The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1939, Page 1

> THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8221. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALL UNIONS T0 JOIN “NO WALKOUT” PACT Allies Are Given Warning to End War DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES INTENSIFIED Germany, Russia Lined Np Adainst Great Brit- ain, France TURKEY SUDDENLY FLOPS; GIVES OUT AN ULTIMATUM | Soviet Newspapers BoIdIy Suggests ""Peace or Else” BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Sept. 30.—All Soviet newspapers to- day echoed in accord what im- plied a warning to the Western Allies to end the present Euro- pean war or face joint Russian and German action, This warning followed as the Presidium of the Supreme So- viet ratified the Russian - Es- thonia ten-year mutual assist- ance pact. The next step appears to be to find a neutral power to place the Berlin-Moscow axis of “peuce or else” proposal to Great Britain and France. The United States is men- tioned but is not considered likely to be invited to act as mediator because Germany and Russia are believed to fear a rebuff. (By Associated Press) Hostilities on the Western Front appear quiet today but diplomatic — activity is speeding up in the wake of the Nazi-Communist partition of Poland and the agreement to try to compel Great Britain and France to forget Poland and the European war against Germany. Great Britain and France appear | ready to rebuff any peace man- euvers put Italy is standing by Ger- many and Soviet Russia. Turkey Flops Turkey, caught between her Rus- sian ties and the British and French Allies, is reported to have notified Great Britain and France her mu- tual assistance obligations will be annulled if the Allies are involved in any war with Russia. Pope Gives Sympathy At the Castel Gandolfo the Pope ! today gave sympathy to the Polish people “in this frightful and tragic hour,” adding that “as you shell tears for your dead, remember Po- land is not going to die.” The Pope made the statements in an address to Polish residents in Rome. Reichstag to Meet In Berlin, Chancellor Hitler, who returned from the front yesterday, called the Reichstag to meet some- ' A British Joan of Arc Temporarily, at least, this British girl, wheeling her bicycle, trudged along beside British Tommies, somewhere in England, as the English | lr»ops march along. Picture radioed from London to New York. HOW MUCH OF OCEAN REALLY BELONGS TO UNITED STATES! HOW MUCH CAN BE NEUTRAL! Tl By PRESTON GROVER . | Mos(ICKI OUITS | WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. — The | war will begin to grow exciting from AS pRESIDEN]’ OF {our standpoint when British cruis- {m begin roaming up and down our BATIERED pOlAND coasts and German submarines pick off British freighters within sight of the Atlantic seaboard. 2 5 \ We will get terribly angry, offi- Former President of Polish Senate Is Named Successor cially, and send protests. We will tell them to get their ships out of |the way of our commerce. Be- | sides, it is disgraceful for a first- |line power to let alien sea-police ! putter around in the front yard. |" Beyond a protest, we can do lit- tle—unless we want to write some more international law of our own. The thing all hinges on just what part of the ocean a neutral —a big neutral—can take over in of war. We can take over the out to the three-mile limit PARIS, Sept. 30.—1ne Polish Em- | bassy here announces that Ignace Moscicki has resigned, effective to-| day, as Poland’s President, and has named Wladyslaw Rac vies, for mer President of the Polish Senate | time in Warsaw, as his successor. jwater Moscicki is now interned in without protest. Every nation con- mania. cedes that. But sometimes that is The new Polish President took the | DOt enough for protection of our in- oath of office in the embassy here, | *7e5tS: surrounded by a few leaders whoY When we were beating off rum- 2t tuile o P lrunnu. we established a 12-mil ]v;:: iRt ed o Genman s zone as U. S. territorial waters. Ru- ANTI-TRUST - DRIVEWILL ~ BEPUSHED G 14 No Relaxation Because of | - Present Wartime ; Conditions GERAHART, Ore, Sept. 30. —| Assistant United States Attorney | General Arnold declared here that | | wartime conditions will mean mno| relaxing of the Justic Department's’ anti-trust drive. Arnold addressed the convention of the Oregon State Bar Association. He heads the Division of the Jus-! tice Department in charge of en- forcing anti-monopoly laws. ‘The official said that the war in} Europe and profiteering that is re- sulting from it, shows the need for a greater instead of a lesser meas- ure of control. Said he: “We are primarily con- | cerned in seeing that the legal priv= | ileges granted groups in a hlghiyl organized society are not unreason- ably used, We do not seek to destmy | any combinations that can justify | | their existence in the interest o!i | wide or cheap distribution of goods. | _LawsfoBe Enforced on " Duck Flats | Season Opens Tomorrow | at 7 A.M.~Commission Men Stand Guard Laws are to be strictly enforced on the local duck flats when the season opens tomorrow, Executive Officer Frank Dufresne said today |as he assigned 10 Alaska Game Commission men to patrol the flats from midnight on. The commission’s effort has been to prevent violations and give the law-abiding hunter a fair break, but no leniency is to be shown anyone | breaking the law tomorrow, DuA fresne said. Regulations to be enforced in- clude the following: 1. Shooting permitted only from 7 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, 2. Guns must be plugged to hold not more than three shells. 3. Use of rifles (including .22's) not permissible. 4. Bag limit is 10 ducks and four geese and 15 snipe. License, Duck Stamp Required Game commission men on the flats will require every hunter to show his license’' and duck stamp. Hunting licenses, costing $1 for resi- | -v"“" mNE:;ww” Y x & Belgmm s Fortification System Tommies Are Jovial as They Head for Front HBRE WE COME ¢ B e These British Tommies, starting for the Western Front, were in hl(h spirits as they said farewell to Lon- don. This radiophoto from London shows them packed in a troop train, on which they have chalked le‘llIS nuch as: "Ihl.lrr, We're On ()llr Way,” and “Here We Come, Adolf.” |KFAR AII Set - | For Opening ' Sunday Night FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 30, — KFAR is all set for the grand opening Sunday night. The station has reached Ha- waii in preliminary broadcasts and should be heard in Juneau Sunday night beginning at 8 o'clock. The dedicatory program is an elaborate one. Capt. A. E. Lathrop has left nothing undone to make the station one of the best on the | Pacific (,nast. JOHN McCORMICK NEW POLICEMAN; | RESIGNS COUNCIL Sommers Bid Low on Sew- | er Work at Boat Harbor | -Special Meeting | John McCormick last night ten- dered his resignation as City Coun- cilman, effective tomorrow, and was appointed a Police Patrolman, suc- time next week to hear him explain | He is a former head of the Worl his policies. For New Agreement At Bucharest, For eign Minister Gafencu and his staff of experts are ready to leave for Moscow to- night to confer with Russian of- ficials on talks already started with the German and Turkish leaders. | Russia is said to have informed Rumania, through a third party,| that she does not intend to seize | Bessarabia, gained from Russia after the World War. TURKISH FLOP NATURAL LONDON, Sept. 30.—Authorita- tive quarters regarding the Turkish attitude as indicating intention of cancelling committments to the two western powers if Prance and Great Britain war with Russia, assert that the move is only natural as the Turkish-Russian friendship is in-| dispensible to both countries. The British Government has with- held until next week any state- ments regarding the Balkan situa- tion and a formal reply to what Great Britain terms “Hitler's peace threat.” 1t is officially reported this after- noon in advices from Ankara, that Turkey might close the Dardanelles to the British in case of a British- Russian war. — e RENO, NEVADA, is further west here than Los Angeles, Cal. | Association of Poles Abroad. He is| | 54 years of age. | U nited States Ambassador Biddle | to Poland is now here with his staff | {and will probably be accredited to the Polish Government in Paris. | - —— # Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 30. — Closing stock at today's short session and the last one of the month is 6%, American Can 114, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 34%, Beth- lehem Steel 93%, Commonwealth | and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 552, Interna- tional Harvester 69%, Kennecott| | 42%, New York Lenllul 22, Nuvlh- | ern Pacific 124, United States Steel, 8%, Pound 54.00':. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 152.54, rails 35.61, utilities 25.13. Wi 4 AR 45 P MRS. GREEN RETURNING Mrs. Henry Green, wife of the Ju-| neau agent of the Northland Trans- portation Company, aboard the steamer North Coast, accompanied by her son. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | d |Other nations, in grining friend- (liness for our effort to enforce an expeumem “noble in purpose,” |allowed us to get away with that {much ocean—but only for prohibi- tion purposes. They refused to let it become a precedent for any- ‘thmg further, in, TOOK OTHER SIDE We have also been on the other ‘mde of the fence. During the early | vears of the World War while Italy was still a neutral she tried to es- tablish a six-mile zone of “terri- torial water” around her shores. | The United States flatly refused to | recognize it. Nevertheless, the President boldly asserted that U. 8. territorial waters extended out so far as we found it necessary to extend them. But al- |most in' the same breath he said the United States alone could not make international law. It takes {more than one nation to do that. Actually our navy is patrolling | the seas out as far as 200 miles. But {let would not necessarily prevent | British and German boats coming un much closer. They did in the last ‘vux A German submarine waited { off Nantucket in plain view of shore land placidly picked off several Brit- Ixsh ships as they cleared the Ameri- can three-mile zone. Similarly, a flock of British cruis- Is returning|ers wajted just outside of New York (Continued on Page Three) dents, may be obtained at the Ju- neau-Young Hardware or Thomas this evening. Duck stamps, also costing $1 may be purchased at the and from noon until 6 o'clock to- morrow. Licenses and firearms of those breaking the game laws will be seiz- ed immediately with further pen- alties to be determined by the se- riousness of the infraction, Dufresne warned. GENERAL MOTORS DANISH MACHINE PLANTS SUSPEND COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sepl. 30.—Gasoline rationing is causing a trend to bicycles here and has| caused suspension of operations in General Motots Danish assembly | plants employing thousands of per- s0ns. More than 2,000,000 bicycles are now in use in Denmark. — .- GROSS ON ALASKA D. W. Gross, wife and two daugh- Hardware stores up until 5 o'clock | postal sub-station at the Juneau Drug Store until 11 o'clock tonight | With fears that Germany might once more invade Belgium, a move that was denied by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, Bel- gium must rely on her three-line defense about the city of Liege, target of the German thrust in 1 bank. Approximate locations of | indicated. 914. Above is the defense system: A system of trench blockhouses and machine gun nests running 55 miles along German border (1), backed up by an even stronger line | of fortifications (2), and the Albert Canal itself (3), which runs north from Liege to The Netherlands frontier with defenses on west Maginot and Siegfried lines are | ceeding Thomas Jones, whose resig- | nation was announced recently. The Council will appoint a Councilman term, which | expires next April 15, Councilmen acted on McCormick’s resignation and appointment at a | special session held last night for opening of bids on sewer work at the small boat harbor, | Low bid was that of the R. J. HAM, EGG ISSUE DODGED BY LABOR OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 30. — The ‘Cali!amu State Federation of Labor vaded committing itself on the comroversml ham and eggs old age | pension proposal when the conven- tlon fabled agproposed resolution to |endorse the measure, A number of lapor councils, in- cludmg the San Francisco Council, endorsed the thirty dollars weekly | scheme because of gratitude to the | pension movement, Ham and eggs supporters joined at the last elecs tion in defeating a bill proposing to place labor unions under strict regu- lations. Voters of the state will pass on ters are aboard the Alaska for their|the pension plan at a special elec- Juneau home; tion November 7, Lumber Industry Is Tied Up by Strike LONGVIEW, Wash., Sept. 30 | €10 boom men and lumbering op-| erators have negotiations in an attempt to settle a strike that resumed closed many mills and logging camps in Oregon and Washington. Tlee boom men struck for higher | wages three weeks ago. The walkout cut off supplies of mills on the lower | Columbia River and its tributaries. | g SULLY COMING NORTH i[ | Henry Sully, of the Juneau Bak- ery, who has been south on busin is returning north aboard the Al-i aska, Sommers Construction Company, |$10,159.80. The Mendenhall Con- struction Company submitted a bid of 81057031 e \THREE ARE FLOWN TO POLARIS MINE After returning from Tulsequah this faternoon with two passengers, |Shell Simmons flew to Windham with three more, In from Tulsequah were A. Kane and R. D. Hobren, and outbound to Windham Bay ws Elmer Carlson, Willlam Boren and Norman Ran- {dall, re e —— NINNIS NORTHBOUND E. E. Ninnis, of the Juneau Motors Company, is a passenger aboard the Alaska, returning from a business trip in the States. | | AGREEMENTS ON SHIPPING SPEEDED UP Other Maritime Unions Ex- pected fo Follow Long- shoremen’s Action BULLETIN—SAN FRANCIS- CO, Cal, Sept. 30.—Labor lead- ers today said that all Mari- time Unions will follow the Longshoremen’s lead in agreeing to an indefinite extension of the West Coast working contracts, otherwise expiring tonight. All unions have been urged by Secretary of Labor Perkins to accept the extensions pending 60-day negotiations to the pro- posed contract changes. The Waterfront Employers’ Association has already agreed. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.—Pa- cific Coast ship owners rushed nego- tiations with maritime unions yes- terday seeking extensions of the working agreements that expire to~ night. The Waterfront Employers’ "Asso~ ciation agreed Thursday with the powerful International Longshore- men’s Association on an indefinite extension, Negotiations for a new pact will continue with 60 days' notice re- quired for either a strike or a lock= out. The other maritime unions, all smaller than the longshoremen, are expected to follow the dock workers” lead and agree to extensions, B Sub Sighted Near Sechelf; Unidentified Canadian Air Force Sea- planes Reporfed fo Have Made Search VANCOUVER, B. C.,, Sept. 30.— Ralph Bremer, Secretary of the Fishing Vessel Owners’' Association, said a “very reliable fisherman” has reported to him that he saw an un- identified submarine near Sechelt, 30 miles north, on September 16. Air Commodore G. O. Johnson, of the Canadian Air Force, said sea- planes have been watching the Se- chelt area but have not detected any submersibles, Bremer said the fisherman told him three numerals were on the side of the submarine and he saw, through his binoculars, several men on the deck. i Keep Eye on Profiteering Orderof FDR WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Presi~ dent Roosevelt today asked the temporary National Economic Com- mittee to keep a “constant eye” on increases in prices of basic mater- ials to prevml prom.eeflq TAFT TELLS U. 5. TO TRUST 1940'S POLICY T0 GOP VIENNA, Ill, Sept. 30.—United States Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio, told a four-state G.OP. rally to- day that Americans wis/ng to re- main at peace after 1940 “had bet- ter trust the administration of our foreign policy to the Republicans.” In the broadcast address, Taft said, “I do not agree that any posi- tion of the Republican party should be dictated by partisanship, but if the President should advocate & pol- iey which leads this country toward war, I feel that it is not only my right, but my duty to oppose it as energetically and publicly ac pos- lsihle."