The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e e —— ——— ) VOL. LIV., NO. 8206. et ]UNhAU ALASKA, WEDNESD/ \\. SEPTEMBER 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'CONGRESS CALLED IN SPECIAL SESSION Will Figh't Until Hitler Menace Is Removed PLEDGE IS GIVEN FOR BRITISHERS Prime Mini_sié_r Chamber- lain Makes Announce- | ment of Plans WARSAW DEFENSES ARE CRUMBLING, SAY NAZIS British Troops Join French in Operations Along Western Front w (By Associated Press) Germany today reported new | thrusts into Poland as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pledged continuation of the war “un- | til the menace of Hitlerism is final- | ly removed.” “Great Britain and France are in agreement on this stand,” Cham- berlain told Parliament. A German communique said to- day: “Enormous numbers” of Poles have been captured in wiping out of Polish resistance south of Radom | in the sweeping German offensive to | completely encircle Warsaw. ‘! German Report The Germans reported they ho— lieved the Polish capital’s outlying defenses are crumbling. Chamberlain’s statement to the‘ House of Commons, reviewing mili- | tary operations, said British troops | in France have not gone into action yet. However, French military dis- patches rejorted a “great number of well-equipped British troops” have| already joined in combat agamsl the Germans on the Western Front. | German sources said. strong de-| tachments of Nazi forces crossed the | railway due east of Warsaw. i Nearing Lwow It was also declared by the Ger- mans that a German vanguard has | reached the outskirts of Lwow, 22| miles southeast of Warsaw. The Warsaw radio reports asserted | that the German armies hammering | the Polish capital have been push- (Continued on Page Two) Allies Will Fight Nazis " Info Finish Germany Warned Britain Will Battle Fire with Fire by Bombers LONDON, Sept. 13.—Great Brit- ain’s wartime Parliament today echoed solemn Governnient assur- ance of a unified French-British de- termination to end “once and for all” the pressure of Naziism. A stern warning was given Ger- many that Great Britain will not tie her hands on aerial bombing if Hit- ler breaks his pledge in the same score. Chamberlain, spruce and confident after the first session of the Su- preme War Council on French soil yesterday, almost hissed the words as he told the House of Commons that both France and Great Britain will fight until they have banished the “intolerable strain of living under the perpetual threat of Nazi aggression.” Foreign Minister Halifax told the House of Lords that Great Britain’s pledges for restraint of bombing op- erations on civilian centers are bas- ed on a similar pledge of restraint from Germany. Halifax said the British “hold themselves completely free to take such action as they deem appro- priate “if Nazi bombing planes are turned loose without discrimination on Polish civilians.” | WARLEADER { rior of the first World War, 79th Picnic? No ! Evacuation ,fifl ok Thig is not a scene of children going to a picnic. These kiddies are shown | in a drill for evacuation of London. its citizens as possible out of its big Great Britain is rushing as many of cities, fearful of air raids. London alone, is evacuating nearly 3,000,000 persons, URGES FULL SIZE ARMY Pershing Warns Againsi: Repetition of 1917's | "Costly Lesson” | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Gen. John J. Pershing, the grand old war- on his birthday, today, urged Con- gress to provide funds at the com- ing session “to carry the military | establishment of this nation to its full peace time strength.” Full strength of the U. S. peace- | time army would be 280,000 men in | the regular Army and 424,000 in the National Guard. Since the war broke out in Eu- rope, President Roosevelt has al- ready ordered expansion of the Army to 227,000 and 235,000 for the National Guard. The venerable old Commander- | in-Chief of the AEF said in his| birthday statement to newsmen, “I| must again recall our deplorable; situation when we entered the World | War 22 years ago. | “Then not a single move was made from a military point of view to pre- pare the United States for that war. That experience, with its costly les son, I'm happy to say, appears cer tain to be avoided in the event w should again become involved in war.” The general issued the statement | from Walter Reed Hospital, where | he is undergoing a periodic physi- cal check. Archie Whife Passes Away HOONAH, Alaska, Sept. 13—(Spec- ial to The Empire)—Archie White, prominent native of Hoonah, died at 7 o'clock this morning. ‘ White was President of the Holy Cross Society and a leader in the town’s affairs, He was 15 years old when he was present at the ceremonies when Al- | aska was taken over from Russia, Sunken Sub Squalus Is Ralsed Now BULLETIN. PORTSMO["II[ N. H, Sept. 13.—The Squalis, which went down last May and has abeard 26 dead, was suc- cessfully surfaced at 2:05 o’clock this afternoon, Eastern Stan- dard time and taken in tow for the Portsmouth Navy Yard dry dock. Navy officials radioed craft has a 20 de‘ree list. e Fisheries fo Have Hearing the Here Saturday {Commissioner Jackson on Way fo Juneau Aboard Vessel Brant A hearing will be held at the | Bureau of Fisheries office in the| Federal Building here on Saturday morning to allow fishermen and lother interested parties to propose changes in the regulations for 1940. Such hearings are being held throughout Alaska this year as a | new policy of the bureau. Acting Commissioner of Fisheries Charles Jackson is on his way here | from Ketchikan on the bureau ves- sel Brant to conduct the hearing. Assistant Chief Seton H. Thomp- son of the Division of Alaska Fish- eries and Assistant Agent J. Steele Culbertson are also on the Juneau- bound Brant, which is inspecting salmon strcams on its way north. SRS ONE HALIBUTER SELLS AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 13—One hali- buter arrived today from the western banks, the Galveston, which sold (22,000 pounds for 11% and 11% cents a pound. Two vessels came in from the local banks with sable. The Maddock brought in 8,000 pounds and the Re- liance, 6,000 pounds, both selling for 5'% cents a pound straight, : if having started their voyage be-| —— North Atlantic ocean east of 30 de- PRIN. LOUISE "EVACUATION' IS OBVIATED Order Supe>rs~e(-ied—Ameri- cans Can Use Canadian Vessels Here The steamer Princess Louise dogk- in Juneau wait- ed yesterday evening while a hundred Juneauties ed in vain on the dock “evacuation of Americans” Canadian (belligerent nation) steamer as forecast earlier in the day. | Earlier, the U. S. Customs and CPR Agent V. W. Mulvihill had an-| nounced that according to the new- | 1y invoked United States neutrality | Jaws, Americans could not ride on vesva& of “belligerent” nations and Ifore the Preidential proclamation, | must get off the vessel at the ear- liest possible American port. | As The Empire reached the| streets, word came “rush” from Ca- nadian Pacific offices and the Cus- | toms that the order was not appli- cable to Alaskan waters and was in | force omy in the North Atlantic | “war zone.' barbed wire fence. | New Regulations | ! supplementary regulations issued | by the President under authoriza- tion given in the act provided that “American citizens may travel on vessels of any country provided, however, that travel on or over the grees west, and north of 30 degrees north, and travel over other waters | adjacent to the continent of Europe or adjacent islands shall not be per- mitted except when specifically au- thorized by the Secretary of State,” the Collector of Customs here was informed by telegram late yesterday afternoon from Collector Sol Haas| at Seattle. Haas had received a copy of the new regulations by airmail from Washington. Presumably a copy is in the mails on its way to Juneau.| The Associated Press today quot- ed Haas as saying in Seattle that Canadian waters are not in the war .zone and that sailing of Americans | jon Canadian ships in Pacific wa- ters is permissible. | Canadian Ports On Guard Canadian ports, however, are un- Hands tied to their backs, th ed away by a German soldier. by the German trooper. | (Continued on Puze Seven) ‘DUI(E OF WINDSOR READY TO ENGAGE ' INPRESENT WAR {Back in Enfild, He Re- quests Permission o Go to Front | LONDON, Sept. 13.—The Duke of | Windsor is back at home on English soil for the first time since he ab- dicated the throne in 1936 to marry the woman he loved. His American- | Planning To Continue born wife returned with him. However, they said they expected The Duke of Windsor saw service| the United States-Canadian-Alaska ' in Prance when he was only twenty.| Highway Commission to continue | He won the hearts of his compan- | investigations and prepare plans and WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. — Out- break of war in Europe, with the involvement of Canada, has damp- ened the hopes of some proponents of the United States-to-Alaska highway for early construction of | the long roadway that would wind | northward through British Colum- |bia and the Yukon Territory. They point out that Canada, en- tering the European war, would be unlikely to immediately pursue con- | struction of the project. ions because of his conduct on the|recommendations for financing the field of battle. It was necessary for 'em,erpmx- a large share of which him to obtain special permission 10| would probably be undertaken with accompany the soldiers to the ‘American money. trenches and engage in actual com-| The highway has often been bat at that time and his action was| talked of as a defense adjunct, not greatly restricted. |only to the United States but also Now he is reported to have asked | to Canada, which at present has that he be allowed to return to|few roads along its Western fron- France and fight with the troobs|tier. It also has been boosted as that are going to the aid of the|the path to fuller development of French who are driving back the remote Canadian and Alaskan re- |Germans far into their own terri-! sources. tory. Would Cost $25,000,000 About $25,000,000 would be re- FOR OLD COMMISSION lqutred to build the road, virtually LONDON, Sept. 13.—The Duke Of |all of which would be in Canada. Windsor, who kept his promise 0|1t would join the northern end of return to England if ever he Was|the West Coast Highway in the needed, is to take up an army com-| United States and form a part of mission, probably with his old Regi-| the long route that it is hoped ment of Grenadier Guards which|eventually will link Alaska with he headed during the World War.|the lower reaches of South Amer- The former King was Field Marshal|jeq on the active list as Colonel-in-Chie! Julius 'W. Jockusch, of the Welch Guards, the Galyeston, Texas, 1 t president of Auto Pro- | Polish Prisoners, Herded, Concentration Camp LAWMAKERS Backing up claims of capture of tens of thousands of prisoners in addition to stores of war materials, radiophoto above shows a hastily constructed Nazi ¢ oncentration camp with Polish soldiers behind a | Location of the camp was deleted by Nazi censors. meantime, were reported “fighting like lions” against German tank thrusts. Nazis March A wuy A ccused Polish Sni) pers Polish citizens—ace used by the Nazi of sniping—are shown being march- The scene is “somewh ere in Poland.” Note the complete equipment carried 'EUROPEAN WAR MAY NOW DELAY HIGHWAY TO ALASKA tective Association, voiced the opin- jon of most proponents of the super-highway when he said,” in connection with the recent meeting of the Alaska Highway Commission, that such & road, opening up the entire Western hemisphere to high- way commerce and travel, “would | have a profound influence on the future development of all the nations on this side of the world.” ——- War in China | CHUNKING, China, Sept. 13. Chinese forces report that they have checked several attempts by Japa- on the Canton River Delta. The Chinese war is still in pro-| gress in spite of overshadowing m- cidents now occurring in Europe. The city of Shanghai is reported threatened by a serious cholera epi- demic. S e HUGE WAR BUDGET OTTAWA, Sept. 13—The House of Commons p the govern- |'ment’s war budget last night, ap- propriating $100,000,000 to start Can- ada in her war against Germany Still Raging nese in the vicinity of Kougmoon | 'WILL MEET - ONSEPT. 21 Proclamation Is Issued To- day by Chief Execu- | five of U. S. 10 LIMIT LEGISLATION 10 NEUTRALITY ACTION 'Repeal of Arms Embargo i | (Clause Sought-Fight 1 Is Promised | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.— Preident Roosevelt has called Congress to meet in a special session beginning at noon on September 21. Although the President’s pro- clamation made no mention of the Neutrality Act, the Chief Executive has already stated in- formally he will seek repeal of the arms embargo clause and try to confine the session to that action. At the same time he signed the proclamation for the special session of Congress, the Presi- dent sent telegrams to a group of Democratic and Republican leaders in both the House and Senate asking them to meet him on the atfernoon of September 20 for an informal conference at the White House. While the President is anxious to not only limit the legislative scope of the session to the Neu- trality Act he would also like the session to end as quickly as possible. Many Senators, including Van- denburg, Borah and Nye, de- clared they will insist on a full debate although without any effort at a filibuster. ROOSEVELT 1S BACKING UPCANADA residen_l?ays He Will Never Permit Domin- ion fo Be Invaded WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt stood by his pledge to Canada today and declared that i the United States will never permit | the Dominion to be invaded by any | foreign power. The President told his news con- | ference that he considers Canada {included in the provisions of the Monroe doctrine in spite of the fact WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, — The | that it is not a part of the United State Department today made public | States and is a part of the British a telegram from Ambassador Biddle Empire. in Poland, saying the German air| The President made the pledge | forces are “taking advantage of |that the United States will prevent every opportunity without regard for | invasion of Canada if necessary, danger to civilian populations which | more than a year ago. may be involved.” Canada entered the present in- | The telegram, dated September 8, | ternational conflict by declaring war | added: “It Is also evident that Ger- |on Germany last Sunday. Isolation- | man bombers are releasing bombs | ist Senator Nye attacked Mr. Roose- | they carry, even when they are in|Velt’s foreign policy today because doubt as to the identity of their |he s-‘u}i‘ the president intends to re~ objectives.” vise e neutrality act and place Biddle cited a number of instances | America unofficially on the side of where such bombings occurred, Britain and France. The North Da- He said: “Attacks were made on |Kota Republican joined Idaho’s vet~ | my village and that of my neighbor, | €ran Senator Borah in declaring |and a heavy attack was made on|that Pl‘e would fl:ht any attempts to e repeal or amend the existing neu- trality act. Nye said he understood that the administration has prom- ised Britain and France to repeal the Johnson act which prohibits floating of loans in the United States Defenders of the Polish capital, | AMBASSADOR TELLS TALE’ OF BOMBINGS Biddle's Telegram Lists German Attacks on Civilians <Continued on Page Two) e WILL SUPPORT FDR } WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—Chair- man Sol Bloom of the House For- | eign Affairs Committee said today 'he believed Congress definitely will support President Roosevelt's stand and lift the arms embargo. Sald Bloom: “I think that it is now up to Congress, and that Con- gress will do its job.” by nations now in default on previ= ous loans. e idpiesto OLDTIMER PASSES ON James Brewster, 77, oldtimer of the Yukon, died recently in St. Mary's Hospital in Dawson. For the past several years he had been employed at Mayo.