The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1939, Page 1

> » v -2 1% THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE s VOL. LIV., NO. 8193. TENSION HIGH, POLISH, GERMAN FR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e s ] MEMBER A! SSOCIATED PRESS ‘N CENTS PRICE TI JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939. INT - British Dispatch Another Note to Adolf Hitler HENDERSON CARRYING NEW PLANS Momentous Message De-| cided Upon by En- tire Cabinet AMBASSADOR IS FLYING OVER TO MEET FUHRER| Meanwhilej-(iovernmenii Has Complefed Ex- tensive Defense BULLETIN — GERLIN, Aug. | 28.—British Ambassador Neville Henderson, bearing Great Britair’s answer, spent one | hour and 20 minutes tonight with Hitler in the spacious Chancellory indicating appar- ently some discussion in addi- | tion to the formal delivery of | the note. Later Henderson left | the chancellory alone in his | car toward the British Embas- sy. He did not smile. BULLETIN — BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Early this evening Chancel- lor Hitler is represented in well- informed circles as being will- ing to have some friend like Mussolini mediate the current crisis, Herr Hitler, it is report- ed, rejected the proposal to ne- gotiate directly with Poland, disclosing that his demands not only include the return of Dan- zig and the Polish Corridor, but implying that he is insisting on other adjustments at Poland’s expense. According to the Associated Press, foreign observers are said to be relieved that Germany has not struck as yet, as Hitler “seems to be in a mood to argue the merits of any situation.” LONDON, Aug. 28—Great Bri-‘ tain has dispatched a momentous | note to Hitler, replying to Hitler's unequivocal demands for Danzig and the Polish corridor. | The note was completed after three separate Cabinet sessions and is believed to contain strong reaf- firmation of Great Britain's sup- port to Poland. Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson left by plane to deliver the note, and is reported to have said the| first requirement for any negotia- will be the removal of threats e, indicating a possibility that still imminent. Government The sweeping defense regulations, has affected clos- ing all military areas, restricting sivil liberties, putting public utili- ties under new regulations and or- dering rehearsals of evacuation of schools and other nistitutions. HENDERSON IN BERLIN BERLIN, Aug. 28—British Am- bassador Sir Neville Henderson is back in the German capital tonight preparing to submit the British reply to Chancellor Hitler, As Henderson arrived by plane from London, Nazi officials said they still had hopes for peace. There was no sign, however, that Hitler is weakening in his determination to demand Danzig and the Polish Corridor from Poland. It is believed Hitler will give the British Ambassador a reply tomor- row. Henderson's plane has been or- dered to stand by to take him back to London tdmorrow with the Reich Feuher's answer, TROOPS LAND IN FRANCE LONDON, Aug. 28.—Late this af- ternoon it is officially announced that over 10,000 British soldiers have landed at French ports on the Eng- lish Channel. BOMBING PLANES POISED FOR HOP WINNIPEG-, Aug. 28. — Seven bombing planes are poised today to take off for Nova Scotia. The planes will be stationed there indefinitely. |by Germany's new non-aggression Ration (ards | For Germans BERLIN, Aug people realized for the first 28.—The German | time Sunday just how close war is whéeh | they were issued food and coal ra-| | tion cards. One ration card was issued to each family. Private automobiles were requisi- tioned all over the country for mili- | tary use. | Gasoline for private mnxnmmmn is not available. | Horses were also requistioned hur- riedly and carts and wagons were left deserted by the wayside where | the horses and mules had been smz—‘ ed by the soldiers. Large placards bearing arrows| pointed to the nearest bombproof shelters. ! e | RUN ON FOOD STORES BERLIN, Aug. 28. — Germany's capital city saw the greatest run | today on food stores in a decade. Housewives hurried to grocer, butcher and dairyman and other | provisioners to get their names down for the new rationing process and also started to eat less of some of | their favorite foods because of the Nazi Government’s new system of rationing. As a prewar conservation meas- | ure, Germany decided to ration her- self through drawing on her ex- 'i perience during the World War | when the country “starved itself into submission by a blockade.” | New Rationing The new regulations prescribed a | diet which limits meat consumption to 24 ounces a week per person, dairy products two ounces a day, including milk and sugar, which is | only fourteen ounces a week. Children and expectant mothers, | on application, get additional milk of nearly one pint a day. | —,——— | CABINET OF JAPAN STEPS DOWN, OUT Upheaval Caused by So- viet-German Pact Re- | sults in Action TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 28. — The Japanese Cabinet, headed by Pre- mier Hiranuma, resigned last night | as a result of an upheaval caused | pact with the Soviet Union. For- eign Minister Arita, a member of | Baron Hiranuma's Cabinet, was held responsible in Japanese political circles for the setback suffered by | Japaanese foreign policy as a result of the German move. Arita, it is said, was responsible for Japanese entry into the Berlin- Takyo comintern pact which later | was joined by Hungary, Manchuokuo | and Spain. It was believed here that former Premier Konoye would be asked to form a new government and formu- late a new Japanese foreign policy to meet the new situation. | German diplomatic agents in| Tokyo were known to be using all possible pressure to keep Japan in the comintern pact. BASEBALL TODAY ‘The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League St. Louis 5; Boston 10. Chicago 5; Philadelphia 3. Cincinnati 1; New York 3. American League New York 18; Detroit 2. Boston 6; Cleveland 5. Washington 2; St. Louis 12. e eee OTTAWA, Aug. 28 —Defense Min- ister Tan Mackenzie announces that 10,000 militiamen have been called ouf fo man coastal defenses and guard vulnerable Canadian points, SCRUGHAM |Representative of Nevada | inion of Representa tive James | Subcommittee, and prominent mem- ! ber of the Interior Department Ap- | Pacific Alaska Airways to Fairbanks | make an inspection trip along the 'LIGHTS OUT IN Restrictions flfiposed Em- ON FLIGHT Looking Over Alaska- Will See Railroad Alaska has become recognized more and more as a “strategic” mili- | tary and naval outpost through re- cent world developments in the op- ' Scrugham of Nevada. | Representative Scrugham, Chair- man of the Naval Appropriations propriations Subcommittee arrived in | Juneau this noon aboard a Navy bomber from Sitka. A guest at une | Baranof Hotel, Representative Scrugham flew from Seattle to Sitka Saturday aboard one of the Navy's big four-motored bombers. Also on the big ship, accompan- ied by two squadrons of patrol| bombers totalling twelve planes, was Rear Admiral A. B. Cook, Com- mander of the U. S. Navy Aurmn Scouting Forces. At cruiser Memphis joined the» aonal forces and will probably go with them to Kodiak. erally parallel rail lines. Bulk of German troops and supplies are tr thenoe eastward. SAILINGS OF 3 RADIOBALLOON BRITISH LINERS =~ WEATHER MEN e e | (AN(EllED‘ HERE FOR DUTY resentative Scrugham will fly with | | Over 2,000 Americans in| ‘Radio-Sonde Process Ex- London Without Trans- | Plained by New porfation Home | Juneauites to join Col. Otto Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad. With Ohlson, Mr. Scrugham will Alaska Railroad, rejoining the Navy fliers somewhere in the Westward to continue the cruise to Kodiak. However, Mr. Scrugham fears the, [ONDON, Aug. 28.—Three Brit- | trip may be cut short if word comes jsh liners, scheduled to sail for | from Washington of trouble over- american ports, had their trips What “My country 'tis of thee,” electric eyes, automobile static, coaxial cables and farmer’s daugh- ters have to do with the weather seas. suddenly cancelled during the night,| may be difficult for most people “If war breaks in Europe,” M. Jeaying more than 2,400 Americans| to understand. Scrugham said, “I'll fly directly without means of Lranspormlmn‘ And thnta whiat msda wuch We'll have a special session pome. | right away, of course.” Nature of Representative Scrug- hnm's trip is merely routine, he pointed out. A | “On the Naval Appropriations HITLER REPORI IS \L() measure and record the weather ‘or the upper air when radio-sonde | Committee and also ‘with the Inter- | ior Department Appropriations, I nsturally felt it was time I saw Rumors Preva Il Su“day observations begin here Septem- ber 1. Assassination Plot They Tell AN Is Discovered today for two radio-sonde expert to explain to the uninitiated |just what they are up to 'I'hvodorv Kleinsasser and Carl arrived on the steamc Mount McKinley last night to _|o.n the staff of the U. S. Weather Bu- |reau here. Today they were un- packing and assembling the maze of equipment which they will use e some of Alaska,” he declared. The party is conducting an in- (Continued on Page Seven) > | fascinated members of the Bureau | staff here, this radio-sonde busi- 8.— Reliable | ness is as follows: newsmen scout an Exchange Tele- A balloon carries aloft instru- graph dispatch from London re- ments to measure temperature, porting a well organized plot to | moisture and air pressure. Through sassinate Hitler has been discovered radio equipment which it also car- in Germany. ries, signals reporting all | readings are sent back to a receiv- ing set in the Weather office. simple, isn’t it? questions you are naturally going to want to ask, such as “how does (it work?”, “what’s it good for?” and “where do the farmer's daugh- FRENCH CAPITAL, NEAR DARKNESS NEW YORK, Aug. phasize Gravity of & 2 The dispatch reported that the| Situation stage was set to kill Hitler in Berlin | and for that reason Hitler sum- moned the Reichstag deputies to his ca:tgli e O e 5)‘:“;‘;1 Chancellory instead. The Chancel- der heavy guard. after a special order went out to lory WAE Sniey, nowVy. ¢ light only those street lamps ab- | The report further said that many solutely necessary. !Army and Navy officers had been|iers come in” Then the process The “lights out” order was only arrested in the plot and it was also| will be found to have ramifica- one of the many restrictions im- claimed that a mutiny had started| tions Here are some of them: | The balloon is made of rubber, |is inflated with helium, measures posed which emphasized the gray- in defense rorces ity of the situation. Only specially | o~ o selected radio operators and an- Map shows concentration of German troops along the Polish border in Slovakia of concentration are (1) Cadoa, (2) Trstena, (3) Orlov, and (4) Mezialaboroe. ! ported along the line leading from Maehrisoh-Ostraou to Cadoa, | \ JAPANESE PLANE ONFLIGHT As simply as they could explain | it to reporters and to hardly-less- | these | Bureau | But there are| German Troops Mass as Europo s Unease Grows MRAILROADS German headqguarters are at Europe’s war cauldron neared the boiling point. PRZEMYSL UKRAINE Chief points Zilina, underlined. Highways gen- AROUND WORLD ARRIVES [ | French Plan For Peace Is Turned Down Hitler Says “No” fo Pro- . posal Submitted by Pre- mier Daladier | PARIS, Aug. 28.—Shortly before 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon diplomatic correpondents of the French news- papers were summoned to the War | Ministy’s office to hear an import- | ant announcement, | It was then officially revealed that Hitler had turned on French Pre- | mier Daladier’s appeal that Ger- many should make a new effort to come to terms with Poland. The Chancellors said he “flatly re- fused to negotiate further.” Hitler informed Premier Daladier that his demands are still for Ger- many to receive the Free City of Danzig, the Polish Corridor and other readjustments along the fron- : tier. In the letter Hitler also charged that Great Britain and France were striving to right the wrong of the | Versailles treaty. 3 Hitler wrote: “If our countries should be destined to meet again in my people in a fight to rectify wrongs, whereby our opponents will | be fighting to preserve the wrongs. | Hitler further said he had tried | to eradicate the “most unreasonable | the field of battle, T will be leading | AT NOME ON SUNDAY A. M. BULLETIN — Owing to low visibility, the Japanese plane Nippon this forenoon postponed the projected flight from Nome to Whitehorse until tomorrow morning, or until weather con- ditions are better. This is ac-~ cording to a PAA bulletin re- ceived in Juneau. NOME, Alaska, Aug. 28 | monoplane Nippon, on & good will flight around the World, landed here 11:02 o'clock Sunday forenoor | Nome time. The fliers were in good spirits and spent Sunday night here The plane hopped off from Tokyo at 10:27 a.m. Saturday (or 9:27 p.m. Friday, Eastern Standard Time) and a last minute change sent the plane to Sapporo, Hokkaido Island, miles north of Tokyo, for a final checkup. The plane only made a brief stop at Sappora and took the |air again at 10:03 p.m. Saturday, Pacific Coast Time, for Nome, At 3 o'clock yesterday morning it should arrive at Nome about 11| Hop for Whitehorse clock this morning direct for White- | horse unless weather forces |plane down at Fairbanks. When the plane does leave there | all but one from Japan. Ichitaro Ta- | kata, newsman, is to board the plane here. Given Severe Test Chief Pilot and Navigator Sumito- si Nakao described the flight as a| |severe test of the plane and crew but that the scheduled time of 500 o'clock Sunday forenoon and it hit| the forecast, only two minutes off.| Last night it was announced that | the Nippon would hop off at 8 o'-| the there will be five members of the| crew aboard and three passengers,| GUNFIRE IFIREIS REPORTED IN MANY AREAS Crack of Ifif—lés, Machine Guns Heard, Hand Grenades Thrown POLAND LIVING ONLY ON MINUTES OF PEACE Warsaw Newspapers Say Hitler Must Play Out His Hand Alone WARSAW, Aug. 28.—German ob- servation balloons are reported aloft today over the German-Polish bor- |der as Warsaw lived from minute to minute on this fragile line be- tween peace and war. Newspapers said the dice have not yet been thrown, but may be tossed by the time these words reach print. Frontier crises are reported from various districts as nervous tension found expression in gunfire. A Polish calvaryman was killed jand Polish frontier guards and buildings have been continuously at- Lacked wn.h rifles, machine guns d_grenades. Trnln airplane and highway com- munications between Poland and Germany have stopped altogether. President Moscicki indicated strongly that the United State would be acceptable to Poland n mediator in the dispute. Trenches Dug Ajr raid trench digging couti with thousands of women al ging in the frantic effort to plete defense works before breaks out definitely. T ning Warsay alis which ir s lost 1 Y ”Nl he forced te an open hand from this The newspapers further reiterated previous statements that Poland will brook no further “tea table discussions. Advices were received here that the British Cabinet announced that it is up to Poland and Germany to settle their dispute but that regard- less, Great Britain stands solidly behind Poland. —————— GIBRALTAR READY FOR ~ ANY ATTACK 1ed rouble Lewspapers mated that Giermar ‘diplomatic the plane passed over Komanndor-| skie Island and it was radioed then | | British War?lfps Are Also at Both Ends of Medi- | ferranean GIBRALTAR, Aug. 28—The Brit- ‘Lsh naval stronghold guarding the {entrance the Mediterranean was rully prey 1 this morning to stand off any attempt of German warships if war breaks out. | nouncers were allowed to handle the communication and broadcaei | stations for fear that they might| Green Makes seven feet in diameter when it is released and swells to 15 feet in diameter in the thin stratosphere arrival here was met. The flight was made in 16 hours, { approximately a distance of 240 | I miles, provisions” of the Versailles treaty, |and: “I made Poland an offer which |caused the German people to be At the opposite end of the Medit- erranean British warships stood |ready to guard the Suez canal which before it bursts. Precious Two Pounds The instrument which the bal- | loon carries aloft is encased in a foil-covered paper box. It has one be able to issue uncensored me&ag—w es in secret code. A particularly grim order wns that which advised the people to| take tools with them to the air raid shelters in case it was neces-| little tube to measure temperature sary to dig their way out. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Presi-| (a5 low as -90 degrees centigrade, Ambulances are carrying hospi-| dent William Green of the Ameri-|yhich we are assured is pretty tal patients to the country. Ani-|can Federation of Labor made an .oiq), g simple aneroid barometer mals in the city zoos are being!appeal today to working men and |, measure pressure, a clothesline- taken to country side shelters.| women throughout the world 10| riggeq tandem of human hairs at- Those of the more harmless vari-|use their influence to prevent the | tached to a register to gauge hu- ety were turned loose as a humane outbreak of another world War. |i,idity, various mechanical gadgets measure. Green’s appeal was made in a|ywhich transform the action of these When the Italian liners cancelled | letter to the Secretary of the In- ‘m«u.sunnz Gevices into electrical their sailings to the United States| ternational Federation of Trade|impujses and a radio transmitting passengers were not given back Unions with headquarters at Paris }wt which sends the signals back their money. | The AFL President said it Was| o earth. The balloon, remember, Passengers were advised that inconceivable to him that thelisn attached to the ground in their money would be returned to|workers of Germany would give any way, but is a “free balloon” them at a later date, probably when | their support to the war drive now | _ > they got back to the United States.|being made by the Nazi leaders. | (Continued on Page Two) | shocked; no one else but I could lic with such an offer. For that { reason the offer could only be made once.” Hitler also said that he was con- vinced that if England, at the time the propsal was made, had advised Poand to be sensible instead of starting a press campaign against Germany, * in a position 0,0 enjoy a period of greatest peace. Hitler pleaded peaceful relations between Ger: many | and France and closed with the warning that “Germany will fight for the PFree City of Danzig and the Polish Corridor.” Altogether it was absolutely be-| " (Continued on Page Tw0) have dared to face the German pub- | d for continuance of | lyond a shadow of a doubt‘ The plane experienced 25-degree ! {below zero weather, snow and rain, |and flew at an altitude of 13,000 feet | }for some time. Radio and navigation aids per- | formed excellently throughout the | | trip. Flags Are Hoisted Upon coming down and stopping | ‘Europe today would be on the field, the United States and | | Japanese flags were hofsted on the | | plane’s standard and then the plane proudly taxied back to the reserved space where the envoys, including |oficials of the Coast Guard Cus- toms and Army greeted the fliers. Hundreds of residents were at the |airport. The official reception com- mitteemen and customs officials were introduced and following clear- (Continuea on Page Four) PR {13 an important route of foodstuffs 'ror England. On the opposite side of the Strail of Gibraltar, in French Morocco, de- .renw measures were prepared with |all possible haste. Navy and army | divisions were being assembled on |the border to strike at Italy's |neighboring Liberia whenever a |general war breaks out in Europe. Further to the east, toward the |entrance to the Suez Canal, British | warships were ready for Italy’s fast | eruisers. I Egypt's best land forces were | being reinforced to guard the Suez | from attack by land. Spain under Fascist leader Pranco was plainly determined to remain neutral. However it is plain that Franco’s sympathy is with his for- mer backers, Germany and Italy,