The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1939, Page 1

. 787 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LIV NO. 8160. ——— JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DISASTROUS FIRE AT HAINES A O L RIS L G S o 1 L S RO M T e g RO AR FIRST SOLDIER DIES IN DANZIG WAR SHOT ACROSS TENSE LINES KILLS POLE Danzig Customs Man PuIIs Trigger on Europe’s Troubled Frontier NAZI ARMY CHIEF | THREATENS POLAND Anti-Briiismmpaign in Tokyo Endangers Am- j bassador Craigie | (Ry Associated Press) | Tension between the Free City | of Danzig and Poland suddenly in- | creased today when a Poiish sol- | dier, Vitold Budziewicz, was killed near Danzig in a village on the; Europe's most troubled spots. Poles said the soldier was killed by Danzig Customs Officer Max Stein who fired across the fron- tier without warning. Officials of Nazi-controlled Dan- zig said the Polish soldier was shot after he aimed a rifle at the | Danzig Customs man. Germany's Army Chief of Staff Colonel General Walter von| Brauchitsch spoke at Tannenberg“ ten miles from the Polish frontier, \\.unmg Poland Germany does noL k a fight but we do not fear Trouble at Tokyo the Far East, Tokyo police special protective guard ish Ambassador Craigie | as Japan’s anti-British campaxgn gained new bitterness and Japa- nese were found hiding on the Em- bassy grounds. | While Britain and France looked | with mixed hopes and fears on their chances of building effective | alliances in Eastern Europe other incidents troubled Polish-Danzig re- lations. A Warsaw official was sentenced | in Danzig to 14 months’' imprison- ment on an arms charge and an- other Pole, Colonel Sobocinski, was said to have been arrested by Free City Police. Some British circles voiced fears Britain's differences with Poland over credits on Polish armaments and the delay at reaching a Brit- ish-French-Soviet —mutual assis- tance pact imperilled the psycho- logical effectiveness of the British- French front.’ NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD BE INVESTIGATED House Passes Resolufion Today for Thorough Probe by Five Men WASHINGTON, July 20. — The House has ordered a sweeping in- vestigation of the National Labor Relations Board. A resolution creating a five-man investigating committee was put through by almost a solid phalanx of Republcans and a large group of Democrats. The measure, by Representative Howard W. Smith, of Virginia, calls for the inquiry to determine wheth- er the new board will administer the Wagner Act and what effect any changes recommended will have on the employer. The vote was 268 to 131 and dis- closed that a majority of the rep- resentatives are for the investjga- tion. In kept around B R There are 2,174 airports in the United States. Poland, Again in News, Well Equipped in Air Poland, once again thrust into the world spotlight because of reported activity by Nazis in Danzig, has a well-equipped air force to pit against any enemy if worst should comes to worst. U. 5. ARMY PLANES, WITH - PARTY, MAY DURING THIS AFTERNOON - SAPIRO SHIELDS DIES’ PROBERS IN BRIDGES INQUIRY Attorney Won’ fleII Names| of Pair-"Communist”’ Testimony Refold SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—At- torneys defending Pacific Coast CIO Director Harry Bridges in de- portation proceedings failed today to obtain the names of two Dies Committee investigators who “visit- ed” Aaron Sapiro, . anti-Bridges witness, several months ago. Sapiro, on the stand facing fur- ther cross examination, detailed his story to the effect that Bridges in 1936 admitted he was “run- ning the Communist Party on the Pacific Coast” and that the Party was running the maritime unions. NAZI SUGGESTS "CHUTE ARMY T0 INVADE BRITAIN BERLIN, July 20.—A raid on the British Isles by a parachute army is no longer “impossible,” retired Rear Admiral Richard Gadow wrote in the newspaper Deutsche | Allgemeine Zeitung here. The German military expert, how- ever, expressed the belief that suc- cess of “such an invasion on a; large scale is doubtful.” “But there always will be,” he said, “ a chance for parachute | troops to cause severe damage 104pmcair and wife for their hobby. traffic facilities, defense works, | harbors, munitions depots and pub-/ lic works in raid-like invasions . “It will also be possible in many cases to fetch these parachute| troops back and use them for other | purposes again.” He did not explain could be done. how this J View of Polish planes and aviators of some of the Polish planes and aviators in A view ARRIVE HERE BULLETIN — FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 20.—~The Army planes hopped off from Fair- banks at 12:45 o'clock this af- ternoon for Juneau, via White- horse. | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 20. — | The United States Army planes and party under Col. John C. H. Lee, are | | expected to arrive here from An- u:horage about noon today and will | probably leave immediately after-| | wards for Juneau where several days | | will be spent before flying to the | States. Col. Lee and Major E. M. George | remained here while the planes were visiting Anchorage. The plane party, since leaving Juneau, has been making an in- spection around Kodiak, Anchor- age, Bethel and Nome, besides stop- ping here for several days. DUE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW Mayor Harry I. Lucas received a radiogram from Col. Lee stating the planes and party will arrive | here this evening or tomorrow morn- :ing and a conference wth him, also Claude Hirst, was desired. Col. | Lee stated in hs radiogram the | planes would probably leave for | Seattle tomorrow. MILLIONAIRE C(OMING HERE KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 20.— Capt. Fred Lewis, millionaire sports- man of Newport Harbor, Cal, left here this morning on his $250,000 “hobby boat” Stranger for the Arc- tic. Capt. Lewis prefers to call his white 135-foot boat his “work boat,” | but she is uniquely equipped for | The two are gathering rare sea| shells and other marine life by | dredging the ocean's floor. They | \have been dragging around the {Panama Canal recently. They plan to go as far north as ‘the icebergs will permit them, then they will go to Honolulu. They in- tend to stop at Juneau, Warsaw is pictured. throughout the nation, Poles took the oath to fight to keep Danzig and Polish corridor from Germany NAVY STARTING | former sailors, corresponding to the |event of war. In a mass demonstration RECRUITING OF RESERVE FORCE "Minute Men" Being En- rolled in Case of Emergency WASHINGTON, July 20. — The Navy has started recruiting a “Min- ute Man” force of several thousand Army's reserve forces. The new enlistea reserve will be composed of men who have just completed a term of active duty or have been out of the Navy Iless than four years. The force will be available to com- plete crews of warships quickly in % Most of the warships operate in peacetime with only 80 percent of their full complements, Is Insistent On 3rd Term Solicitor General of United States Pufs in An- other Boost SAN FRANCISCO, July 20<*‘Th(" Solicitor General of the United States has paved another link of the Roosevelt third-term highway. Robert H. Jackson told the Com- | mowealth Club there must be a| third term for Roosevelt’s ideas.”| This is no time, Jackson told an audience which jammed the Palace Hotel's Gold Ballroom, for a “mid- dle-of-the-roader” or a weakling in| the White House. | “There are times when every clear head knows that the mys-| terious personal electricity of| leadership is needed. “That power to inspire the f.rusl of millions who trust nothing else, and no one else—rests in the White House today in Franklin Roosevelt “He is one of the greatest na- tural resources we have. “I am not yet saying that he must accept a third term whicn he may not want.” MINERS ARE Russians and Japanese | Are Mixing It Up Again TRAPPED AS 'POWER FAILS Twelve Hundred Men Are Finally Rescued from Earth’s Depths July 20.—De- LIEGE, Belgium, ]stru('lon by fire of the power house | early last evening, trapped 1200 miners in 4,500-foot shafts of the Limberg-Meuse colliery. They were without means of get- | ting to the surface and the cutting of the electric wires also threw the mine ventilators out of action. Heroic efforts finally rescued the men after several hours. They were then facing dangers_of foul air. ATIORNEY GEN. GIVES VIEW ON GOVT. STRIKES, Miurphy Tells Newsmen that Outbreaks Should Not Be Tolerated WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20— Attorney General Frank Murphy said that strikes against the Gov-|___ ernment “ought not to be tolerat- ed” and if state and local govern- ments can not handle-such situa- tions the “Federal government hught to step in.” Federal intervention should only | be on request, he emphasized at a conference with newsmen this af- ternoon, and in the discussion said: “It would be bad for the Federal government to needlessly step in| unless there is a complete break- | down of local authority.” He added | that toleration of strikes against the government “would build up Fascist psychology which might be the beginning of the end.’ ’ — e POLICE PREVEN WPA PROJECT OF HANGING SOLONS Relief Workers Walk Off Jobs Throughout U. S. In Profest Move (By Associated Press) Police today prevented WPA workers and sympathizers in New York from hanging two Congress- men in effigy as part of a nation- wide demonstration which drew an undetermined percentage of work- ers off WPA projects. Some 2,000 demonstrators, as es- timated by leaders of 450 police who shepherded them in New York's Columbus Circle, gathered at the call of the Workers Alli- | ance, Police stopped carpenters at work on a gallows for two stuffed fig- ures representing Representatives Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia and John Taber of New York of the House Committee which inves- tigated WPA. 'KETCHIKAN GETS RESERVATION FOR SUPPLY OF WATER WASHINGTON, July 20. — The Senate has passed and sent to the Whte House the bill setting aside two tracts of land for a municipal water supply reserve at Ketchikan, Alaska, SOVIET ARTILLERY SET UP N SWIET, SHALLOW NI riveR'CRoSSED Lol = |8 SouET FORCES [ forces and the Japanese is an old usually large scale—to judge from of planes have seen action, that several dozen artillery piec victories. Mystery Assault Student Nurse Starred and Feathered in Own Apartment | 1 ! CALGARY, July 20.—Charges of after 28-year-old student | Alice Knowles reported to the police she had been tayred and feathered |in her own apartment. The nurse is in the hospital suf- fering from shock and burns. The police found a pail of roofing paint in the nurse’s apartment. The motive for the attack is un- known. EDUCATOR RAPS HIGH HEELS AS BRAIN JOLTERS MELBOURNE, Australia, July 20. —Prof. W. A. Osborne argues high heels indicate low intelligence. He Geclares that with the jolts which high-heeled women receive with every step, it 15 a marvel their brains do not suffer more irritation than is apparently present normal- ly. “High heels have destroyed the human’s most effective shock-ab- sorber—the heel,” he declared. - WASHINGTON MAN NAMED FOR BOARD WASHINGTON, July 20—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated George Yantis, of Olympia, Wash- ington, as member of the new Na- tional Resources Planning Board (created under the Government re- ‘(rrganlmunn plan. ————— California has 24000000 acres of publicly owned forest land. | going on since early May in the desolate area shown herq Russian tanks and armored cars, Revealed assault have been filed against Mrs.| Ethel Allen and her daughter Betty,‘l nurse | 00 7 NAIHEENCENYER OF FIGHTING _ | e — % Warfare \arismg from ‘b;)rdvr' disputes between sbviet-Mongolian story. But the fighting that's been is on an un- reports such as these: That scores the Japanese have destroyed 250 and that the Russians are using As usual, each side has claimed DRY LEADER STRIKES AT FIRSTLADY Mlchlgan Governor De- cries Drinking Advice fo Women-Murphy Hits | LANSING, Mich, July 20.—Gov. | Frank D. Dickinson, of Michigan, said last night in an address that women he saw drinking liquor without becoming intoxicated at. a “high life” party in New York, may have “learned the formula advised by the most prominent lady of our nation” just before the repeal of prohibition. Governor Dickinson told news- men that he had referred to the wife of the President, but she was not mentioned by name in the ad- dress. ‘The 80-year-old Governor, a vet- eran dry leader, said this promin- ent lady addressed to all young girls who would avoid being prigs, the following statement: “The av- erage girl of today faces the prob- lem of learning very young how much she can drink of such things as whisky and gin and so forth, and sticking to the proper quan- tity.” MURPHY REPLIES WASHINGTON, July 20.—Attor- ney General Frank Murphy former Governor of Michigan, branded as “indefensible and absolutely un- Jjust,” the remarks of Gov. Dickin- son. Said Murphy: “Only a combina- tion of reactionary politicians and bigots could spawn a thing of that kind and use him, Dickinson, to do it.” POETESS THORPE DIES LAST NIGHT SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 20. FRose Hartwick Thorpe, 89, poetess and famed as the author of “The icur(ew Shall Not Ring Tonight” died last night at her home here. LIGHT PLANT, THEATRE, P. 0. GO IN BLAZE 'Lynn Canal Town Hit by EarlyMorning Conflagration SOLDIERS SPEED T0 SCENE FROM BARRA(KS Loss, from Reports, May Reach Hundred Thousand Dollars A disastrous fire broke out at Haines, om Lynn Canal, ‘early this morning, and ae- cording to meagre reports, | the Haines Light and Power {Plant, Coliseum Theatre and United States Post Office buildings were destroyed be- fore the flames were brought under control. The fire, of an undeter- mined origin, broke out in the Haines Light and Power Company’s plant it is said. The flames leaped a high eight-inch thick concrete firewall and caught on the roof of the Coliseum Thea- tre, then spread to the ad- joining one-story old frame building housing the Post Office. g Immediately the alarm was sounded and as the crackling of the burning frames were {heard, citizens of Haines sprang out of their beds and turned fire fighters. The fire alarm was sound- ed at Chilkoot Barracks, half a mile away, and soldiers were soon speeding toward Haines to give all asslsh.nce possible, Fire Loss Heavy From the meagre reports received in Juneau, the fire loss will run into the thous sands of dollars. The Haines Light and Power Plant, deisel operated, supplied the city with both lights and power. The plant is owned and operated by E. 0. Schombel, former well known Juneau resident. Only recently he installed new equipment to take care of the heavy load demanded. Gross’s Loss The Coliseum Theatre is owned by W. D. Gross, of Ju- neau, one of his chain movie houses. Mr. Gross received a brief radiogram from his manager stating that some of the equipment was saved. From the advices, Mr. Gross places his loss at $25,000, possibly more, partially cov- ered by insurance. The Post Office’s loss not learned. Officials Notified is Radiograms received from Deputy United States Mar- shal H. Martin Collin by U. S. Marshal William Mahoney, " (Contnued on Page Two)