The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8215. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, | 939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —————— HITLER SUDDENLY APPEARS, WEST FRONT ) MILLION SOLDIERS DEFEATED Offiial Communique Claims Victory, with Exception, Warsaw BERLIN, Sept. 23.—An offic- ial communique issued ionight says the “campaign in Poland is ended and the Polish army of millions of men has been de- feated, captured or routed.” The communique admitted that Warsaw was still holding out but is in a “hopeless posi- tion.” Early this afternoon the Su- preme German Army Command reported that Warsaw has been cut off from Modlin, bringing the fall of the Polish Capital City and fortress a step nearer. Lwow is reported to have surrendered yesterday. It is also reported by the Su- preme Army Command that en. Bortnowski, Polish Cor- ridor Army Commander and his entire staff are captured after several weeks of “terrific de- fiance.” 'BATILE BEGINS ON FDR'S PLAN OF NEUTRALITY Opposition Musters Forces| ~War Ace to Fire Open- ing Gun Tuesday | s | WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Oppo- | nents of the President’s neutrality program announced today they are | launching a national campaign | against repeal of the arms embargo. | The campaign will be launched Tuesday at 7:45 p. m. Eastern Stan- dard Time when World War Ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker will speak in a national broadcast. The announcement was made to- day after a conference of Senators Nye, Vandenberg and shipsteadf with Capt. Rickenbacker and Ray | C. Hormel, Minnesota meat packer. The latter two contend that em- | bargo repeal will bring a step-up in | American production that might | end in bankruptcy when belliger- ent purchases of resources are ex- hausted. Meanwhile, the Administration was drafting a repeal bill into which is incorporated the provision stric! ly prohibiting American vessels from | carrying “any articles, materials or passengers,” to belligerents, hoping to win support of legislators who, like Alf Landon, report strong sen- timent for a general cash and carry system. At New York, former President Herbert Hoover said he would take no part in the organized campaign for fighting repeal, PRESIDENT TAKING HAND IN BUILDING HOMESTEAD HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 23.—‘ President Roosevelt pushed neu- trality to the back of his mind to- day as he prepared to take a hand in the construction of his new homestead. He told newsmen that | he had no plans for the week end. The President is suffering from| a cold and his voice was barely| audible at ground breaking cere- monies. e - FINNISH SHIP IS SUNK BY U-BOAT OSLO, Sept. 23, A Finnish! steamer was sunk by a Germau, submarine in the Baltic Sea today.| The steamer was bound for Eng-| land with a cargo of cellulose. | The submarine stopped the ves- sel and signalled for the crew to take to the boats. After the 40 crew members were clear of the ship, the submarine sent her to the bottom, i Campaign in Poland Ended, Nazis Declare MISSING GERMAN SHIP GOES TO NEUTRAL FORT FLYING FLAG OF JAPAN SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept Maritime authorities announce that the German unreported motorship Portland left Everett, Washington, on the eve of the pres- ent European war, has arived at Soquimbo, flying the Japanese fl: The Portland, after leaving E ett, with the purpose of going to Portland, Oregon, to load lumber disappeared completely “somewhere on the Pacific.” since it 1= ., When the report that German underseas craft were on the Pacific, it was believed then that the Portland, canjouflaged, might be a mother ship for subs. It is known that the Portland has a most elaborate machinery and re- pair department aboard with sup- plies alleged to be for submarines. When and how the Portland changed from the German to the Japanese flag is not stated in ad- | vices received here from Coquimbo. Windsors Back in England @ > i i. o, e ‘. ¥ + | The President =, This is the first picture of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to reach the United States upon their return to England from “exile” in France. They are shown at a friend’s Sussex estate. It was said the Duke would take up a war appointment. London. Picture cabled from ALLIED COUNCIL LAYS PLANS FOR CONTINUING WAR Arms, Ammunitions Man- ufacture Coordinated at English Session PARIS, Sept. 23. — An official French communique says that the Supreme Allied War Council reached agreements on several new defense points at a meeting some- where in England. The Council is said to have ex- amined the question of coordinat- ed manufature of arms and muni- tions. Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali- fax Minister Chamberlain, Said the French communique: “The agreement was complete on the decisions to be taken to give effective results to the plans of the Allies,” has is said to have been present | | for Great Britain, as well as Prime WarSiraIegy Today Favors Nazis, But Long-Run Odds Favor Allies for Victory By MORGAN M. BEATTY (AP Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — The immediate strategic advantage in | the European war strongly favors | German arms. | the Pranco-British alliance. American experts who are follow. ling the minute-to-minute tact | through the eyes of the American | military attaches stationed in Eu- ropean capitals. As for the imme- diate advantage, thelr conclusion springs from three important facts: 1. Germany is almost entirely | surrounded by neutral states, which | act as buffers against attack. | 2. As most strategists agree, eneral war in Europe should be accompanied by tremendous aerial bombardment to clear the way for | ground troops and artillery, and to | demoralize the enemy’s communi- cations and supplie: WORLD CENSURE | But the belligerent who starts that kind of warfare would be in- {dicted by world public opinion and | convicted of barbarism, simply be- cause that kind of warfare would kill innocent women and children, | however necessary it might be to | strategy. Therefore, it is hard for the allies to start the fireworks. Both sides are aware of this, es- | pecially the Germans, who are| (Continuea on Page Four) was broadcast ld“““.“v‘.“.-f The long-range advantage favors | | That's the crisp appraisal of the | 'WANTS ROOSEVELT | Nazis’ New Zeppelin Reported Blown 7Up - T0 MAKE PUBLIC, s ' THIRD TERM STAND, JEel jFormer Gov. Landon of | Topeka Seeks Flat Declaration NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A sugges- tion that President Roosevell im- mediately declare flatly that he has | | no intentions of seeking a third | term was made by Alf M. Landon. The 1936 Republican Presidential | nominee declared that such a de- | | claration by the President would be, | as he put it, the greatest patriotic | service the President could render | at this time. He said that the Presi- | dent should remove the fear of the | third term from the minds of Re- | | publicans as well as Democrats. | The former Kansas Governor| | made his statement on the eve of his | departure for his home in Topeka, | lafter having attended President. | Roosevelt's neutrality conference and | | the opening of the special session of | | Congress in Washington. | Landon also said that he in | agreement with the President’s de- sire for repeal of the arms embargo | if that were the best way to keep the country out of war. He-said that if | times were normal it would be un- fair to ask the President to throw |away his trump political card and | | denounce his chances for a third | term. However, he declared that the | ;umes were not normal today and | that Mr. Roosevelt could besl seive | the interests of the nation by de- | | claring flatly that he was not seek- | | ing a third term. | “TO PROTECT HIMSELF” HYDE PARK, N. Y. Sept President Roosevelt, interviewed in | Hayfield, while sitting with his mother in a touring car, declined 1 smilingly to reply to the suggestion | of Alf Landon, in a New York news- | paper interview, that Roosevelt an- | nounce his stand on the third term said he had not | read Landon’s full statement and was sorry, but he would have to pro- | tect himself. | “I wish you would, son,” his moth- [ | * (lower right) veplaced the old Gr: DEDICATION OF - KODIAK HOSPITAL | HONORS GRIFFIN Ceremony Described - Ers- er interjected. - e — Nootka Victim Is Dead Are Speakers The name and memory of late Edward W. Griffin, pioneer | Alaskan and public figure in Ter- ritorial affairs, was honored at Kodiak on Labor Day when the, new hospital bearing his name was dedicated at a simple but impres- sive ceremony. Immediately following a ber of Commerce luncheon, W. J.| Erskine, Kodiak megchant and moving spirit in the founding f the hospital, addressed the group Boden Storey Passes of viiors, who, together with the| . people of Kodiak and surrounding Away from Burns in | communities, had gathered at the . . main entrance to pay homage to Ship Explosion the memory of Mr. Griffin, Among the visitors were Dele-| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 23 gate Anthony J. Dimond, six mem-| | Boden Storey, crew member aboard | bers of a special Congressional fish- | | the Canadian Pacific freighter Noot- eries committee, Territorial Senator | ka, who was badly burned by a coal | Henry Roden and Representatives damp explosion Wednesday morn- Karl Drager and Harvey Smith. | ing, died last night in a local hos- Wonderful Site pital from his injuries. | The site of the building lies just Storey is known to have a mother off the Mission Road at the top |of a steep bank above the North D | Channel entrance to Kodiak Har-| HOLMES HERE bor, and a more beautiful spot for | a hospital can hardly be imagined | R. G. Holmes, mining equipment Close by stands the old Russicn| man from Seattle, arrived here yes- | church established at Kodiak in terday for a few days in the Capi- 1793, its spires rising high above |tal City and is a guest at the Gas-|a grove of Balm of Gilead tree | tineau Hotel. | Six miles down Saint Paul's Har ey bor, and plainly visible from the| HOME FROM HOSPITAL hospital south windows, is the Mrs. Lloyd Bayers was dismissed | i e |from St. Ann’s Hospital last night.' ( nued on Page Eigh) | Skl OHLSON WANTS NEW OUTLET FOR ALASKA RAILROAD;LINE 10 PORTAGE BAY PROPOSED —_— ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 23.— proposed route from Anchorage to an- | POrtage Bay and he will ask Con- Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Man 3 ress fo) ,000,000 for building the | ager of the Alaska Railroad, said | % 94 o g the| . new line, which will cut Seward off xsurveys have been completed for the Cham- | iat Sydney, Vancouver Island. as the coast terminus, kine, Dimond, Drager |- Nl London received unconfirmed reports that the new Graf Z i g ible, lown up at its moorings in Friedrichshafen, Germany. i g O Switzerland had told of an explosion and fire across the border in Friedrichshafen, The new dirigible Sabotage was blamed for the blast, Dispatches from af of transatlantic fame and was a sistership of the Hindenburg, which blew up, as shown at left, in Lakehurst, N. J. The U. S. refus i b ) , in st, N. J. . S. refused to supply Germa helium gas for the new ship, which was virtually untried in the nir.pp A el L Scene of the i shown on map, reported disaster ls You Didn't Raise Your Boy To Be a Soldier! He (an Be Turned Info One, Quick Time By PRESTON GROVE ONE THING F The big difference between the present condition of national de- fense and the condition in 1917 lies in other directions. Then we had an army completely unacquainted with the problems of dealing with |the civilian personnel that makes up the real national defense. That condition has been largely correct- ed. ‘SLBL{' of national defense isn't shared IS IN HOSPITA Sty Maneuvers at Plattsburg and Ma- !the Colonel up—aren’t especially ANCHORAGE, Sept. 23.—J. Gen-| "pui it was no surprise to the following an airplane flight in which | . home and take care of the kiddies, However, nobody expects the early R . umanla — Thel|are in the regular army a well- persons implicated in the assassin-|in a fight. There is no confirmation of this | They know how to go about getting that a diplomat from a neutral Aoy assassination. istimates of the numbers who RANGER ON MOVE [tion has been set up in the col- [ FLYING ALASKA - . | WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — The current panic among some of the AME wARDEN | higher ranking officers over the 1100 per cent by others who have a hand in keeping the enemy from | our .doors: . . | Collins Acts as His Qwn |nassas disciosed, among other things 5 4 that the top-ranking reserve and Mercy Flight Pilot | National Guard ofticers—those from _Good Fea' | good. There were exceptions. One | reservist general at Manassas, we have been told, did a smart job. %‘;rdcci’]”";:- m"{i‘"l" Al'f‘”‘k‘ftGM"f"“lrmms of the army to find this was il Bl il k}“_‘;u.u case. It is a common joke in B ated shoulder: (o army that fully half the Col- he acted as his own mercy pilot | sk K ; | would be put to work selling Liberty ofMins made & one-handed take- | ongs should war start. Some of s Yards the others would be told to stay X Some would be worth a thousand Plo' Rumors | times every dollar of government p _Ii . | money spent in training them. e g ! stages of our war to be fought with |armies commanded by reserve or leven national guard generals. There BUCHAREST, Sept Rumanian government is reported|known group of upper-bracket of- today to have found evidence that ation of Premier Calinescu had Much railroad and highway space come from Germany disguised as it Will take to move 20,000 men with Polish refugees. equipment to a designated spot. report in official circles food there. And if the 20,000 must ‘Another report circulated in con- | D¢ €xpanded to 200,000 quickly they nection with She investigation was|WOD't be altogether at a loss. country had supplied members of the Rumanian “Iron Guard” with funds to finance plans for the The round-up and execution of known members of the “Iron Guard” continued today E have been killed to date range from 400 to 2,000. AL . e AR | A widespread R.O.T.C. organiza- District Ranger W. A. Chipper-|jeoec on g S £ e ges on a voluntary basis. Regular field was to fly from Sitka to Ten-|,pyy jnstructors have learned how akee today in the course of a rou-|y, gqopt, army methods to civilian tine administrative trip in the Ad- dispositions. Out of those college miralty Division. He will return| and from other spurces | groups, to Juneau early next week. (Continued on Page Five) {onels and Generals in the reserve| ficers who will stack up pretty \wlli They can compute how | FUEHRERIN FIGHT AREA WITH CHIEF Forces Driven Back by French PARIS, Sept. 23. — Military dispatches report that attacks on the German Western front coincided with the sudden ar- rival there of Fuehrer Hitler and Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander- in-Chief of the German Army. The German army made three assaults of & pronounced nature, with artillery and infantry, aid- ed by air craft, upon the French but the French forces repulsed each with reported heavy loss- es to the attackers. The main warfare on the Western front today centered in the French captured area of the Saarbruecken sector. | (COL. GENERAL, - GERMAN ARMY, | Former Commander-in- Chief Victim of War- fare at Warsaw BERLIN, Sept. 23.—Colonel Gen= eral Baron Werner von'Fritsch, for- mer German Army Commander-in- Chief, was killed yesterday at War- | saw while fighting at a compara- | tively minor post “with his artillery | regiment.” ' This is the announcement made | today by Hitler’s headquarters. A state funeral is planned for the army officer who resigned his com- | mand after the Fuehrer shook up the army leadership in February, | 1038, |BRITISH CUT GAS RATIONS Taxicabs fo Get Two Gal- lons Daily - Food Will Be Next LONDON, Sept. 23—Rigid gaso~ | ine rationing swept motor cars from | British thoroughfares today while the Covernment prepared for gen- eral distribution Monday with reg- istration forms preliminary to ra- tioning of food as well. The new gasoline regulations mean that the average motorist will e lable to drive but one t otwo hun- |dred miles monthly and taxitabs will get only two gallons a day. ALEUTIAN HAS 30 PASSENGERS FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, Sept. 23. — Steamer | Aleutian sailed for Southeast and }Smuhwest Alaska ports at 3 o'clock this afternoon with 174 first class and 31 steerage passengers aboard. Passengers aboard the Aleutian | booked for Juneau include the fol- | lowing: J. R. Morton, Mrs. O. J. Blake, Mrs. James Orme, Mrs. Keith Wildes | John P. Ingham, Joe Roberts, Mrs. O. 8. Koonts, Vera Kirkham, Miss Madolini Merritt, A. J. Balog and wife, Doris Balog, Patsy Balog. Miss Lovina Laybourn, H. Doug- |las and wife, John Douglas, Nona Ann Douglas, Mrs. Ida Fohr. | Marie Milligan, Mrs. J. W. Sorri, R. C. Iisley, Mrs. William Franks, Art McKinnon and wife G. W. Rathjens, Ernest Hiltz, A, E. Kane, Pearl Peterson, C. R. Wil- liams.