The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1939, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” : ; 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 - - i - TWELVE PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS | VOL. LIV, NO. 8214, | . SUB SIGHTED OFF ALASKA COAST * - * L L4 [ * * - - - - - * * * * * * * * * * » * » * * NEUTRALITY FIGHTLOOMS INCONGRESS Senate Isolafionists Claim 24 Votes Against Cash-Carry BALE OF MESSAGES BOLSTER PRESIDENT Foreign Relations Commit- tee Meets Tomorrow, Says Piftman WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — Two determined Senatorial factions be- IRONGUARD IN RUMANIA Govern ment Execufes. | Thousands to Avenge ' Death of Premier |GENERAL ARGESNAU | HEADS GOVERNMENT ‘Woman Iszniong Those1 ' Killed for Assassination | ! of Calinescu " BUCHAREST, Sept. 22—Thou- | | sands were reported today to huve’ BLOOD FLOWS : The Greatest Fort Gefs Ifs Bigges! Test e o8 FLUTTLE. MAGINGT LINE (LESSER FORTS! T SUBTEARANEAN RAILKOAD CONNECTING, SERIES OF EARTHSCRAPER™! QF NEW TUNNELS AND Ty 8QADS TO ¥ ey : - gy 5 EXTRA! SUBMARINE SEEN NEAR KETCHIKAN Meflakaflak'Séi‘ner Passed by Submersible in Clarence Strait PLYING IN NORMAL | STEAMER CHANNELS Underseas Craff Submerg- <l (oast Guard Division Headquarters af Seattle Admits Infor- mation Received pt. 22—The Coast headquart ly announced Guard that ed that u crew of a fishing boat sighted a sub off the Southern coast of Alaska but a Coast Guard search failed to establish its presence. Officers of the Division head- quarters declined to set the time of the report, identify the ves- sel or place where the sub was sighted. 'UNDERSEA CRAFT IN NORTH ATLANTIC COASTGUARD Nationality Not Defermin- | ed-In U.S. Waters Near Canadian Lline ' REPORT RELIABLE, | SAYS ROOSEVELT Thought fo Be Japanese or Russian-Unlikely for U-boat in Pacific gan digging in today for a con-|been executed as Rumania’s vir-| i o e clusive battle over President Roo- | tually military dictatorship enflcfl’f! AIR CONDITIONED | es Ab[easl of |nd|an S CRE T o S R T | —President Roosevell, this sevelt's renewed appeal to scrap|a heavy blood price of the pro-Nazi | FORTRESS VL | forenoon diselosed thiat he Fishing Boat ALASKAN RADIO the arms embargo provision of of arms to warring nations on the |Iron Guard for assassination of | had sighted an unidentified submarine, which he suia has | WASHINGTON, Sent, 22, { I the neutrality law and substitute Premlffl;fl Armand Cflfiflfscuv e { 5o V b, Reliable sources sald thousands of | ! q : i mfhba"d ik 2-5.“““ Johnson | members of the outlawed Iron Guard | 10D ¢ | mETCRIKAN, Alska, Sept. SYS"'EM SIA"DS {not been Identified, hatt Beastts 1 l‘ygalifgrn'smgéo;en;;;: h:v:L " |nad been taken to concentration | Tt 22—Everett Hudson, Metlakat- sighted off the coast of Al i o ia, or- it : 3 dE i | . : canized a bloc to oppose the sale|°3™PS throughout the country and| gy The AP Feature Service | | | la Indian fisherman, arrived in | aska and that submarines i ; o £ Wi ooy | Te AR e w ARS Aw 'I'o 1 | ‘Kofahilan Aadar ko aid e SUB WATCH NOW have aiso been sighted off | The President reported he re- | killing of the Premier, the foe of | the world is the 200-mile French Siegfried line (also called Limes - HENCEFORTH Nazi Fighter and proceeding rapidly south, tions system are standing by on |the north Atlantic coast. |presence of the undersea ground it is likely to force the | i) ” i Tla e Strai United States into the European the Iron Guard. y Maginot line submarine in Llarfin(‘l’ Strait 4 ot Sonthat These sources also said some wo- o ot e i near dusk, Tuesday night. AN kb aF - the - Afakn The Maritime Commission men had been shot. ‘ The sub was on the surface | seronautics and Communica- |at Boston substantiates the 1 line or West Wall). Shof Down by Hudson said, so the vessel had ceived a big stack of telegrams GENERALS TAKE OVER | 4 about his neutrality speech, but BUCHAREST, Sept. 22. — Three The two walls are roughly i;( [ i preibtilg Boén in. ~ AMMKS emergency frequencies, it was craft on tlie North Atlanths: i that he had personally seen only | Generals today took over the top | miles apart as they follow the| o et announced today, the new Praaldict. B % ol ¥ 40 or 50 sent by Governors and |posts in the new Rumanian govern- | Franco-German land border from | a ron e st i i emergency schedule coming on residen! oosevel 0 personal friends. | brent after the assassination of Pre- |the Rhine to Luxembourg. Along | cceting smtlward, was nodr |iic Jees ot news (s Wash- . (thie DiB s that he hae lioan House Secretary Steve |mier Armand Calinescu. The plot [ the Rhine, the lines are close o] | Windy Point, on Prince of “'::un‘:“ ':we‘:“ "b’;‘:’*“m;’d :: linformed of the presence of White Early said a poll of the telegrams showed that with the exception of was attributed to the pro-Nazi Iron Guard. the water's edge. This cross-section drawing, by | g4 | Russo - Nazi Agreement | Wales Island when he sighted British Government Makes the sub drawing up abreast, maintain watches, following au- thenticated reports of submarine two undersea craft, not Am- | erican, in the North Atlan- cight or ten messages the wires ail| The new government was an-|H. C. Detje, AP staff artist, is 3 ; about three quarters of a mile i " i | were pro-repeal. | nounced shortly before 1 p. m. Pa- [based on the best available infor- Draws Line of Rivers Fi tA t ity “;"vl':s_" ul"nut‘:-eu':;:"h‘:“&:;cl; |tic. He said they have been i Chairman Key Pittman of the|cific Standard Time after troops| mation about the Maginot line | IrSi Announcemen When it came abreast, it super)nwnden: uler;{n ?-.o..m,’ | sighted by ships at sea. 3 Senate Foreign Relations Commit- | were called up to prevent a possi- | Says the National Geographic Ihl’ough Poland | Of Ail’ Ba"le gradually went under the sur- Soin Arihiorare’ bt Hesdhdh b;' ® ' i tee postponed until tomorrow a|ble Iron Guard coup. Society: ; g | face, with only the conning on emergency {m,..,,.cy of 6,- OFF ALASKA COAST : meeting of his group to consider| The new Premier is Gen. George| “In the subterranean ‘barracks BERLIN, Sept. 22.—A German- . tower visible, and then only 210 kilocycles and inter-com- i the President’s recommendations. | Argesnau, former War Minister and | of the French fortifications hun-| . o~ agreement has been reagh- LONDON, Sept. 22. he the periscope. munications frequency 8,110 kil- President Roosevelt de- 2 BRI U.S. ORDERS now Commander of the Second | Army Corps. WARSAW IS dreds of thousands of men may live for several months. Adapted to the terrain of the country, these buried chambers and galleries con- tain power stations, control posts, ed under which Germany is with- drawing her armies in Poland to a | line west of a continuous north and south line formed by the Pissa, Vis- tula and San Rivers. tula River will remain in German British Goovernment announc- ed today what they described as a victory for the Royal Air force planes on the Western Front, Hudsor| said he had six- power field glasss which he trained on the sub, and said the other men on the boat with him all saw the submersible. ocycles. The 6,210 kilocycle frequency is used by all radios in emer- gency, and would intercept any SOS from ships at sea. the clined to disclose the specific source of the Government’s information about the pres- | ence of a submarine off the storerooms, elevators, narrow gauge It is the first time during the The submarin as in the The Ji Rt v Al b It was aiso anaounced that War- | s the first time during the | . U4e SNEHSSIEIN. WRE. B EIR e Juncau station goes on | Alaska Coast but that s - TR s MLV I | aw anil fha opounced (A Wio | current war that such announce- | middle of Clarence Strait, be- frequency o every fitth | S (':d “ll ; hat i‘;.'"c v ' s equippe h bunks, food sup- | ment has been made. | tween Gravina and Prince of minute. |es he sal at were perfect- DEFIANT AS plies, radios, kitchens and even amusement facilities.” { hands. The announcement described the Wales Island, roughly two miles north of Punch Hill radio beam Information During the The Mi ry of communiq Assistant Supervisor of AACC, Dudley Reynolds, said ‘ly reliable, asserted a sub- marine was in the Pacifie, off Besides terrifically powerful| course of ai s Wed- station on Gravina. this afternoo; owe: tha 3 .1 |line of rivers as a “demarcation N " o 2 L 4 n, he ver, t rk;_wahcml(lt erm: o mon; ave || undaries will not necessarily fol- shot down by our aircraft in miles by airline from Ketchik- station to stand emergency ‘aska where the Territory anti-air uns capable spray- | » 1 2 o) . s s g pable praj % kan, and probably 50 miles schedules, had been received | joins' the Canadian territory. Big Confract Goes fo Boe-| ing — West Coast Gefs Research Laboratory WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — The Radio Appeal Sent Out for Soldiers fo Fight In- vaders to Death ESZTERGOM, Hungary, Sept. 22. ing the air with a wall of shell fragments more than half a mile deep. e - FOREIGNERS INWARSAW low this line | Russian armies, however, cupy eastern Poland up fo a line including the cities of Lublin, Luck Lwow, Bialystok, Vilna and Litov The fate of Warsaw going to Ger- was understood to be one u{; st points agreed upon | Diplomatic negotiations to settle the future of the Polish people as Germany and Russia are will oc- ar north of the Canadian-Alas- , | kan boundary. Practically all coastwise ship- ping uses Tongass Narrows on the opposite side of Gravina Island entering Clarence Strait, several miles north of where the sub was sighted. This undoubtedly is the re- port referred to by President This is the first offi mation that British planes the Western Front have taken the offensive in more than re- | connaisance flights. —————— £y I STOCK QUOTATIONS two days ago, and was “prob- ably a tightening up of emer- gency watches requested by the Civil Aeronautics Authority,” and probably wasn't exactly a “submarine watch.” - e GermansAre Regarding the submarines lon the North Atlantic, the President said in the area from 50 to 70 miles from the southern tip of Nova Scotia to the Nantucket Shoals, the submarines had been sighted. Regarding the Alaska re- Administration’s program of re- building the national air defenses —The Warsaw radio is back on the concerned and to establish future | =" S o Roosevelt as no other boat has was stepped up at a laster rate|air again after being silent since German-Russian boundaries, are - 5 so far reported sighting a sub. ports, newsmen asked the continuing in Moscow. NEW YORK, Sept. 22. — Closing —— e — President if the submarine today with the award of $58,585,000 in aircraft contracts. Officials decided to build a West Coast aeronautical research labor- at a cost of $10,000,000 as atory yesterday and broadcast a shridl air raid alarm as evidence the Ger- mans are still attacking the be- sieged capital. The alarm was received clearly in this little frontier village at 8:15 LEAVE (ITY . Staff officers of both ar- still set- move- Gene working jointly, are the terms for army | ting ments. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American 112, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel| AY To JUNEAU 91%, Commonwealth and Southern | Prisoners in Brilisll Camps reported might not be a Can- adian undersea boat. The | President laughed and said it might be Bolivian or Afghan, / i ckly as possible at Moffett Field T o T :':“,Lr ;u;:lyi::l& cai a. m. Pacific Standard Time. FOU ”ee n Hundl’ed, 800‘ 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General The Boeing Aircraft Company of | Defiant calls and appeals to Po- A . 1BR"'|SH SHIP IS | Motors 53%, International Harves-| R A - Moo ¢ e tes 1A Boidiery 10, S 150 P (oeeih, Americans, Enfrain i [ |l 8% Kennecolt 42, New York| SEATTLE, eyt 22~ tni, shdiindr MYSTERY TRIP our-motor bombers at a cost of |foliowed the air rald alarm. : A | Central 20%, Northern Pacific 11,{North Sea sailed at 10 o'clock this i ) i ;l;u‘lmn(;goor ombers %'|" Polish soldiers, retreating into for Koemgsbul’g | Caied: Ebites Steel 8% - Podnd |mombig WL 86 Dessebgers sboard Announcement Indicates 22lfl?’l'_r':‘(:flKAN. Alaska, Sept. ,102,000. Hungary through this village, were | $3.99%. for Southeast Alaska ports, the fol- SU((eSS in Baffle G.— l:m:(hmm of med:;‘.u uard hikan ine Another contract of $2,843,000 for some 400 primary training planes went to Boeing Aircraft’s Stear- man Division at Wichita, Kas. cheered by the indication that War- | saw is still holding out. ALLRIGHT BERLIN, Sept. 22—Nearly 1400 foreign, including af least 800 Amer- icans, have left the besieged city of Warsaw, according to an e (raff Believed Topedoed REPORT OWNERS — lowing for Juneau: DOW, JONES AV Mrs. Everett Nowell and children, The following are Mrs, Louise Hyde, Mr. and Mrs, J. V. Davis and daughter, Mrs. C. J. Bergstrom, Mrs. Jacob Karfus and Dow, today’s Jones averages: industrials 15257, | Again;} ‘ll-boats LONDON, Sept. 22.—The Minis- to make any comment, but two cutters known to have made short trips toward Met- lakatla yesterday which are not i nique. ails 33.06, s 24.7 | £ TEa comniaunidhie éva’ tha fore But After Crew E FANR e 0 B o '3 Smith, George Ra- | ry of Information announced to-| otherwise explained. BASEBA[[ IODAY eigners have been taken to Koen- u er rew S- 4 guse, Percy J. Shanks, Gordon Mu- day in an official communique that The assumption is that Met- igsberg, East Prussia, aboard special . B t ma. a “‘numm-r of Gf-mmn officers lmve’ lakatla Indians sighted what 2 LONDON, Sept. 22—The Brif- | trains, and under guard of the Ger- capes In bogis DIS(OVER plOT A e arrived at a prison camp in Eng-| is believed to have been a sub- The following are scores of games fobi: Matalakty - e that e land and other prisoners have also marine three days ago about played this afternoon in the two| g g i o S AU LONDOK, Sept, 22—Owners of | NEWLYWEDS RETURN been taken to another prison camp.”| 20 miles or so from Ketchi- e rumor that the German 1567| LISBON, Sept. 22—The news-| Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Whittier re- The official communique hrmgsi’ kan. Major Leagues: National League Cincinnati 6, 10; Pittsburgh 0, 9. Chicago 2; St. Louis 3. American League Philadelphia 5; Boston 7. Detroit 4; Cleveland 5. liner Bremen has been cap- tured, seized by British Naval vessels and now in a British port, is absurd. Officials dis- missed the report with no more comment. DUFRESNES SOUTH Mrs. Frank Dufresne and son Franklin are Seattle-bound on the | Alaska Game Commission vessel | Brown Bear. They plan to return| to Juneau shortly. the British steamer Aryleside, tons, said they have been advised she has been “lost at sea” but the crew has been brought ashore. This indicates that the vessel was most probably sent down by a Ger- man submarine, but after the crew escaped in the lifeboats. | paper Vog, reports the discovery|turned on the North Coast from a of a vast Nazi espionage network|honeymoon trip to Sitka and are in . the Portugese African colony at home to their friends in their| of Angola, The paper said Angola|apartment at the Baranof Hotel. authorities had advised police of-| Mrs. Whittier, whose wedding was | ficials in the Union of South Af-|a social event of September 9, is the | oout the truth of the statement made September 15 in the House of | Commons by Prime Minister Cham- berlain that some prisoners have been taken denoting British suc- cesses against German undersea rica of the discovery. former Miss Clara Carpenter. craft, The rumor here is that the submarine was in American waters, only a few miles from the boundary and apparently reported by only one boat crew. | " (Continued ou Page Two)