The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— ] = VOL. LIV., NO. 8211. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, MORE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK BY U-BOATS Hitler Hurls - SURRENDER NEVER, SAYS NAZI CHIEF l HUNTED 19 YEARS | Chancellorfllares Reich Will Never Accept Ultimatums SAYS PRESENT CONFLICT IS T0 ESTABLISH PEACE Russia, Germany to Seftle Polish Question, Re- move Tension DANZIG, Sept. 19. — Chancellor Adolf Hitler emphasized today: “We have no war intentions against either England or France. Germany seeks only to achieve lasting peace.” Further, Hitler said: “Russia and Germany will settle this Polish situation and this will result in the removal of tension.” Hitler expressed, however, determ- ination to continue the war as long as he is forced to, saying the word “surrender” will not be uttered “nor at the end of the sixth or the sev- enth year.” He shouted: “The generation of today is not the generation of Beth- man Hollweg.” No Dictations Earlier, Chancellor Hitler said: “Germany today is no longer a country to which ultimatums can be dictated. “We will give bomb against bomb | not only one bomb; but five hun- dred bombs!” Reviewing the events leading up to Germany’s invasion of Poland, Hit- ler in an international broadcast (heard in the United States) wel- comed Danzig again into the Reich and said that the state of affairs in September had “become “impossible” after he had believed in August it was possible to come to an under- standing. England Blamed The Chancellor said he has suf- fered much from Poland in the past six years, but he did not send them an ultimatum, Citing attempts of Premier Mus- solini to bring about a peaceful set- tlement of the dispute, Hitler said England intervened and prevented. Then Hitler shouted: “England sent an u}timatum to Germany, but | France will vcon‘tinue to carry out| o "<t to test the legality of tolls the day is past when anyone can|her war policy in cooperation with freight over the Richardson High- send an ultimatum to the Reich.” Hitler said he had earlier at- tempted “to find a reasonable solu- tion to the problem,” but.ind\m_wd strengthened their war lines on the | Nash, Superintendent of the Alaska that such had become impossible | western front in anticipation of 8 Road Commission; (Continued on Page Three) e NEW POLAND LOOMS WITH TIED HANDS Germany and Russia Are fo Make Map Changes -Poles to Agree CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. 19. —Reports coming across the Pol- ish border today said a new pro- German-pro Russian regime is about to be established in Poland, replacing the Government of Pres- ident Moscicki and other Polish leaders, now refugees in Rumania Informed persons forecast the new Polish Government will imme- diately sign a pact of peace with Germany and Russia and accept the redrawing of Poland’s bor- ders. The new state, news sources said, will be a buffer between the two great powers. Maps, mailed from Germany,| showing the expected partition of|trippers aboard the North Coast |here and one death is reported at i 1| = } For 19 years the United States | Government sought Albert Leo- | pold (above), to decorate him for | valor in the World War. Finally they found him, where he had been for 17 years, working for the government at Kansas City. EUROPEAN WAR WILL CONTINUE French Government Makes Announcement — In- | | vasion SaysBrifain PARIS, Sept. 19. — The French | Government has made known its| | determination to prosecute the Eu- ! ropean war notwithstanding Rus- | sia’s invasion of Poland, according |t oa semi-official statement made | on the eve of the French Cabinet! | meeting tomorrow: | | The statement said further that| Great Britain. Lines Strengthened | France and Great Britain today | |major battle soon. { | It is also learned that German | reinforcements are being rushed to| | the Western front from Poland. | | ACT OF AGGRESSION { LONDON, Sept. 19.—Britain de-‘ clared last night that Russia’s in-| vasion of Poland was an act of ag- | gression. At the same time Great Brit.a‘m' reaffirmed her intention to stand by her pledge to protect Poland’s | independence. An official statement by the gov- ernment said that the invasion could not be justified by Soviet claims {of protecting the Russians of Po- land. | Said the British government: “The full implication of these events |is not yet apparent but His Ma- jesty’s Government takes the op- portunity of stating that nothing| |that has occurred can make any | difference to the determination to |fulfill the obligations to Poland. | | The War Office also announced | |that Great Britain’s former King,| the Duke of Windsor, will leave im- mediately for the Western front as| a Major General in the expedition- | | ary forces. I | The Duke returned to England af- | | ter three years of exile to serve his| | country. | | ON ALASKA TOUR | | } Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, there are 13 round- |J. C. Winters of Fairbanks are Gor- | PRESIDENTIS | TO TALKTO LAWMAKERS Defy to Worl in Speech Today a U-Boat Gels Its Ship—— Here's How Roosevelt fo Address Joint | Session of Congress | on Thursday | NEUTRALITY WILL BE ] EXCLUSIVE SUBJECT, Chief Executive Appeals fo| Belligerenfs on | Air Bombing | WASHINGTON, Sept. IQY-PI'(‘SI-I dent Roosevelt has made tentative arrangements to address a joint ses- sion of the House and Senate on | neutrality about 11 am. (P. 8. T.) | Thursday, Stephen Early said today. | The President will begin drafting his message today. The message is expected to deal almost exclusively with revision of the Neutrality Law. | Early said the message will be brief. | Asked if brevity is due to the fact | the whole neutrality subject has| ! been pretty well gone into héreto- | fore, Secretary Early asserted that | Congress already has wnsiderablcl information on the subject. | In response to a Polish appeal, European belligerents to renew thei European belligerent to renew their | pledge against bombing civilians | from the air. | Starls Su]l OnLegality Alaska Toll Test Case a‘kichardson Highway Freight Levy Filed in Fairbanks FATRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 19.— way, Valdez to Fairbanks, has been filed in the District Court by Clyde | Gordon, trucker, against Frank and Charles Simmons, toll collec~ tors at Big Delta. Gordon asks for a restraining or- der to be issued for bidding toll col- lections, Gordon also asks $500 for attorney fees. Clyde R. Ellis of Anchorage and | Lloyd Hansen ! don’s attorneys. — e, CALIFORNIA HEAT WAVE HITS HARD Top Iempefire Reaches 103 Degrees in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 19.— Desert heat swept westward to Southern California yesterday, giv-‘l ing Los Angeles the hottest day in 22 years. The top temperature reading was 103 degrees. The temperature reached 106 de- grees at Long Beach. One death from the heat occurred the new spheres of influence, have|making the Southeast Alaska voy- San Francisco where 83 degrees was been distributed here, age. top. | apartment. He 1. Lookout sights ship. i That snake in the waves, the submarine, is a tough craft to cope with. locate its prey and submerge before the surface craft knows it's anywhere near. done. The officers trail their quarry by means of periscope and fired from within a sub, the whole boat has to be swung about to draw bead on the target. broad side, it's chances of making & hi That's dangerous—perhaps the merchantman carries a concealed gun, and subs are highly vulnerable warship above destroyer size, it takes two or three torpedo strikes to inflict appreciable damage. And How a Ship Sinks a Submarine—— o 2. A depth charge is tossed ovel Lo mm—— . —— AP — GRIM DUEL ISFOUGHT, OPEN SEAS iNaval Power Is Pitted Against Germany's Undersea Craft || TWO TRAWLERS ARE SUNK | . Well-aimed torpedo ends the cliaso. B il 1t exposes so little of itself when it’s on the surface that it can But when it's below, ther isterling devices; calculate its speed and probable course. Therefore, if the sub can be pointed at the best. With merchant ships, U-boat are supposed to give passengers and crew a chance to get clear. to surface attack. 's plenty of maneuvering to be Since the torpedo is If the quarry is a It takes a lot of equipment to sink a submarihce. Mines, strung at several depths, can get them at the mouth of a harbor, but at sea it’s tricky business, The British have made strides in submarine detection devices since the World War—sounding rays and other electrical developments. But it’s still difficult to spot U-boat—and harder yet to sink 'em. Depth bombs have been the most effective—“ashcans” full of TNT, rolled off the rear of a sub-chaser or fired by a special “¥” gun. The trick here is to sink the ashcan close to the sub and to get your own ship out of that neighborhood fast. The heavy charge is exploded under water with the hope that the concussion will spring the seams of the U-boat. If the sub-chaser doesn’t get away, the concussion might damage it, too. Small guns are effective against submarines, too, if the sub can be caught on the surface. BLITZKREIG OF PRESENT WAR HITS U. S. WITH GREAT SWAT CHARLES M. SCHWAB, ONE OF NATION'S RICHEST MEN, DIES i By PRESTON GROVER NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Charle He began as a stage driver when M. Schwab, 77, Chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and one of the Nation’s richest men died last night at his Park Avenue recently returnec from a trip abroad and was so il he was carried on a stretcher from the liner to his home. Schwab died of coronary throm- bosis. His brother Edward and the latter’s wife were at the bedside “He just slipped away,” said Ed- ward. Funeral services will probably be held Thursdaey in St. Paul's Cathe- dral. Optimism was an outstanding characteristic of Charles M. Schwab. one of the most commanding per- sonalities in American industry In 1328 in a review of his 50 ye: in business he said, in substance. that he was prouder of the fact that he never had been a calamity howler than he was of his industrial suc- cesses and their resultant accumu- lation of wealth. Pleasure Out of Life Few men got more pleasure ou! ) was a young man and rose to| WASHINGTON.—The only blitz- he presidency of the United States | kreig so far in the war has been Steel Corporation, the first billion | Visited upon the United States iollar company in American indus-| With lightning-flash rapidity the ry. Then he organized and became nation ran smack into a stack of ‘\fiad O‘t;he B",Lhm"]m Brepl ffi;‘”"’fiumblenm growing out of the war, ation, the principal competitor il tha United Btates Steel Corporation. | ach sparking Bot. They were met Ten-Cent Cigar Starts Career ;la.% war in a way that led us di- During the years, about two dec-|rectly into ic. Yet nobody can say ades, it took for that transition, Mr.) for sure that a different handling Schwab molded a career so full of this year will keep us out or even business romance and so replete with sustain an honorable neutrality. remarkable achievements as to be| First task was to bring back almost beyond comparison with the|thousands of wandering Ameri- lives of other industrial giants. |can citizens caught either in the And it all started with the sale of war zone or so far from home a ten-cent cigar. that they had to travel through When that transaction was made| war zones sto get here. The State Mr. Schwab was filling his second | Department sent money over to job, that of clerk in the general Europe at once to care for strand- store of A. J. Spiegelmire at Brad-|ed Yankees. Last war it took a dock, Pa. Previously, for a short!/lot of cabling to convince Wash- time, he had driven a stage between | ington authorities that stranded Loretto and- Cresson, Pa. One day| Americans have to be brought Capt. William R. Jones, plant sup- home at government expense and erintendent of the Edgar Thomson no fiddling about technicalities of Steel Works, owned by Carnegie|repayment. Brothers and Company, entered the! s of life than did Mr. Schwab and | tore to purchase a cigar. As he was HELPING THE BRITISH none was better qualified to speak |about to leave the store, young| The United States has had to| on the various economic and finan- | gohwah asked about the chances| take over British and French inter- | cial conditions experienced in the|ror g job in the steel mill. He was ests in Germany while those two| range from obscurity to the class of | - nations fought the war. It meant | multi-millionaire, jnot only taking charge of the 1'l)l-i bassies and other physical proper- ties, but also the immensely diffi- cult job of getting stranded English- men and Frenchmen home. The State Department and its staff in Germany must work out, in conjunction with the Germaps, some convention for treatment of prisoners. The embassy must see to it that British and French pris- oners get treatment in compliance with international law. A lot of technicalities have to be worked out to permit participa- tion of the Red Cross in relief and hospital work. The American Red Cross is a semi-official agency in the United States and must be strictly impartial in extending =id. But such as these: are minor problems. Big ones are yet to be solved. How far shall the United States insist upon its rights as a neu- tral? Last war President Wilson re- fused to let U. S. citizens be de- prived of the right to travel on bel- ligerent yessels in the war zone. The Lusitania carried 124 Americans. NOW WHAT? At one point last time this coun- try was almost at the point of a diplomatic break with England over diversion of our ships. We would ship supplies to Scandinavian coun- (Contln‘ura on i"n&; Slx) | | | | | | | | BY TORPEDOES OFF COAST Admiralty AT—rniis 579 Per- sens Are Missing from Courageous Disaster BULLETIN — LONDON, Sept. 19.—~The British Admiralty an- nounces that approximately 681 survivors are accounted for of the 1260 aboard the aireraft car- rier Courageous sunk by an en- emy submarine. That leaves 579 still missing, GRIM DUEL IS FOUGHT LONDON Sept. 19.—A grim duel | between British shipping and Brit- ish naval power and German sub-~ marines continues today. An official announcement by the Bureau of Information says two British trawlers, the Lord Minto and Arlita, have been sunk by Ger- man U-boats, but three other mer- chant vessels eluded the submar- ines. Great Britain's losses since the beginning of the war is set at ap- proximately 30 vessels. The Admiralty’s announcement | that 579 persons are missing aboard the Courageous brought out the | statement that the authorities insist there is still hope that the actual number of officers and men aboard the aircraft carrier might be con- siderably below the 1260 personnel. The Admiralty gave no detalls re- | garding the sinking of the trawlers | by German torpedoes aside from saying the crews were rescued by a third trawler which eluded the submarines. Rescued members of the crews of the trawlers came ashore at Green- ock, Scotland. They told stories of dodging gunfire by the submarine off the Irish coast but stated that later they heard an explosion, in- dicating that an airplane patrol | craft might have dropped a bomb | which destroyed the U-boat. SOVIETWAR MACHINE IS ROLLING ON British - French Profest Is Rumored Lodged with Moscow MOSCOW, Sept. 19. — Russian troops have been reported authori- tatively to have entered Vilna in northeast Poland, although there was no official announcement of the action. Rumors in diplomatic quarters that the British and French gov- ernments have presented protests against t(he Russian occupation of Polist ritory could not be im- mediately confirmed. With the Red Army rolling wes'- ward, possibilities were discussed in diplomatic quarters that Rus- sian troops might march into Es- tonia, It was regarded as especially sig- nificant that the Soviet Baltic flect was ordered into action after the escape of the Polish submarine which had been inferned in the Estonian port of Tallinn. - eee BOUND FOR SITKA Charles Whittemore and Mus. Whittemore are passengers aboard the North Coast for Sitka.