The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8186. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA CANNERY TENDER SWAMPS, Nazi Troops Take Possession of Slovakia QUICK MOVE IS MADE IN NIGHT TIME German S(Hi;rs Execute Sudden Maneuver-On Poland’s Border | | \ | | { 1 BULLETIN — BRATISLAVA, : Aug. 19.—Alarming rumors cir- | culated through the Capital City late this afternoon, and seemed d, were that a German Military Governor will assume control of Bratislava, expanded | operations by German troops in | Slovak territory near the Pol- ish border will be undertaken; Gen. Ferdinand Esatlos, Slovak- | fa’s War Minister will resign as a protest to German domina- tion; Slovak armed forces and | the Slovak Natinal Council have virtually surrendered authority over internal affair to German leaders, who only last March guaranteed Slovakia’s independ- | ence for 25 years. | GERMANY EXECUTES COUP | BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Aug. 19.| —German troops suddenly took mili- tary possession of Slovakia last | night. 4 | Tens of thousands of German | troops concentrated in a relatively | small area about Zilina, between there and the city of Cadea, a dis- | tance of 15 miles. Civilian motor iraffic has been repeatedly inter- rupted by movements of troops de- ployed along the Polish frontier. German soldiers are also reported moving in large numbers through the high Tatras mountainous strong- | hold, northeast of Slovakia, which is regarded as the back door to Po-| land. | 1t is reported from reliable sour that a military agreement was rati- | fied between Hitler and Slovakia | which placed the Slovak army of 30,000 with reservists numbering | 300,000 under German ocmmand. Slovakia's frontier extends 200 miles along the southern border of Poland, giving the Germans a| chance at a wide swinging flank | on Polish industrial centers in south | central Poland should war come. i The Slovakia area is about 14,000 | square miles since it became an in- | dependent republic on ihe eve of | Czechoslovakia's breakup. | | Continental United States on Man in “Iron Lung” Marries ‘Avia" on ‘ v 5 Hearings | Slated for Anchorage | Is Announcement ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 19. Charles S. Burnett, CAA Inspector, announces that a public hearing | will be held here on September 1 {on aircraft operators’ applications and certificates. { Raymond Stough, CAA examiner, land William Madden, attorney, are £ | coming north to conduct hearings. | Alaska operators are being noti- fied by radiograms from Anchorage |and air mail from Washington of |hearings and a general conference on August 31 to arrange a schedule for hearings and procedure to lead |to the establishment of economic regulations for the aviation indus- .Lr,\‘. | - e | PROBERS OF FISHERIES Courageous young Fred Snite, Jr., who has been fighting for in an “iron lung” for three years, gets a kiss from his pretty bride, the former Miss Teressa Larkin, of Dayton, O., just after their marriage at the Snite home in River Forest, Il The widely known “boiler kid” is 29, his bride, 25. JAPANESE WORLD FLIGHT | ham for Investiga- | | | | | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. The The proposed route from Nome, H 2 Civil Aeronautics Authority has| Alaska, to Miami, Fla, is by way tion Trlp granted permission for the Japa- 4 AL L of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Juneau, nese airplane to fly over Alaska and Seattle and San Francisco. the | SEATTLE, Aug. 19.—The mem- [b('l'.‘w of the House sub-Committee < planning the first Congressional The original schedule of the stuydy of Alaska fisheries, on the world flight, as deleased in Tokyo spot, arrived here today and will dispatches, was from Nome t0 gail tomorrow aboard the Coast Whitehorse, then south to, Seattle, Guard cutter Ingham for a series | via the inside route. of hearing in Alaska. P T AT Congressman Schuyler Bland, [ | Chairman of the investigating England s Requesl |ha| u S ’Cnmmmr-v, said problems are simi- adn lar ones that have been before a | former session of Congress but no round-world flight. The plane, trimotored transport, will be flown by Susmitosi Nakao, chief pilot and navigator and will carry two passengers and crew of four. committee has ever gone to the o s | l ln |a I llln urren | Territory to study first hand. Others in the party are Repre- | | sentatives Kennedy of Maryland, Boykin of Alabama, Welch of Cal- of Maine. James W. Gulick is clerk |Examinations, Conference| IN SEATTLE FEDERAL BOARD MAY MEDIATE Closely Followed in Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. | offered to bring Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers and Longshoremen to a Inew working contract. The | groups are at odds over the contract which expire September 30 {ed wage, hour and other conces- sions which employers so far have refused flatly. Board Chairman Bruere an- nounces that he board is following | closely developments in the coast | labor controversy. He suggested im- ;nwdin(f‘ arbitation to prevent a new strike thid fall. | - - SPAINWILL - BENEUTRAL MADRID, Aug. 19.—Spain’s neu- | trality in the event of war is pro- claimed in what Is believed to be an officially inspired article in the newspaper Abe, - Said the paper: “The policy frequently proclaimed General Franco should allay fears. Spain has concentrated all her army on the carrying out of numerous difficulty tasks of internal reconstruction. She would not have begun these accomplishments if the | political horizon had not been clear.” - - | t peaceful by all Bargain Eledtions, Auto Firms, Given f 30-day~Advan¢e‘ DETROIT, Mich,, Aug. 19. — Re- |gional NLRB officials announce | that they had moved back a month | | the collective bargaining elections |in Chrysler and Briggs manufactur- | ling company plants. The new date is September 20. The Labor Board extended the |ifornia, Seger of New Jersey, Oliver | yote for 30 days because machinery could not be established in time for COAST TROUBLE S(hedmedwbevelopmems Are Being:' The | Federal Maritime Labor Board has | its services in an attempt |} two || The longshoremen have demand- | Genial Jim Farléy in England | | 7enial James A. Farley, postmaster general of the United States, smiles Jis most infeetious smile for the cameraman on arrival at Plymouth, England, aboard the Manhattan. With Farley are his daughters, Ann (left) and Betty. NEW ALASKA AIR SERVICE " FROMU.S., OVER CANADA, ~ SOONTO BE ESTABLISHED | | | COAST GUARDER NORTHLAND RUNS AGROUND TODAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The United States and Canada have signed notes providing the ground- work for extension of air services between the two countries and be- tween the United States and Al-| aska. | The arrangement permits of ser- vice between the United States and Alaska with stopovers in Canada and also provides for non-stop serv- | Coast Craft Hits in Boston Thick Fog {ter will be subject (o separate un-| | derstanding later. - The conference, resulting from BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 19.—C0ast |16 aoveements, was held at Ottawa | Guard cutter Northland, from the | yna S ™ i lcion "or air | Pacific Coast, inbound from Oak- routes linking the United States,! land, on her first trip to Boston, | manada and Alaska and the ran aground in the lu}rbm‘ early to- | strengthening of American defenses day during the season’s thickest fOB. | the direction of the Pacific. The Northland is enroute here 10 qhe Ottawa sessions were held join Admiral Byrds expedition to iy private, the Anarctic in October. The Northland will probably be | There is also the possibility of an | eventual service between Great Britain and the United States over | e | | | | FISHERIES CHIEF TO CONFER HERE WITH GOVERNOR Jackson Due Tomorrow fo See Gov. Troy About New Laboratory Acting Commissioner of Fisher-| jes Charles E. Jackson will be here| tomorrow afternoon for a confer-| ence with Gov. John W. Troy, it was | learned today. The Acting Commissioner is in| Alaska in connection with selection | of a site for the Bureau of Fish-| eries marine products laboratory. He will talk over the project with the Goverpor. ARMY BOMBERS ARE HELD DOW PRINCE GEORGE, B. C, Aug. 19. — Two United States Army | Bombers, enroute to Fairbanks, Al- aska, carrying nine officers and men, and 1,000 pounds of equip- | ment, also gasoline for a 1300- | mile cruise, stopped here last night on account of bad weather. The planes will s toward Al- aska as soon as the weather clears. —— BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Chicago 5; Pittsburgh . Brooklyn Boston 0. Aulo pnoDu(IIo“ St. Louis Cincinnati 3. Game called in ninth inning on account HITS LOWEST POINT * = v DURING THIS WEEK 5557 | <22 Boston 8, 1; Washington 6, 2. Detroit 9; St. Louis 3. | s Conteinite DETROIT, Aug. 19. — Auto pro-| duction reached its lowest point of | 1939 this week but manufacturers| Fairbanks’ Pifcher . were heartened by prospects for in- I Re‘elves. DOIIbIe creased output. Wards auwmotwel F'ad“'e in Game reports estimated the output at 12,- 955 units, slightly more than hn]f‘ DAWSON, Y. T, Aug. 19— of last week’s 24,875 units. Jimmy Smith, pitcher of the Fair- The service said that all makers!banks, Alaska, baseball team, concluded their 1939 model run this|hurled a fast one-third of an in- week. It said that eight manufac-|ning against the Dawson team, was turers were in progress today or|hit on the arm and received a ready to start Monday on 1940 op- | double fracture between the elbow erations for fall introduction, and shoulder, - 0f China Gels Weakjupporl and Ralph A. Sterling, court re-|the August 20 election. paAPLANEN Daniel Roper | FROM FAIRBANKS The PAA plane from Fairbanks ar- | s g | | e rived at the airport this afternoon,| bringing six passengers. The pilots 1 were Al Monson and Bert Lien | | | | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Reports {coming both from Tokyo and Lon- {don that England had asked the | United States to assist in stabilizing | Chinese currency found very limited | | support here. | First there is considerable doubt that China now is especially anxi ous for her currency to be stabi !ized, at least if she' has to partici- |pate in the stabilization. As long| Passengers were C. A. Schnelder, | nation of Daniel E. Roper as United as Chinese money was hupportcd;Thnma.s Hess, M. Stepovich, Mrs. A. | States Minister to Canada. The | by gold or foreign exchange, the|Chatnet, H. Spall and J Livengood. | President said he had not decided | Japanese made good use of it by| A plane piloted by Bill Knox and on Roper’s successor | | buying up quantities of it in ex-|Ralph Savory was scheduled to leave | Roper was appointed to the Can- | change for paper money issued by for Fairbanks late this afternoon, | adian post early this year after his SYDNEY, N. S., Aug. 19.—Pre dent Roosevelt announces the re | puppet governments they set up,;wnh V. L. Kerns the only passen-|regignation as Secretary of Com- The Japanese got quantities of ger. merce. He served in the Cabinet | foreign exchange and gold that | six years. way. e And second, the U. S. Treasury has had peculiar experiences with 5 agreement with England and rance to stabilize their exchange| . |and our own. Treasury officials | :'J‘;_“::‘: Mirow arfived Imight be expected to hesitate to| < ernoon. join England in an enterprise mostly beneficial to British trade | with the Chinese. MIROW IN SEATTLE | — ;l Stock QUOTATIONS i here l BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Aug. | NEW YORK, Aug. 19. — Closing | PRINCE GEORGE, B. C., Aug. 19.| quotation of American Can at to- —Pilot Mirow, flying from Nome, | day's short session is 98, American Alaska, took off for Seattle this Power and Light 4%, Anaconda forenoon after an overnight stop. 237%, Bethlehem Steel 56%, Com- § ; He has three Eskimo prisoners, two| monwealth and Southern 1%, Cur- Some of the Treasury's dealings patients for Morningside, Portland, tiss Wright %, General Motors { with England and France havebeen|oregon and two other passengers.|44%, International Harvester 51%, as funny as a Noel Coward comedy. - | Kennecott 34, New York Central| A few months ago Paris decided 0| py pySCHMANN YACHT IN PORT [13%, Northern Pacific 8%, United | lower the value of the franc a trifle. | States Steel 45%, Pound $4.68% | In accordance with the tri-partite| ppo jow slung, trim black yarhl‘ o Ay g 5 3 f monetary agreement, she Was SUD-| gaida belonging to Max C. Fleisch-| DOW, JONES AVERAGES ! posed to notify the U. S. and Eng-|ponn myjti-millionaire distiller and| The following are today’s Dow, land so they could either object or |, nyfacturer of yeast, made its ap-| Jones averages: industrials 135.11, take steps to protect their OWn cur-| .., ance late Friday night in Ju-|rails 2696, utilities 25.20. FUNNY BUSI Tency. . |neau harbor. The Haida has been | il D France gave the notification in| . iing for several weeks in Al- due order but had first given the | geon warers and will start back| Sclentists say activity required tipoff in Paris so that French CUI“ 4, Neyw york via the Panama Canal |in “counting sheep” deters rather toward the end of the month, than encourages slumber. l (Continued on Page Two) " freed at the next high tide. - i ‘Sibl'l'in, Alaska and Canada. | Daniel C. Roper, United States WHEA]‘ pR'(ES | minister to Canada, headed the Am- | erican delegation composed of State i | Department and civil aeronautics ! IAKE ADVA“(E' ‘uuuwrity officials. Transport Min- ONE-CENT GAIN ister C. D. Howe was the Canadian | leader. | It is understood that three routes ‘wvrn proposed, one following the| i . . . [ Critical Situatior in Europe waicr partly ove . | from Great Falls, ont., over Can- Sends Wheat fo High- | ada and to aluska. er Levels Today S | passenger on the Princess Alice for CHICAGO, IIL, Aug. 19.—As | her home in Deming, Wash. She has sion mounted in Burope, the Wheab|peey visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wil- from Seattle, one partly over and partly over land, and one | | -~ > - - [ MRS. GRAY TRAVELING | Mrs. W. L. Gray is a southbound ten- SEARCHIS STARTEDTO FIND CREW Fishing Boats and Coast Guarder Hurry fo Scene for Rescues BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 19.—The Cyane re- ports she has five survivors on board for return to Steamboat Bay cannery. Survivors said the other three were seen to drown. They had life preserv- ers, but had no chance in the rough sea. BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 19.—Five off the tender 0. M. Arnold have been picked up at Port Alice, Heca- ta Island, by the troller Ellen W, according to a radio from Noyes Island. The missing are said to be George Lee, Andrew Lee and Ernest Cruse. The New England Fish Com- pany’s tender Oregom, in the search, struck a rock last night off Cape Lynch but freed un- der her own power and was not seriously damaged. ABANDONING CRAFT A radio message sent out yester- day afternoon from the New Eng- land Fish Company's cannery ten- der O. M. Arnold said the crew was abandoning the craft in a small ause of swamping in tre- The tender was at that time a few miles off the north of Noyes Island off the coast of Prince of Wales Island. Four cannery tenders immediate~ ly put out from Ketchikan and other nearby ports to the scene to rescue the crew, variously reported at seven or eight men Finds Oil Streak The first craft to reach the ne was the tender New Sunset and she reported an oil streak in the vieinity of Noyes Island was found. The islet shores are tim- bered heavily and sheer bluffs and ravines are in the locality. Last night the Coast Guard cut- ter Cyane left Ketchikan to join in the search. All through the night a search was maintained but no reports were received of finding any of the men, Crew on Tender The New England Fish Company made a report that the following men were aboard the tender: Capt. George Lee, of Seattle, master. Donald McCullouh, engineer, Se« attle. W. H. Meeker, assistant engineer, Seattle. Ed Megaard, of Arlington, Knuk Solbaaken, Andrew Lee and Otto Waage, deckmen, The O. M. Arnold was 90 feet long, 74 tons gross, diesel powered and was built in Seattle in 1927 The craft was due back in Se- attle early next month. The fatal ot market, today scored one of its best 'y Burford for the past several advances in recent weeks. | incatha, Gains of more than one cent a . bushel were registered soon afler |the opening, carrying September contracts L oabove £7 cents a bushel, | the highest in a month ‘\ IN NEW YORK ’ NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-On the New York Stock Exchange today at | the short, session, stocks were quiet | etion but some went down fr - - BERLIN described Aug. 19.—An article, | Sourdoughs Honor | At in the magazine Berlin-Rome-Tok- a- | yo. It was marked with three aster-| OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 19. — yesterday's election of the Inter MORE FUEL IS ADDED T0 SMOULDERING FLAMEOVER DANZIG-POLISH SITUATION trip was the last one scheduled as the fishing season ends tonight. towards Germans in Poland has reached the limit of which a great power and its friends can possibly tolerate. It borders on being a di~ rect attack on Germany's rights, in- terests and honor. Poland and the tional Sourdoughs Association, ;... (, jndicate importance. The|whole world, especially England, Judge James Wickersham, of JU=|, o0 yag termed a personage well |should know that this is the con= neau, and the Rev. Georse PHNgIe: ooy inied with decisions taken at | clusion reached at Salzburg. It is to 2 - " 4 Said the article: “Poland’s defiant | their political attitude and aims in were chasen fonorary, Vice-Presi|yyjuge toward the Reich and the light of this knowledge.”