The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV,, NO. 8227. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1939. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER PROPOSES ARMISTICE IN WAR Four Home Runs Win Today’s Game for Yanks NEW YORKERS ARE WINNERS, 3RD STRAIGHT Overwhelm Cincinnati Reds This Afternoon by Score of 7 f0 3 ROOKIE KELLER HITS OUT 2 FOUR-BAGGERS Ideal Weather Prevails with Crowd Sitting in Shirt Sleeves SHORT SCORE ;) 3 5 10 YANKS REDS LOMPOSITE SCORE (Three Games) R 13 .4 BY INNINGS I 3 2 1 [J H 20 16 YANKS . REDS SCORE YANKS Runs H 2 0 0 Errors 0 REDS 3 Runs 0 Hits L Errors 0 NEXT GAME The Yankees have now won three games and the Reds none. Sunday’s game will be played in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Ohie, Oct. 7. — Grinding out four home runs, three of them with a man on base, the machine-like New York Yankees cverwhelmed the Cin- cinnati Reds this afternoon by a score of 7 to 3 for the third consecutive victory of the 1939 Werld Series. Two of the four-baggers were by rookie Charley Keller and the others by DiMaggio and Dickey. SOME HITLESS BALL ‘The Yankees goi oniy one sirgle, besides the homers, but did not need any more. All of the Yankee runs were scored off rookie Gene Thompson in (Continued on Page Two) S e FooTBALL SCORES The following are final scores of football games played this after- noon in various parts of the states as reckived up to press time: University of Washington 7; U. C. L. A 14 Alabama T7; Fordham 6. West Virginia 0; Pitt 20. Missouri 0; Ohio State 19. Bates 0; Harvard 20. Rochester 0; Oberlin 12. Western Reserve 12;: Ohio U. 14. DePauw 6; Ohio Wesleyan 33. Virginia Military Institute 2; Dav- idson 0. Auburn 0; Tulane 12. Texas Christian 13; Arkansas 14. Towa State 32; Indiana 29. Kentucky 21; Vanderbilt 13. Brown 20; Amherst 14. Syracuse 6; Cornell 19. Rhode Island 0; Maine 24. Franklin Marshall 7; Boston U. 13. New York U. 43; Penn Military 0. Michigan State 13; Michigan 26. LaFayette O; Pennsylvania 6. Bucknell 3; Penn State 13. Worcester Tech 6; Coast Guard Academy 0. williams 6; Princeton 26. Center 6; Army 7. Columbia 7; Yale 10. Louisiana State 26; Holy Cross T. Carnegie Tech 6; Temple 0. Colgate 0; Duke 37. Texas 17; Wisconsin 7. Towa State 0; Kansas 14. Minnesota 0; Nebraska 6. Georgia Tech 14; Notre Dame 17. Oklahoma 23; Northwestern 0, | Rolfe, 3b. | Werber, BOX SCORE YANKS Crosetti, ss. Keller, rf. DiMaggio, Dickey, c. Selkirk, 1f Gordon, Dahlgren Gomez, p. *Hadley, cf. 2b. 1b. cococormwmrT cocococormrnroll ~coocococoocoot P Totals *—Hadley replaced Gomez in the second inning. 3b. Frey, 2b. Goodman, rf. McCormick, Lombardi, c. Craft, cf. Berger, If. Myers, ss. Thompson, p. Hershberger tBordagari Grissom fMoore /Bongiovanni 1b. cococoorNOORMWO T oNoOoCOoOwWOoOOOOoONW ococococcoocococcoococol Totals i{—Grissom to pitch for Thomp- | son in fifth. | /Borgiovanni to bat for Grissom in sixth. f—Moore to pitch for Grissom in | seventh. tBordagari to run for Lombardi | in seventh. | *Hershberger { bardi in eighth. SUMMARY | Struck out: by Thompson 3, Gom- ez 1, Moore 2; bases on balls: off | Thompson 4, Grissom 1, Hadley 3 | wild pitches: Thompson 1; passed | balls: Hadley 1; hit by pitched ball: | Lombardi by Hadley; innings pitch- ed: Thompson 4, Grissom 2, Moore 3, Gomez 1, Hadley 8. Credit vic- (tory: Gomez; charge defeat: | Thompson; home runs: Keller 2, Dickey 1, DiMaggio 1; sacrifice hits: | Thompsonl double plays: Yank: | 1, Rolfe to Gordon to Dahlgren; left | | on bases: Reds 11, Yanks 3; errors: | | Yanks 1, Hadley e PLAY BY PLAY FIRST INNING | YANKS-—Crosetti walked on five | pitches. McCormick picked up | Rolfe’s bounder and beat him to the | bag for a putout, unassisted; Croset- ti going to second. Keller hit the first pitched ball into the right field | stands for a homer, scoring Crosetti ahead of him. DiMaggio was called lout on strikes. Dickey walked. | Thompson threw a wild pitch which | rolled to the screen and Dickey rac- ed to third. Werber picked up Sel- | kirk’s dinky roller down third base |line and threw to McCormick who |made a spectacular stab of Wer- | ber's poor throw and tagged Sel- | kirk. Two runs, one hit, no errors, one | left on base. REDS — Werber out, Gordon to Dahlgren on a fast play. Frey flied out to DiMaggio. Goodman beat out |a high bounder to Gomez for an infield hit. McCormick singled to right advancing Goodman to third. Lombardi singled through second, scoring Goodman and sending Mc- Cormick to second. Craft fanned, swinging. One run, three hits, no errors, two left on bases. SECOND INNING YANKS—Gordon fouled out to Lombardi. Dahlgren fled out to Frey. Gomez fanned. Gomez swung so hard he spun around and mo- mentarily grabbed his right side, apparently in pain. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base. REDS—Bump Hadley went in to pitch for the Yanks. Apparently Gomez was not yet fully recovered from an injured side. Berger fan- ned. Myers singled to left center ffeld. Thompson singled a Texas leaguer to short left field, sending Myers to second. Werber singled to center field, scoring Myers with the tying run and advancing Thompson to third base. The Cincinnati crowd wenf. wild. Dickey conferred with Hadley and there was lots of ac- tivity in the Yankee bullpen. Frey bounced to Dahlgren who threw to Dickey to retire Thompson at the plate. Werber went to second and to catch for Lom- Frey was safe on a fielder’s choice. Goodman singled to right field, scoring Werber and sending Frey to (Continued on Page Three) I Two Friends Pay a Visit Answering the President’s invitation to Congressional and party lead- conference on neutrality before the special session of Congress, leaders of the Republican Party exchange ers to attend a White House greetings in Washington. Left to right, Colonel Frank Knox, of Chi- cago, 1936 Vice-Presidential candidate; Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachsetts, House majority leader; and Alfred M. Landon ,of Kansas, '36 GOP standard-bearer. Count Von Bernstorff, Who Warned Germany AboutU.S. | In World War, Passes Away Juneau Woman (Is Revealed SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—A broken romance of 1912 has been re- vived in Seattle, after the pas- sage of 26 years, and reunited Robert Anderson, veteran Se- attle attorney, and Miss Anne Phillips, of Juneau, Alaska, who divorced him years ago. Both Anderson and Mrs. Phil- lips had remarried in the in- terim, FIGHT TO END SAYS BRITISH CABINET MAN Dominion Secrefary Eden Gives Answer fo Peace Proposals LONDON, Oct. 7—Dominion Sec- retary Eden told the British Com- monwealth and Nations of the world that Great Britain is determined to fight the war with Germany to a finish. Although Eden made no direct allusions to Chancellor Hitler’s Reichstag speech, neutral diplomats interpreted the Dominion Secretary words an answer to Hitler’s pes suggestions. Eden spoke on an Empire radio hookup, which linked eighteen mem- bers of the British Empire. Said he: the greatest contribution we can make to peace is to stand firm for those things in which we believe.” The Dominion Secretary said that the British Empire had decided that | the “rule of violence must end and that all nations must be able to exist without threat to their peace and security. “To achieve this we of the Brit- ish Empire are prepared to devote | the whole of our strength so that the world must not live forever armed to the teeth or at the mercy of the next act of robbery or vio- (Continued on Page Five) “There are times when | l GENEVA, Oct. 7. — Count von| ! Bernstorff, German Ambassador to | washington when the United States | entered the World War, is dead here | | as the result of a heart disease. | Count Johann Heinrich von Bern- storff was the last Ambassador to represent Imperial Germany in the United States and was the only| [one of the pre-war diplomats who \was retained in the active service | of the German Republic. | 1In the belief of Republican Ge \man opinion, von Bernstorff was| Inot to blame for America’s entry | |into the World War and the feeling | {was general that he did everything | ‘pmsn)le to avert that step. In sup- port of that contention it was point- |ed out that he had warned the Wil- | helmstrasse what would happen if | the unrestricted submarine warfare| | were prosecuted, but his warnings| | went unheeded. | His pre-war record, therefore, was regarded as no hindrance to {his post-war activities in the gov- | ernment. Was Artillery Officer Previous to his appointment as | Ambassador to the United States in 11908, Count von Bernstorff had |served eight years as an artillery | | officer and 13 years in the diplo- matic service. His American mis- sion came to an end in the third vear of the World War when the | {Unili‘d States in February, 1917, |severed diplomatic relations mth Germany. The Ambassador returned | to Europe on a Danish vessel after being subjected to a thorough search | by the British at Halifax. Back in Berlin, Count von Bern-| storff was obliged to wait two | months before being received by the | Emperor. At their meeting the Kai- | jser was said to have avoided all earnest discussion of the issue at stake. The opinion still prevailed | that the submarine warfare would finish the Americans before they could set foot on European soil Quits—Recalled VonBernstorff quit the service in |May, 1917, but was recalled to ac- tive duty when his friend Richard {von Kuehlmann became Foreign Minister in August that year. He | then accepted the post of Amba dor to Turkey. After the revolution von storff in March, 1919, was made | |chairman of the Foreign Office Committee to compile the material for the German delegation to the| Versailles Peace Conference. With the completion of that work four| | months later he became active in! politics as a member of the demo- cratic party, which sent him to the Reichstag in 1921, | | Bern- | | (Continued o_!;l;aze Five) SABOTAGEON U.S. WARSHIP He’ INVESTIGATED zona Crew Is Under Surveillance SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct Federal Bureau of Investigation Chief J. Edgar Hoover today said his department is investigating per- i sistent rumors of sabotage aboard the battleship Arizona, now in Los An- geles harbor after a week at sea. Hoover is here from Los Angeles accompanied by five assistants to address the International Associa- tion of Police Chiefs. He is then returning south He said his office espionage reports daily. The rumors at Los Angeles said receives 200 | the reported sabotage dealt with ship { machinery and water tanks and that |crew members are under surveil- | lance. The Los Angeles Naval Intelli- gence Office said it did not have such a report. The Navy Department at Wash-| | ington is officially silent. Some cles said they duubl the rumors. FIGHTING RESUMED \FBI Chief Says U. . S. Ari-| i in the Army Now His Royal Highness, Major General the Duke of Windsor is shown heer saluting briskly as he leaves the war office. This radio photo is the first made of the Duke in uniform since he returned to England. As a Major General, he gets about $20 a day. His gas mask strap is white, not khaki, as regulations require. ON WESTERN FRONT TRAGEDY OF WAR VISITED ON COLTON; NO GAS MASKS While European Capltals Studied Peace Talk, Generals Act PARIS, Oct. 7—Renewal of sharp activity all along the Western front answered the peace offer of Chan- cellor Hitler. As the German Chancellor’s peace |offer was being studied in the capi- | tals of Europe, the Generals on (In fighting front proceeded as if !word peace had never been henxd The French High Command re- |ports that there were numerous | clashes between infantry units along the entire front. A strong German !launched on a French outpost the region west of Wisembourgh. The French claim to have beaten off the Germans with machine gun, grenade and artillery fire. attack was in Supreme Command declares all “local scouting and troop actions | of the enemy on the Western front | have been repulsed.” The communique further says | hostilities on the Western front are calm contrasted to diplomatic ac- tivity over Hitler's peace proposals. - eee NIPPON'S AGENT IN BERLIN GETS RECALL ORDERS| No Explan;li);— Believed, Result of Recent Pact TOKYO, Oct. 7.—The Government has recalled Major Hir- oshi Oshima, Ambassador to Ger-| many and long advocate of a mili-| tary allience of Japan with Germany | and TItaly. No official reason was given for the recall, hut it was considered in- evitable ever since Japan's foreign policy underwent a change that was sequel to Germany’s conclusion of the non-aggression pact with Rus- sia. - eee - STOPS OFF IN JUNEAU Rosemary Demski, Chicago woman who has been tuoring Alaska, stop- ped off in Juneau from the Aleu- | tian and is at the Gastineau Hotel | for a few days. - e Charles Darwin, originator of the survival of the fittest theory, was quite unfit himself, physically. Japanese FOR SALE; SHIPS Z16ZAG RUMANIA JOINS SLAVS, HUNGARY IN BALKAN BLOC Three Little Nations Sign Agreement, Instant Demobilization By PRESTON f ROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. -~ One tragedy of the war was visited upon a young fellow named Colton. Colton is a bachelor writer for! the National Geographic. Remember that he is a bachelor. Two months ago he was assigned as the writer member of a scientific group going into the South seas to study flora | and fauna. Of all fine places in the world, their center of operation was to be the | Bali. BUCHAREST, Oct. 7—~The Ru- manian Government has announced | |it has joined with Yugoslavia and | | tember 30. The action marks a new trend in Southeastern Europe where Ru- | mania and Yugoslavia have long ‘sLood against Hungary. Diplomats foresaw the solidifi- | cation of the Balkan bloc in mu- | tual assistance against the great powers. Hungary had about 300,000 men under arms, and each of the other nations about a half million. ——e———— NORTHERN B. C. " GIVEN OKAH ON PLANE FLIGHTS American Planes North of| 56 Can Now Fly fo Canadian Areas SEATTLE, Oct. 7. — The Civil lA«-ronauuc.s Authority announced | today that Canada will remove strictions on flying through the Yu- kon Territory and north of parallel 56 in British Columbia, but the de- fense regulations remain in force |in other parts of the Dominion | Pan American Airways’ Pa | Alaska Airways route in Alaska from |Juneau to Fairbanks cuts through | Canada at Wirtehorse north of 56 | degrees and numerous other airways make charter flights into the Yu- kon, Hereafter, fliers must obtain per- | mission for other flights to Can- ada, requests to be forwarded to |the International Division of CAA here for transmission to the Cana- dian Transport Minister, The expedition was fully organ-| i A U. 8. Coast Guard cutter gned from the Pacific Minister Chamberlain’s prob- BERLIN, Oct. 7.—The German|gyngary in simultaneous demobili- |side to take the party out and at- that | zation, which it was said began Sep- | tend to its wants, d. I\ud been a Then came the war. Just two days before Coiton and the party were to leave Washing- ton, the Coast Guard cutter was ordered to the Atlantic to pre- vent Germany submarines from annoying flora and fauna along our east coast. The expedition folded at once. Colton will re- main in Washington. War Note: Applications for com- missions in the army and navy of- reserve corps have increased | steadily. The navy would like to get a bigger reserve of naval architects but instead gets a flock of applica- tions from lawyers wanting to join the non-combatant Judge Advocate General's division, Peace Note: The only gas mask in the State Department has been removed. It was part of a War Department exhibit and went down to the Muni- tions building on the banks of the Potomac when the War De- partment had to clear out to make way for the President’s executive staff. Our observations indicate not a gas mask can be bought here. Travelers returning to this coun- try on the Emp. of Britain were kept in complete ignorance of sinking of the Athenia-—which oc- curred when the Empress was not far from that vicinity. Not until the boat was safe in the protected waters of the St. Laurence did they learn about it. The Empress, a very fast boat, ran away from every craft that appeared on the horizon. It took on a mistake in identi- \Conunu'evjrun Page Se;en) the | WANTS U. . PRESIDENT T0 MEDIATE General European Settle- ment Sought in Latest Move of Fuehrer ' ROOSEVELT SILENT ON BERLIN REPORI :Briiain and France Look with Disfavor on Peace Plan BERLIN, Oct. 7.—An au. thorized source says Chan- cellor Hitler will accept an | Armistice in the European | war if it were proposed by | President Franklin D. Roose- |velt with a view to general 3 European settlement. ROOSEVELT SILENT HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 7. L—Pn'si(lent Roosevelt, spend- ling the weekend at his home here, was silent today on re- I ports that Hitler will accept | the United States President las a neutral mediator in Eu- | rope’s difficulties. UP TO ALLIES (By Associated Press) 1 Berlin today represented | Hitler as serenely confident that his appeal would be heed- | ed, but Washington sources indicated President Roosevelt would not take action unless France and Britain desired his | mediation efforts. | Fascist leaders said Italy | would lend its good offices on ame basis, British officials, however, were silent pending Prima ';ubh- reply to Hitler’s Reich- |stag speech Monday before Jtllt' House of Commons. | An unofficial French reac- | tion continued unfavorable ta !(iormzm peace talk. The na- | tion apparently was settling down to a long war. U.S. ARMY - EXPANDING 10 280,000 'Mass Training of Seven New Divisions Ordered from Washingfon WASHINGTON Oct. 7. The War Department today announced |its intention to expand the Army to full peacetime strength of 280,- 000 men and ordered mass training this winter of seven new streamlined divisions. Five divisions totalling 65,000 men will be formed at Fort Benning as a corps, and two of cavalry at Fort Bliss. The expansion adds 53,000 regu- lars, creating a second combat corps of four streamlined divisions. If Congress authorizes it, the training plan calls for the Third Division to concentrate at Fort Lew- is, Washington, several weeks ahead of the Benning concentration.