The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS A” THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8222. jUN[:AU ALASKA, MONDA\ H( [()l’l R 2. 7]‘)3‘) MEMBLR AS SUUATI;D PRhSS PRICE TEN CENTS 'GERMANY STRIKES AT SHIPPING AT SEA - Debate Started on Repeal, Arms Embargo NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION UP, CONGRESS Administration’s Measure Is Explained by Sen- ator Pittman HISTORIC TALKFAST IS BEGUN IN EARNEST Galleries Packed as Ne- - vadan Takes Floor in Behalf of Measure WASHINGTON, Oct 2.—United States Senator Key Pittman, Chair- man of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee, today began the momentous Senate debate on the | nation’s neutrality policies by as-! serting the existing arms embargo is a “discrimination in favor of Ger- many.” Senator Pittman offered the Ad-! ministration’s neutrality bill to re- peal the arms embargo as the “most important legislation ever proposed in Congress.” Senator Pittman said it is design- | ed to keep the United States out of the European war. Long before the Senator opened the debate, a crowd, ignoring the cold rain, thronged the capitol to overflow the Senate Chambers, drawn by prospects of a debate expected to rank high among the historic Senate discussions. The legislation calls for the lift-| ing of the present ban on arms ship- | ments to belligerents. Isolationist leader Willlam E. Borah, of Idaho will fire the first shots for the opposition. Senate leaders differ as to Lle probable length of the debate on the controversial bill. The lowest estimate, however, is two weeks with | a number that the debate will last at least one month. Senator Borah asserted that i Congress lifted the arms embargo| to Europe’s warring nations he did | not see how the United States| could refuse to send armies to help the Allies in “their greater hour of need.” The veteran Senator took legislation after Senator had finished hxs addres; DIPI.OMAI TAKE OFFENSIVETODAY, EUROPEAN FIGHT Warsaw Is_lgporled Tak- en Over-Soviet Move Troops Further (By Associated Press) Diplomats took the offensive to- day in a European war devoid of military developments. On the Western Front, a German commurtique reported the first of German troops have moved into shattered Warsaw “without inci- dent.” The communigue also said the defenders of the Hela Peninsula, “last point of Polish resistance” are said to have surrendered uncondi- tionally. Soviet Russian forces meanwhile pushed the Communization of East- ern Poland, which the Red Army occupied in dividing Poland with Germany. On Western Front On the Western Front, a French| communique said “the night was| relatively calm,” while Germany re-| ported “merely local artillery and reconnoitering actviity” in the West. Germany said, however, that one British scouting plane was shot down. French dispatches indicated the British and French forces are con- solidating their positions and re- moved thousands of small mines left behind by the Germans, of Senators predicting | the | Senate floor to oppose neutrality | Pittman | Get First Tongue Lashing Similar scenes as the one in photo above are taking place through- out the British Isles as Great Britain continues to call additional classes of conscripts to the colors. Recruits shown in London are receiving their first drill and the lashing of a sergeant-instructor’s tongue. Instructor in kilts is wearing a London-Scoitish uniform. \‘lany of the conscripts pictured are under twenty, AIR BATTLE FOUGHT, HIGH ALTITUDE, OVER SIEGFRIED LINE: 6 PLANES DOWNED CIANO, HITLER - IN CONFERENCE . OVER NEW PACT Chancellor Explalns fo| Count German-So- viet Agreement BERLIN, Oct. | conference with Chancellor Hitler ‘last night, shortly after his arrival ister went to the Chancellory for his first talk with Hitler about an hour | after his special train reached the| | | German capital. | Previously, Count Ciano had a| | short talk with the German Foreign }Muns!er Von Ribbentrop. The Ger- | | man Foreign Minister also was pres- Hitler. Chancellor Hitler is understood |to have explained the German-So- viet agreement to the Italian For-| eign Minister and to have outlined | his plans for a peace proposal to Britain and France. | In connection with the German| | peace plans, Hitler is' understood to have outlined the part he intends to play in putting the peace offer in motion. Further conversations are expect- ed to take place today before Count | Ciano starts back for Rome, JAPANESE CLAIM GREAT VICTORY, CHINA CONFLICT TOKYO, Oct. 2—The Jamnese‘ | claimed today to have destroyed 19 | Chinese divisions in a battle for | Changeha, Central China. Changeha is the capital of Hunan Province. The Japanese said the battle which raged several days, was the | biggest engagement that has been fought thus far in the conflict in China. Japanese sources said that 19 Chi- ‘ after they had been surrounded, ) 2.—Foreign Min- | | ister Count Ciano of Italy had a| ent during Count Ciano’s talk with | (By Associated Press) announces that three British plan have been shot down in a “great air raid” over the Siegfried line, {with 15 German attack planes en- gaged in the battle. Five Royal Air Force planes were |on a reconnaissance and were en- great altitude. “We suffered a loss, said the of- ficial statement, “but our airmen in their first experier in the war |showed the old fighting quality.” The battle lasted 35 minutes. A fourth plane was forced to land. Of twelve men in the crews of | in Berlin. The Ttalian Foreigr Min- | four planes, eight were seen to have |Wide and were introduced at escaped by parachutes. ‘The British Squadron leader was alone left, but he flew on and fin- 1xh°d lus assigned task, Two German planes were shot down and the others quit fighting. The German communique said two French and 10 British airplanes | in the west and two British planes over the North Sea were brought down with a loss of two German \plflm‘& a(knov»ledged Frifz Kuhn Is ~ SMillin Jail NEW YORK, Oct. 2. — German | American Bund leader Fritz Kuhn 'has so far failed to get his $50,000 bail reduced. Supreme Court Jus- (tice Noonan refused to reduce the | bail and suggested that Kuhn’s at- torney withdraw the plea for reduc- tion of the amount and take it to the General Sessions Court where he high bail was set. The Bund leader’s counsel ac- cordingly withdrew the plea. The high bail was set when the court received definite information that Kuhn was trying to leave the country. Kuhn’s lawyers settled for him with another court in New Jersey last week where he still owed part of a fine for drunken driving. e OCTOBER 4, 1914: Russians de- battle at Augustovo, §Head of thfiest Diocese i | | The British Information Ministry | | ‘;..a;,td by the German airmen at a| CARDINAL MUNDELIN STRICKEN World Found Dead Today in Bed CHICAGO, IU Oct Cardinal Mundelin, 67, Archbishop| of Chicago., died suddenly during| the night. He was found dead in his residence in Mundelein, by Mon- | signor Patrick Hayes who had gone to summon him when he did not, appear for his usual morning devos | tions. | Cardinal Mundelin, who won wide notice in building the Chicago dios cese to one of the largest and weal=, thiest in the world, was regarded in rfect health” as late as yesterday, | The Diocesan office said the Card= | inal worked at his regular duties on | Saturday and said mass yesterday !as was his custom, in the Seminary | {in Mundelin. Of German Lineage | A round faced boy of German lin~ eage who preferred serving on the | altar to playing neighborhood games, | | George William Mundelin left his, |New York home in early youth to { obey the Savior's admonition: “Go| |ve and teach all nations. { His course led from the pnro('hml‘ i,chool of his_boyhood to the nm., | cardinalate of the Réman OCatholic | Church created west of the Alleg- | henies, in which he served from Chi- | cago a territory regarded scarcely + i 2. — George | »bombers of » tvra which might be «u)m..num on P«u.r Egne KFAR GOES ‘British Announce Success- ful Trips - Give No Further Defails | LONDUN. % — British | planes have flown over Berlin in an air reconnaissance, both | by day and night. This is the | official announcement made to- | day by the Information Min- ! details FAIRBANKS Dedicatory Ceremonies Are Elaborate in Interior City | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 2.— |Capt. A. E. Lathrop’s radio station KFAR officially opened here last night at 7 o'clock in one of the most elaborate dedicatory ceremonies per- .‘haps ever held anywhere. | Guest speakers came from far and vet. istry. No other are given. - GIRL, 16, COMPLAINS CAIRO,. Oct. 2. — A sixteen- |year-old Egyptian girl who said she had. been married four times in less than four months has lodged 'a complaint in court here |and accused her mother and aunt of explcmng her {mike then making their short snap- py talks. Hundreds of congratulatory mes- sages were received by Capt. Lath- rop from all sections of the Uxuu'd rContlnue on Page Three) SUGAR HOARDING, SAMPLE OF BASELESS WAR FRENZY tificial sugar shortage by preventing sale of the surplus Back of it, of course, was the rec- ollection that st price to 25 cents a pound when we were By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—The sug- ar hoarding that began in this coun- try in the first week of the war i a sample of the sort of baseless frenzy that war can breed. There is plenty of sugar. A sur- NO REPEAT NOW ON AIR IN NAZI CAPITAL FOUR TIMES WED,‘ rocketed | Can Britain Block Hltler s Ace-in-the-Hole? | - | | & S QueeNsTOWN o LoNooN J = e CROVDON® R} SOUTHAMPTON — S S PORTSMOUTH — == A PL wmx & azIsE (e — CL— In retaliation for Allied blockade of the seas, Germany has threatened to bomb at Brit: with a fleet of 8,000 planes, in relays of 50 each. Atytop. b 818 iy g used in the raids, Leff, is a Beiti:h o file most effective defense wenponu of its kind, Right is a map of the British Isles, ahowmg pusibh nr'sll NIGHT FLIGHT ALASKA INSPECTION TRIP IS MADE OVER BY TWO CONGRESSMEN IS CANCELLED, SEATTLE, Oct. Alaska will | bave to wait for inspection by the | House Appropriations Sub-Commit- tee on Army installations of rivers and harbors. | Representatives J. Buell Snyder |of Pennsylvania and Joe Starmer |of Alabama, members of the Sub- 2 is a flight of ‘Germxnyl high-speed, efficient aitezaft gum, said (o be one of BAD WEATHER | Committee, abruptly cancelled their trip to the Territory when Army air pilots, who brought them here, de- [ clared unfavorable weather would | cause a delay. Instead of going to Alaska, the committeemen said they will go on an mspcc'.lon an to Puerto Rico. POWERFUL SCOUTING FORCE ASSIGNED, EAST PACIFIC, ON "SECURITY DUTY,” REPORT Vessel Shelled man Sub-Eleven of Crew Killed COPENHAGEN, Gst. 2—The Rit- | zau, Danish News Agency, says & | Craft Sent Down by Ger-| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 2. — The Los Angeles Times says Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Com- mander of the Scouting force, will direct the operations of a powerful striking force to be detached from the Scouting Force of the United NAZIRAIDER IS AT LARGE, §0. ATLANTIC Five Thousand-Ton British Freighter Sunk by U-Boat NEUTRAL SWEDEN LOSES TWO VESSELS, IS REPORT English Losses New Tofal 32 Craft-163 Lives Are Lost (By Associated Press) In the European war at sea over the weekend, Germany struck three times at British and neutral ship- ping with Great Britain losing their first merchant vessel in more than a week, The British freighter Clement, a 5,000-ton vessel, was reported by the Ministry of Information as sunk by a raider in the South Atlantic. Two Losses for Neutral Sweden lost two vessels when the steamship Gun was sunk and the freighter Algeria, bound’ for Genoa with a cargo of wood pulp and iron, was captured. A ‘The sinkings sent the known . | shipping loss of the war to sixty vessels with a total tonnage of 246,~ 00 tons, exclusive of millions of dollars worth of cargo and at least 763 lives lost. First Loss, Seven Days The destruction of the freighter Clement by an “armed raider” near Bahai, Brazil, raised British losses to 32 ships. This craft’s sinking followed a day after Winston Chur- chill, First Lord of the British Ad- miralty, asserted England had not lost a ship in séven days. The Clement carried a cargo of kerosene and general cargo from | New York, Torpedoed The Swedish freighter Gun, of 1,198 tons, was torpedoed off Hanst- holm, Jutland, and the crew of 18 escaped in lifeboats. The Algeria was seized by Nazi warships in the Baltic and taken to Kiel, the fifth Scandinavian ship captured by Germany. Arming of British merchant ves- sels is expected to force Germany to unrestricted u-boat warfare, with private sources in Berlin declaring that submarine commanders now have orders to begin sinking ves- sels without warning. ———— = To Launch Survey Ship | States Fleet. The scouting force will be dis- | patched to the Hawaiian area for “security duty.” The scope of the Navy's patrol will | probably cover the entire eastern | Pacitic from the equator to Alaska and west to the Midway Island. | Besides the Enterprise and 80 | aircraft, the force will include eight heavy cruisers and some 30 de- | \lmyer: lATVIANS MAKE vey of resources available to this country indicates there is far more than we can consume. Potential production is far greater than dur- ing the World war. An untouched productive capacity has been be- yond world needs ever since the World war. And yet:— Housewives in Portland, Maine their own hands. Washington, D. C. grocers jacked the price up about two cents a pound almost overnight. Wholesalers pleaded they could hot get supplies from brokers or manufacturers. sold out their annual quota under nese divisions had been cut to pieces | feat the Germans in a five days’ the sugar marketing act, yelped that the Government was causing an ar- 'm the World war Department of Agriculture spec- IxalisLs insist there isn’t the remot- est chance of a repetition of this rise. They concede an increase over German submarine sank the Danis hi steamer Vendia in the North Seav last Saturday and 11 members of | the crew were killed. The Vendia | VISIT, MOSCOW cleaned out store stocks in an ex- | cited efforts to get a spare supply in | A few factories, which had already | ‘lhe low prices of recent years may | be sustained for some time. With-| ‘ouL other comment, however, they | point out that the President has in- dicated he will act against profit- eering. And in the case of sugar he has | already played an sre by suspend- ing the sugar quota act. Because the price of sugar in the United States is higher than the world price, | in spite of the war, sugar can pour | in here by the shipload now that | the bars are down. | Here is the situation in a sugar-| tijonal Mining Company reports shell: |that 69 miners have been killed To stabilize the American market | and two men injured in a coal (Continued on Page Three) | mine explosion near Palau. bound for the Clyde, Scotland, for | coal, Four other Danish vessels have been seized by Germany and it is also reported the 4,000-ton Finnish frelghler Orum has fll%u been seized. 69 ARE KILLED, MINE EXPLOSION MEXICO CITY, Oct. 2—The Na- was a 1,100-ton craft and was empty, | MOSCOW, Oct. 2—Latvian For- eign Minister Williard Munters and two secretaries of the Latvian For- | eign Trade Commission, landed at the Moscow airport late this af- ternoon and were met by Foreign officials and staff of the Latvian Erubassy. It is unofficially announced that Munters' coming. is merely to “clear up the situation created in the Bal- tic by the Soviet, German and Es- tonian pacts.” —- LENIN, the guilding genius of Russia’s 1917 revolution of the proletariat, was the son of a hered- itary Russian noble, For Alaska The most modern survey ship afloat will be launched October 14 at the TLake Washington Shipyard near Kirkland, it was announced. She is the Explorer built for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at a cost of $892,000, Under construction for more than eight months, the contract has furnished empoyment to about 200 men and has brought new business to many Seattle firms, The contract was awarded to the Lake Washington firm after the Seattle Chamber of Commerce had been instrumental in breaking the deadlock brought about by the re- ceipt of identical bids from two firms, one in Portland. The Explorer will be commission~ ed for service in Southwestern Al- aska and the Aleutian Islands. She will carry a erew of thirty-three of- ficers and seventy-four men. —————— artillery fire on both sides. THE CHINCHILLA, a rodent weighing 20 to 24 ounces full grown, is the rarest of fur-bearing animals, Eleven animals, captured in three years of searching in the Andes Mountains, formed the nucleus for the 2,000 chinchillas now lving on farms,