The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS AI L TIIE TIME" VOL. LIV., NO. 8219. SKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LONGSHORE 'WALKOUT NEUTRALITY BILL GIVEN BIG BOOST Measures Receives Ap- proval of Foreign Re- | lations Committee DEBATE WILL BEGIN ON NEXT MONDAY, IS CLAIM Provisions ;f_A—p proved Legislation Takes in Three Phases | WASHINGTON Sept. 28. — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved the Administration’s neutrality bill that would permit shipment of American armaments to | belligerent nations. A Senate debate on the measure is scheduled to start Monday. The bill, approved after three-| hour session, would, (1) repeal the existing embargo on arms shipments | to belligerent nations; (2) belliger- I ents would be required to take title to all araments and other goods pur- | chased in this country before ship-| ping, and (3) the belligerents would have to carry their purchases home | in their own vessels. Sponsors of the measure claim that these provisions serve to pu(’ all sales to warring countries vir-| tually on a “cash and carry” basis. | Doughty old Senator Wiiliam E. Borah, opponent of the legislation, announced the Senate Foreign Re-| lations Committee's vote on accept- dnce was sixteen to seven. | FOUR WEEKS OF DEBATE | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Friends | and foes of the New Deal and the reported a “heavy British c1u|ser‘ neutrality bill have agreed to vote | on the controversial measure after about four weeks of Senate debate. | The Senate debate will start Mon- | day. | Sponsors of the new measure in the Senate claimed a minimum of 54 votes with a good chance of get-| ting seven or eight more. Foes of | the arms embargo repeal claimed about 32 votes, but said they would have additional support before the final vote is taken. A mysterious sidelight on the whole neutrality affair is what seems to be a battle for the support of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The flying colonel discussed the pending legislation with isolationist Senator Borah of Idaho in a private con- ference yesterday. Tuesday Lind-| bergh had a private luncheon with a group of Senators favoring repeal of the arms embargo. The two meetings left the public in the dark as to Lindbergh's at- titude. | SUB CREWS GET VISIT | BY HITLER First Soldier Plays First Sailor with Hand- shakes for All WILHELMSHAVEN, Sept. 28. Chancellor Hitler today visited this| North Sea naval base to congratu- Jate submarine crews returning from | their recent cruises iry “cnemy‘ waters.” Announcements of Hitler's visit| said he came to laud the Nazi sub-| marine flotilla for a successful trip| abroad and attacks on “enemy” ,‘ ships. | Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Commander-in-Chief of the Ger- man Navy, accompanied Hitler. The First Soldier of the Reich personally thanked officers and men of the U-boat crews at a late in- formal gathering during which sub crewmen told him of their experi- ences. — .- — THE JOB of preparing the New York World’s Fair was equivalent to building an entirely new city of 800,000 population on an unin- habited spot, | guest, NEW MOVES FOR PEACE | PREDICTED ' Demand for Acceptance of Polish Liquidation Is to Be Made BERLIN BOASTS AS LONDON POOH-POOHS | Germans R-éfirt Warsaw Now Shatterd-To Sur- render Tomorrow (By Associated Press) A French communique late today declares British and French planes have shot down several German ! fighting planes, but there were no noteworthy fighting activities on the | Western Front, A German communique reporting one enemy plane down near Saar- | bruecken, went unconfirmed in French military headquarters. Diplomatic circles in London and | Paris expressed the belief today that Hitler is preparing a new peace move, possibly backed up with a | threat of a German-Soviet military alliance. Such a move, the diplomats say, | would include a demand for British and French acceptance of the liquid- | ation of their ally, Poland. Great Britain and France, ever, ! terrs would be inacceptable. New “Peace Offensive” European hostilities lagged today with the expectation of Warsaw's csmlul.mon bringing a new “peace | offens] Hitler, in a German communique, was successfully attacked” by a Ger- | man air raider near the British coast. The British Admiralty spokesman | termed the German claim “poppy- | | cock.” Warsaw's Fate Berlin reported Poland’s capital of Warsaw is shattered after twen- ty days of German siege and is pre- pared to surrender, probably MOIrow. The German announcement of the city’s unconditioned surrender dispatch indicating further defense has been abandoned, with German and Russian armies virtually complete control of Poland. The Warsaw radio went silent late vesterday after telling the dramatic | story of the city’s valiant defense | and resultant ruin. Western Front On the Western Front, hostilities are at a slow pace. A French communique said “an| eenmy attack west of Saarbruecken failed during the calm night along the entire front.” Swiss dispatches said a French counter attack which was thrust to- ward the rail junction east of Wis- sembourg, was driven back by Ger- man troops. eee Mystery | o InDeath 0f Girl ‘June Nickelsen Is Stricken a vote or two bad been switched one After Rainbow Instal- lation, Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 28.— A rare blood disease has claimed the | life of June Nickelsen, 17-year-old high school girl, stricken last Sun-| day after installation of the Rain- bow Girls’ officers. A slightly sore throat was the only symptom, the doctor said, and it will require a few days to make tests to identify the malady. St Vs il TO DO FITTING honor to a some Arabs believe, they must serve freshly-killed meat.| The servant of a sheik will bring in a lamb or kid—alive—so that the visitor may see what an ex- cellent animal it is. Then it is killed for-the evening meal, how- | have said repeatedly that such | to- was | borne out by a Polish news agency | in NOW AVERTED I i i i " Appearing personally before the Congress, convened in extraordinary session, President Roosevelt (shown Representatives repeal of the arms embargo was necessary because it was “most vitally dangerous to Ameris “shadow over the world might swiftly The House He said he could. offer no hope that the pas: Executive spoke. ely U(’.slruy Lousl l' rei "hl('r Flames Comple | » ot | | Fire, believed to have started in her cargo of matches, completel wood just outside Humbolt Bay, near Eureka, Cal. The ship’s crew of 21 was saved by the steamer Scot | after being forced to take to lifeboats. The Redwood is shown burning. Revision, But Not Repeal of - Neutrality Ad, May Depend On Events, Not Words, Bel:el (O S S5 Sl b o o JINNATI, ncinnati 5 won the final games with the St. Louis Cardinals by the score of 5 to 3 and nched the first National League pennant m 20 years. By PRESTON GROVER {\abml( October 10 might work won- WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 7mwm,<,{f“"'fi in Congress. mnt words, will largely determine| The attitude of partiality to- [whvllmx and’'when the President will ward our old allies is so eviden get Congress to repeal the arms em- publicly and so widely held in the bargo. | Administration that advocates of embargo repeal now are sceking to Weeks before the special session P b o Lbaan. thinc et acs o words had | point out that a nation still b m:.’:f_ 'l:‘l‘:' g :;: | swelled to World War proportions, |eutral and yet be partial. season, Th ful baubles Yet no one could say that more than| This view has no standing at all jn the late ings cost the among Senators such as Nye of ° Cardinals the game. way or another among the closel, North Dakota, who interpret every —_ D e |divided ranks for and against 1 step friendly to England as simpl | vision of the Neutrality act walking further into the war | But in the month or two months |the special session likely will last,| Our attitude toward Canada | SEEKS pARolE events in Europe can materially ¢ited a sample of partiality a shape _public — and _congressional | Ustinguished from neutrality. Tho g <er- | President has stated that no for- i I“j})""’;'r‘;”m’?\'}‘]m_:’.?"f:"‘“”f"d,f °leign power will be permitted to WASHNGTON, Sepl. 2. — The 15 former Kansas City, Missouri, polit- | conquer Canada. Certainly that | at sea would be an important factor. | being very partial to an enemy of It is a fair bet that corresponding | ical boss, Tom Pendergast, has filed | expect German “atrocities.” And it would probably attempt to ex- cuse or minimize “retaliation.” consider Pendergast’s next month. North Dakota. plea WHAT'S OVERLOOKED What is very much overlooked in the neutrality fight, moreover, is | that the Administration is king revision of the Neutrality act, not e | “NEUTRALITY PARTIALITY” Sinking of the Athenia undoubt- | edly influenced much public opm-‘ jon to a more friendly attitude toward England, A similar aflmrl THROUGH a provision in the| will of Samual Scotten, who died in 1810, loaves of bread are given| 150 needy Philadelphia on each anniversary of his birth (Continuea on Page Four) Chamber | Threatened by Sub Is | | submarine on PENNANTi “frightfulness” in the form of “re- Germ‘a.nyv But is it unneutral [.., n 8ppllvcu.tlt)n h.n' parole. v | taliation” on the part of Britain or|féfoBnize something that is as well Pendergast is serving a l.‘;—nmmh‘ Toranos would. mot stir correspond. | established as the movement of the sentence in Leavenworth for income | ing sentiments in America, Public|tdes? Defense of Canada is as tax evasion. ; £ opinion already seems attuned to much a part of our scheme of na- Department of Justice 1)(Ylt'|a|\ tional protection as defe of said that the parole board would families | told the Senators a , seeurity and peace. | crowded the Chief spe: ), cutrali was can as SHIPPING OF - SOVIET RUSS IS ATTACKED Second Shlp Reporled | Driven on Racks MOSCOW, Sept icial Soviet New: second attack b St | | | | | 28.—Tass, the of- Agency, reports an unidentified | viet shipping near | Estonia, The Soviet steamer Pioneer was forced on the rocks by the attack of | the submarine. No loss of life is re- | ported. Tass announced. | Yesterday a Soviet steamer was | | torpedoed and sent¥down but the | crew was re: w\u‘d SOVIH RUSSIA - HAS SPIES IN UNITED STATES [Enemies of Government| Pledged fo Fight for Foreign Regime WASHINGTO-;-;‘ep! -’lm: Dies Committee was told y day that Soviet Russia has a vast army of potential spies in the Unlted1‘ the event of war. ° | The testimony was given by for- mer Soviet Red Cross official Dr. H. Dubrowsky. He told the commit- | tee that every member of the Com- | munist Party in the United State | owed his first allegiance to the Sovi- | et government. He said that this| allegiance would demand active par- | | members in espiona campaigns. | Dubrowsky said that and sabotag e in his opin- | ion Josef Stalin would double-cross | German Chancellor Hitler when-| |ever it would be, to Stalin’s advan- | it to do so. Dubrowsky pictured | Communism'’s - so-called “promised | and” as what he termed a “racket| land.” with the Russian government | wing at least 256 million dollars a r out of the United States. He excessive duties on commodi- | lw\ sent by residents of the United States to needy relatives in Russia constitute a fertile source of reve- nnv for the Commumist r«-x,un«- - HEIRESS NOW " SEEKS DIVORCE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 28. —Sugar heiress Marie Spreckels has filed a divorce suit against her polo playing husband charging extreme rrm-lty Roosevelf Calls on Congress fo Repeal Arms Embargo Ad ;NO CESSATION, WATERFRONT SERVI(E INDICATED, PACIFIC COAST MARITIME SITUATION BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, Cal, Sept. 28, — The Waterfront Employers Associa- tion announce signing of an agreement with the Longshore- men’s Union for an indefinite extension of the current dock agreement which expires Satur- day, pending further negotia- tions. The employers’spokesman said the agreement provides for the current pact to continue in force with “no work stoppage” provision until or unless either party gives a 60-day motice of termination after which it would cease at the end of the 60 days if the controversy remains un- settled. The agreement also provides if at any time during the 60- day notice period a vote on acceptance or rejection of the new waterfront agreement on the contract is -underway, other ys will be added to the 60-da In Washington, Alaska Dele- + shipping tie- up at this time would work con- dship on Alaskans 2 he exhibited a telegram from the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce at Nome that stated that the decision to advance the sailing of the sea- son's last steamer to Nome to avoid strike complications “com- pels suspension of operations in the entire distriet.” In Seattle the Alaska Steam- ship Company officials an- nounced that the rescheduling of the steamer Mount McKinley on the last trip to Nome has again been switched back from Saturday to October 10. SAN FRAWN ., Cal, Sept. 28.—Negotiators are seeking a formula for the manner in which longshore working conditions will continue after the present contract between the Long- shoremen and Waterfront Em- ployers Association expires on Saturday, September 30. The negotiators discussed continuance of conditions preva- lent on September 15 with a 60- day notice of termination of the pact to be given by either side. A satisfactory trend of the ne- gotiations is coupled with the announcement of leaders of both sides which indicated there will be no cessation of waterfront service after next Saturday pending further negotiations, NOME SAILING ADVANCED SEATTLE, Sept. Steamship Company announced to- day the last scheduled vessel for Nome, the Mount McKinley, sail Saturday morning at 10 o'clock instead of October 10 “unless the company will be given absolute as- surance there will be no labor trou- ble” in connection with the new working agreement in shipping on| the Pacific Coast. UP TO ROOSEVELT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, tieup in shipping when the present agreement between the longshore- men and Waterfront Employers As- sociation expires Saturday, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce | has telegraphed to President Roose- velt that he intercede to prevent a strike. The telegram stated that in view 28.—The Alaska | will { Sept. 28. | States which could be moblilized in| __pearing there will be a coastwise | énu\ situation in the United States |is acute, especially on ‘the Pacific Coast, ar walkout will work une told hardsiiips The Chamber of Commerce also requests that Secretary of Labor Perkins send a representative of the Department to San Francisco immediately to assist in the present negotiations. WORK TO CONTINUE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 28. ~Longshore Chieftain Harry Bridg- es announces that work will con- tinue until negotiations are com- pleted or términated. The union has refused the em- ployers’ proposal that the existing contract be extended to January 1. The dock workers have demanded ed pay and a number of other sions, So far there has been no agreement on any point under | discussion. - (ongressmen Hop Off for Alaska Trip Snyder, Starnes and Four Army Men fo Look Over Base Sifes WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Repre- sentative J. Buell Snyder, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, and Representative | Joe Starnes, Democrat, of Alabama, | members of the House Military Ap- propriations subcommittee, left here today on the first leg of a ten-day aerial trip to inspect new Army Air | Corps facilities in Alaska. The two Congressmen are accom- | panied by four Army officers. Purpose of the tour, it is an- nounced, is to view proposed sites | of air bases at Fairbanks and An- chorage. It was not revealed here whick. route the party will fly to Alaska, but it was assumed they wiil either fly via Seattle and Juneau, or by Canadian permission, via Edmonton |and Whitehorse on the Rocky | Trench interior route. | COME NORTH SATURDAY HAMILTON FIELD, Cal, Sept. 28. ~—The Army Air Corps here an- | nounces that the plane carrying Representatives Snyder and Starnes will arrive here tomorrow and the will leave by plane Saturday for Fairbanks. Major Arthur Wilson, of the Gen- | eral Staff, will also accompany the ‘lwo Representatives to Alaska. 'EXPLOSION KILS 15 'SOMEWHERE INNORTH BRITAIN LONDON, Sept. 28.—The Minis~ try of Supply announces that 15 per- {sons have been killed in a factory | explosion “somewhere in North Great Britain.” - eee- — NEW YORK STATE has two million more people than all of | ticipation by the Communist Party|of the pr(‘\l‘hl conflict in Furnpe Cnnuda JUNEAU FBI AGENT PROBING MYSTERY SLAYING OF THREE MEN, WOMAN IN WESTWARD ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 28.— A Federal inquiry has been launched into the Cache Creek killings of two weeks ago when three men and one uomnn were slain. R. C. Vogel, of Juneau, FBI agent, flew from Pairbanks to Talkeetna to launch an inquiry on orders of Chief J. Edgar Hoover, to whom residents of the region sent an appeal. The victims of the shooting were Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Jenkins and Joy Brittell, The body of Dick Fran- cis, oldtimer, was found near his cabin. At first it was believed Fran- cis had committed the slayings and then had committed suicide. The autopsy held at Anchorage revealed that Francis could hardly have taken his own life because of two bullet wounds in the body. The authorities therefore were confounded and immediately launched search for the slayer of the three men and woman. Robbery is believed to have been the motive,