The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7905. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SUSPENSE IS AGAIN TENSE IN EUROPE New Terror Arises Hurricane Struck Area TOLL OF DEATH SOARS HIGHER IN STORM ZONE Damage Running High Millions—Worst Hur- ricane Since 1928 FLOOD DANGERS STILL INCREASE s | " American Legion Session Elects 5 My N Stephen Chadwick, Seattle | \ Attorney, Is Elected | Natl. Commander BULLETIN-LOS ANGELES, | Cai, Sept. 23.—The Alaskan | delegation attending the Am- erican Legion and ° Auxiliary | Convention here has been | | | awarded the membership tro- phy. % R()al‘lng Streams Reach LOS ANGEL Cal, Sept. 23— Level Near Peak of Following the election yesterday ’ 2 : acclamation of Stephen Chadwic 36 in Wide Area attorney of Seattle, as National % Commander of the American Legion siated Press) mu:rl ('n‘nvelllmn l?m'c. Lh‘e PRb AR tatn TAMtaE . of Eia Vice-Commanders — were nation today counted nearly 7 egs N dead as the toll of Wednesday Ross, of Las Vegas, Nev Oakley, of Osceola, Wis.; savage hurricane While rescue workers tackled the double task of succoring the living and raising bulwarks against new flood terrors in seven stricken states, the dread trickle of reports seeping in through the walls of silence im- posed by shattered communications systems raised the death toll to staggering heights. Worst Since 1928 The toll of victims has increased to such an extent that the disaster stands as the worst hurricane in the United States since 1928 when a| storm from the Caribbean Sea scoured Florida with a loss of 2,000 lives. Damage High Damage in the current crisis is running high in the millions and still mounting under the depreda- tion of streams sent roaring out of bounds by the unceasing rain. Fleods Menace Even as rescue workers rallied under the impetus of direct orders from President Roosevelt that threw all Government Agencies into the fight against post hurricane men- aces in famine and disease, rivers in New England, New York and New Jersey inched toward the devastat- ing peak of the floods of 1936. Hartford Wades The flood threat is particularly acute in Hartford, Connecticut, with ten percent of that city's 1,200 acres already under water. S | FDR APPOINTS COMPTROLLER OF CURRENGY Preston Delano, Massachu- | setts, Gets Post Vacat- ed by O’Connor ‘ — | WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — Thci White House today announced that| President Roosevelt has appointed | Preston Delano, of Massachusetts, | Comptroller of Currency. | Delano succeeds J. F. T. O’Connor, | who resigned to run for the Demo- cratic nomination for Governor of California, in which race he was unsuccessful. The job was held open for O'Con- nor, but he told the President he wanted to practice law in Califor- nia. Delano is a distant relative of President Roosevelt and is now Gov- ernor of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. - Invention Brings Fame, Also Takes Life SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 23. —Fame came to Arthur W. Savage, 83, through the inven- tion of the lever action repeat- ing rifle and .44 calibre re- volver. The same fame brought death to the founder of the Savage Arms Company. Police said Savage shot himself here. It is James P. Crawley, of Kosciusko, Miss.; Edward Quinn, of Portland, Me.; Charles Crush, of Christians- | burg, Va. s | AUXILIARY ELECTION | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 23| Mrs. James Morris, of Bismarck, N.| D., has been unanimously elected | | President of the American Legion | Auxiliary. ‘ Mrs. Lowell Fletcher, of Hobart, Cinn,, has been elected Vice-Pre.si-* dent, and Mrs. Gertrude Detweille, of Hazelton, Ida., President. Sawnill Raft mean e Breaks Loosg EXTRA DIVIDEND Durng smrm‘ ANNOUNGED BY s e o ALASKA JUNEAU | Wave—Beaten Logs ; 15 Cents Per Share to Paid in Addition to Regular Payment Western Vice- | IN CORN CANYON stands Alice Gunderson, who wanted to see for herself whether the corn is 10 feet high in fields near Sioux Falls, S. D.-Fields have been tentatively picked for the national corn husklnz con- Down at the Juneau Lumber | Mills you needn't tell the boys that | Be | Gastineau Channel was visited by | an equinoctial storm yesterday, her- | ‘aldmg the first day of fall. The) know it only too well. \ 1 During the downpour, accompan- | the lumber | Vice-Commanders - Mountains Make Natural Forts for Czechs TMUR AIAR SATE P08 THFE This map of hemmed in Czechoslovakia shows the mountains arcund the western half of the country, now the ceded Sudetenland. The mountains would have had te been crossed by the German troops if in- vasion took place. These mountains were well fortified and it is no wonder the Czechs believed they could have resisted invasion. On the south Kisenstein Pass—crossing the border from what was once Austria—and the Moravian Gateway-—crossing from Hungary—twe possible channels for invaders. both are or were heavily fortified. On the north, Oder Gap also is considered strongly defended. On the west, rugged mountains aided by bloc] narrow road; would have been drpended upon w chock the east- ward march of Germany if open “of 'Sudéfens or war foltowed. o EXTRA! BULLETIN VASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Americans in Czecho- slovakia have been warned to leave that country immediately and such advices have been dis- | patched to Prague. The situa- tion is believed to be extremely critical. On January 1 there were 5,- 000 Americans in Czechoslo- vakia but it is believed many have left that country since then. | BULLETIN—PARIS, Sept. 23. ( —The French Cabinet tonight | unanimously voted and made a public broadcast that at the | first gunshot on the German- | ' Hitler’s Troops Wave Banners SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.—The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- | |ied by a stiff wind, company’s raft over on the Doug- las side of the channel broke loo.se‘ | Czechoslovakia frontier, a gen- | eral mobilization order will be issued in France. pany has declared the usual extra|8nd started heading right for the| dividend of 15 cents a share and a|Sawmill on this side. It looked like | fegular quarterly dividend of fifteen | @ Simple problem, so some of the cents, it was announced today. The |men took out'in skiffs to ferry the payment is to be made N{wpmber‘loose logs in. But about the time 1 to stockholders of record October they arrived in working distance, | the logs started going elsewhere, | aldrd and abetted by wind and| | Lf)(,s were being made fast on| mg'oman off San Diego. | both sides of the channel this morn- | ———-——— Two Met Shot Down, Four | ing and mill operations had ceased| — e U, S. Destroyer Badly Damaged Result was that it was finally nec- | [ essary to get the Trojan, the Yako-| “ cean ras ‘bl the Northern Light and a couple | | of other power boats into action to — ‘cloar the channel and save the| SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 23.— lav,' In the encounter Mill Fore-| Navy officials said the destroyer ! man Harold Schaffer experienced Hen]r'y sustained damage to the! |a ducking and a couple of the boom |extent of $50,000 .in the collision mon know how cold the water is/ |last Wednesday night with the wAmcr)can Hawaiian freighter Wash- ! Others, Including Wom- an Shield, Wounded CHICAGO, I, Sept. 23. — Two men were killed and four other persons, including a young woman who was held as a shield by the| bandits, were wounded- last night| in a furious gun fight during an | attempted holdup of a racing Hand- book across the street from the North Side Police Station. | The dead are John D. Bozula, | bookmaker, apparently shot when | | he resisted the robers, and Jimmy Gilfoy, one of the gunmen. Three bandits were in the gang. At the first shot, policemen | rushed across the street and the ‘bama was. on. .- KEN JUNGE RETURNING Ken Junge, patrolman, member ‘u-mpormlv pending conclusion of the emergency work. None of the logs were lost, it is understood. % -~ ‘Douglas Infant |Taken to Shrine Hospital, Portland Through the e!torLs of the Juneau George F. Alexander is President, the six-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Fleek of Douglas will | get special treatment at the Shrine ;Orthn)pemc Hospital in Portland, Ore. The child, which has no pal- ate and has been unable to eat |solid foods, was taken south this | week and will enter the hospital | there immediately on arrival. | The Shrine Orthopedic in Port- land is the same hospital in which Lou Ann Markle of Anchorage was treated for bone infection and | Shrine Club of which Pederal Judge | SEWARD GETS PWA LOAN, GRANT FOR FIRE PROTECTION Approval of a PWA loan and grant of $30,909 has been given by | the Public Works Administration for the installation of a salt water fire protection system in Seward, according to notification to the Ju- neau PWA office. The grant amounts to $13,909 and the loan fo $17,000. - e » BASEBALL TODAY [’ P The following are scores of games played in the major leagues this afternoon as received from the As- sociated Press up to 2 o'clock: National League Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 4. believed that illness caused the aged man to take his own life with one of his own inventions. tional matches at Camp Perry, returning home aboard the Princess| Louise, regaining virtually normal tion. of the Alaska Rifle Team to the nn-fchuck Davis, formerly of Juneau, | is was treated for foot trouble, both| condi- | Chicago 3, 7; Philadelphia 2, 6. American League Cleveland 8, 6; Detroit 1, 5. tal Huge Nazi banners waved in mass formation above the goose-stepping troops,of Adolf Hitler at Nurnberg, Germany, when the German dictator arrived there for the opening of the Nazi congress. This picture, flown from Nurnberg to London and radioed to New York, shows a section of the German troops goose-stepping in the shadow of the huge banners—a part of the “Parade of Banners."—AP Fhoto. Should Amerim Cuntinue Present Trade Pact Policy (As guest columnist for Pres- ton Grover, Harry C. Hawkins, chief of the division of trade agreements, State Department, reviews America’s 18 trade pacts and cites their benefits, In the next article, U. S. Senator Bridges will state the case against the pacts) By HARRY C. HAWKINS Chief, Division of Trade Agree- ments, State Department (Guest columnist for Preston Grover) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — The reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Ecuador, signed on August 6, brought the to- number of trade agreements concluded up to t)\c present time to 18. The United States now has trade| agreements “with 10 Latin-Ameri-| can countries, seven European na- tions and Canada. Agreements have been concluded with Cuba, Belgium, Haiti, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands, Switz- erland, Honduras, Colombia, Gua- temala, France, Nicaragua, Finland, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Czechoslo-| vakia and Ecuador. Negotiations are | now under way with the United Kingdom, with Canada for a new| agreement, and with Turkey and| Venezuela. In its four years of operauon '|the trade- ugreemen's program m.s (Continued on Pago six) RUSSIA ISSUES NEW WARNING AGAINST POLAND | Threatens to Cancel Pact | If Polish Troops En- ters Czechoslovakia |FRENCH PARLIAMENT MAY BE CALLED |Moscow Renews Pledge to Assistant France If Outbreak Occurs BULLETIN—GENEVA, Sept. 23. — Soviet sources to the League of Nations said Russia already had notified France of the exact number of planes, troops, guns and tanks she had ready to put in the field if war came over Czechoslovakia. Rus- sian sources said Petrescu Com- nen, Rumanian delegate to the League, had renewed his coun- try’s pledge to allow Russian troops and supplies to pass through Rumanian territory on their way to Czechoslovakia, providing that France and Great Britain fought on the side of Moscow. SOVIET WARNING day warned Poland that if Polish troops invade Czechoslovakia, Rus- sia will cancel the Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact. It was learned semi-officially that Vladimir Potemkin, first assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, has notified Polish Charge d’ Affaires, T. Janowski, to the effect that should either party to the non-ag- gression pact commit aggression against a third state, the pact is dissolved. Polish military preparations on the Czechoslovakian border drew from diplomats and foreign observ- ers divergent forecasts as to what the huge Soviet army will do in case Polish troops invade the Czech republic. “FRANCE MUST FACE ENGAGEMENTS” PARIS, Sept. 23.—Radical Social- ist Deputies today quoted Premier Daladier as saying, “If Germany enters Czechoslovakia, France must face her engagements.” Deputy Louis Malvy, one of the leaders of the Premier’s own party, was one of those who quoted this weighty statement to newspaper- men after a delegation of Radical Scclalist ministers called on the| Premier. Malvy also said Premier Daladier declared he would call Parliament back into session, “If the situation becomes worse.” RUSSIA WILL KEEP PACT GENEVA, Sept. 23. — Russia’s Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff today told the League of Nations that Russia might voluntarily go to the aid of Czechoslovakia, “but no one can insist on this help as our duty.” Litvinoff repeated his pledge that if France fights to protect Czecho- slovakia against invasion, Russia will fulfill her obligations under the mutual assistance pact between | France and Russia. b pa et SRV RN e | STOCK QUOTATIONS e | NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can |93%, American Light and Power | 4%, Anaconda 31, Bethlehem Steel 547%, Commonwealth and Southern 1 Curtiss Wright 4%, General Mo- tors 40%, International Harvester |tral 15%, Safeway Stores 16%, Southern Pacific 14%, United States ‘Sbeel 54%, Bremner bid % asked |1%, Pound $4.79%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES MOSCOW, Sept. 23.—Russia to- 57, Kennecott 38%, New York Cen-| CHAMBERLAIN CANCELS HITLER CONFERENCE Situation on ‘Language Bor- der’ in Czechoslovakia Held Responsible BRIT.PREMIER DEMANDS ASSURANCE OF PEACE Frontier Troops Again Take War Positions as New Obstacles Arise BULLETIN—PARIS, Sept. 23. —Havas, French news agency, said that the Hitler-Chamber- lain corference had broken down over German refusal to give guarantees Chamberlain had demanded regarding Hit- ler’s future action toward Czechoslovakia. BULLETIN — BERLIN, Sept. 23. — Official German news agency dispatches from Prague reported President Benes had ordered mobilization of the en- tire Czechoslovakia army. BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 23—A Czech legation spokes- man said the order for general mobilization throughout Czech- oslovakia was broadcast over the Czech radio network. NEW DIPLOMACY GODESBURG, Sept. 23. — Pre- mier Neville Chamberlain today sent Sir Neville Henderson, Am- bassador to Germany, across the Rhine to confer with Hitler’s Lieu- tenant Foreign Minister Von Rib- bentrop, but Chamberlain and Hit- ler themselves remained apart. The envoys were to consult on future negotiations intended to as- sure peace in Europe. Big Meeting Put Off Henderson said he did not know | whether the postponed meeting be- tween Hitler and Chamberlain would occur tonight or not. Negotiations continued in a state of tense suspense. A half hour be- | fore Chamberlain was to meet Hit- | ler at the British headquarters “in | the Hotel Dressen, Chamberiain | sent Hitler a letter calling off the meeting. Chamberlain Waits Authoritative sources said Cham- berlain made up his mind not jo | 8o farther in an attempt to ap- [pease Germany and her Sudetén IGermssn friends until he has assur- ance that German troops and the Sudeten Free Corps will keep peace. More War Rumors News from Czechoslovakia that the Free Corps and Czechoslovakian soldiers have drawn up in warlike lines along the “language border” gave urgency to Premier Chamber~ lain’s letter. S se TROOPS AT WAR POSITIONS STRASBOURG, Sept. 23.—Troops along French, Belgian, German and Spanish frontiers, have been of- dered to assume “positions of alert.” This means that troops will im- mediately take up positions ready for any emergency. At Thionville, near the German frontier, it is reported that sections of the Army Engineers have been sent direct to the frontier as well as detachments of mobile guards, destined as shock troops in event of conflict. TO SEE HITLER TONIGHT GODESBERG, Sept. 23. — Sir | Horace Wilson, closest adviser of Premier Chamberlain, announced that Chamberlain would see Hitler late tonight and return to London by plane early tomorrow. 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