The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1939, Page 2

s2 TH DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. WEDNESDAY ULY 19 Danzlg Then She's Been a Hot Spot Since 14th Century “He who holds Danzig_and the mouth of the Vistula is more of a master of Poland than the king who rules War- saw,” spoken by Prussia are as ftrue Those words, Frederick the Great today as they were 167 years ago, although dictators rather than kings are the style in Europe now Long befdre ~Frederick gazed with ‘wise eyes upon Danzig was a that govern Europe. key eity. Baek of her Jay the ricn villey once known as the bread- basket of Europe. And control of as the mouth of Vistula' was then, foday,” an’ issue between Slavs and s, who have been aj each throats periodically since history's dawn. rly Trade Cent Once upon a time the VS may have helped push the Germans west. But it was ‘early Drang nach Osten (drive to the east) that first took the Germans into Dan- zig. That was about 1300 when the crusading Teutonic Knights, spear- head of the drive, were invited into Danzig to protect it against the heathen Lithuanians. The d Knights arrived—and stay Dunzig prospered. As a member of thé powerful Hanseatic trading league, she cleared thousands of | °h1ps for England, Holland and all | the ports of the Baltic. But in the hinterland, Poland felt the weight of the Teutonic hand upon her life- | line, and ‘the Danzigers fumed as the rule of the knights became corrupt. Finally the Danzigers rebelled against their ‘Teutoic overlords and cast their lot with Poland Danzig was called a “free city.”/ Prosperity cc ed. Then came war War and Peace Poland, ‘and Danzig along with her, bogged down in conflict with | Swedes, Saxens, Russians and Turks. Finally Poland was parti- tioned and FPrederick the Great, who made the crack about Danzig being the key to Poland, got it cut away from Poland. A few years later ‘and Prussia had Danzig out- right. Almost continuously from thut time until the treaty of Versailles, Danzig remained in German hands After the World War, Poles told the treaty makers that Danzig was a. German Colony in Polish terri- tory, and demanded that it be made a part of the new Poland. The conferees didn’t want to place Danzig’s German population under Polish rule however. A compro- mise ‘gave Poland the administra- tion of the customs and diplomatic affairs of the free city Then came the post-War Drang nach Osten. — ee ® 0 0 0 00 000000 0 Who's Going To Back Down! Germany’s propaganda min- ister, Goebbels: “Hitler has said, ‘Danzig is German,’ and from past experience the world should by now understand that Hitler does not utter empty words.” France’s Premier, France is “resolved, and the world must know it, to resist with all her force any attempt at domination.” Poland’s president, Moscicki “Pom.rze and the seacoast (in- cluding; Danzig) are the basic elements of our economic and political independence. They are invaluable . . . The greater ine adversities encountered . the firmer our determination Britain's foreign' secretary, Halifax: “In the event of fur- ther aggression, we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges.” o e 0 eo0e00 o0 Daladier: eeevecerecceeecencossssvoe ©e00c00cccesceersecensoco e A LAR GE PARTOF POLISH COMMERCE | 15 CARRIED ON VISTULA RIVER IN BARGES = New Guessing Game: How Could the West Send Aid fo Poland! LONDON.—If Britain and France are called on to aid Poland against there'll be urgent Napoleon their | | Germany, an for general staffs i For it would take a miracle man.}v military experts here say, to figure out how the British and French | could get to the battlefield in time | opening a on to help Poland might be able {o hold out, they speculate, a month or | two. But that wouldn't give the al- lies much time, considering the “terrific obstacles” blocking any of | several approaches they might at- tempt Direct Paths Blocked The trouble, of course, is that| the great bulk of Germany, flanked by neutral nations, stands square- | ly in the most direct path from | west to east The obvious way of getting at Germany would be by plane. But ! experts here feel that Britain and | France, themselves vulnerable to bombing raids, wouldn't start any-| |thing in the air unless and until the Germans struck first. On land, experts predict, the la:L | thing Britain and France would tackle is the old western front— despite talk of weakness in the hastily built German forts of the Siegfried line and of the strength of French tanks. Nor, is it thought here, would the western powers try to force their way through the hazardous water route to Dan- zig via the Baltic Sea. Rather, strategists would expect | to see the fleets used in an effort to (1) block Germany within the! North Sea, as in the World War, !and (2) go through the Darda- nelles, with the assent of new-ally Turkey, and reach Poland through | friendly Rumania. What About Italy submarine is one unknown | !factor in any such schemes. And | Spanish guns near Gibraltar and | Italian bases at the center of the Mediterranean might make trou- | ble for British-French operations| thereabouts. But Britain still is confident of her position in me‘ Mediterranean. 95" land it éxperts add, sihe western allies probably would try | to fight their way through the “soft spots” of northern Italy, Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia. Ttaly pos- sibly could stymie this plan, how- ever, simply by remaining neutral. | British strategy in that case might be to tell the Italians: “We won't allow you to stay neutral. We con- sider that a hostile act.” { Britain and France would stand | a better chance of helping Poland | if they had Russia on their side. Certainly she is in the best geo- graphical position to give aid quick- ly.” And that's why military men are so impatient about the al-| lies’ delay in signing up Russia for their “non-aggression front."—Wil- ( liam McGaffin. l | The . SALMON BRING FATTER PRICE Salmon prices on market went up today, while hali- but prices held fairly steady. The troller Deutz, Capt. Al Weathers, brought in 1500 pounds * of salmon, selling at 14 cents a pound for large reds, eight cents for mediums, seven cents for whites, and five cents for cohoes, a pound on large reds and a cent increase on whites. The Deutz also brought in 2,400 | pounds of halibut, getting the pre- vailing troller’s halibut prices of | six and four cents a pound. A trip of 14,000 pounds of hali- but came in 'on the Spencer, Capt. Russell Elliott, selling also to Al- aska Coast Fisheries, getting 7 and 5.05 cents a pound. —,——— MANY VISIT ANCHORAGE THe Anchorage Times says over 500 visitors were in Anchorage from outside points to enjoy the Fourth. the Juneau repre- | senting a rise in price of one cent | WHO WANTS DANZIG AND WHY GERMANY wants Danzig mainly POLAND no longer is directly as a matter of prestige: Once thedependent on Danzig for an out- harbor and waterways. capital of East let to the sea. Prussia, the Her new port 4 # .............olGdynia fisk Free City re- o ° whAT IS DANZIG? . ek mains predom- o ® up the coast inantly German ® The Free City of Danzig, ® nangles nearly ) o which is under the protection ® X N al eig = peope- = of the League of Nations, in- e el Dl f?""“ culture; and g cjyqes the municipality of Dan- ¢ commetce, Adolf Hitler has @ zig, on the Baltic Sea at the ® while Danzig re- proglaimed Him- > ";""‘hh”’ the ”R“'"LV’S““Z‘ ¢ tains less than = plus three smaller cities an - S e adjacent rural communities, o 4 third. So neu- tor of Germans ¢ gstaplished under the Treaty ® T a 1 observers everywhere. But @ of Versailles in 1920 to give Po- ® are inclined to e c onomically @ land a seaport, it has an area ® think Poland Danzig would be ® of 754 square miles and & ® values Danzig of little use to ® population of 407,000. Danzig- ® less for econom- Germany, ex- ® ers administer local affairs ® jc than for mil- cept as control ® through an elected govern- ® jtary reasons. of the mouth of ® ment, but their district is with- ® The Poles ad- the Vistula @ in the Polish customs system ® mit they fear, could be a lever % and Poland has charge of its ® hat the Nazis to use on Po- ® foreign relations and a 50-50 ® ¢ thay oot Dan- land. And if & voice in the operation of 1L<: zig, would forti- . Nazi Danzig fy the city and should lose its thus shut off job as handler Poland from the of Polish commerce, Germany|sea by rendering Gdynia helpless. might even have to divert trade Or, some think, German annexa- from Hamburg and other North|tion of Danzig might be but the Sea ports to keep Danzigers off | prelude to German annexation of relxe( the vital Polish corridor. 1in Danzlg Now Business }H)ves for Real Showdown Soon FREE CITY OF DANZIG Most strangers visiting this old Hanseatie. city this summer ask “Where’s all the fu True, the naked ey ined ear neither and the nor un- hear tr signs of a crisis. He who does not | bother' to put on his a trumpet to his he who content to imbibe the ion's good food and wash it down with liquor: for which the place is famous, nee never know that he is sitting atop a volcano. Not-Sc-Good Neighbors But visit the woods outside Dan zig between 5 and 7 am, you're likely to discover storm- troopers drilling away dead earnest. They are preparing themselves to defend Danzig from the Poles— if need be—until German troops can arrive. About 15,000 men had been trained and equipped by late June. In addition to these a steady tream of young Danzigers cross the border to East Prussig to do military service in the German army. ‘At least some of these could be called to help form the Danzig army. Business Wants Action In the so-called Corridor, around glasses or hold d in the western, southern and north-| western edgs of the Free City, Polish troops are lying in wait prepared to prevent—if they can— any German attempt to walk off with Danzig.. Polish troops are quartered here and there, mostly small villages. Like owls, they move about at night. In East Pri sia, on the Free City's eastern bor der, lie German, troops. A few questions to the man in the street reveal that inhabitants are well aware of the situation despite the breez sunshine and other outward signs of calm Businessmen especially do a lot of talking about eventual union with Germany. They want a show- down to come as swiftly as pos- sible, because a change in the status of Danzig would mean al- tered business conditions. As it i now they can’t plan ahead.—Mel- vin K. Whiteleather. A LIVE DICTATOR VS. A DEAD DICTATOR Five years ago Germany had barely started te rearm, and {0 most European statesien A. Hitler was still a pip-squeak politician, But Poland’s boss, hard-headed old Marshal Jo- ceph Pilsudski, recognized the mocdy Fuehrer, as a comer— and a menace to Polish inde- pendence. He tried to get France to join Poland, 'tis said, in a “preventive war” against Germany. France refused. Po- land thereupen signed a non- aggression pact with Germany that stayed ¢n the books until Hitler denounced it last April. Pilsudski is dead, too, but his soul goes marching on in the three lieutenats pictured be- low. They inherited his regime in 1935 and rule Poland today by his precepts. President Ignace Moscicki, 1, is an éx-professor who likes to hunt and ski. Friends say he for the chemistry lab whence Pilsudski called him 13 years ago to become nominal T - w c ief Edward Smlgly- dz, ‘53, Held-generaled the 1926 coup that brought Pilsud- ski ‘from retirément to supreme power. He ranks officially as No. 2 personage of the repub- lic—unofficially as No. 1 longs head of the government. BRITISH PlANES - FLY OVER FRANCE FOR SECOND TIME PARIS, July 19.—More than 100 British bombing planes flew over France today in the second sham | | bombardment of the strategic mili- tary centers. The British Undersecretary of | the State Air Ministry, Capt. Har- old Belfour, was a passenger in one of the planes. | Most of the bombers returned to | home bas after a three-hour flight. The others continued on to Marsielle. French anti-aircraft gunners practiced defense meas- ures as the bombers circled over Paris and other large cit of France. — .- — The richest single oil field in the world is located in southwestern Persia. I | E. Nedden and Purser is A. H. Rob~ 'MUSSOLINI GETS PRIN(E ROBERT HAS FULL LIS The steamer Prince Robert, of the Canadian National steamers, larjut vessel plying Afaskan waters, docked in Juneau this Afterncon’ with itS | heaviest tourist booking of the year, 319 passengers, every room full Among the many tourists in the passenger list, is one conducted as the Hardesty Tour by Adalene Har- desty, of Columbus, Ohio, taking her seventh consecutive tour to Alaska. Master of the Prince Robert is H. Italian cruiser and flew to Rome from Genoa. The son-in-law of Il Duce was closeted with him for over three hours. During his stay in Spain Ciano had several conferences with General Francisco Franco. R o S S DIVORCED WIFE 1S KIDNAPED BY FORMER HUBBY NORTHAMPTON, Mass., —Police are hunting today for a former Concord reformatory inmate | who kidnaped his divorced wife after a holdup. 'The fugitive, James Ke- | soe, of Hudson, Mass., fled from | Northampton with' Mrs. Bernice Beckwith. The attractive brunette | divorced Kesoé after he was sen- tenced to the reformatory in 1932 | for larceny. son. SPANISH REPORT | ROME, July 10 Forelgh Minister | Count Ciano returned to Rom T and im T r to Pre: A $10,000 trust fund for a cat mier Mussolini the results of his visit | set up in a woman’s will has been July 11, 7 A OLD MARSHAL PILSUDSKI Foreign Minister Joseph 44, is a suave disciple of Pil- sudski in the cagey Polish pol- icy of cooperating with Ger- Beck, many, keeping on good terms with France and avoiding open provocation of Russia. ALASKA GUIDE PUBLISHED BY MacMILLAN CO. Federal Writers’ Project Book Received Here- Handsome Volume Copies of “A Guide to Alaska,” a Federal Writers’ Project manuscript, | were received here today. The 500- page book was published by the Mac- millan Company, San Francisco, on | July 11 Besides pen and ink illustrations, the book contains more than 100 photographs. A large map of the Territory is enclosed in a pocket inside the back cover. “A Guide to Alaska,” which ap- pears on hasty scrutiny today to be a first-class book in every way, con- tains a foreword by Gov. John W. to Spain, He returned amboard an |held void by a San Disgo judge. Troy. 1939 ALASKA FLAYED IN RESOLUTIONS OF FEDERATION Civil Liberties Investiga- tion, More WPA De- | manded by Union Resolutions requesting the Attor- ney General to have his Civil Li-| berties Department investigate“the repeated O activities of the ents of the mining and salmon rests” in Alaska and demand proj and dir ations for ‘the pacssd by tha Maritime Evel - | | | | in | more WPA [ Federation at Wash last Copies were rec of Gov | Hannon Ie | Ma the ns | two the from surer Bruce of the asking | The resclution the Civil { Liberties investigation also demands arre and conviction of the 'kld»l | napers” of W. A. Rasmussen, in- | ternational organizer of the Mine, {Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, “ln was run out of Fairbanks in "\rlm The rescluti introduced {by Ceorge Lane, cf the Alaska | Fishermen's Union, | eriticizes the appoinir | Reagon to “the appointment of R city E U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juncau and Vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., July 19: Increasing cloidiness tonight. Thursday cloudy with showers, Thursday; moderate southerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy with showers, tonight and Thursday, except increasing cloudiness tonight over northeast por- tion, with showers Thursday, coolor Thursday over northeast por- tion; moderate southerly winds except moderate to fresh over Dixcn Entrance. Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Mcderate to fresh east and southoast winds tonight and Thursday from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hiachinbrook LOCAL DATA . cooler Time sarometer Temo. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 3:30 pm. yest'y . 29.80 ki 35 Wi Clear I 3:30 am. today .. 20.88 56 (5 SE 2 Clear ‘ Neon today 29.97 64 59 SE 15 Clear | RADIO REPORTS : TODAY 1 Max. tempt. Lovest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30am. 1 Station last 24 hours | tenp. temp. 24hours Weather ) Anchorage 68 | 51 51 0 Clear i Barrow 38 32 0 Cloudy - Nome 58 52 0 Cloudy ‘ | Bethel 66 | 54 0 Clear ‘ Fairbanks 9 52 0 Clear ¥ Dawson 79 41 0 Clear ‘ St. Paul 66 L4 [ Cloudy Dutch Harbor . 54 48 48 4 Pt. Cldy | Kodiak 52 51 52 03 Cloudy i Cordova 69 47 48 0 Clear | Juneau 7 54 56 0 Clear | Sitka 67 51 0 b Ketchikan 58 54 0 Cloudy | Prince Rupert . 56 51 31 Cloudy Edmonton 72 417 0 Pt. Cldy [ Seattle 73 | 55 0 Pt.Cldy Portland kés | 57 0 Cloudy San' Francisco .. 64 | 54 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was b2low normal this morning through- | dcting U B, Comimt ner at Ket- | out Alaska and cver the northeastern portion of the North Pacific { chikan, Tt assert: that the strike| Ocean. the lowest regorted pressure being 20.38 inches over the Pa- ) lof the United Fishermen's Union| CMiC Ocean at latitude 52 degrees and longitude 156 degrees. High in Southeast Alasta in 1938 was| barometric pressure prevailed from Dixon E‘nunnce southeastward o “broken By unlawful activities.” t0.0re;;on lhence southwestward t> the Hawaiian Islands, the crest ‘ b Y stiof on WBA! g ve=| being 30.30 inches at lut;lu(‘!e '3.3 degrees and longitude 146 degrees. lief was introduced by Jack Price,| LPIS general pressure distribution has been attended by precip | of the Tntermational Longshore.| tIOR OVEr western British Columbia and over the Alaska Peninsula I men's ‘and - Warehotisemen’s Union; | and by generally fair weather over the remainder of the field of ob- | Wash. 1t claims that the| SCTVation. l is bfim, “Lighly lxpl i Juneau, Jyly 20—Sunrise, 3:26a.m.; sunset, 8:45 p.m, ed” and criticizes “vigi o~ — B - - et tHe '8 m KXo ,m Alaskans, » |, DeW dredge has been ordered | Dr. Froelick Rainey, head of the o by the United States Smelting, Re- | Department of Anthropology at the p fining and Mining Company and | University of Alaska, has flown to | | will be installed on Ester Creek, Point Hope where he will carry on | FOUR HARVARD next fall, in the Fairbanks district. | work in connection with his studies ! e e of early inhabitants of Alaska. , The Book ALASKA, Revised and | RO A AT A /4 YOUTHS BOUND HERE IN KETCH Reached Ketchikan Last Night - Start for Juneau Today KETCHIKAN, I ved I in the 38-foot Alaska sity ht from ketch tle End” after a 10 ' sailed this morning Coming north .o Ke! four students used only 10 gallons of gasoline for the small auxiliary motor, ling most of the w dml tacking dead ag the wind Narro at night. The youths the owners of ketch Curti the and York; Parker. They are Henry Loomis Read, both of Neow Lawrence Morgan and John both of Bosten. Th ars going to Yakutat. The ketch ‘was shipped from Boston to Seattle via the P’nmma 1al. The beys plan to go bacl to Seattle by September 10. - TROLLER HURT; - CUTTER LEAVES TO RENDER AID Haida Goes OuI fo Otean Shore of Chichagof for Bertie Il | The cutter Haida sailed at mid- | | night last night to the aid of a stricken salmon fisherman on the| ocean shore of Chichagof Island af- ter thoroughly startling the town with shrill recall blasts of the siren. A message came through Alaskn" | Air Transport radio telephone late |las tnight from Hirst, advising that | | fishermen arriving there had re-| Ipomad a man aboard the Lrol!er' Bertie IT was dangerously ill with! a strangulated hermia. A half hour after receipt of Lhe‘ message, stating the Bertie IT was | anchored in “South Passage,” the Haida got underway, but on arrival at South Passage, Inian Island, in Icy Strait, this mornmng, unable to| find the Bertie II, it was fm.md‘ that the “South Passage” referred | to was on the West shore of Chich- | agof Island, between Hogan and| Herbert Graves Islands. The Haida, off Lemesurier at 7, o'clock this morning, continued on| its way. expecting to find the Bertie II sometime this afternoon and ren- | der medical assistance. U. 8. Customs registry shows the Bertie II is owned by John Sainto, of Sitka. BEAR QUADRUPLETS SEQUOTIA NATIONAL PARK, Cili,‘I July 19—An event rare in the wild-| life world—has occurred twice this season in Sequoia park. Naturalists say the normal litter for a bear is| two cubs, l Fnlnr(ed Now On Sale; SIW an l-)mmrn ad. 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