The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8205. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA Heavy Conflicts Rage on ALLIED WAR COUNCILIS IN SESSION Secret M e_e-ITn g of Two Powers Indicates Heavy Offensive POLES SAY GERMANS HELD AT STANDSTILL French Baflfig Siegfried | Line-Shelling Indus- frial Town (By Associated Press) | Prime Minister Chamberlain and | Premier Daladier are holding a meeting of the Supreme Council of the French-British War Council to- day in France. Secrecy surrounds the meeting,| held while Germany is reported to | have made sweeping gains in Po- land and action on the Western Front seemed to foreshadow a French-British major offensive. the historic Burgundy Gate on the ning northeastward from France in in map form is the setting for the front. 22" SWITZERLAND eZRicH @BERNE According to best information, the French Army is attacking Ger- | many's west wall along the Moselle Valley on the north—and toward e e e € 7 ——— _ PRICE TEN CENTS WARFARE DECLARED BY GERMANY European Italy May Now Join With Nazis | Fascist Nev?papers Indi- cate Nation fo Step Into War (By Associated Press) Great Britain and France look | | with worried eyes toward Italy as | the Italian newspapers dropped pre- | vious neutral stand and adopted a | tone favorable to its axis partner, | Germany. | The Allies fear that the, swing |in sentiment of the controlled Fas- | cist press indicated that Premier Mussolini has decided that the time | has come for Italy totake an actual part in the European war. | The Italian press has heretofore |viewed German war news with | friendliness and has until now re- | frained from adopting a critical at- | titude toward France and Great | Britain. The newspapers are now es- pecially caustic in their criticisms of the plans to blockade Germany, and predicted failure for the whole \Lakc of plan. ~Constance | |" mne newspapers hinted broadly 50 Miles | that Germany will not be isolated (from her friends. Work on an in- | ternational highway to connect the W i z /03,/\ ®FREIBURG 2. ? ¢ d was spurred by further executive or- | ders. Some of the plans for recon- struction of certain portions of the| road have been thrown out and in-| south—a 20-mile-way valley run- to the famous Black Forest. Here new battleground on the western centers of the axis powers difectly’ England First three days of European warfare saw no German attempt to attack England’s vulnerable east coast, which, although open to the North Sea, is heavily fortified, as indicated in the above photo. Shown is one of Britain’s big guns, part of an el Soldiers in photo are equipped with gas masks. Bridges “Hearing |stead the workers were ordered to| | concentrate on sections which so far | | | | | of Juneau, A French communique said the council “confirmed completely” the | determination of Great Britain and France to help Poland. Close Around Warsaw A German communique said Nazi forces were closing around Warsaw and had crossed the rail- way due east of the capital. Another announcement said Poz- | nan, and other former German cities in western Poland, have beta| captured, cutting down the size| of a huge loop that encircles the| BY AUX“_IARY OF territory which has still held out,| despite further German penetra- AMERI(AN I.EGIO“ tions. | French dispatches from the —_— Western Front reported advance e« French guards had driven a wedge SIX JU neau women Are‘ into advance fortifications of Ger- . many’s Siegfried Line, in heavy Chosen fOI’ VaHOIlS fighting. e " ity 15 shetlea Positions The wedge was reportedly driven| east of Saarbrucken, where arm-i FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 12— lery today pounded the German The complete list of officers chosen industrial city. by the Auxiliary of the American French reports said the city's de- | Legion at the convention here is as fenses have ‘“slightly turned.” follows: German Army Field Headquar-| Elizabeth Nordling, ters announced a three-front of-|President. fensive has been launched in Po-| Florence O'Neill, of Cordova, First land east of Lodz and northeasy Vice-President. of Warsaw. | Ruth Morgan, of Ketchikan, Sec- Contrary to German claims, ond Vice-President. however, the Polish General Staff| Betty McCormick, of Juneau, Sec- said German forces have been | retary-Treasurer. 2 fought to a standstill, at least tem-| Madge Driscoll, of Fairbanks, His- porarily. | torian, The German Supreme Army Com- chmi"ude Bradford, of Wrangell, a S haplain. mand declared however, that n;l L Weskinian, atiatia, Sérodats «Conunued on Page Eight) |at-Arms. ————————— Edna Raynor, of Anchorage, Na- }tional Executive Committeewoman. H | Esther Gullufsen and Marian 2 p'emle's | Hendricksen, of Juneau, Alaska, | Department Committeewomen. Mildred Culver, Eunice Hahn, Lu- A . | cille Stonehouse, Ina McPhee, Ruth re o In | Chase, Edna Polley, delegates to the | National Convention. | Most of the Legion Convention | I delegates left aboard Monday morn- | etre' ee ing’s train for home via Anchorage ‘and Seward. 1 ier! gy | Chamberlain and D_aladler‘"[wemv.mo Men Drift Conferrng Wilh o Day af Sea Affer . . | | Big Council l It Kk PARIS, Sept. 12—British Prime’Shlp HIB Mlne' Sinks‘ Minister Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier, “somewhere in AMSTERDAM, Sépt. 12. — France,” are meeting with the Su-i'l‘wemy-two crew members of the preme British and French War Dytch steamer Mark have reached Councils. | the safety of Danish soil after two| The communique issued from}days on the high seas in open life- Premier Daladier's office said two| boats. other members of the Council at-| The Dutch steamer w:s blown up tended, Gen. elin, Commander- | when it struck a mine off the in-Chief of the British and French Danish coast. | armies, and Lord Chatfield, British| The captain and other officers| Minister of Coordination of De-|were wounded but all hands man-| Tense, |aged to escape the sinking craft Premier Daladier left the War in two lifeboats. One of the boat-i Ministry in Paris shortly after lunch | loads was picked up yesterday by today noon, accompanied by his|a Danish Coast Guard ship and military aide. They traveled out of | the other lifeboat reached shore| Paris in a powerful military car. during the night. OFFICERS ELECTED 44 SHELLS, ONE rare unopened. Most of the activity| |on the road work is going on in| | Ttaly. i | The TItalian press stated that the| |road was not a large factor in their | | plans and that there were other ave- 1mu=s of transpoitation. | Conference Is Called | Shortly after the Italian papers | appeared on the streets the British envoy to Rome appeared at the Ttal- ian foreign office and had a 45- | minute conversation with Count Ci- | |ano. The topic of their conversation | |was not discussed but it was as- Boai A"a(kers sumed that the British representa- ‘tive had inquired about the mean- HORTA, Azores, Sept. 11. —ing of the new tone and its possible Twenty-four survivors of the British|relation to Italy’s future foreign ship Gartavon have arrived here policy. aboard the Swedish ship Castor. Earlier today Italian newspapers The Gartavon was sunk 300 miles | hinted broadly that there was a pos- off Ushand, France, while enroute sibility that Italy might side with from Gibraltar to England. | Germany as soon as a definite line The rescued crewmen remarked on |of supplies had been established for the extreme youthfulness of the|Germany from Russia. First a path- submarine officers and crew, who way must be cleared across Poland | fired 44 shells and one torpedo. |so that the supplies may travel| across the country without inter- ruption. Soviet Russia’s Moves Another mysterious element to the European situation was added by the ¥ | sudden outbreak of military activity | ¥ | by Soviet Russia. Vague and unsat- TORPEDO SENDS ONE SHIP DOWN Rescued Crewman Tells of Youthfulness of U- Employees, Western, Union, Are on Sirike Is Ended Special Examiner Goes East-Will Make Recommendations SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 12. —The deportation hearing against | western CIO leader Harry Bridges has ended after being in session since July 10. Still unquestioned was the man the defense charged with heading | a conspiracy against Bridges to dis- credit the labor movement, Attor-| ney Larry Doyle. Doyle was due in San Francisco| yesterday but a wire from Cheyenne, | Wyo., was received that he could not arrive until today. Doyle also | was due to show why he should not | |be cited for contempt for ignoring | a subpoena. The defendant, Harry Bridges, was placed on the witness stand for the fourth time in yesterdays session. For the fourth time he denied un- |der oath that he is or ever has| been a Communist or advocate of overthrowing the government by force. He denied that he had at- tended any of 20 or 30 Communist s Coast Defense Awaits Nazi Ai | Western Union might be called May Be Nationwide SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. The strikd of the San Francisco Western Union employees threat- ens to develop into a nation wide walkout. The national President of the CIO American Communications As- sociation, Mervyn Rathborne, de- clared a national strike against next week unless the company agrees to bargain collectively with the San Francisco local of the union. The union demands recognition, higher wages, reduced hours and other concessions. The company said it would bargain only with the association of Western Union employees. Ban Flying Over (anada ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12.— The Civil Aeronautics Authority headquarters here has received a | radio from Washington, D. C., to notify all Alaska pilots they cannot fly over Canada without special per- mission due to the war, isfactory explanations were given out by high Soviet officials who stat- ed that the army was being concen- trated along the Polish frontier to prevent retreating Polish soldiers from entering the U.8.S.R. British observers believed that the | Russian mobilization might be a warning to Germany that this is where the Polish border stands, and Russian territory begins. However most military observers do not con- cur with this viewpoint and choose to believe that the commercial pacts and friendship agreements were but a small part of a far-reaching secret agreement that undoubtedly exists. It is believed that perhaps Poland | might be slated for partition between Russia and Germany. It was believed possible that when the Germans have conquered the area the Rus- sians will move in to police it and then allow the Germany army to be free to fight Prance and Britain. HARRY WATSON ON WAY T0 FAIRBANKS Harry Watson, Secretary to Gov. John W. Troy, left on the Aleutian today for the Westward, enroute to Fairbanks on a brief business trip. | Mrs. Watson accompanies him. ———.———— Panama Canal traffic tolls for the first seven months of 1939, ils 25th anniversary year, totaled a little more than $13,00,000. ‘meeungs with former Communist | organizer Miles Humphreys, a gov- ernment witness. Humphreys said he | had seen Bridges at many| meetings. Law school dean, James Landis, | the special examiner at the Brfldgés, hearing, ordered a deposition taken from Doyle when and if he arrives in San Francisco. The defense charges the former] Portland Special Prosecutor with most of the evidence against Bridges, | most of it allegedly by xmpruperl methods. ! ‘The Harvard dean left for home | last night. He gave the government and defense attorneys until Sep- tember 24 to file briefs. He said he | would make his recommendations in | the Bridges case to Labor Secretary | Perkins by October 24. — e Goering Goes | To Front Now[ BERLIN, Sept. 12—Field Mar- shal Goering has left for the East- ern Front to join a unit of the air | force in Poland. | Goering as Air Minister is Su-| preme Commander over the Air| Forces. It was announced that| Goering. had completed tasks in connection with his post as chair- man of the Ministerial Council. r Attack aborate east coast defense network, ready to resist any Nazi thrust by air. Malanuska Gold Strike | Is Reported R Biggest Mine in World, Claims Engineer of Colony Butte ‘ Sailoe’s Goodbye | . B | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12— | | doing preliminary digging to deter- | mine whether mining is feasible on Massive Butte around which the | farms are scattered. i Civil Engineer Antone Anderson | |said the prospect assays $2.15 per | ton, Colonist Lauren Smith is credited with the discovery on the Butte, now used as grazing land. Anderson said: “If the proposi- | tion is a tenth as big as it looks| {this will be the biggest gold mine in the world.” | i { SENATOR BORAH PLANSTO FIGHT | LIFTING EMBARGO WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Iso- lationist Senate Leader William E. Borah, has arrived in the capital determined to fight any attempt to lift embargo on arms shipments to warring nations. Borah's return to Washington came as President Roosevelt con- Adolf Hitler has flown to the Polish |sidered calling of a special session front the official German news|of Congress to revise the neutral- agency DNB announces. )ity law. Hitler landed in a plane behind; The Idaho Senator vowed he the German lines bet~=="h Lodz and | would try to block any attempt *o Warsaw and traveled within a mile |revive the Administration’s plan to of the front where he “could hvarilm the ban on arms shipments. the staccato chatter of machine gun| Senator Borah led the fight last | fire.” D | July which resulted in the block- e — {ing of neutrality consideration at | the last session. The (dako Sena- Are Reported o Have Al- An English naval reservist called to the colors kisses his little daughter goodbye at Waterloo station as he leaves London, General mobiliza- tion brought British forces to full wartime strength, HITLER HEARS MACHINE GUNS WHEN AT FRONT Chancellor Lands from Plane - Visifs Front German Lines BERLIN, Sept. 11. — Chancellor | | ———————— | i - HOPKIN | | | British troops have landed in France Dospital for treatment for more |tor said that without waiting for ready Taken Part S IMPROVES and taken part in the advances in|than a week. He was suffering | Matanuska colonists report they are | Fronts NAZI FIRE | BEAIMED, U.S. SHIPS Vessels Must Halt at Com- mand of U-Boafs or Be Shelled GREAT BRITAIN ALSO RAIDING SHIPS AT SEA Conlraband_C;rgoes Are Being Seized-Two Re- ports @irmed BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull said his Depart- ment is assembling full facts behind the blockade stopping American ships and he hopes to be able to make a statement soon on the Department’s con- clusions. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. — State Department officials to- day studied in silence the report that the German submarine commander has served notice that all American ships disre- garding the command to halt will be fired upon. The State Department offic- ials also are considering as well the statement that Great Bri- tain has seized as contraband a cargo of resin consigned to Hamburg on an American ves- sel. Capt, Nicholson, Executive Vice-President of the Waterman Steamship Corporation, reports that the corporation’s steamer Wacosta was halted last Satur- day three hours off the Irish coast by a German U-Boat and after a thorough search, the ship was permitted to proceed on her voyage, Glasgow to New York. Informed quarters in Rerlin, in the meantime, reported that Germany will sink any ship at- tempting to carry to Great Bri- tain any articles on the British contraband list. It is also reported, and con- firmed, that Great Britain has seized as contraband, 600 barrels of resin consigned to Hamburg aboard another Waterman Steamship Corporations ship, the Warrior. Archie Mills, manager of the Corporation at Pensacola, ‘Flor- ida, said he believed the resin cargo is covered by insurance. SUBS SCORE BIG TOTAL, SHIPS SUNK New 9,000-fon Tanker ls Lost by British fo U- Boat A_Nacker (By Associated Press) Allied shipping losses approached the 100,000 mark in tonnage today as another British vessel was re- ported torpedoed. The British Ministry of Infor- mation reportig on Germany’s un- ceasing submarine warfare, an- nounced the British tanker, Inver= iffey, a 9,400 ton vessel, was torped= oed and sunk near Havre yester- day. The crew was rescued by the Standard Ofl tanker R. G. Stewart, and later transferred to the City of Joliet, bound from New Orleans to Antwerp. The Inveriffey was built in Ham= burg, last year, and has been run- ning between the Gulf of Mexico and England. One other casualty reported was | any special session of Congress he |would carry on his own fight | against repeal of the embargo law | by appealing to the people. . in Advance ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 12— | Commerce Secretary Harry L. Hop- LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Minis- | Kins is reported somewhat im- try of Information announces that|Proved. Hopkins has been in the German territory. |from an abdominal ailment. Phy- How many men are in the expedi~ | sicians said that he probably tionary force and other details are| would be out in about another, not announced, week. l the blowing up of the 2,700 fon Fin- mish bark, Olivebank, about 105 " (Continued on Page Eight)