The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1939, Page 1

U. S. GIVES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘“4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ———— v & MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN GENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8207. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939. ARNING TO BELLIGERENTS Major Battle Being Waged, Western Front | 7 . ; J | e for W : ard Upon Warsaw FREN IN A Smoke for War Prisoner Gruemng fo German Troops Press Forward Upon W arsau | . 3 ! R S, i el 2 EON rrive Here | » | : . ‘ NAZI SOIL - MidOctober | | - " : | Virgin Isles Governor May American Government fo Arfillery Fire Is Heard as. |y Take Steos Under | 7 ‘ | Succeed to Insular Pos- T T ake Steps Under In- ero riour Nears-vvar- . P SEA AND IN AR kNS DOWNEL i saw Still Holds Out | . sessions Position i ternational Law - | L { - NAZI IS | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — Dr. Z?J.';’.?.;s"fi?‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.— (By Assoctates Tiew | Ernest Gruening, newly appointed CITY BLACKED OUT The Unjted States Governmient News came through from the il sieetitng A T0 WAIT AIR RAID served notice on the warring Western Front today that French vi(‘mvernnr of Alaska, succeeding vet- [[TT][[BERLIN @ nations of the world today that Army Commanders prepared their eran Alaskan Gov. John W. Troy, it “reserves all rights of the forces this morning for another | retiring for his health, said today CITIES TAKEN., United States and its nationals GERMANS PUSH » p assault on the German cutposts | he expects to arrive in Alaska ON TO KRAKOW under international law,” and in the Saar Basin and other near- October 13 that this Government will take by valleys. A 2 LUCK®| U.S. EMBASS ¥ appropriate measures when The French forces are facing the Dr. Grurmn::Nl['\‘(urnod today from '0"“’“"‘ those rights are violated. ol 144 tion in aine. S heavily fortified positions of the o yacaiol e | Secretary of State Cordell » e . | The Director of Territories and New casiTAL Hull issued the delaration in a German west wall. 5 ; 7 Heavy artillery boomed all day vlsl;md Possessions did not give any | formal statement. yesterday from both the Seigfried indieation as to who will mcceed: He said: “The Government has and Maginot lines. him. J not abandoned any of its rights Except, for this exchange of ar- Possibilities have been voiced (hvl.al: as a neutral under international tillery fire, there was ominous calm §pe:supontans o Br Gmenioe S law.” along the entire front as both the be either wrence W. Cramer, Gov= The statement follows several % attacking and defending forces i ernor of the Virgin Islands, or Mrs. incidents involving the stopping awnited' s ‘Bero Hotb: E { | Leona Graham, Gruening’s present of American ships by belliger- By Peataots slistante ! | ents of both sides. The official early morning nar | i Nazi legions pressed closer to Warsaw in Germany’s “lightning war” against Poland. The devastating drive : bulletin of the French High Com- Ll sent diplomats and civilians fleeing from the city. On the Western Front, France was reported to have ;:Zl;?ngsa:i p?sl;:iogogg:pta::ed”?r: ; a’ry oy e /penctrated the Saar Valley; while Germans announced the capture of Krakow, ancient Polish capital. Map I(KES UR “G the course of the past few days.” i PR Mshianis ol % e S AR SRR L Observers said reinforcements v./5; " | | have moved into recently captured saled r 4 | L] zones and it is apparent that a o it stie % elner a s Awl‘ mbs mador mevement i8 1 be' begun &t A wounded Polish soldier, a German prisoner of war, got ig: | f P s | from this German tank corps member, as he and others like him . AY T | OPENIN plA D “Chbne our SRAEhERSCREH | awaited hospitalization. This picture was made “somewhere on the I.ASI “ o This afternoon the French War Eastern Front.” (Radioed from Berlin to New York.) o es Imony | Alaska Flsh o I T | PAY CITY TAX' FOR THIS EVENING| s Northland Should Be were closing in on ‘Saarbruecken . a' least as Good as and encountering “strong action GERMAN 0FF|(ER pAYS 'I‘akes Che(k for Expenses . T g | g : 3 b ey ey e " Bridges Case, hen Delinquent If Not Receiv- Ie Hiiegal Elaborate Enterfainment- Scandinavia : g : | ridges . g £ 2 [ Wars led, Lubli ’ S Tern o mee ol -I-RIBU-I-E ]'0 SOI.DIERS ki St ed by City Clerk Be Booths and Displays WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — : S 8 | v | A . Secretary of the Interior Har- foroe_avaseiog e Boesilion | | fore 4:30 o'Clock |Tells Congressmen of Mass| in Readiness g e g o8 g . ! f - : today, said Americans A radi i SAN FRANCISCO, Cl, Sept. 14. . ence Y, Wit il ol Sitpaina n —Attorney Larry Doyle accepted a Last day for paying City real and Plot fo Pirate Salmon |e e o ¢ o e e o ¢ o o | ihowa ook to Alaska instead v ing out but half ruined. | $131 check yesterday for his ex- personal property taxes is tomorrow, ifl Defel‘lse . PROGRAM TONIGHT . of war-torn Europe as a place Take pflsonfl:s [ penses as a defense witness in the after which taxes are delinquent, . ®| (o invest their money. b The | 1ksE ‘ol ket aieh| . Harry Bridges deportation case, City Clerk Harley J. Turner warned ® 7:30 o'clock — Concert by Ju- @ “Alaska, too long, has been isku;‘d SonIghe ;ald the Pre[:v-hw‘ | COPENHAGEN, Bept 14 — A then refused to testify. today. The City Clerk’s office will| SEATTLE, Sept. 14—E. L. Pet-|® neau High School Band. ®| regarded as a place to go dig Py wngun;,ed their advance | | St attions 1 itk p';i'd 4 rbuts| Doyle appeared before Special be open from 8:30 to 4:30 o'clock erson, Seattle purse sciner since) 8 x::;l‘l, o‘clo«-l:‘ — Dance by Ice ®| gsome gold and return home,” iy L i terota d h i I . a ‘d '® Examiner John Clarkson of the tomorrow to receive tax payments.| 1919, testified today at the Con- . 'orm Wiggle Girls. ®| JIckes said. “That never has 1 into . German- territory. an ,l;‘hve | to Polish courage "l'(‘ en [“l’d““‘“ Federal Securities and Exchange Taxpayers may pay half of their|gressional fisheries hearing here|®8:45 o'clock—Gene Rogers on the ® | peen conducive to development taken many German prisoners. This | SIARVA]‘ION I" accoffimg Fo remarks quoted In oo oo He took the check taxes by tomorrow and the other|that tightening of Federal regula-|® slack wire. ®| of a Territory. communique is the first to men- Dyfusty: newspepts: b covering his expenses for a trip half by March 15, without penalty,|tions plus competition of fish traps | ®9:00 o'clock—Miss Betty Daniels, ® ATl TRertalisy B Cres tion the taking of German prison- 3 The papers said that the officer from Minnesota and return. Then, |but if paid in full by tomorrow the|has driven Alaska purse seiners|® acrobatic dancing. ® | sources and climate to make for £13; on ithe: Woatery Font. T “ SI" A in the same statement estimated | iotonce lawyers started to ques- Payer is entitled to a cash discount|into “fish pirating” in a desperate|® 9:10 oclock—Ah Hing, ventrilo- gl vy v oslbigl ! Ge""'m. New Qiarsed SICHOA, Tt AR rtihf »hEaf%vem, tion Doyle about the evidence con- of two percent. effort to prevent being driven from|® quist. ®| gshould certainly be as highly French military observers said| e front at 15000 and Polish 1055€s ootino Bridges with the Commun-| Delinquent taxes are increased by |the seas. ©9:20 o'clock—Gene Rogers in ®| geveloped as the Scandinavian o o bt . 2 e Winh' c0|d DI'O S River;at Tearer 00 e ist party he refused to give any @ penalty of one percent a month. Peterson said 60 percent of Al-|® Juggling act. ® | countries.” the. Seartweusken sigie Was sn in- y p He termed modern warfare Vir-|,ncwer * He said that he decided oy 5 ) aska seined ‘salmon is taken il- 0 o'clock—Betty Daniels in | it b o S S dication the Germans were becom- TWO Feef to G | ve tiali. magsatwe, not to testify on advice of counsel legally, stolen from traps or caught Indian sun dance. . the The papers quoted the officer as aApq he would not do so unless or- in closed areas. 9:45 o'clock—Ah Hing, illusion- ¢ ing increasingly alarmed at extent of the French advance. | Heavy rains and fog brought | aerial activity on the Western| Front nearly to a standstill today, but the big guns on both sides continued to roar. Absence of air observers com- pelled gunners to fire blind, with | no accurate information on the Small Ray of Hope TIENTSIN, Sept. 14. — Intense suffering sweeps this country to-| day as 25,000,000 Chinese face star-, vation in floods incident to ter-| rific fall rains. Most of this cily and the country within 50 miles of here is under | saying that the Poles were most courageous fighters and that he realizes that it will be no easy task to conquer Poland. He believed that every Polish soldier will have to be killed before Poland will give in, TO PUBLISH CASUALTIES dered by the Federal District Court An unusually angry scene fol- lowed — Defense Attorney Richard | Gladstein demanded that Doyle re- turn the check and he appealed to Clarkson, The examiner said he had no au- thority to force Doyle to give back the money but the defense could ask the attorney to do so. Doyl BREMEN DODGES "ENEMY VESSELS' FOR ARCTIC PORT Man Close fo German Navy He said that this season, “All fishermen went to Ketchikan and held a meeting at which they de- cided to defy the law. The unds standing was that when the first boat was arrested, every other boat would come in and plead guil- ty to the same charge. No one was arrested.” ist and sleight-of-hand act. 10:00 o'clock—Dancing, music by Stanley Cox and his or- chestra. FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:00 p.m.—Exhibits and judg- ing, demestic science, cakes and cookies. 30 pm.—Gene Rogers on the slack wire. position of their targets and the LONDON, Sept. 14.—The British gt effect on the targets of their fire.| water. | Broadcasting Company announces | refused and rushed out to cash the Assefls Shlp n Mur- 0 p.m.—Betty Daniels, tap French tank and infantry forces| However, some hope was felt| | check when Clarkson continued the | dancing. . took advantage of the lack of Gere man observation to move up 0 new positions covered by their own artilfery barrage. The French Command took grim | satisfaction in the fact that thel Germans had opened with their heavy Siegfried artillery. It was | pointed out that in firing their big guns the Germans were forcad to reveal their location which im- mediately made them a target of return fire. when the crest recered two feet last night as the first wintry cold arrived. e, BrilisI: Columbia Closes Exhibit at | San Francisco Fair| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 14.| it has arranged to broadcast as soon as possible the names of German prisoners, identified wounded and dead, for the “benefit of friends and relatives. So far as known no names have been received from Poland.” It is understood the broadcast will be made in German. e CONTRABAND LIST IS GIVEN OUT BY hearing indefinitely. | The Bridges defense charges thal Doyle was the mainspring of a con- ispiracy against the Western CIO |leader and that the attorney used improper methods of obtaining evi- | dence. | Doyle, a former Portland special | several weeks. When he arrived in |San Francisco Monday he said h | would gladly tell anything he knew ;about the Bridges Since then he says he changed his | investigator, evaded a subpoena for | investigation. | mansk, Russia BERLIN, Sept. 14.—A man close to the German Navy said the $20,- 000,000 Bremen, mysteriously missing | since she sailed from New York, sev- | eral weeks ago, took a most north- erly route possible into the Arctic, | dodging “enemy vessels” and is now | tied up at Murmansk, Russia. | DENIAI BY ITALY | ROME, Sept. 14.—The Mussolini | | Government denies a report cir-| British Freighfer Torpedoed ‘German U-Boat Operates Off Southern Coast of Ireland p.m.—Ah Hing, sleight-of- @ hand, ventriloguism. . ® 0 0 v 0 00 0 0 0 00 Official opening of the Eighteenth Southeast Alaska Fair will be off on a three-day rampage tonight when the Juneau High School Band strikes up its martial music as the doors are swung open at 7:30 o'clock to the hundreds of “first nighters” ready for the carnival of events. A preliminary opening was held at the fair building this afternoon as the first of many exhibits were being judged and final touches were added Polish Claim LodzRefaken; Nazi;_kelreal Aver Large Supplies of Arms and Ammunition Taken in Atfack PARIS, Sept. 14.—A Warsaw radio i station, heard in Paris, reaffirms | the claim that Polish troops of the Pozen River area had recaptured | the city of Lodz. The Warsaw radio stated that the Poles had obtained large supplies of |arms and ammunition. The broad- cast from Warsaw further stated to the booths and concessions which | that the Polish army, supposedl: are all in readiness for the “big| lish G 4 e ' —The British Columbia exhibit at| N All GOVER"MENI s {culated that the Bremen has come s |the World’s Fair at San Francisco |to an Ttalian port and become an | has been closed because of Canada’s | Italian vessel. ' i g NEW YORK, Sept. 14.--The liner LONDON, Sept. 14.—The Brit- ish Ministry of Information an- nounces that the British. Gov- ernment has “reason to believe that the enemy may attempt to establish submarine and air bases on the coasts of South and Central America.” THE COMEBACK, AS USUAL BERLIN, Sept. 14—The British charge that Germany had or in- tended to establish submarine bases in Latin America is denounced in an official communique issued to- day as a “clumsy attempt to credte a panic among Latin American countries” by the British “Misin- formation Ministry.” entry into the war. Commissmnvr‘ Lloyd Craig announced that the ex- hibit will be dismantled immedi- ately. The British Columbia exhibit was the second one to close because | of the war. The Oriental pavilion operated by the Malay State closed | last week. ! SOVIET RUSSIA MAKES CHARGES MOSCOW, Sept. 14. — Russia is accusing Polish war planes of “fre- quent violations” of her western frontier, BERLIN, Sept. 14. — The Ger- man government publishes a re- view of a list of contrabrand war materials. The Germans said that all items of the contrabrand list will be considered as prizes of war and will be confiscated if inter- cepted while being carried by hos- tile ships or neutral ships plying between hostile ports. The revised list includes, in ad- dition to all armaments and am- munition, all transport materials, signal and radio equipment, ma- chinery, food, wool, cotton and clothes. Germany stressed that she was including only the articles consid- ered contrabrand by Great Britain. (DUTCHPLANEIS | SHOTDOWN BY | GERMAN SCOUTER BERLIN, Sept. 14—The German Air Ministry announces that a Ger-| man scouting plane shot down a Dutch plane by mistake outside of ! Dutch territorial waters. The Ger- | man pilot is said to have rescued |the Dutch crew of four and taken them to a German North Sea island A second German plane is sald injuries. RIGGS DEFEATS AUSTRALIAN IN NATIONAL MEET FOREST HILLS, N. J, Sept. 14, —America’s top ranking amateur termis player, Bobby Rigps, ad- vanced today to the semi-finals of the National Singles champion- ship. Riggs defeated Harry Hopman, 6-1, 10-8, 6-3. | President Roosevelt wirelessed this | afternoon that a Dutch tanker and airplane has rescued the crew of | the British freighter Vancouver, tor- pedoed off the southern Ireland | coast enroute from Colon to Eng- land. - 'PROMOTION IN ! FOREST SERVICE Robert Mitchell, Messenger in the Forest Service Regional Office here, is being transferred to a clerical position in the District Ranger’s of- fice. Sidney Carter, CCC enrollee, to have crashed without personi! Australian star in straight sets, 6-3,/will be promoted to fill Mitchell's place. event” tonight The displays and entertainment booths are more plen- tiful this year, with several novelty concessions installed for the pleasure of Juneauites, a derto game and bingo game among places of interest as well as the indispensable “hot dog stand.” Highlighting the fair awards will be the 1939 Plymouth sedan by the Firemen, a ten-tube Delco radio and two-piece traveling set by the American Legion, and an electric stove by Minnie Fields. Superb Entertainment New and different entertainment features will be presented for the (CunuuueJ u;x 7Pag<e7'}'h“r;n* bottled up in the Polish Corridor, |had smashed through the German | lines and had joined forces with the Pozen army and that the two forces are fighting as a single unit now. Berlin flatly denied the state- ments. TORPEDOED NEW ORK, Sept. 14—The United States liner Manhattan has radioed that the Norwegian freighter Ila Bakke bas reScued survivors of the torpedoed British tanker Influence, 300 miles off¥the Irish coast.