private baths. | President Coolidge passed out un- to newspapermen, on that char- “I do not | embarrassment over the way the | word “purge” has ballooned into | prominence in the current off-year }electlon. There are some Wwho |grumble because it seems some- {how unfair, a weasel word, a prop- aganda word. | But “purge” is as intrinsically /pat as ARE MARRIED i its underscoring was in- evitable. To purge, says the dic- KETCHIKAN] Alaska, Sept. 19.— tionary, is to purify or cleanse by Mildred Rest.ud,_ violinist, who at- separating and carrying off what- tended the Bellingham State Nor-'over is impure, foreign or super- mal and the University of Washing- | fluous. And few will deny that such | ton, and Capt. L. H. H. Jennings,|, gefinition comprehends exactly President of the Alaska Pacific Sal-| ypat is in the minds of Democratic vage Company here and a marine|party leaders from the President surveyor, have been married here. 1 down. — .- TO SEWARD ‘me-:n TO DICTATORSHIPS James Cook was @& passenger on| 1t was not, of course, purely the the Yukon for Seward Saturday,lpamess of “purge” which made it leaving here at 8 o'clock in the jneyitable that the present pheno- evening. | menon would be so tagged. Part of g+ AP | the certainty lay in the clinging al- English women are much dis- jitergtiveness of the phrase “party turbed because the Dyers Fed"“"purse“ and part of it lay in its tion has decided only 12 standard great usefulness to headline and shades of silk stockings shall be s available instead of hundreds. (Continued on Page 8ix) It happened to “choose” when| 4| mitting just now a sort of hopeless| el TR, get strongly underscored in Ameri-| DIMOND SPEAKS ' TONIGHT, B.P. W, - GLUB MEETING Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska’s Dele- |gate to Congress, will speak tonight |on the “Equal Rights Amendment,” lat 7:15 o'clock in the City Council Chambers, at a special meeting of |the Juneau Business and Profes- | sional Women'’s Club, The discussion is open to the | public, and announcement was made |that the session will close in time Ifor the dedication of the Douglas | !School ceremonies, beginning at 8 o'clock. —to—— " d STOCK QUOTATIONS ‘f | NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Closing | |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can‘ American Light and Power 4%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel | |55%, Commonwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 4'%, General Mot- {ors 44, International Harvester 58,/ | Kennecott 40%, New York Central | |15%, Safeway Stores 16%%, Southern | |Pacific 14%, United States Steel | * * |Pound $4.80%. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES 17.96, up .62, {to Camp Perry placed 46th iot‘ Massachusetts today as the key- | note of the twentieth annual con- | vention. | | Walsh told the greatest assem-| blage of war veterans ever seen in| the United States that “The com- | mand is forward, not for worlfl de-| | mocracy, but for peace and demo- cracy at home here in America.” | The convention leaders settled two | pieces of business, all candidates to the office of National Comman- | der withdrawing in favor of Stephen F. Chadwick, Seattle attorney, leav- | ing him to be elected. Chicago was selected for the next convention in 1939, | ALASKA RIFLEMEN PLACE 46TH IN BIG FIELD AT PERRY The Alaska rifle team which wenc! in af field of 112 teams, according to| word received here today by Police Chief Dan Ralston from Assistant | Chief Roy Hoffman, member of the | team, who is returning to Juneau on the North Sea. An individual' medal is reported to have been won by Patrolman Ken Junge, also a member of the team. | MISS HOLST LEAVES ? | Miss Matilda Holst, well known steamer Aleutian, i Miss Holst, a graduate of the Ju- | her musical study in Europe. ) - ONTOMORROW Representative 0'Connor, New York, Pits Strength Against Roosevelt (By Associated Press) State primaries take place in sev- eral States tomorrow. In New York, Representative John | O’Connor, Democratic Chairman of the House Rules Committee, seeks renomniation over President Roose- velt’s opposition. Other Congres- sional and legislative candidates are to be chosen. In New Jersey, William H. J. Ely is unopposed for the Democratic Senatorial nomination. In Wisconsin, Senator F. Ryan Duffy, praised by Roosevelt, is not opposed for the Democratic nom- ination. Gov. Phillip F. La Follette, Progressive, seeks his fourth term. In Massachusetts, national issues are lacking in the Congressional races. There is no Senate seat at stake, Gov. Charles F. Hurley has three opponents. Deadiliifnfis’gt For Revamping Air @il Costs Civil Aeronautics Authority Is Getting Down to Basic Principles WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — The Civil Aeronautics Authority has 55, Bremner bid % asked 1%, vocalist, left for the south on the|fixed January 1 as the tentative deadline for revamping of the pres- ent method of determining air mail | neau High School, returned to her costs, an official said. The following are today’s Dow, home for a visit this summer, dur-| Efficient and economic operation Jones averages: industrials 13410, ing which time she presented her |of air lines as well as the Govern- up 2.28; rails 24.75, up .74; . utilities | first concert in this city following ment’s needs will serve as a basis for allocating new contracts. Neither the Russian nor Czech quarters will say anything except “this is a very delicate matter.” Persons in contact with both dele- gations said it is understood the Czechs have proposed that Russia try and induce France and Great | Britain to stiffen their stand against | Germany should the Praha Govern- | ment refuse Hitler’s terms. ITALY WITH GERMANY | TRIESTE, Italy, Sept. 19. — Pre- | mier Benito Mussolini has pro- claimed Italy’s place is already | chosen—beside Germany if the | Czechoslovakia crisis inflames Eu- |rope in a general war. Mussolini reaffirms adherence to the Rome-Berlin axis and repeats |demands for plebiscites for the Czech minorities. B Disease Harried . British Vessel - Makes Unalaska |Coast Guard Reports Six of Crew in Bad Shape on Trip from Korea With six members of her crew ill |and one in serious condition, the | British motorship Athel Templar iwas convoyed ‘into Unalaska by the Coast Guard last night, according here today from the Coast Guard cutter Northland. The men are said to be suffering ‘lal in Unalaska. The vessel, bound from Korea, was expected to sail shortly for San | Prancisco, according to the mes- isage. | e GRUBERS SAIL Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Gruber sailed south on the steamer Aleutian to |spend several weeks visiting friends and relatives in the States. to word to the U. 8. Customs office | from acute dysentery and the seri-| ous case has been sent to the hospi-| Declares in Interveiw Czech Affair Must Be Set- tled Now LONDON, Sept. 19.—The Daily Mail, in an interview, quotes Adolf Hitler saying, “This Czech trouble has got to be ended once and for all and ended now. “The Czech constitution provides only one thing—that seven million Czechs shall oppress eight million minority peoples. “I have doubled Germany's air fleet already because Czechoslovakia |has an ally in Russia. “If we fail to settle this crisis |now, Air Minister Goering will be |asked to double his air fleet again. “I have studied the French Mag- |inot line and learned much from it, but we built a line of forts much better which stand against any force in the world in the event we are attacked. “We choose to remain on the defensive. “All this is madness. No one in Germany dreams of attacking | France.” Ambassador Saito To Relinquish Post TOKYO, Sept. 19. — The news- | paper Nichi Nichi reported Hiroshi | Baito, Japanese ambassador to the United States, would be replaced by | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington. | Baito formerly was Japanese consul at Seattle. Though the foreign office insisted the matter was still pending, the | newspaper asserted Saito would be | recalled at his own request because | of ill health. e e NURSE GOING OUT | | Dorothy McHenry, nurse from Mountain Village, arrived in Juneau by PAA Electra Sunday and will g0 south on the next boat on vaca- tion, INTERNATIONAL DEAL PROPOSED BY 2 NATIONS “Efforts Are Made to /\p~ pease Chieftain of Nazi Country CABINETS TO BACK ACTS OF PREMIERS Plans Are Ir;n—(;(liat:‘ly' Sent to Little Power Which IS [l’lVOIV(‘([ LONDON, Sept. 19.—The govern- ments of Great Britain and Fre today gave approval, apparently un- animously, to a tremendons inter- national deal to satisfy Adolf Hitler to keep Europe’s great democracies out of war, With almost desperate finality, the Cabinets in London and Paris approved the decisions made by their Premiers yesterday, accepting Hitler's demands and also propos- ing a system of guarantees for the Czechoslovakians which it is hoped may bring Central European peace. Proposals Submitted The proposals have been municated to the government of Czechoslovakia at Praha by the envoys of Great Britain and France. There are indications here that |Czech leaders are still standing by their previous determination to de- fend themselves, even without the aid of the western democracies, counting to the last on help from Soviet Russia. Silence Prevails Complete official silence is main- tained here until after a meeting of the Cabinet tonight called to ratify the agreement between Pre- mier Chamberlain and Premier Daladier. However, it is generally expected that Premier Chamberlain will 1o long delay his return trip to Ger- many to tell Hitler what the democracies may agree to. | com- FRENCH CAB T ACTS PARIS, Sept. 19.—France, through her Government, has ratified the Anglo-French plan to dismember Czechoslovakia in response to Hit- ler’s demands. The French Cabinet, in minute session, approved of the results of Premier Daladier’s delib- erations with Great Britain’s Pre- mier Chamberlain in London on Sunday. The French Premier assured the British leader of France’s full con- sent in negotiations. The French Government now turns to Praha to see whether President Eduoard Benes, of Czecho- slovakia will agree to sacrifice his country on the altar of European peace or whether he will fight. Pending the solution of the ques- tion, it became known that the |Prench have halted the nation’s military preparations. — - e INSURGENTS REPULSED IN EBRO SECTOR HENDAYE, Sept. 19 Spanish Government dispatches report that the fifth Insurgent effort to crash through the Ebro River valley front has been repulsed. CAPT. BUTLER IS DEAD,KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 19.— Thomas Butler, 63, longtime Cap- tain of the New England Fish Com- pany cannery tender A. F. Rich, which operates out of here, died Saturday. He spent his winters in Seattle. Mrs, Butler died in Seatile a year ago. a 90~