The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BT T o e VOL. LIL., NO. 7910. POWERS AGREE T SUDETEN OCCUPATION ' Scores Are Killed In Charleston Tornado How to Pronounce ’Em | HUNDREDS MORE . HURT AS STORM STRIKES SOUTH Gale of Two-Minute Dura- tion Leaves Death and Destruction in Wake SOUTH CAROLINA CITY | IS LEFT IN SHAMBLES| WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Ev: conglomeration of peoples that has made it the whirlpool of Europe German, one Czech. language. If you live in Czechoslovakia, you refer language. Everyone knows what you mean | English and slang and sometimes refer to “Philly” when they mear Philadelphia. slovakian names, with Czech pronnnciations in parentheses. GERMAN NAME CZECH NAME Eger Cheb (Heb) the map of Czechoslovakia shows the Many towns have two names on the maps, one in parentheses; one is That’s because the Germans and Czechs have lived in the same terri- | tory so many centuries that most of the towns have names in each Here are some of the towns in the news by their German and Czecho- Pilsen Brunn Karlsbad Pressburg Austerlitz Editor Tells of Suddenness of Havoc-Raising Twist- er This Morning Budweis (Same as Czech) (Same as Czech) Prague (Pragh) CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 29.— A tornado hit Charleston with a sudden vicious fury at 8 o'clock this morning, leaving scores dead, hun- be Czechoslovakia Plzen (Pulsenyu—barely suggest the final w Brne (Berno—roll the 1) Karlovy Vary (Broad a’s, roll the r's) Bratislava (Broad a’s) Slavkov (Sound the v’s life f's) Budejovice (Budayoveetsay) Hradee Kralove (Haraditz Kralove—broad a’s) Zlin (Zuleen—run it together fast) Praha (Prah’-ha) (Check-0-slo-vak-ia—broad a’s) And it may dreds injured and property damage enormous. At noon a check showed 25 per- sens dead, 340 known to have been injured, the majority given hospi- talization; three city blocks dam- aged, and hundreds of homes blown | Benesh (short e’s); the munitions worl down. | shoe company, Bata, is Bat-ya (broad a's). Sudeten is pronounced Soo- A welter of wreckage is spotted | day-ten with accent on the “day.” And Henlein’s name i throughout the city. | The tornado did not last more| than two minutes and was paced by | a torrential downpour as it swept devastation and destruction in vari- | ous parts of the city. | Manning Rubin, City Editor nr; the Charleston Post, said: “I am dazed by the sudden fury with which the storm struck. 1 was on my way to the office and had just parked by -automobile. Sud- | denly there was a torrential down- pour. Then I heard an almost deaf- ening rcar. I did not see immedi- ately that any buildings had col-| lapsed but as soon as I got into the| office, I saw the electric power was off and looking out of the window,| I noticed the roof of the Tim-Rod Inn disappear. As far as I could see, Charleston presented a picture | of wrecked buildings and nproolodl trees.” you, but to a Czech it's Ceskoslovensko (Ches-ko-slo-ven-sko), to a German it’s Tschechoslowakei (Check-o-slo-va-kye—very broad a) same in both countries, International Highway Canadian Commission Is To Be Named by Mck. Kin OTTAWA, Sept. 29.—Prime Min-| ister Mackenzie King has agreed to appoint a Canadian Commission, | to cooperate as a Fact-Finding body, with a similar commission of the United States, on the proposed highway to the Yukon territory and Alaska, national Highway Premier T. D. Pattullo, of Columbia, who has been in Ottawa, made the announcement of forthcoming appointment of Canadian Commission. Tl;reg /il;x,s_ka Mining M;nfi Are Wounded in Affray at Rl_l,by Over Placer Ground BRIG. GENERAL HENRY ARNOLD [condition as the result of an ab- dominal wound. The two others wounded, and flown here, are Hans Tilleson, 50, | manager of the Long Creek Min- e POPE ASKS PRAYERS TO SAVE WORLD Makes World Wide Broad- cast Against “‘Unexam- pled Slaughter, Ruin” CASTEL GONDOLFD, Italy, Sept. i | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 29. Three mining men, wounded | !puu' arising over placer property, have been flown here for nospitali- zation. |Pioneer Army Flier Who Led Ten Bombers Here, Succeeds Westover while | ployees Berchtesgaden is spilled and pronounced (Berk-tes-gaden—broad a) the The Czech president’s name, Eduard Benes, is pronounced Ayd-vart Skoda, is Shkoda (long o); the o Spei to be known as the Inter- ritish the the “ | things. in ajcome lost to the extent that shooting affair at Ruby, in a dis-|“knew where he was, but didn't | serious | Winter and Pond’s AFL MAKING NEW ATTACK ON BRIDGES 1 the town in your own|Appeals to Court to Set Just as Americans use Aside Order Designat- ing Him CIO Agent WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — The American Federation of Labor has | asked the Federal Court of Appeals to set aside the order of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board desig- nating Harry Bridges as the CIO Longshoremen’s Union Bargaining n Agent on the Pacific Coast for dock laborers. ¥ The Federation told the Court he viclated the Wagner Labor Act be- cause the law does not “contem- plate and does not lawfully permit the designation by the Board of an to employee unit constituting all em-| in different and distant geographical districts.” R 5 L P I “LOST” AIRMAN SHOWS UP WITH “LOST” MINER Air Inspector McWilliams nds Night at Echo Cove in Storm | Rk aty | 1. K. McWilliams, Senior Inspec- tor for the Civil Aeronautics Au- thority, reported lost from yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock until 10:30 o'clock this morning on a flight from Skagway to Juneau, flew un- expectedly into Juneau this fore- noon at 10:55 o’'clock, pleasanily ussing weather in this section. McWilliams was supposed to have | been “lost” alone, but a shoe-packed miner, Dan Daldi, also | climbed out of the plane with Mc- Williams when the ship was tied to the Alaska Air Transport float. “Have a nice trip?” a friend ribbed McWilliams. McWilliams smiled, but said nasty He explained he had be- he know where he was going.” and so played safe and landed at Echo Cove |in Berners Bay. Greeted by “Lost” Miner taxied to the beach before cabin at the head of the cove and was greeted by miner Dan Daldi, who explained | he also was lost. Daldi had started out from Eagle | River yesterday morning by the | Echo Cove Trail to go to Dr. L. He 10 EnglundHurrimne?GERMAN ARMY B I 3 NS B SHALL CROUPS o g ' |All Disputed Czechoslo- vakia Area to Be Turned Over by October 10 COMPLETE HITLER VICTORY INDICATED Fire Adds to Terror of N ! | | Deliberalior;:)ver Details Being Worked Out at Meeting Tonight MUNICH, Sept. 20.—A German government spokesman said tonight that the four-power conference |seeking a new basis for European |peace practically had reached an “lost,” | % Ten square blocks of New, London, Con as the result of New England’s de the ship's galley to a wh National Guardsmen reported that unless the fire was checked the entire city would b above shows portion of the conflagration raging through the storm-battered area. Tidal Waves tating hurricane. were in flames, mest appaling catastrophe in the city’s history, | Fire from a wrecked coast guard cutter spread from arf from where the blaze tore through the city’s waterfront and business district. ingreement for “token occupation® of Sudetenland by the German army. German circles indicated that Hitler had agreed that only small !detachments of his army should {march into Eger and Asch regions |in western Czechoslovakia Satur~ |day and Sunday. This would sym- bolize his victory. The occupation will be extended |gradually, the Germans said, even- {tually passing all Sudetenland 1‘under German sovereignty. This is |to be accomplished by October 10. A 4 The German Chancellor and the Premiers of Great Britaln, Italy e wiped out. Photo tonight and it was sld they ex- pected to resume talks about 10 |p.m. with hopes that their parley, lon which hangs the question of |1ife and death of millions, would |be finished tonight. In London the Czechoslovakia legation announced new conces- |sions by Prague, including an offer to evacuate by October 31, the re- gions whose population are more than half Germanic, and to liquid- ate the entire question by Decem- ber 15. But Prague also demanded before evacuation that new frontiers in the Czech republic must definitely be fixed. Add to Storm Horror; Wreck Ships w s v o dner s 33 HITLER DEMANDS ARE SATISFIED | ROME, Sept. 29.—Virginio Gayda, authoritative Fascist writer, in-a dispatch from Munich said the meeting of “Prime Ministers of |four of the greatest powers of Eur- ope has concluded with complete |agreement which establishes the !German rights and guarantees Hs |immediate satisfaction.” The writer said that Polish and Hungarian claims for minorities within Czechoslovakia would be dis- 29.—The Pope today directed the world’s faithful to turn to the “in- vincible power of prayer” to save the world from the “threat of un- exampled slaughter and ruin.” The Pope’s voice became weak toward the end of a world wide broadcast and quivered as the aged pontiff broadcast the plea from his summer palace. Friends with hin said tears were flowing as he said the final word of the message in the form of a pas- toral letter broadcast. -— WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today appointed Brigadier General Henry Arnold, pioneer military flier, as Chief of the Army Air Corps to succeed Ma- jor General Oscar Westover, killed in a recent Burbank plane crash. ing Company, wounded in the left side, and Jack Koski, 46, shot in the !left. arm. fice said Tilleson reported the shoot- | | ing followed a dispute with A. A. McCandles, owner of placer ground lon Green Stone Creek | ——— — The United States Marshal's of-| | P. Dawes’ mine, The Betsy, back iOf Yankee Cove, but had taken the ong trail and had continued on,/ | wr | the fourteen miles to Echo Cove . | Tidal waves resulting from a 100-mile an hour hurricane smashed shipping and communication recently | Mcwilliams spent the night with on the New England states’ coast. Photo above, taken from an American Airlines plane, shows millions | his plane at Echo Cove and with| of dollars worth of fishing and pleasure craft wrecked or sunk at New London, Conn., yacht harbor. | without finding a mine. | cussed at tonight's big four session. | Gayda, who usually reports the |views of the highest Fascist sources, |said agreement was reached 10 divide Sudeten territory into four zones to be occupied by the Ger« = s e (Continued on Page Three) | Daldi aboard, flew in this morning.| ——— - Coincident with the appointment, | of Major General. Assistant to Arnold will be Colo- nel Walter Kilner, Chief of Staff at General Headquarters, Langley Field. WELL KNOWN HERE The new Army Air Corps head is Arnold was given the new ranking‘NATInNAL GUARD ASKS FOR MORE WORLD SERIES is coming up Next Week. —Turn to sport page and read first of series’of six articles on OTHER WORLD SERIES well known to Juneauites who re- member the epoch making flight of ten Army air bombers a few years ago when Arnold led the little ar- | mada to a landing on the Menden- hall Flats. PARTY WILL HUNT SUMDUM SATURDAY A party of six duck hunters will {open the hunting season Saturday morning on the Sumdum flats, going down aboard the Yakobi for the weekend. Those who will make the trip |are Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. W. P. |Blanton, Jim Dennis, Dr. Robert | simpson, H. M. Hollmann and Don | Mrs. Carroll Black, teacher for |the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Kake, is a passenger aboard the North Coast to her home after a trip to Seattle. MEN IN DEFENSE The inspector smilingly admitted that he was not hungry. He'd eaten sourdough pancakes this morning aboard Jack Westfall's boat, with which Arthur Reed is crabbing in Echo Cove. Preparing for Search | When McWilliams arrived this ( C;Lmued m: }ag;E};;éé; LINE SMASHERS /Anchorage Man - Czechosloval&a | n vasion Will Not S olve Difficulty Nor Bring End to Troubles {Is Appointed |To Inf. Reserve | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The | War Departmeni announces that | Frank Ruggiero, of Anchorage, Al- aska, has accepted appointment as DALADIERS . GIVEN GREAT - By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — The | pathetic thing about this Czechos vakia business is that if the Nazis| the Sudeten mountains form one of the few natural barriers be- tween national groups. What Herr Hitler seems disposed to do is (o Reserve. - Second Lieutenant in the Infantry |Officers Ask Increase in | Light of Pending ! War in Europe SEND APPEALS, EUROPEPOWERS Members of Thirtieth Di- vision Ask Sparing of World in War WINSTON SALEM, North Caro- lina, Sept. 29.—Members of the The conventioners prescribed mili- | famous Thirtieth Division, who tary preparations at home as the | helped smash the Hindenburg Line America nation’s best peace as-|20 years ago, have appealed to surance. | Europe’s Big Four to spare the | National Guard enrollment is|world of another horror of war. inow 200,000. The asked for in- The appeal was sent by the divi- crease would more than double|sion, members of whom are hold- that total. ing their annual reunion here. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 29. —High officers of the nation’s civ- |ilian soldiers today asked that the | National Guard be increased to| | 435,000 men. | | The National Guard Association | |closed its convention today after calling attention to Europe’s fever- ish state of near war and the need | {for more adequate protection at| | home. STOCK QUOT | move in on Sudeten Germany ,,_;dcm('h from Czechoslovakia a nar- won’t solve the difficulty or end|TOW strip of the mountain slope on | | | the trouble. | the Bohemian side of the range, | "Phat is the estimate of competent|across the divide from Germany. | authorities on European affairs | | | here, and is the view of historians,| NO SOLUTION IN SEPARATION | too. R. W. Seton-Watson, writing in | For more than a thousand years|the current issue of “Foreign Af- | the Sudeten mountains have been | fairs,” says: “The detachment of | the barrier separating eastward |these (mountains) from Czechoslo- | moving Germans and westward | vakia would have left unsolved the moving Slavs. At that point the | two main difficulties: that the ma- | two races have ground together|jor part of the land inside the pres- like huge millstones, fighting, trad»len! boundaries is inseparably bound ing, marrying and fighting again.|by geographical and economic ties Most Czechs have a touch of Teu- ! with central Bohemia, and that no tonic blood and most Sudeten | human ingenuity has hitherto | Steel Germans a trace of Slav. | availed to draw a possible ethno-|1%, This ring of mountains separates |graphic line between German and |Germany and Austria from that|Czech” |end “of Czechoslovakia which juts Seton-Watson's article deeply into Germany like a thick | Czech, but his view on peninsula, Like the rugged Pyr-|shared widely here. enees between France and Spain, | (Continued on Page Seven) NEW YORK, & quotation of Al Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem 57%, 1%, er 58, Kennecott 42%, New Yorl Central 16%, Safeway Stores 17% Y 567, Bremner bid Pound $4.76. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 1317.16, | is pro- this is 1862, up .62. ATIONS I % pt. 29. — Closing | POWER FRANCE |[Em powefecl for Instant Mobilization of Entire Na- tion, Moment’s Notice PARIS, Sept. 20—Premier Dala~ | dier today was given a big stick to tetion. dh 0N JJuncall MI®| yielq at the Munich conference Slogle 0N 9% N . | when he was empowered by a new 97, American Light and Power 4%, Steel decree to effect instant military and Commonwealth and Southern | nation. Gartisd’ Wright 4%, General | Tro0el Motors 45%, International Harvest- civil mobilization of the entire The decree was published in an official journal and made it pos- sible for the Premier to puf the ‘| whole of Frange on instant war Southern Pacific 16%, United S;:::;‘loonng by a simple phone call from Munich. | Besides giving Daladier this wide | power, the decree gave to the French government an authoriza- *| tion to proceed at its own discretion »| with integral mobilization of man up 348; rails 25.62, up 1.54; utilities power in industry and finance throughout the nation.