The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939. I— VOL. LIV., NO. 8200. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'AIR RAID ON ENGLAND IS BEATEN OFF - French Army Crosses Frontier of Germany SAA RTAND l Steel Between Baby and Daddy :‘w ARSA w EAS]’ (OAS'I' 1S ENTERED heb LR T 1S DOOMED, ATTACKED IN EARLY TODAY { LATE REPORT EARLYMORN Offi(ialu)_munique An- ‘German Troops Expecled ‘AnI;r;Zug{:;L SG;::;,UII;EM- nounces “Local Ad- NA e > 8 " \ to Capture City Prob- Rvadsie | vancti Made ably Tonight | — NORTHERN FLANK OF STRONG RESISTANCE FRE"A(SO(;HE: :f: %mm W N e " BEING MADE BY POLES | ER / B Blackout Over Paris Frus- SU(A(;asSoSh;}Iafitlar cfnaldVvs’arA 5 Nazi Motorized l.J"i'S Said; trates Assault of Ger- v Cont fo Be Advancing 35 ping - ik Supp Len ers Mlles Away LONDON, Sept. 6.—~The Brit- BULLETIN—PARIS, Sept. 6. ; 4 The French General Stn’;l‘ an- l:h \\:n.'. Ministry announces nounced that the French armies that British anti-aircraft bat- are progressing beyond the fron- teries 4 fighting pum:: re- tier inte Germany tonight, pulsed enemy bombers an meeting with some German re- :::;:q::«ll‘:“:::d o;fl;hz)d:;.st sistance, but still advancing. profpsigs ity g anti-aireraft batteries opened with a terrific din and puffs of smoke from bursting shells filled the sky. Squiedrons of British fighting planes went aloft and the sound of machine gun fire from the planes could be plainly heard from the ground all aleng the coast. No aerial combats were seen from the ground. It was the first air raid at- iempt on Great Britain and came at 6:40 o'clock this mom- ing. The German bombers were driven off, it is announc- ed, before any bombs could be dropped, as shortly after the alarm a terrific anti-aircraft firing started and squadrons of British pursuit planes ascend- ed. There was no sign of panic among the populace along the coast. . British Ships vs. Nazi Planes—Europe’s Question WARSAW, Sept. 6.—The sit vation here is steadily growing worse, more ominous with the expectation iy some quarters that the German troops, pre ing down from the North, airive here before nightfall. The Poles, proud of their v, are hoping to save y extensive artillery fire and plan to defend it beyond the city limits to the best of their ability. BITTER BATTLE DUE Tt is expected there will be a bitter battle. While the German forces are pproaching closer, they appar- ntly have not yet reached the north of PARIS, Sept. 6—The French Army is officially reported to have advanced across the Ger- man front early today into the | &ui.. .. rich Saar Land which was once | ' the backbone of the German industrial life. A brief French communique says “local advances” have been made and the French army has crossed the German border. For several days the French have been concentrating for op- crations on the western front, Germany’s northern flank which protects the coal and iron pro- ducing Saar Basin, barely be- hind the German frontier. It is also reported that the French have successfully air- raided Eschweiler and Stolberg, war supply centers in the Aachen district near the Belgium border and carried air raids direct to the German people, e PATROL FOR | War means farewells, and here is a typical London scene as a British | Territorial says goodby through steel barracks railings to his baby | daughter, while his wife looks on. Picture by cable from London to New York. LEGIONNAIRES ATFARBANG o ror gig Meer IS Going East Juneau Deléhgies Already | Man in Ch;rge of U. S | There-Others Will Be | Army Projects in Al- One Day Lafe aska Is Traveling FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept BJ\ FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 6— Advance delegates are arriving for |np,jor Edward M. George, Construc- the Nineteenth Annual American | ion Quartermaster in Alaska in| 3 | Legion Auxiliary convention, De-|charge of the new United States | partment of Alaska, here Thursday,| Army projects in the Territory, is Whether Britain’s mighty sea fleet can withstand the bombs of Germany’s vast air fleet in event of war is the question on which hinges the fate of Europe, If German bombers can render England’s fleet impotent, military authorities say, the island power is doomed to defeat, its supplies cut off and aid from her domin- ions blocked. If the British fleet, on the other hand, survives air attack, it will continue to rule the sea, and can blockade Germany, forcing her to surrender for lack of food and war materials, as in the last war. 125 MISSING Capifal City KRAKOWCITY 'OFFATHENIA, OfPolandls IS TAKEN BY SEATRAGEDY Under Attack NAZI FORCES 1Winston Churchill Gives Area Is Pa?iiTaIly Ruined “Poland’s Heart” Report-| Details of Torpedoing | from Constant ed Captured-Other a a Bug River, 25 miles here, This is indicated by absence of explosions such as would mark the blowing up of bridg- es by retreating Polish forces. No retreating Polish soldiers are seen, according to a mid-after- noon air report. An official Warsaw com- munique says the Germans have reached a point between Plonsk and Ciechanow, bringing the advance of motorized units of the enemy about 35 miles north of Warsaw. Major George PARIS BLACKED OUT PARIS, Sept. 6.—A blackout occurred again early this morning as a group of planes, believed to be from Germany, - | U.5.COASTS ESTABLISHED Vessels Are fo Spot Craft of Belligerent Nations WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Upon instructions of President Roosevelt, a patrol of Naval and Coast Guard vessels and airplanes is being estab- lished to spot vessels of belligerents off the American coast. | Stephen Early, personal secretary | of President Roosevelt, announces | the step taken is a precautionary | measure for information for all pur- | poses entirely. | StoCcK QUOTATIONS SR | | NEW YORK, Sept. 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 1082, American Power and Light 5'%, Anaconda 37, Bethlehem Steel 80%. Commonwealth and Southern 1’2, General Motors 50%, Interna- | tional Harvester 61%, Kennecott 427%, New York Central 16%, North- ern Pacific 10%, United States Steel 64%, Pound, not quoted. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are teday’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 1484, rails 29.16, utilities 23.79. ———————— STACEY NORMANS ARRIVE | | Mr. and Mrs. Stacey Norman, their | son and daughter, returned here | on the steamer Columbia after a | trip in the states. Mr. Norman is| connected with the Federal Com- munications Commission in Juneau, |The Matson Friday, and Saturday. Department Commander E. M. Polley and party from Juneau have|quarters office here to establish an| orrived via Dawson and the Upper Yukor River, £ large coastal delegation from as far south at Ketchikan is expected to a‘rive by train tomorrow, a day late vecause of steamer delay. Vistiors will include Mrs. Eleanor Marsch of Anchorage. A rousing reception and booming program, also a number of important resolutions are on the bill. >-ee Australians Going Home Matson LineT,Ei San Fran- cisco, Filled to Capac- ity and More SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 6.- liner Monterey prepared to sail for Australia with every berth booked and a long wait- ing list of Australians anxious to return home because of war The shipping company has ap- plied to the Federal Maritime Com- mission for permission to install cots in lounges and rooms to raise the capacity of the Monterey. NEW BOOKKEEPER FOR WEST COAST Dean Hamlin is the new book- keeper for West Coast Grocery of- fices in Juneau. Hamlin arrived on the Columbia from his home in Tacoma, accom- panied by his wife and three-year- old son. Hamlin, from the Tacoma offices of Wesco, is replacing Robert Shoe- tack, returning to the States. lleaving for Anchorage today, tak- ing two engineers from his head- office and begin construction in An- | chorage of a unit. Major George expects to have 20 men engaged in surveys and other | preliminary work which will be pro- | secuted as long as it is seasonably possible this fall on the newly se- {lected military reserve Major George goes to Washing- ton to complete plans for Alaska | projects, several of which he s fense work. Fairbanks station and a th mile railway extension to the Army site here. - 19 PASSENGERS . ABOARD YUKON FOR THIS PORT | SEATTLE, Sept. 6. — Steamer | Yukon sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock last night with 105 first class and six steerage passengers | aboard | Passengers booked for Juneau |include Lillian M. Vogt, Christine | Halversen, Al Shyman, Mrs. M. Ly- cette, H. L. Faulkner, Archie | Shiels, E. P. Ziegler, George Folta. | George Willey, Mrs. Charles Au- bert, Mrs. Hart, Hugh McVay, Ann McDonough, Jerdes Winther, H. F. iP(ml and wife, Richard W, Evans, Franklin Reenstrom, Irene | Reenstrom | —rd T MRS. WOLNEY HERE | Mrs. Robert Wolney and daughter returned to Juneau on the steamer Columbia after visiting with rela- tives in the states. e .——— MRS. TUROFF RETURNS After spending a few weeks in the states, Mrs. L. W. Turoff returned on the steamer Columbia, BROWDER SAYS ~ BRIBE OFFERE Communist Party Secrefary Testifies Before Dies | | WASHINGTON Sept. 6. — Secretary of the Communist Party The |tee yesterday that a mysterious Mr | fered to donate $250,000 to the party in 1936 if it would make Roosevelt its Presidential candidate. Browder said Mr. Davidson | him he represented a group of per- "sons ideologically opposed to Com- | munism but was willing to make the | deal. | Browder declared that he believed the group of Republicans hoped tc |use the “comparative unpopularity of the Communists to defeat | President. | Browder said Mr. Davidson appeared when he (Browder) the information of the bribe” to the Democratic 'NO GOLD the dis- gave “offere leader DREDGING | FOR JUNEAU, 1939 There will be no deep sea gold ‘dredges operating near Juneau this | vear, according to word received in | Juneau today from inventor John | Williams. Williams had inlended to bring north a 6,000-ton ship equipped with ten deep sea dredges of his own design, this spring, to dredge up gold bearing sands on the floor of Stephen Passage off the entrance to Limestone Inlet. new hydrostatic pressure dredg that are exploring hitherto unknown dredging depths, said, however, that he hoped to bring the equipment north next spring. ‘ to Commons | sl | LONDON, Sept. 6. Winston | Churchill, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, told the House of Commons today that 125 passengers aboard the torpedoed British steamer Athenia are still unaccounted for. Churchill asserted the German | U-boat torpedoed the liner and afterward came to fhe surface and | fired a shell which exploded on the middle deck. The torpedo struck the ship near the engine, room on the port side | Will constitute the Alaska Air De- Earl Browder, told the Dies Commit- | when the craft was about 250 miles gunned and bombed Warsaw repeat- | Warsaw and about 60 miles east northwest of Ireland at 11:45 o'clock Survtys are now underway for the Davidson, otherwise unidentified, of- a m. (Pacific Coast time) on Sep- | tember 3. | Churchill said there were 1418 persons aboard the Athenia, includ- told | ing 315 in the crew. He said the capable of being transformed into |lier in the day of Kelce, the Ger- Athenia was not armed for defense and carried no guns. .- — | SHRINE DEGREES FOR CANDIDATES Nile Temple, Seattle, Pulls| Off Ceremonial at | Fairbanks FATIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 6. — | The Farthest North Shrine Club | convened here last night with five representatives of Nile Temple of Seattle who journeyed 2,000 miles to confer degrees on a class of can- didates. | BURNER IS FLOODED; | FIREMEN GIVEN RUN A gravity feed oil burner was! temporarily flooded at Caroline Todd's Studio on Third Street, op- - | The remarkable inventor of the|posite the Hotel Juneau this noon, i"““-‘"“ " 's | giving firemen a one-block run. | No damage was done and the fire | | in the roaring burner had subsided I by the time firemen arrived on the scene, | announ Bombing (By Associated Press) Places Doomed BERLIN, Sept. 6 —Capture by the Announcement is made by the|German army of Krakow City, of- German Army headquarters that|ten spoken of by the Poles as “Po- the Polish Capital City of Warsaw | land's Heart” is officially announc- is now partially in ruins as the ed by the German command result of disasterous air raids. | The General leading the army | Representatives of foreign gov-|into Krakow went immediately to ernments have left Warsaw, also Wawel Castle and Cathedral to ren- a large part of the population. der homage to the late Marshal The Polish command says the |Pilsudski, Poland’s strong man whom | Polish army is holding a firm line | the Germang claimed was their | 35 miles from Warsaw. friend. German planes have Krakow is 140 miles southwest of | machine~ lof the German-Polish border across German Ships Sunk which the Nazi forces swept early The British Admiralty announces last Friday morning that three German merchant shiy Others May Fall have been-sunk. The ships were With the announced capture ear- edly. reached mmlh”i further | man armies have 25 that not a life was lost |strategic goal and only a short dis- in the sinking of the ships and | tance away from San Domierz, the crews were safely taken off | where the Poles are centering a new The Admiralty also announces|munitions and arms industry. that several “British merchantmen | Expressions of confidence in offic- have been attacked or sunk by Ger- | ial rman circles are that San man undersea craft.” | Domierz will also capitulate soon his indicates that U-boats are before the German steam roller again roving the high seas As Polish Silesia, and its valuable | British Take Heart |industries are in German hands,| The British Empire is heartened |and Krakow fallen and capture of at the action of the South Africa|San Domierz only a matter of time,| Assembly tabling the neutrality res-,official Germany believes effective olution by Premier Jeb Hertzog and |Polish resistance is near the end. | 1 forcing his resignation. | - .o Bremen Missing | The German headquarters admit | AN B IANISI ' IS MISSING; SEARCH ’ there is still no word regardin; the fate of the luxury liner Bremen | | PORT ANGELES, Wash., Sept. 6 { warships. The Admiralty which is believed furtively seeking a neutral harbor while the British | and French ships chased over the | high seas in search of the valuable craft, { - —Rangers have started a search of the Mount Olympus Nationgl Park | for a Cleveland botanist, Miss Mar- Suit for divorce was filed today|ion Steffens, who has not been in District Court by John Earl|geen for ten days Simpson against Leona Greenaway Miss Steffens spent the past seve unds of incompata-|eral weeks collecting rare plants | and flowers on the 8150 foot moun- tain peak | Park rangers found her camp near| Blue Glacier but she has not ap- peared there since last Saturday. DIVORCE CASE ility. R TO VALDE enrr Gerstman, traveling man, sailec for Valdez on the Columbia, appeared in the dim moon- light over the city. French guns immediately answered the call of “air raid” and shells were soon bursting at a high altitude resisting the raiders. No authentic information has been given out whether bombs were dropped. The blackout interrupted an official British and French short wave broadcast to the United States being given by John Lloyd of the Associated Press, which is now official announcer for the two govern- ments, U.S. Neufral, Present War, Declir_es FDR Proclamations Are lssued -Nationals Barred from Aiding WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Presi- Rooscvelt has proclaimed the U Slales neutral in the new worid war and invoked the neutral- ity act covering trade with belliger- ent nations. The President declared in his first proclamation that the United States is on friendly terms with all nations involved. American citizens are prohibited from 2 in the armed forces of any jorent nation or aiding either side in any way. The proclamations set up elabor- ate rules regarding the use of United States ports by ships of warring na- “(Continued on Page Two)