The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8216. Pl-dromacthe MEMBER A‘S()CIATE.D PRESS PRICE TEN GENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1939. r—. SIEGFRIED LINE ATTACKED BY FRENCH U-Boat Shells, Sinks S/up Without Warning 1 SUBMARINE WARFARE IS INTENSIFIED British Craft Is Swept by Undersea Boat Off Insh Coast FRENCH COLLIER IS SENT DOWN; CREW SAFE Neutral Ve;él_Torpedoed; —Northern Europe Now Resentfu DUBLIN, Sept —Survivors of the British ship Hazelside said the ship was attacked and sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast and 12 of the crew of 34 are missing i The Hazelside was enroute from British Columbia to an undisclosed * Luropean port. Twenty-two survivors landed ir services at Hyde Park, N. Y., and the County of Cork, five of them seriously injured. Two of the crew were killed by shell fire. | Wireless Operator Birkett, treated | for injuries, said the freighter was | fired on without warning. He es-| timated from 20 to 30 shells were | fired at the ship. | The Captain of the ship tried to| make a run for it but failed to es-| cape the shell fil FRENCH COLLIER SHELLED LONDON, Sept. 25—The Gov-| ernment reports the sinking of the 560 ton French Collier Phyrne the English coast, but the ex-| off act locality is not disclosed. The report said the sinking was witnessed by persons on shore. Destroyers raced to the scene, and according to unofficial advices the crew of the collier, numbering 24| members, were picked up and taken | ashore in Coast Guard lifeboats. NEUTRAL SHIP SUNK COPENHAGEN, Sept. 25. — The Swedish steamer Silesia, the fuurch' neutral ship sunk in three da; was sent to the bottom today, add- | ing resentment of Northern Eur-| opean countries as to German sub- | marine activity., The crew of the Silesia is report- ed to have escaped. in lifeboats. HEAVY NAVAL BATTLE NEAR NORWAY ISLE Unknown Vessels Cannon-' ade for Twelve Hours | Authority on Infernational During Entire Night | Law Passes Away BERLIN, Sept. 25—Unidentificd | in France ships were engaged last night for| e at least twelve hours of cannonad- 5 g A 2 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25.—Word ing off the coast of Norway. has been received here of the death A native along the coast sald he| . Biarritz, France, of Francisco believed a naval battle was in db. 18 Ba "whp. served a8 Leon | President of Mexico in 1911 after i ;’faxyr{“"r"‘il “':‘Lh inhabi-|yhe overthrow of Porfiro Diaz. De " % and, Six miles| |y Barra was an authority on Inter- west of here, reported first hear- | national law. He was former Presi- ‘1"3‘* q;‘)’(’;"‘l‘l ga f;m P:“,";"‘d S‘L’f’“;"“’ dent of the International Court of 2.8 m. Pacific Standard | prpitration and former Ambassador Time. from Mexico to the United States. There was no assurance that the| pe 13 Barra was one of Mexico f;l”” hWOUId not be resumed, as foremost statesmen before he aban- there had been a previous lull of | goned the turbulence of politics in about 30 minutes. | the midst of revolution and left his . H native land at the age of 50 for a Vugoslawa Is Taking ASSOC/ATED PRESS .CARL LAEMMLE «~ FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF MEXICO DIES new career abroad as international jurist, specializing i the arbitra- A R d p ' tion of disputes between nations, rm slightly more than six months BELGRADE, Sept. 25. — The after President Forfirio Diaz was Yugoslavia Government today pub-|forced to resign on May 25, 1911. In HI\ highest office was that of resident of Mexico, a post he filled lished detailed instructions for air b o raid precautions, (Continued on page Six) Accompanied by his mother, President Roosevelt attends church R. Wilson, left, on the steps of St. James Episcopal church. Body- guard Thomas Qualters is at right. Roosevelts at Church Service stops to chat with the Rev. Frank FAMOUS MOTION PICTURE PRODUCER, CARL LAEMMLE, L, DIES SUNDAY BE RLY HILLS, Cal, Sept. 25 —Carl Laemmle Sr., 72, pioneer mo- | | tion picture producer, died Sunday | at his home here. He got his start | in the movie world as a nickelodeon | proprietor, then established the Uni- versal Studio, the largest in the in- dustry and introduced the star sys- tem to the screen, He made the first million dollar picture, “Foolish | Wives.” | Carl Laemmle lanaea in America, | a German immigrant with less than $50 in his pockets, in 1884, and| | achieved a commanding position in the country’s second largest industry only after years of struggle. | Laemmle was born at Laupheim, | | Wurttemberg, Germany, January 17, | 1867. His first position in the United States was that of a drug clerk, ob-| tained within a few days of his land- | |ing. As soon as he had saved suf-| | ficient money, he came West, and | was at various times a department | store clerk in Chicago, a farm hand | at a wage of $4¢ a month in South Dakota, a bookkeeper in a Chicago jewe tore, #2d a clerk at the | Chicago stockyards. He became an| | American citizen in 1889. | Ten years later he had worked his | way to the managership of the Con— tinental Clothing Company of Os- kosh, Wis., and had saved vnuugh | to marry. His bride was Recha Stern, of Flieden, Germany. Starts Nickelodeon With his savings of $3,600, Laem- ‘mll moved back to Chicago intend- {ing to promote a chin of five and ten cent stores. The newly popular- d “movies” seemed to offer a ter field for investment, how-| ever, and Laemmle staked his Pn-” tire capital in outfitting a nickelo- | | deon. This nucleus of what became one of the largest amusement enterpris- es in the world was a tiny re-vamped clothing store, fitted with 120 chairs rented from an undertaker. Laemmle painted it a brilliant white so that it would stand out among the dingy clothing shops which were its neighbors on Mil- waukee Avenue, and christened it “The Whitefront.” He adopted his | chain-store idea to nickelodeons and soon he had nearly a dozen in Chi- cago. Establishes Branches The increase in theaters, however, soon exhausted the available supply of pictures, and receipts began to fall off. Laemmle decided to go into the wholesale motion picture ex- change business, He needed more capital and put his dilemma before R. H. Cochrane, his advertising manager. Cochrane promptly took his own life savings " (Continued on Page Seven) | lent | out of the tropics, liod of ALIVES ARE LOST IN STORM |- Southern California Struck | by Tropical Gale on Suqday —Seven persons small fishing boat sported missing and this raised the list of dead or missing in Sunday's tropical prm o 41. Cal, Sept. 25 d the LOS ANGELES, Sept —A vio= rain and wind storm, roaring has brought death and destruction in Southern Cali- fornia to at least 34 persons believed drowned on the Pacific Reports said scores of persor |aboard small fishing boats and | | pleasure craft are massing The storm however ended a per- the hottest weather in history of Southern California. Ap- proximately 90 deaths are blamed directly indirectly on the heat which averaged 100 degrees or more for an entire week Twenty persons are reported have been drowned Sunday in the storm when the sport fishing boat Spray capsized off Point Magu, 40 | miles northwest of Los Angeles. One | man and one woman who swam ashore in the tremendous seas were the only ones reported to have es- caped death. - e or 'DEADLY BATTLE BEING FOUGHT NEAR CHANGSHA Chinese, Japanese Claim 20,000 Killed in Engagement SHANGHAL, Sept. 25. — Chinese and Japanese reports estimate that at least 20,000 soldiers have been killed in the current drive at Chang- sha in South-Central China. The Japanese assert their forces have advanced to within 25 miles | of Changsha. Earlier Chinese reports said the Japanese were repulsed 60 miles from the city which was partly de- stroyed last October when the Jap- anese drive was expected then. DEMAND OF MUSSOLINI REJECTED \Great Britain, France Will Not Declare War on Russia PARIS, Sept. 25.—Official circles in Paris said today thatGreat Bri- tain and France will ignore Italian Premier Mussolini’s veiled demands that they declare war on Russia hu" the Soviet's invasion of Poland. Mussolini based a plea for peace | Saturday partly on a charge that the Allies had lost the moral basis of their war with Germany by fail- ing to take similar action .xgdmsv‘ Russia. Informed Paris quarters pointed | out today that the moral basis 1 the war on Germany, the appml from Poland for aid, had not been | repeated by the Poles as a result of | the Soviet invasion. Also important they said, was the fact that a de- claration of war on Russia would only throw the Soviet definitely into the camp of Germany, while it was not at all certain that Russia would remain at Germany's side in the| future. The Foreign Offices of both Allies were understood to have sent strong demands to Moscow today for clari- | fendants will continue immes di- |- fication of Russia’s position, to | First Picture of German Attack on G dnia | b radioed from B Germans a This picture, Gydnia just before siege. the |~ ‘What Does Roo By Suggesting This Nation Fall Back N FLOYD GIBBONS DIES SUDDENLY, HEART DISEASE Noted War Correspondent Passes Away on His Penn. Farm 25.— STROUDSBURG, Floyd Gibbons, 52, respondent and radio ocmmentator, died unexpectedly of heart disease last night on his farm. The death of the veteran reporter, who wore a patch over his left eye which was lost in the World War in France cut short his intention to retur Europe to cover current hos Gibbons first made a name for himself as a war correspondent when he reported Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and then accompanied Gen. John J. Pershing on the dash into Mexico. Gibbons become London corre: Pa., Sept. noted war cor- pondent of the Chicago Tribune in| 1917. As a passenger on the steamer Laconia, which was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish Coast, Gibhons cabled a 4,000-word account of the disaster in which American lives were lost. Gibbons reported the World War in France in 1918 and it was at the | battle of Chateau Thierry that he lost his ll.‘(L eye. >, ] WOMAN FOUND GUILTY, POISON INSURANCE CASE PHILADELPHIA, Sept. —Mrs | Josephine Roumaldo has been | found guilty of first degree murder charges in connection with Phila-| delphia’s insurance murders. Previously Herman Petrillo been convicted on similar charges. Several others of the 20-odd de- fendants have entered pleas of guilty. Mrs. Roumaldo was found guilty in the death of her husband, An- tonio. The prosecution charged that the woman poisoned him to collect £10,000 insurance. Trials of some of the other de- ately had | to New York, shows German troops in ing position in a ditch outside pounced that the Polish Baltic port had surrendered after a two-week Prof. Freud Passes Away While Exile Famed Originafor of Psy-| chonanalysis Dies Prac- fically Penniless sevelt Mean | | | | ow on Inf. Law! By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Sept. What | | does the President mean when he suggests that the U. S. “fall back” | on international law in preference to the “neutrality act” designed for | this country alone? The answer would vary, depending upon where you went to get it. Nev- ertheless, there IS a body of inter- | national law. Much of it has been accepted for centuries, Much of it is in serious dispute. Just now it is suffering an all-time low mark of | observance. d M. Borchard of Columbia v, a foremost authority, in- | sists, however, that even now inter- | national law is a binding set of rules | applied by and to states in their in- | ternational intercourse. \’ | International law is a luckless | code in one respect. It is built up | | extensively in peace, only to be shat- | | tered and disregarded in consider- able part in war. Even in war,| though, there is strict adherence to | an extensive portion of it. For ex- ample, prisoners are not slaughtered now, as they once wer Yet, a long-accepted rule again ‘t“ making war on defenseless citizens went overboard in the World War, 1 and was not respected by the Ital-| [ONDON, sepr. Prof. Sig- ians in Ethiopia, the Japanese in'mund Freud, 83, famed originator China, and perhaps not by the Ger- of psychoanal , died Saturday | mans in Poland, | night. Prof. Freud left Vienna and Development of air warfare was came to England after the German | blamed. Rules respecting this zone | occupation of Austria, of battle are so new that they do| gjgmund Freud long was known as not carry the force of long custom|«the father of psychoanalysis,” but |and use that has established much|in Jater years was more accurately | international law. described “the prophet of the| sub-conscious,” His researches in| |the dim recesses of buried human | thought brought him world-wide | acclaim and many honors, but in the | end his religious heritage of Juda- | ism made him a victim of Nazi anti- | Semitism after “anschluss” of Ger- | many and Austria and on June 4, l 25.: SIGMUND FREUD | as | EGYPT HAD TREATIES Those who read through the Pres- |ident’s proclamation of neutrality | the one he called the “regular pro- | clamation” to distinguished it from {the one under the neutrality act, | noted that it was based entively on | widely-accepted international law. | 1933 he fled his beloved Vienna to | | Among other things it prohibits|jass his final days in London exile. | belligerent warships using our ports | Virtually Penniless for bases of operation. It orders our Then 82 years old and afflicted ;)mwm to take no part in the com-| with throat trouble which had both- at. ¥ ered him since 1923, he arrived in International lflx/ like the com-|(he British capital virtually penni- {mon law, sort of “growed up” with |, All his property in Vienna had the times. Ancient Egypt hadipeen confiscated and it was satd | treaties with certain of her sister|jater that he had been allowed to | states in which all agreed to respect depart only after an emergency com-' | and protect one another’s embassies. | mittee of the American Psychoana- | Their mtm-rjmtmnal laws sounded | |ytic Association had raised $8,400 like their own domestic laws. Thev| with which to pay to the German were called “natural” laws or “laws|government a debt owed by “The of all mankind. | International Psychoanalytic Ver- Rome enforced a code largely of |40 » 4 magazine which Preud had its own making, but Rome recog-|founded nized the older principles. Inunm’1 But the octogenarian philosopher tional law became really important| did carry to London most of his when Europe began segregating it-|jiprary and also took with him the self into independent states. It h‘d‘x,,“.m completed manuscript of a | a haphazard growth through the|gjpjical analysis. This work, it was middle centuries until a scholarl X““d would explain “the sub-consci- (Continuea “on Page Four) (Continued on Page Five NEW ACTION BREAKS OUT WEST FRONT Heavy Excfia?ge of Arfil- lery Is Reported in Haacht Sector GERMAN PLANE PLANT BOMBARDED IS (LAIM Air Baftles Take Place~ Warsaw Continues in Polish Hands (By l\xflorhted Press) The Western Front sprang to new | left today as the major accom- p,uum(‘nt to the German conflict | with Great Britain and France on | the sea and in the air. French troops struck hard at the French positions in the Haardt Mountains, trying to find a weak spot in the Siegfried Line. All during the night, a heavy ex- change of artillery fire was heard from Germany and French posi- tions. Swiss reports declared that Brit- ish or French war planes put out of commission one of Germany's main airplane motor factories in a raid during the night on Fried- richshafen. The German High Command de- nied that such a raid had taken place and said a number of British | ships had been destroyed or sunk and eight French planes have been downed. Naval Engagement Norwegians on Algrol Island ex- pressed belief today that a naval engagement 18 under way in the Atlantic, where heavy cannonading was heard from unidentified ves- sel. Great Britain's Ministry of In- formation announced only propa- ganda leaflet raids over Germany had been carried out, and made no statement as to raids on Fried- richshafen as reported. French military dispatches said heavy artillery has been brought to play in a bombardment of the main fortifications of the Siegfried Line. Artillery Activity A Paris communique said there was “activity by enemy artillery” in {an southeast of Sweibrucken, War in its more bitter phase con- tinued on the Eastern front, where Warsaw still remains in Polish hands. However, the Polish capital's ra- dio station reported more than a thousand civilians have been killed in Warsaw by a new German bom- bardment - Vigorous Probing, Sabofage Citizens in All Walks of Life Are Aiding FBI, Says Hoover WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. — Chief G-man, Edgar Hoover, says that his office will carry on its investigation of sabotage and neutrality law vio- |lations in a calm and vigorous man- ner. He said the investigation will be impartial and free of hysteria. The director of the FBI further said that police departments, sher- iffs’ offices, railroads and civic or- ganizations throughout the United States have pledged their support to the anti-espionage drive. Said Hoover: “Citizens in every walk of life are deeply interested in lending all aid to ridding the United States of those who desire to undermine the Federal govern- ment through espionage, sabotag and violation of neutrality laws.