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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8178. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o ———— | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 SAYS GERMANY WILL FIGHT FOR DANZIG Ve 23 S.CHA A By The AP Feature Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Off the coast of Alaska, Uncle Sam is chart- ing a new trans-Pacific route that interests both sea commerce and the U. S. navy It will run through waters about which so little is known now that insurance companies won't assume the risk on cargoes shipped that way. Hurry, Say the Admirals The Navy isn't saying much about the job because it's being done by the U. 8. Coast and Geo- detic Survey. But ‘the - admirals have asked the surveyors to hurry. And, where it doesn’t.interfere with needs of sea commerce, the Navy has asked that information impor- tant to national defense be kept secret. Why? Because the new route will run through the Aleutian islands that extend about 1,000 [épl(e, the BoY Who Made Bait], R RTS NEW ROUTE CROSS #he PACIFIC A exisTinG RADIO BEACON PROPOSED RADIO BEACONS. miles off the Alaskan coast like a and the ocean bottom. They sailed prances Dunn, 17. half moon, points up. That area is the north point of the Navy's tra- ditional defense triangle: Hawali and the Panama Canal are the other two. Saving 100 Miles Now, for the first time in his- tory, accurate knowledge of navi- gation conditions in the Aleutians will be made available ‘When the survey complete, commercial ships can follow the great circle route from Seattle to Yokohama, saving something like 100 miles one way. That's about 10 hours’ sailing time for a war- vintage freighter, five or six hours for a new one. More important, the great circle route takes ships north of the Aleutian islands where they' escape the gales that sweep the present route. Four 1,500-ton ships and 300 men are busy charting the island area is | from Seattle May 1 on what may |be a five-year task. It will cost | some $3,500,000. Russians Made a Start And the results will be the first complete survey of the area al- though early Russian explorers charted sections of it and the Navy, Coast Guard, C. and G. Survey and | other agencies have done some ex- ploring. " After the Aleutians have been completely charted it is expected | insurance companies will under- ‘wme cargoes carried over the new | route. Incidentally, the survey is ex-| pected to explode a number of leg-| ends about disappearing islands in | the area. The Coast and Geodetic | Survey lays these stories to tricks, |of fog and to the volcanic origin |of the islands. Some do change ap- |pearance and a few have active volcanoe: OOSEVELT | Dodges Manhunters Two Years VETOES 9 MEASURES Signs Twenty-eight Bills Passed by Recent Congress HYDE PARK, Aug. 10—Presi- dent Roosevelt turned today to the 'aska E. L ABDUCTS 2 GIRLS; | RAPES, KILLS ONE, | RELEASES OTHER Man with M‘an_y Aliases Is: Arrested in Florida- Makes Confession BOCA RATON, Fla, Aug. 10. A man beoked as Charles Jefferson | has confessed to the police he ab-| ducted two Miami high school girls with the intention of holding them for ransom but killed one and held the other captive until early to-| day. Lieut. E. W. Melchen, Miami de- tective, announced the confession at the police station where Jeffer- son is held after his arrest near the scene of the slaying of Ruth | { | | | | Melchen reported that Miss Dunn | and Jean Bloton, 19, were kidnaped | and bound and placed in h'xs car | which he drove to a lonely br\a(‘)\I section about 60 feet off the ocean | highway between Miami and West | Palm Beach. { Jefferson, who is known by sev-| eral aliases, admitted criminally | attacking Miss Dunn Monday night, Melchen said, and then killed her because she cried for help and became hysterical despite his warning that the two girls re- main quiet. Thirty rails with four coaches, are shown b DELEGATE DIMOND PLANS TO REACH JUNEAU AUG. 24 By PRESTON GROVER Tentative Schedule Lists| wasmcron. au 1010 1 Stops Northound and |5 e “workrs. cio i steerine Southbound clear of any dis- cussion of the annual wage Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-| scheme, which mond will be in Juneau two days involves lower in August and two days in Septem- pay per year ber according to a tentative sched- “We haven't ule received by Secretary of Al- gone far enough (Bob) Bartlett today. along the road The Delegate plans to arrive here for that,” said August 24 at 1 o'clock in the after- . Denny Lewis, noon and leave at 9 o'clock the x& i younger brother morning of the 25th. Southbound & ¢ of John L. Lewis. he expects to arrive at the Capital B GAA yonn L. put at 9 o'clock the morning of Septem-| DENNYLEWIS nonny iy charge ber 11 and to leave at 6 o'clock the | of organizing the building trades morning of the 13th. | He will be at Kodiak from the morning of September 5 to the ev- | workers along industrial lines. Now | they are mostly under AFL, organ- ized by trades. Fifty-seven Persons Hurt in Santa Fe Wreck here. UGHS Coast Guard " Reserve for JuneauArea | Lieut. Foutter Named Di-| rector of New Branch | of Service Here Juneau will have a Coast Guard Reserve, it was revealed today when orders came through from head- | -seven persons were hospitalized and 20 others received first aid treatment when a special Santa Fe passenger train was derailed six miles south of Grand Canyon, Ariz. The two locomotives, which left the BIG DENNY LEWIS, BROTHER SEVEN ALASKA OF JOHN L., REALLY LA FISHERMEN IN TROUBLE NOW Are Arrested in San Fran-| cisco-Were Stowaways from Bristol Bay SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 10. —Seven Alaska fishermen and can-| nerymen are held on $1,000 bail each | on rancy charges. It is alleged they stowawayed on | the salmon ship Glacier which left Bristol Bay August 4. All the fishermen claimed Cali- fornia homes. NATI LEADER GIVES SPEECH BY AUTHORITY ' Albert Forster Tells Throng Just What Hitler Announces DANZIG, Aug. 10. — Nazi leader Albert Forster told a cheering throng in the Langer Market Place this afternoon that “Poland may rest assured” that Germany and Hitler are determined in the event of at- tack to stand on our side.” Speaking with the full au- thority, following his confer- ence this week with Chancellor Hitler, Forster continued and said: “In this serious moment, we are assembled in this historic market place to protest against threats of war utiered in the contained the assertion that Germany stands solidly behind Danzig in the Nazi campaign for the Danzig reunion with Germany and that Germany will fight for Danzig. Forster's remarks were in- terrupted by cries of “one peo- ple, one Reich, one Fuechrer. We want to return to the Reich.” Yugoslavia Defies Axis War Demand Ifalian, German Foreign Ministers Meeting for Discussion (By Associated Press) European fevers rose a degree or two today over the impending 'MANY PLANES | clerical duties of his position. The ening of the 7th, during which! We went over to see Denny in e “LEPKE” BUCHALTER Shifty-eyed big shot—whose associates vanish. [ because he looked like a former | Lepke aide. And Dewey added that NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Louis|in the past two years three of Lep- “Lepke” Buchalter is an East Side ke’s former associates have been boy who made bad—so bad that|killed, and two have vanished. Be- he’s worth $10,000 to anyone who cause of this “murder by mistake,” turns him in. | Dewey asked that the reward be The Federal Bfireau of Investiga- | raised $20,000. tion calls him one of the most want- | The fugitive is 42, has a wife and ed criminals in the United States.|Son, 18; is about 5% feet tall; weighs Prosecutor Thomas Dewey s the | 160, has brown hair and eyes, large, fugitive is waging a war of extermin- straight, blunt-ended nose, and big ation against members and former |€ars. And the bill for chasing him members of his gang. is given as $200,000 a year. Not a great deal is known about| A Federal Grand Jury is now at this shifty-eyed big shot charged|Work on his case, a drive against with preying on the fur, bakery, gar- | crime. ment, and trucking businesses in the New York area. Two years ago he jumped bail of $10,000 in a racketeering case. Now 25 FBI agents, 25 New York cops and six agents of the Treasury De- partment’s narcotics division (he's been linked to a narcoties ring, too) have full-time jobs hunting him. Only twice in the two years have police picked up the trail; both times it was hours cold. Dewey | thinks one reason he's been so slip- pery is that he has plenty of money. And another is the fact that he is little known. The spotlight has played on most | By The AP Feature Service - e | President Asks Adminisfrators {To Economize WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked the heads of all departments to try to econ- | omize. The request appears in a letter | sent to all administrators. The President said that he- be- of the underworld big shots who|lieved that substantial economies’ have been killed or caught, but not | €0uld be made. He said that he on Lepke—until just recently. wanted the cuts made on a basis of Then a New York business man | this year’s budget and next year's was murdered. Police said it was estimates. . A Chief Executive retired to his study to attach the Presidential signa- | ture to 28 bills passed by the recent Congress. Nine bills drew the | Presidential veto. | Most of the measures signed by the Roosevelt pen were resolutions, | routine in fashion:. ! furthers the New Deal's “Good Neighbor” policy. It provides for | closer cooperation between thel United States and the Latin-Amer- jcan countries as outlined at the Lima conference. Among the bills vetoed by the | President was a measure providing for payment of pensions to more; than 150 orphans of Civil War vet- | erans. A checkup revealed that most of the so-called ‘“orphans”| were born from a year to many years after the war between the States. "IRON LUNG MAN" IS T0 TAKE A WIFE CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 10. — Fred Snite, Jr., 29-year-old “man in the jron lung” is prepared to embark on a new venture in his amazing life of the past three years—matrimony. Smiling, the “Boiler Kid” who has lived since April 1, 1936, in an iron lung, has obtained a license to ! marry Theresa Larkin, 25, of Day- ton, Ohio. \ HE IS MARRIED | CHICAGO, 1, Aug. 10.—Young ! Snite Jr., was married late today by the Rev. J. W. Morrison. The | father, Pred Snite Sr., said the couple planned to take a short| trailer trip. The bride is tall and slender, and a brunette. Mrs. Homer Cummings Passes Away in Eas! WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — Mrs. Homer Cummings, wife of the for- mer Attorney General, died last night after am illness of several ( months. i | time he will dedicate a plaque at the Griffin Memorial Hospital hon- oring the memory of the late Sec- retary of Alaska Edward W. Grif- fin. | patrons are different, though. It is believed Dimond will travel yniversity club with a full quota by Coast Guard or similar Goverll-luy ex-football players ever ment ship as none of the commer-|gych big men. Labor leaders don’t ters of the United Mine Workers. It used to be the exclusive Univer- No One measure cial steamers call here at the time| come in pocket sizes. They come| lin 200-pound jobs. ST ot Denny and Brother John are no | exceptions, Both are big. Denny looks like John, with a large head |and a larger head of hair. His face lsro Ing | is not so rough cut as John'’s. D. ( We hadn’t been in the building he mentions in his message. two minutes until we discovered dignity is being added to Denny.| | The staff calls him AD. Lewis.| ‘Denny sounds a bit familiar, you must admit. Denny is a more ge- {nial sort than John L. He laughs ! with you when he talks. He laughs wife, Actress Barbara Somerset, has | occasionally into the telephone. | sued him for divorce. She charged | When John smiles it is newsphoto that he was cruel and intemperate. |WOrthy. She claimed that on many oc- casions he had embarrassed her by LOS ANGELpS, Cal, Aug. 10— English actor Pat Somerset’s fourth IN GOVERNMENT TWICE taking off his clothes before friends, | Denny cut about the same path - e for himself up through the labor | the Towa coal mines at 16 and fol- |lowing the union trail upward. He BERLIN, Aug. 10.—Germany is'Illinois to head a state mining tlv-‘ prepared for registration of all citi- | partment and again in 1930 to hold REGISTER GERMA“S | movement as did John, starting in stepped into’ government once in zens between the ages of five and a job in the Department of Labor| seventy, both male and female. The | under “Puddler” Jim Davis, staunch | registration will make available to Hoover Republican, now Senator the government information regard- | from Pennsylvania. He became an assistant to Brother John L. when ing the health, education, exper- ience and family obligations of every | the New Deal moved in in 1933, citizen. — (Continued on Page Seven) KODIAK AIR BASE IS NOW CERTAIN; MEASURE SIGNED HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 10. —| Included in the appropriation is President Roosevelt today signed the sum of $8431,000 for the Army. the third Deficiency Bill, appropri- There is also a sum earmarked for ating more than $180,000,000 for|a new Alaskan air base at Kodiak to varied Federal activities. | cost eventually $4,000,000. | his office in the national headquar- | sity club and still looks like it Thp" housed | uarters to the cutter Haida nam- |ing Lieut. R. C. Foutter as Dire: ! tor of the Coast Guard Reserve for | the Juneau District. Under this new branch of the service, provided for in the Coast Guard Reserve Act fecently passed | by Congress, small boat owne will i be organized under the reserve “in the interest of safety to life a sea—promotion of efficiency in op- | eration of motorboats and yachts— facilitating certain operations of the Coast Guard.” The organization and its branch- es will be serving cooperatively | with the Coast Guard Director in choosing members for the Reserve through written examinations, pass- ing inspection in knowledge as wel! | | | | |as in equipping of their craft ac- cording to established regulations. Given Pennants Those admitted to the Reserve will be given proper pennants and insignia designating them and their craft as of the Reserve. As a | result belonging to the Reserve will | be a matter of pride as well as genuine aid to the Coast Guard | operations, and besides aiding in patrolling of regattas or such con- gregations of craft in any area, will do much towards schooling all boat operators in proper handling and equipping of their boats, les- sening to a large degree, it is hoped, the many accidents and | cases of distress 50 often occasioned | by incompetence or carelessness. When a craft is brought into the | Reserve after proper qualification, the Coast Guard is authorized to use that craft in the conduct of | duties incident to the saving of life and property and in the patrol of marine parades and regattas. Expenses When such a craft is used, it will | not be placed in duty unless there is a Coast Guard officer aboard. Under that arrangement, the Coast | Guard will stand actual expenses| of operation, although there will be | no compensation for personal ser-| vices, and in the event of loss to| the boat, the Coast Guard will be (Conunued on_l-“'r.sxe Two) (ORDERED FOR ARMY FORCES Awards Made Today Con- stifufe Largest Peace- fime Confracts WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — The War Department today threw the expansion of the Army air forces into high gear by the awarding of contracts totaling $85,978,000 for air- craft and engines. Col. Louis Johnson, Acting Sec- retary of War said the awards rep- resent the largest peacetime arms order, including equipment which | must be provided for the Govern- ment for which separate contracts will be let. ‘The largest single contract went to the Glenn Martin Company of Baltimore for two-engine bombers, costing $15,815,000; for an undis- | closed number of the same type of planes $11,771,000; to the American Aviation Company, of Inglewood, California. The awards cover more than 1,000 planes of all types. The Boeing Company of Seattle received an order for $8,909,000 for new 4-motor bombers. BASEBALL TODAY played this afternoon major leagues North Inc., ores of games in the two National League Boston 3; New York 6. Cincinnati 4; Chicago 6. Brooklyn 3, 3; Philadelphia 8, 0. American League Philadelphia 5; Boston 11, Chicago 3; Detroit 4. meeting of Foreign ministers of the Rome-Berlin axis and the speech to be made by Danzig's Nazi leader, Albert Forster, also Yugoslavia's precarious position in Central Europe. ‘The Polish - Danzig demands shared the center of the stage. Yugoslavia is reported to have turned down the German-Italian demands to use Yugoslavia terri- tory in war time. Orders have been issued to speed Yugoslavia fortifications. The German-Italian demands on Yugoslavia was the right to use her railroads to ship war materials across her territory to Rumania or Bulgaria. Great Britain and France have promised to support Yugoslavia's stand, it is authoritatively said. , The meeting between the Ger- man and Italian Foreign Minis- ters was planned by Hitler it is said to discuss the Danzig prob- lem. The British-French military mis- sions have arrived at Leningrad on the way to Moscow for staff talks supplementing for the form of the British-French-Soviet mutual as- sistance pact. FIRE CONTROLLED ON SHIP, MID-SEA BOSTON, Aug. 10. — American freighter Pipestone County radioed shortly after midnight that the fire in No. 4 hold had been controlied in midocean and the vessel is pro- cesdtnx to France and did not need aid. Two Coast Guard cutters were on the way to the ship to give aid. BLOW UP PLOT NEW YORK Aug. 10.—The new Mauretania of the Cunard-White Star Line, largest ship ever docked from London, is under careful guard. Police reported a plot to P 4 New York 5; Washington 7. lhlow her up,

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