The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ]UNh/\U ALASKA, TUI W\\ 0C F()Rl ‘R 3§ VOL. LIV., NO. 8223. LMBE.R AJ SU(I/\TI 'D PRI PRICE TEN CENTS RITAIN, FRANCE TO REJECT PEACE BIG PLANE AWARD IS MADE NOW Pan American Announ(es Five-Year Program for All Services ALASKA ROUTE MAY SOON BE ESTABLISHED Twenty-lwanfying Boats, Land Transports in Order Placed NEW YORK, Ol‘L 3—-P'\n Amer- jean announced today that 22 new flying boats and land transports have been ordered. This is part of 4 5-year program to speed up schedules on all ser- vices including those to South Amer- Atlantic and Pacific oceans he new ships will include three! “stratosphere type of land nsport six Boeing clippers and Douglas planes. ing Bergdoll in Court Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Amer- C. V. Whitney, chairman of the ica’s No. 1 draft-dodger during the Pan American board, said he hoped first world war, is shown (front) io establish an express air between Seattle and Juneau, by next summer to link the company’s pres- ent mail route from Juneau to Fair- banks and Nome, The service, Whitney said, '1L‘p0nds upon whether Government airports are read “The Post Office De- partmen s interested, said Whit- ney SITKA, KODIAK CONTRACTORS TO Navy Airbase Firms Sign Labor Agreement with Outside Unions workers on the naval ects at Sitka and Ko- That all airbase pri service cnterlng courtroom at Governor’s Island, N. Y., for trial in military court as a deserter from the United States army. Bergdoll fled to Ger- mflny in 1917 and returned this vear to face the musie. URITED STATES SENATOR LOGAN, U. S. SHIPS KENTUCKY, DIES IMPORT WORK[RS Sudden Attack of Heart Takes Prominent Democrat WASHINGTON, Oct 3. — United States Senator Marvel M. Logan, Democrat of Kentucky died as the result of a sudden heart attack shortly past midnight at the age of 64. Senator Logan entered Congress diak will be hired in Seattle and|y, 1430 for the term ending in 1087 transported to Alaska at the pense of the contractors is cated in a report published in a Seattle newspaper last week tell- ing of a labor agreement signed between 12 Seattle unions and the indi- | companies holding the government | contracts. The Seattle lows: “Agreement report covering 12 build-| and was re-elected November 3, 1936 for a second term. Senator Logan was prominent in politics in his State for years and held many prominent offices. FDR LOSES SUPPORTER WASHNGTON, Oct. 3. The is as fol-/guqden death of Senator Logan of took one of President supporters from Con- Kentucky | Roosevelt’s ing and construction unions on the i gress and also brought an interrup- $12,000,000 Alaska naval air base | tion in the tense struggle on neu- projects of the government was 10| trality legislation. be signed in Seattle today by vanvl ous union representatives and the| ate since 1930, Senator-Logan was contracting firms. “The agreement was negouawd {in all issues. by representatives of the Build-| ing and Construction Trades Coun- cil in Seattle with the Siems-Spo- kane Company; Johnson, Drake & | meet today, Sound | and Dredging Company. | Piper, Inc., and Puget Bridge Negotiations, which had been un- der way for several days, were com- pleted late yesterday afternoon. Seattle Scale “The contract calls for Seattle's scale on the job, with provisions for transportation and requires workers to be citizens of the Unit- ed States or to have declared in- tentions of becoming citizens. “One hundred and forty-four classifications are covered in agreement, the hourly rate run- ning as high as $1.85, the pay for dragline, cableway and power shov- el operators. Lowest on the sched- e (Conunued on Psge Tnree) Here II Is Again! Bremen Again Located OSLO, Oct. 3.—Sailors arriving here from Murmansk, Soviet Russia, assert that the Russian port is “filled up” with German ships, including the $20,000,000 liner Bremen. There are three smaller Ger- man liners and 15 German freighters in the harbor. The sailors also claim that 800 members of the crew of the Bremen have gone to Germany by way of Russia. the | A Democrat member of the Sen- alv\a)s found on the President’s side He missed yesterday’s session. Senator Barkley announced early | this morning that the Senate would 1 then adjourn out of respect to “this statesman of hlghest quality.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—PrPsidenL Roosevelt wrote a personal letter | lof condolence today to Mrs. Marvel following the death of her Logan, Logan of Ken- husband, Senator tucky. SEALSKIN SALE HITS HIGH SPOT ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.—Bids at the Government's sealskin sale “brought the highest in ten years as buyers|the fixe » | belligerent brown color, offered for the firstgarded as lCEn peace. clamored for the new “matara time, One lot of 35 skins brought $1,505.| The buyer said it was the hlgheht price paid ~since 1929. The lowest for perfect was $31.75 | each on a lot of 585 brown skins. More than 21,000 skins were of- fered. Large blacks averaged 32250 There were 512 blue foxes, sea otter. The sea otter was sold for $125. s0 sold at the sale|paying given birth to 11 children at | 14 whites and oneline age of 29. Because of this she| l AREWARNED BY GERMANY Told Not tc}?cept Naval Convoys from Bellig- erent Nations WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Ger- many today issued a grim warn- ing to United States merchant ships against “suspicious be- hav n waters around Great Britain and France. The warning from Berlin stated simply, warned ag: zagging — blackouts — ignoring stop orders—or accepting naval convoys from belligerents.” Sea Raider On Aflantic IsIdentified Is Armed G;rn:an Ship Re- ported Flying Dan- ish Flag RIO DE JANIERO, Oct. 3 - The raider which sank the British mer Clement in the sul“h At- hnln has been identified -in dis- patches from Receif as a camou- flaged armed German ship the Belgian colors. The dispatches said that the first mate of the British craft was wound- ed seriously. chief engineer of the Clement were reported to have been made prison- ers by the German warship. The attack on the 5,051-ton Brit- a Democralu Senators Agree fo Limit Session fo Neulrallly Harmony prevailed as thes favor of Joseph Guffy animously treme I Frederick Van Nuys (Ind.) ¥, W (Ga.), ner (N. ", Ashurst (Al‘ll ), Millard E. Glass (Va.), L), H Smathers (N. J.), Tydings (Md.), Carter , William H 20 leading Democratic Senators at a joint m ng legislation at the special session of Congress called by President Roosev. (D-Pa.); top of his head shows); Theodore F. Green Key Pittman H. Schwartz (Wyo.), Josh I ee (Okla.) Leslie Biifle, secretary \ e ABRRRAR AN t. (Nev.), Kenneth McKellar Sherman Minton (Ind.), Harry F. Byrd (Va.), Alben Barkley ( Tom (Tenn.), James Nersrnren g «f the Democratic steering and policy committees voted un- Around the table beginning at ex- Morris Sheppard (Tex.), (only Connaly (Tex.), Walter F. George . Byrnes (S. C.), Robert F. Wag- y) (back to camera). Senafe Committee Meets Under Floodllghl fo Study Neutrality flying ! The captain and the| ish vessel was said to have occurred | at 3 p.m. Sunday off Ponte Das Pe- dras between Receif and Basia The British ship left New York in August for Brazil. She carried 54 crew members. Sijviving crew members are sald to have been brought to Maceio by the Brazilian ship Iatiainga. The number of sur- vivors has not been determined. However, unofficial reports said that 24 men had reached Maceio. The attack on the Clement by the sea raider recalled the exploits of the German raider, Emden, of World War days. The Emden ter- rorized British merchant shipping in the Indian and South Pacific sea lanes until she was finally run down and destroyed by a British cruiser. .- Pan-America Meef Agrees ~ On Sea Zone 'New Water Borders for, Belligerents Is Monroe Docirine Extension PANAMA, Oct. 3.—Delegates to ! the Pan-American conferences here uom 21 American Republics ap-| prVPd a proclamation of a hroad‘ | safety zone in American waters for inter-American shipping. | It was asserted that the proclama- | tion is a “complement to the Mon- | roe Doctrine,” and establishes, for the first time, a “continuation of American seas.” The declaration said each Ameri- can Government will serve notice on belligerents, notifying them of d neutral zone within which activities will be re endangering of Ameri- -, 11 CHILDREN PARIS, Oct. 3—Madame Jeanne | Dufresnel is France’s No. 1 mother, | has collected one 8,000-franc prize| With the glare of floodlights in the are shown as they met at Washington, D. Senators are in uzted by names. remove the arms embnrgu. HIGHLANDERS " ARE SCHEDULED FOR OVERSEA Crack Reglmenl Slated fo Leave Vancouver for Western Front VANCOUER, s. C., Oct. 3.—Mecm- bers of the crack regiment, the forth Highlanders, are preparing for war service for Great Britain |on the Western front. Army authorities have been noti- | fied from Ottawa that the Seafor! Highlanders will be. part of the firs Canadian division to cross the Al- lantic. MRS. ROOSEVELT IS IN SEATTLE ON BRIEF VISIT SEATTLE, Oct. 3.—Mrs. Frankli D. Roosevelt arrived here yesterda for a brief visit with her daughter |and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Bo(’mger. The first lady planned fly to San Francisco today for stop at the Fair and then continue to Los Angeles to visit her oldest son, James Roosevelt. From Los An- | geles she will fly east to visit her second son, Elliot Roosevelt. Sea- o a and several gold medals. REGIMENTATION STARTSIN s UNITED STATES; NATION TO BEREADY FOR NEXT ENEMY World Serles To Be Bullefined, Empire Office The World ball classic of the starts tomorrow in City in the Yankee Stadium be- tween the Yankees and the Cin- cinnati Reds. , the base- As al The Empire will have the score board in one of the display dows, with batteries and bulletins of any spectacu- lar or feature plays made. The play-by-play and box score will appear daily The Empire during the World Series affording baseball fans the com- plete running story of the games with summary e crops Juices, from citrus now -include cum-n-nmnv(l anned fruit, wine, vinegs feed, marmalade, ices, cit lime citrate, lemon vineg | pectine, and essential oils . By-produc | next | than before | had been buying here | to him. He By PRESTON GROVER 3—The last U. 8. really WASHINGTON, Oct war ended before the felt the regimentation that must be | imposed if a nation throws its whole | weight against an enemy But the machinery is already being put to- gether to put the country into its war far more expeditiously 11 months entered the confusion, For States all was var in 1917, The navy was | bidding against the army and both bidding against the allies who desperate for supplies they ither entered. were were handedly before we Then came the wi 3oard headed by a tall, energetic NeWw York financier already so rich | | that profiteering could not appeal | was Bernard Baruch. He | brought order out of chaos and Congress recognized it with a dee- oration, ANOTHER IS N Now the government has picked | | another man, even younger than Baruch in his war days, to head the (Continued on Page Five) after the United Industries | ir faces and movie cameras grinding at their backs, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , to receive the administration’s new neutrality legislation by which President Roosevelt hopes to VICTIM KENTON, O, 3. — Charles Hrn\vn has been struck by lightning times. Knocked uncor Lh( I|~|. occasion, he soon recovered | and apparently suffered no ill ef- | fects. D ! HITLER, Mussolini, and Stalin all are said by biographers to have been extremely devoted to their mothers, NOTHREATS RECOGNIZED BY ALLIES Premier Chamberlain Makes Definite An- nouncement i 'FIGHTING CONTINUES: | ALONG WESTERN FRONT French Put t Down Terrific Artillery Barrage- Germans Reply (By Associated Press) Great Britain and France have refused to yield to the “scarcely | veiled threat” of Soviet - German icollubomnon if European hostilities continue. Premier Chamberlain, acting as spokesman for the British and | French allies, in the House of Com-~ | mons today, said the allies will “examine and test” any German peace proposals, but “no mere as- surances of the present German Government can be accepted by us.” Threat was implied, Chamberlain | said, in the Soviet-German declara- tion which partitioned Poland and mentioned an alternative of consul- tation if the Western Allies failed to make peace. To Prosecute War Chamberlain said nothing in the declaration could swerve the Allies from the effective prosecution of the ‘War, Authoritative sources in Berlin indicated Germany and Russia are to consult, following the declaration of attitude by the western powers. No Peace Proposal Yet Rome expressed the belief that no new peace proposal will be put forth immediately by Premier Mus- solini, as suggested by the Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano’s visit to Hitler Sunday. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia gave a strong hint that Pinland, as well as the small Baltic States, has received Russian demands for naval and military bases, Patrol Active On the Western Front, France reported “great activity by patrols on both sides during the night.” Germany declared, “Only minor artillery and airplane activity¥ | marked last night's action. The French estimate they are now holding about 150 square miles of German territory between the Mag- inot and Siegfried fortifications and lines. Eastern Front On the Eastern Front, Germany reported by communique, “German troops marched into the fortress of Warsaw” and began counting pris- oners taken during the September campaign which Russia aided by tha partitioning of Poland. The British Air Ministry casualty list, released today reported sixteen British fliers have been killed, sev~ en wounded, and three missing, with five believed captured since the war started. Attacks Crushed French machine gunners crushed a series of sharp German attacks yesterday which evidently were de- signed to break the advance of the | slowly closing Prench pincers on the key city of SBaarbruecken. The Ger- man attacks began Sunday night (Continued on Page Eight) By LISETTE RIGGS Washington C orrrspomient free- | 5!‘|7[ 26.—(Spec~ Delegate An- | thony J. Dimond today stated that ,he sees in the Japan-Russia non- aggression pact possible threat | to Alaska. The delegate urges the l(unxlnnlmn of immediate, adequate | defense works in Alaska, including |an Army and Navy base, at least vquul in strength to Pearl Harbor. “The agreement recently entered into between Japan and Soviet Rus- | sia,” says Delegate Dimond, “which | ostensibly affects the Siberia-Man- | WASHING IO'\J |ial Correspondence) a T | choukuo area, will, it seems, be fol- Alaska Delegate Sees Threat In New Pad of Japan, Soviet lowed by the same sort of pact as that between Hitler and Stalin re- garding Poland. Therefore as sen- sible men we must look for joint ag- gressive action in the Pacific area. “We should not delude ourselves,” adds the delegate, “with the idea that either the Japanese Empire or the Soviet State will hesitate in the use of any means to expand their own territories and systems of gov- ernment.” At present, the delegate, although he has no vote on the pending neu- trality bill, is particularly interest- ed in the cash and carry features of the President’s program as a means of keeping the country out of war.,