The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMF” mc————— VOL. LIV., NO. 8201. JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, SE PTEMBER 7 ‘)3‘) " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN €ENTS GERMAN PILL BOXES TAKEN BY FRENCH eemss—y | Nazi Forces Repulsed by Poles At Warsaw DEFENDERS ! PUTTINGUP RESISTANCE| Are Backed—Againsf Qut- skirts of Capital City, Fighting GERMANS (LAIMING T0 HAVE PINCER MOVEMENT Berlin Fails to Mention Conflict Raging on Western Front (By Associated Press) Poland’s weary soldiers, with their backs almest against the cutskirts of Warsaw, are caught in one of three huge pincers, ac- cording to the German military. Elsewhere in the battle area, German sources said Poland has JOY HODGES WEDS NEWSPAPER EDITOR FDR May Call Congress by Next Weekend Official Sources Says 15th . of Sepfember May | 3 See Session NEW YORK, Sept. 7—The New York Times says official sources m {(]o' touch \Ux]\ Washington, D. C., disclosed today that President Roosevelt may call Congress into special session as early as Septem- ber fifteenth. | Congress will be called for the purpose of acting on revision of‘ the Neutrality Act of 1937. | President Roosevelt declared the present act aids Germany rather | than the Allies in preventing ship- | ments of war materials to European belligerents i . TENTATIVE DATE | SALEM, Or Sept. 7.—Senator | | Charles L. McNary said here this |afternoon that he has received a | telephone call from President Roo- | | sevelt setting September 18 tenta- Hi oric Picture Shows | lost the rich southwest distriet, while the Western army is de- fending Poznan Province, cut off by a similar encircling move- ment. Wed recently in her home town of Des Moines, Ta., was Joy Hodges, radio and motion picture star, and | Gilbert H. Doorly, assistant man- |agreed tively for a special session of Con- | gress Minority leader McNary said he with the President’s tele- | phoned suggestion to do what he This historic picture shows the signing in Moscow of the Soviet-German nonaggression pact, stunning development in a series of war scares Left to right, Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Josef Stalin; German Under-Secre- tary of State Gauss; German Legation Counsellor Hiigers; Vaschelaff Molotoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, shown signing; Count von der Schul- | that have had Europe jittery all summer. France, however, is attempt- ing to relieve pressure on the Poles by increasing the intensity of the push on Germany's West- ern front, where, according to an cfficial communique, heavy | In Berlm where no mention has yet been made of Western , all attention is centered on the Eastern front, where it is said the ammunitions depot of Westerplatte has been surrendered to the Nazis after seven days of bombing from the sca and from the air. - TWO U-BOATS ARE REPORTED SEEN IN CARIBBEAN WATERS Mexican Fiae—rmen Claim to Have Sighted Craft | -Both Refueled (By Associated Press) Two German subfarines are re- ported operating in the Caribbean Sea in search for British and French shipping. Mexican fishermen report the two U-boats have been sighted and an- other report reaching Mexico City, says the undersea ravagers refueled at Caracas, Venezuela. There have been no reports of attacks on shipping in the Carib- bean Sea and the United States pa- trol ships have not sighted the Ger- man craft. SUB ATTACKED BY DESII!OYERSi Henderson’s Convo y fo! Britain Drops Depth | seeking a neutral position for Italy. OFFICIAL TOLL aging editor of an Omaha, Neb., newspaper. Miss Hodges flew from Hollywood to meet her fiance in Omaha, continued the flight to an old fashioned family wedding in Des Moines. Duce Slallmg For Time; Has Hopes,Parley Mussolini Keepmg Eyeson U. S. - Awaits Ger- man Victory could to prevent any but neulml- ity legislation to be considered at the special session. — CABINET OF | PRESIDENT - INCREASED Roosevelt Adds Three More Advisors for Em- mergency Period | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — Presi- | dent Roosevelt has ordered a com- | | prehensive and effective drive| ROME, Sept. 7—It was predicted | ;oqingt espionage and has also en- | {here today that Premier Mussolini jgrgeq his Cabinet to include Secur- {will lead overturés of peace if Ger- ity Administrator Paul V. McNutt, | many is successful in her conquest|oan Administrator Jesse Jones and of Foland. | Works Administrator John Carma- | It is believed that the Rome-Ber- | |do for the duration of Emergency lin axis is still operating, with Mus- | period resulting from the European solini keeping his eyes trained on . what the United States will do. | = gecretary of Treasury Morgenthau _ enberg, German Ambassador to Moscow. Hlller Should Read Figures | On Census (By Associated Press) If the balance of population h: 1y bearing on the balance of pow- n this current World War, Chan- cellor Adolf Hitler is faced with astounding worries. Here is the population lineup of the belligerents Germany 86,600,000 Slovakia 4,000,000 r, these nations face 32,248,000 France 43,000,000 Great Britain, in- cluding the Unit- ed Kingdom Australia New Zealand Union of South Africa 10,000,000 Elsewhere, the Canadian Parlia- ment is meeting today to decide her role in the present conflict has a population of 11,209,000. Egypt, bound by British treaty hus severed diplomatic relations with Germany. India has not announced direct 48,000,000 8,000,000 1,600,000 New Comrades of the I)onml Line Picture radioed from Berlin to New York. PROFITEERS ARE TO BE PROSECUTED: ATTORNEY GENERAL TAKING ACTION 'HARRY BRIDGES CASE TO EXTEND | INTO NEXT WEEK Defense Wants to Get Tes-| timony of Larry Doyle IntoHearing Record She | | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. — The Harry Bridges deportation hearing now into next week so that the defense can appears likely to extend Mussolini is said to have admitted | pog glso added three economists to | Action, but has invoked the Defense get ingo the record testimony of the | that Great Britain and France de- s gmergency Advisory Council. manded he declare Italy at war with | gtephen Early, personal secretary | one side or the other, as they would | ¢, president Roosevelt, said today ‘ ;ml] reclogrélzs ?Lnyl neul:rahwhmplea the Chief Executive has mnot yet| eaded it has been Te- pL:rzd p{or war with anybody, l;nd‘p]anm;d o im:gledmle gl e Con-\ gress to assemble has stalled for time to consider, it |® e i s said. Meanwhile, pressure from the Va- | tican is still being brought to bear, German Navy Ships Hit by RAFBombers LONDON, Sept. 7.—Prime Minis- | ter Chamberlain told the House of | FROM ATHENIA | DISASTER 128 GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 7. of India Act. JAPAN DE(lARES . SHE IS NEUTRAL IN EUROPE WAR Official Announcement s Made by London Gov- ernment Heads LONDON, Sept. 7.—Information from the Ministry of War announc-| informed in Tokyo ed today that Japan has the British Ambassador | tht Japan “doesn’t intend to be in- man it wants most to question, At- torney Larry Doyle. Doyle was served with a subpoena in Minnesota last Saturday night after having been hunted by Federal Marshals for several weeks. | The Marshals were severely criti- cized when they failed to catch up with him immediately because of the fact that he had been photo- graphed in public and at the same time giving interviews to newspaper- men. } | The defense charges the former prosecutor from Portland assembled | | the evidence against Bridges in a | move to discredit the labor move- ment. The Australian-born CIO leader is charged with being Communist and having plans to overthrow the gov- | Bombs in channel | First official statement as to the‘ Commons today that Royal Air LONDON, Sept. 7—It was offic- ially revealed here today that a sub- marine gave British Ambassador Neville Henderson and his staff a scare while crossing the English Channel, coming home from Ber- lin. It was announced that the es- corting destroyers dropped depth bombs mid across the chanrlel| when sounds of submarine engines were picked up by destroyer “list- eners.” It was not revealed whether or not y any indications of striking the raid- er were observed. R b e | | In the Civil War, 349944 Union | soldiers were killed or died of disease. The South lost 129,159 men | hopes those number of dead or missing from the | torpedoed British liner Athenia was made today by the owners of the vessel who said 128 persons are un- accounted for. This supports the statement of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, and apparently shatters ill unaccounted for might have ships in the vicmitv of the disaster. ‘QUEEN CARRIES HER GAS MASK LONDON, Sept. 7. — The Queen carried a gas mask today when she and the King visited several déxl}l)\l' units, picked up by mher; | Force planes scored at least two hits on German pocket battleships in the Kiel Canal last Monday. AL B P LU =AERIAl BOMB EXPLOSION IS COPENHAGEN, Sept. 7.—Govern- ment informants said fragments of | aerial bombs at Esb)erg where two show the bombs make, The supposition is a British flier lost or dropped the bombs thinking they were dumped into the sea. were of British |a lasting wedge between Hitler and | William Penatt EXPLAINED NOw lfalian Newspapers E ernment by violence. volved” in Europe’s war, Several more government rebut- This is the first official notifi-| cation of Japanese neutrality. tal witnesses have appeared to link | Observers believed the announce- Bridges with the Communist party. ment indicates Germany's non-ag-| They also attacked the credibility | gression pact with Russia has driven |0f the defense witnesses. Attorney testified that he op- erated a San Francisco restaurant.| Pierres Chateau, on behalf of its creditors in 1935 and 1937 and wi |told by employees that Harry | Bridges frequently attended Com- unist meetings there. Two Aberdeen, Wash., women | Mrs. Gertrude Davis and Mrs. Goi ,don Castor, wives of previous wit- —Italun newspa- | nesses, testified that their husbands | the Japanese. e Limited fo 4 Pages' ROME, Sept. 1. persons were killed” Monday night, | pers have been ordered to limit their mwended meetings of the top fac tmn‘ issues to four pages in order to con-|Communist group in the fashionable | serve the nation’s newsprint supply Magnolia Bluff district of Seattle.| and also the supply of cellulose The women said they were told that which is used in the manufacture of | Bridges was present but they dm‘ munitions, |not see him. J ASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—At- General Frank Murphy told interviewers today that the Department of Justice has been working out anti-profiteering measures since last Saturday. The Attorney General declined other comment except to inti- mate profiteers would be prose- cuted and District Attorneys have been so notified. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said there no legi- timate reason for the current price increase, “We are not at war and we have large available supplies,” said Secretary Ickes. HANDFUL OF POLES GIVE OVER DEPOT Western Garrison of 120 Decides Against Sui- cide Defeat BERLIN, Sept. 7—It was an- nounced here officially today. that the Polish garrison of 120 men has | surrendered the ammunition depot | of Westerplatte, in the harbor of Danazig. The little Polish unit had been under German fire by the Navy and | Air Force since September 1. The surrender allayed fears that the gallant defenders might become a suicide squad, set off the ammuni- tion dump and destroy Danzig. The defenders were accorded spec~ ial honors when they finally sur- rendered. e Radios of German Ships in Mexican Waters Sealed Up| MEXICO CITY, Sept. 7—Mexican authorities have sealed all radios of all German merchant ship which | have sought a sanctuary in Mexican ports. LINER BREMENIN NEUTRAL PORT IS CLAIM MADE NOW German Government Re-| ports Ship Will Remain Where Is for Time WAR MOVES INTO NAZI FORT ZONE Huns Ret i?i—n-g fo Strong Positions as French Get Victory BRITISH BRING UP REINFORCING ARMY | Major Batfle Believed fo Be Brewing for Al- lied Thrust (By Associated Press) German forces were giving ground on the Western front to- day as the combined forces of France and Great Britain begn to show evidence of gaining speed. This is the first infor- mation as to what the British forces have been doing. Thou- sands have been moved across the English Channel. A report from Basel, near the French - German-Swiss ' frontier, said the first line of pill boxes held by the Nazi forces in the formidable Slegfrid Line, were seized last night, The occupation was made by veteran troops from the French Maginot Line following a heavy barrage of field and fierce aerial attack by bombers and ground strafers. From Paris came a dispatch this afternoon that the French Army has fought its way into Germany's Bienwald Forest, north of Lauterbourg, French key to the entire Western front. In the wake of the victorious BERLIN, Sv[)l 7 —~The German government announces that the $20- 000,000 liner Bremen has safely ar-| rived in an unnamed neutral port, | believed to be in South America. | She will remain there until the war | ends. % STRANGE | NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Marine cir- | cles disclaim any news of the arrival | of the Bremen in a neutral port and |say it is exceedingly strange no ac- tual report has been received of the whereabouts ot the lmer SLOVAKIANS ARE TOLD TO STICK | CLOSE TO NAZIS | Polish Terfit?ry Occupied May Be Refurned fo Nafion BRATISLAVIA, Sept. 7. — The advance of German troops into for- | mer Slovakian territory is cited by | Premier Tiso as a justification of the | | Slovak policy of close relations with the Reich, Premier Tiso told. the Executive Committee of the Slovak People's | Party that Slovakian districts whl(h‘ {had been lost to Poland have now | been liberated. Tiso declared that | there no longer could be any doubt‘ |that the best interests of Slovakia | could be served by continued co- operation with Germany 1 Although he did not say so di-| |rectly, Premier Tisé intimated that the former Slovakian he believed territory now occupied by German troops would evensually be incorpor- ated into the new Slovakian state. - oo ITALY SEIZES 100 INDOPE SMUGGLING TRIESTE, Italy, Sept. 7—A hun- | dred crew members of the Italian | liners Vulcania and Marco Polo were arrested here on charges of illicit traffic in heroin, most of it d stined for North America. Those arrested were believed to be part of an important narcotics ring op- French forces, the British Army was moving up reinforcements coincident to France’s an- nouncement that the tri-color flag was on German soil. Dispatches said the Germans are slowly withdrawing into the main forts of the Siegfried Line. Army observers passed the op- inion today that the first major battle of the current World War will likely occur at this point, and that the moving up of Brit- ish forces signifies that the com« bined armies of Great Britain and France will be hurled against the Siegfried defenses to carry the balance of the war di- rectly into German lands, 41 MISSING AFTER NEW SUB ATTACK U-Boat Raider Fires on Lifeboat of British Freighter LISBON, Sept. 7. — Twenty-nine survivors of the torpedoed British freighter Manaar, brought here to- day on the Dutch steamer Mars, declared two score persons are still missing. The survivors said their vessel was | torpedoed without warning off Por- tugal las tnight and that 41 of their crew of 88 are as yet unaccounted for. The 7,000 ton Manaar was bound from Calcutta to Liverpool. Survivors said the sub came to the |surface after firing the torpedo, and shelled and destroyed one of the Manaar's life boats, killing one, and wounding four, one of which wound- ed crew members died enroute here. In addition to the 29 brought here on the Mars, a Portuguese liner brought in 16 British and Hindu sur= vivors from the Manaar. P Many women of India prefer soap nut, fruit of a tree, to soap ‘t*xullng from here. \ for washing woolens and silks,