The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7906. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EUROPE STANDING ON BRINK OF WAR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * » * * * * * * Feverish Preparations Reported Being Made STORM ABATES, 'Mild Little Briton Advises ar Crises STRONGER NAVY; NEW ENGLAND BURIES ITS DEAD Death Toll in Hurricane | Area Reaches 493 in | Seven States PROPERTY DAMAGE IS HALF BILLION Every PoNble Aid Is Mob- 5 ilied to “Mop Up” After Disaster (By Associated Press) Abating ficods teday gave the | north Atlantic states time to bury their hurricane dead, near- Iy five hundred in number, and to begin the corry task of re- habilitating areas stricken by the worst storm disaster to be- fall the nation in a decade. Authorities in the seven af- flicted states and at Washing- ton are mobilizing every avail- able resource of man and money to accomplish the pressing prob- lem of mopping up after Wed- nesday’s disastrous hurricane that cost half a billion dollars in property damage. A revised death toll lists Rhode Island 240, Massachu- | setts 121, Conmecticut 65, New | York 50, New Hampshire 10, Verment 3, New Jersey 2 and Quebec 2, a total of 493. i CALL FOR $500.000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — The American Red Cross officials today asked the public to contribute at least $500,000 for relief of storm, fire and flood victims in the Nor Lh- east Atlantic States. ALL DEMUGRATS‘N NAMED T0 HOUSE IN 2ND DIVISION Leroy Sullivan, Republica Defeats George Laiblin for Seat in Senate n,! NOME, Sept. of unofficial returns from Utica and Haycock, all precincts have now re- ported in the Second Division, giv- | ing a full Democratic vietory for the House and the election of a Republican to the Senate. | Democratic ~eandidates Howard | Lyng, Garnet Martin, Walter Dowd | and Wallace Porter, are all elected to the House. Republican candidate | LeR.oy Sullivan is 24 votes ahmd of' Democratic candidate George Laiblin for Senator. Only 26 ab—k sentee ballots have been received (o ! date but it appears that Laiblin | cannot overcome Sullivan's lead. | The returns give: | 24. — With receipt | For Delegate — Dimond, 750; | Grigs 158; White, 171. For Treasurer—Chase, 324; Olson, 635. For Senate—Sullivan, 557; Lai- blin, §33. Sam Taggart, Republican, is 54 votes behind Porter, for the House. The one-house Legislature propo- sal has been killed by a large ma- jority but final returns have not yet been compiled. Little .'Monkey g Is Safe Now For Winter Art Beaudin's taking no chances with his pet Moss monkey, a re- cent arrival in Juneau from sunny | California. { Used to a more stable climate, the little fellow may at any time get ! to “sniffing,” consequently treat- | ment for such ailments would pos- | sibly run into considerable expense, so to be on the safe side, Mr. Beau- din took out a health and accident policy amounting to $1,000 for the “little monk,” and today Joe Sun- ick, of the Hector McLean Insur- ance Company, is boasting of the | first sale here of insurance for a low Democrat, monkey. of apoplectic European diplomacy and war scares The role of Horace Wilson has been somewhat mysterious since he was drafted two years ago “for perscnal service to the prime | minister.” Political circles say that “per- nal cervice” now includes for- eign AHm and that the “mysteri- ous J.” is Chamberlain’s most umumw adviser and “personal brain trust.” And it's common talk that the blde-eyed, round-shoul- dered little man of 56 has taken a hand in the Central European cri- ses. Replaces ‘Eden’ Man Nominally, Sir Robert Van Sit- tart holds the title of “chief diplo- matic adviser.” Sir Robert was formerly permanent secretary at the f gn office. He is believed to be pro-French, an “Edéen man,” a disciple of the theory that Hitler should not be “pampered.” Be- | able | ently woul l industrial ‘ Sir Horace then s\u'at('d through | Chamberlain in We By JAM LONDON tle man, | beside Great B. RESTON 24—A mild pt immaculately dressed, Britain’s Prime Min- | ister Neville Chamberlain these days lit- | sits | § cause of this belief, Sir Robert is thought to be temporarily in “dis- use.” In his place is the remark- Sir Horace entered the civil ser- vice in 1903 at $400 a year. He was not a university man and appar- probably in the “second division™ all his life. But he was.noticed by a former commissioner, who got him a place in the new labor min- istry in 1916. Wilson made a rec- ord as a strike mediator. Shortly after the close of the war, an important strike drew comment from Prime Minister Lloyd George “What happened to our strike breaker?” the prime minister in- quired. Told that Wilson wasn’'t working n strikes, Lloyd George changed things. In 1921, Wilson became per- manent secretary of the ministry. the problems of In 1924 he was made Sir Horace. tries; got them Made ‘Depression’ Record He became known as the mildes?, most patient labor mediator in his- ton Both workers and employers liked him. When the depression camn Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- made him chief industrial On man colonies of perous towns. Then N brought Sir Hor: ing Street, pire. When Prime Minister, ad\l\l‘) bhoul(l Ameru’a C(mlmuv Present Trade Pact Policy? Funds to Bring SIR HORACE WILS “Brain felt them to be deservings workers to more pros- the middle of the Sir his right hand. BLASS T0 BACK T0 URGE FUNDS Veteran Virginia Senalor Is Convinced Bigger Navy Necessary WASHINGTON, Setp. 24—Carter Glass, Chairman of the Senate Coemmittee on Appropriations, to- day said that European develop- ments have convinced him that the United States should increase its naval expenditures. | Consistently one of the strongest| oppenents of big military and na-| val appropriations, he made known | today his conversion to a big navy | advocate. “I have 3 been opposed to those enormous appropriations for war | purposes,” he said, “but it looks as if they were inevitable and desir- able to have larger naval appropria- tions.” { However, he said he would advo- cate a reduction of all other ex-| penditures aside from those for the Navy in the next Congress “There is a tremendous oppor- tunity for reduction in regular Gov- ernment expenditures, principally | through elimination of useless agen- | cies,” | BUDGE RETAINS CROWN, DEFEATS MAKO IN FINAL Don Budge Sets New Rec- ord in Lawn Tennis for This Season FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Sept. 24. —Don Budge, defending American ‘lawn tennis champion, today re- | tained his crown when he defeated le Chamberlain | his old pal, Gene Mako, four sets, | ce to No. 10 Down- | joging the second. Em- | Budge set a new world’s tennis| Neville became | record this season by sweeping the! Sir Horace was at| australian, French, British and| F American championships. Scores in today’s matches were: 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, Gl Trus floundering - indus- more capital if he He moved Baruch Advances | Wounded Home | (In the article in yesterday’s By H. STYLES BRIDGES | WA.,.HING,I.(')N VS»m Do e Empire, Harry C. Hawk U. §. Senator from New lard Baruch, New York financier, chief of the State Department’s Hampshire |revealed today that he has put up division of trade agrcements, (Guest columnist for Preston |funds to bring home 83 wounded stated the case for reciprocal Grover) members of the Abraham Lincoln | trade agreements. Here a prom- inent Republican Senator gives the case for the opposition.) CONCORD, N. (Continued on Page Seven) H., Sept. 24. — In prigade who have been fighting | with the Loyalists in the Spanish |civil war. l | to | Czech Tanks Rumbling Over Streets Are Ready PE ACE G—UNF ABS | | |Premier of ILittle Nation Not in Mood to Ac- ; cept Any Proposals 131638 With a tense situation still prevailing and zech\i no, knowing whether they are to be attacked, tanks, like these above are manned and rumbling through streets of Prague and other towns in the little nation ready for quick action should occasion demand. The above tanks, latest of the 10-ton Czech Army equipment, were made in the Skoeda plants and were recently seen in maneuvers at Milovice, Czecho- slovakia.—AP Photo Service. ART HENNING Sailors Union PASSES AWAY Signs Up with " TOCZECHS TO IN ROCHESTER Alaska Lines TAKETOARMS Prominent Pioneer Juneau Last Year’s Agreement Re- | Genetal ' Mobilization Now| Resident Succumbs Fol- newed—New Changes in Effect—People Wild | lowing Lingering [llness | ORDERS BIVEN Are Reported Made with Excitement Arthur W. Henning, prominent SEATTLE, Sept. 24—The Sailors (By Associatea rress) | Juneau resident for more than =2 Union of the Pacific officials an-| Czechoslovakians are mobilizing | quarter of a century, died this nounce a renewal of last year's|today. agreement with the Alaska ship op-| The order went out this morning erators. Signatures are up to the|from Prague, issued by new Pre- San Francisco officers. This is all| mier Jan Syrovy, General of the Na- that is needed to put the agreement | tion's Army. into effect. Wild excitement followed the mo- morning at Mayo Clinic in Roches- | ter, Minn., following a lingering ill- ness of more than a year, accord- ing to word received here this morning by his son Robert of The Empire staff. Mr. Henning went| Wages, hours and working condi- | bilization order which was broad- | east early in August for special tions are not changed, officials| cast. treatment for diabetes and was op- | state. The order was: “The most impor-| crated upon last week. > |tant and decisive moment has ar-| HEINTZLEMAN RoTURNING Regional Forester B. F. Heintzle- man sailled from Seward aboard the Columbia, his Juneau couple of weeks in the trict. Announcement of his death this morning came as a distinet shock his countless friends in this community. “Art,” as he was almost univer- sally known to thousands in Juneau me north in 1907 and was asso- ciated with Charles Goldstein in| business here for several years later going Outside for some time Bge- Loenag and returning in 1917 to join The the U. 8. Commissioner’s office Empire as Office Manager, a posi- today to Jennings M. Renfrow and |Mathilda D. Sommers, both of | Sitka | rived. Success depends upon all of‘ you to expend all of your powers, | today | your fortunes in defense of mef returning to|state and to tolerate no prophet of | headquarters after a|gloom. Our battle is just.” | Kenai dl."-‘ Men rushed from the restaur-| ants, leaving their meals unfin-| ished. | Thousands hurried into the| streets from buildings, all cheering. Soldiers sprung from everywhere, all jubilant. - SITKA COUPLE TO WED A marriage license was issued mt‘ (Cunl;ur'd on Page Five) (Continued nn Page Eight) WILL THERE BE ANOTHER ‘INCIDENT’? The Scuth’s bombardment of w Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, S. C. led directly to civil conflict. One day after the fort surrendered, April 14, 1861, President Lingeln called for 75,- 000 men, and the war was on. But the bombard- ment of Sumter was only the climax of a long pelitical struggle between the North and the South over states’ rights, slavery, and economic factors. A clash had been brewing for several decades. BISMARCK RELEASES A TELEGRAM One- day, in 1870, Chancellor Bismarck of Ger- many received a telegram from his king. It an- nounced that France’s Napoleon III had de- manded an apology from King William and a promise to keep a German prince from the throne of Spain. Bismarck made the telegram public. His prestige hurt, Napoleon declared war on Prussia. But the rise of Germany as a united power, and Napoleon’s positien in France, had long made such a war probable, 2 Thmqs Like These Start Wars. If At Least One Side Is Ready: Is Anybody Ready in Europe? | OUTPOSTS CLASH AT MIDNIGHT First shots in the Chinese-Japanese war were first at the Marco Polo bridge, near Peiping, at midnight, July 8, 1937. Each side blamed the other. Anyway, those shots led to war. But the conflict's real cause was far greater. China was growing stronger, was threatening Japan’s dream of con- trolling the mainland. If Japan was to realize that dream, she had to strike quickly before China be- came too strong and too united to handle. By THE AP FEATURE SERVICE | A STUDENT SHOOTS AN ARCHDUKE Archduke Francis Ferdinand, nephew and heir of Austrias emperor, was assassinated with his wife at Sarajevo, Austria, June 28, 1914, by a Serb. One month later, Austria declared war on Serbia, and the World War was under way. That war had been brewing for half a century, how- ever, European powers, heavily armed and divided into two major alliances, probably would have found some other excuse to fight had not the archduke been assassinated, “ARE REPORTED TOBE ALL OFF |Premier Chfi)erlain Flies Home After Last Ses- sion with Hitler {NEW DEMANDS MADE ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Europe stood today on the brink of war at the conclusion of the peace talks between Adolf Hitler, Nazi German chieftain, and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, of Great Britain. The end of the attempts to gain peace signalled the most | intensive war preparations since 1914, France has called 300,000 Re- servists to the colors as the last step before general mobiliza- tion, The British home fleet sud- denly sailed north from Scot- land. | Great Brn.sln'- naval base at Malta has béen put on a war- time basis. MOBILIZING Czechoslovakia has mobilized an army estimated at one and one-half millien men against invasion of the Germans Premier Chamberiain flew home to London from Godes- burg after a final unsuecessful talk with Hitler. Hitler has given Czechoslo- vakia a six-day ultimatum, ex- piring October 1. German sources said the document is in a concilatory tone but Czech and London sources said the terms called for satisfaction of both Hun- garian and Polish minority claims along with those of Sudeten Germans. FINAL OFFER The terms, it is said, are Hit- ler’s final offer. The American Legation has a train ready at Budapest to evacuate Uniged States citizens from Hungary. London declares that the new German claims on the Czechs include German occupation be- fore October 1 of all the Sude- ten German areas where more than 75 percent of the popula- tion are Germans, evacuation of all Czech soldiefs and civil servants from those areas by. the same date, and also a pleb- iscite in the remaining Sudeten areas in which citizens would vote on whether they want to g0 with Germany or remain in Czechoslovakia. DOUBT EXPRESSED In London it is doubted whether the new Czech govern- ment, headed by Gen. Jan Syrovy is in any mood to capitulate. Fighting between Czech pa- trols and Sudetens is reported to have started in the Sudeten- land near the German border. Polish, German and Hungar- ian borders are closed on Czechoslovakia leaving only the Rumanian border open for com- munication with Prague leaving for the present details of the Czech mobilization doubtful al- though communication is ex- pected to be opened any time. BE NEUTRAL IS WARNING WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — Ad- miral R. R. Waesche, Commander of the Coast Guard, has pledged the new maritime training schools to be neutral in any conflict be- tween maritime unions and the ship owners in the impending trouble,