The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1939, Page 1

. I- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8229. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, s y—— 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA TO ATTACK FINLAND SOVIETS MASSING WARSHIPS, TROOPS PEACETALK BY BRITISH 1S DELAYED Chamerberlain to Make Reply to Hitler on Next Thursday MADE PUBLIC TODAY Air Minisie.er;kes Report fo Members of House of Commons LONDON, Oct. 10.—British Prime Minister Chamberlain has postponed from Wednesday until Thursday his House of Commons speech in which he is expected to reply to Chancel- lor Hitler's peace overtures. 5ir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Com- mens teday the postponement had been decided in order to allow more complete consultation with the Do- minion Governments. International Gabfest Chamberlain’'s speech is thus scheduled for the same time that Lloyd George has called for a meet- ing of his Council for Peace Recon- struction. Lloyd George advocates an International conference to set- tle the European issues. Immediately after Sir John Si- mon's announcement of the post- ponement of Prime Minister Cham- berlain’s speech, Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons that the Royal Air Force has a “complete photographic map of the Siegfried Line.” Air Activities Reporting British air activities, the Air Minister said subs have been sighted on 72 occasions dur- ing the first four weeks of the war | and 34 attacks made, some of which | were “undoubtedly successful.” e — ROTARIANGYM | SESSION TO BE | HELD WEEKLY ' PEACE MOVE L] REMEMBER? —Secen at | Belmont track is Brenda Frazier | whose “glamor girl” title passes | | | soon to a new deb. HITLER HAS | 'NEW REASON, Declares Other Nations Jealous-Germany to Fight On | BERLIN, Oct. 10. — Chancellor Hitler today again declared that Germany is determined to fight the present war to the bitter end, if necessary. Meet at High School Each Tuesday for Hour of | Fast Exercise ‘ | the Nazi winter relief campaign. Hitler once more bility for continuing struggle on the Hitler made his statement in a\ 21-minute speech at the opening of laid responsi: the present| Reich's adversaries. | | Baarbruecken. | French soldi | desperately before retreating under | French batteries on a 90-mile sector | Lauterbourg and provided the back=~ | ground for intensive action. President of Investment )Clglulll S NAZI FORCES TURNED BACK WEST FRONT French Repulse Numerous Assaults in Saar- | bruecken Area ‘ GERMAN PARTIES ON | RAIDS FOR PRISONERS | Heavy Ariifie?y Battle Is? Launched-Replied to French Batteries PARIS, Oct. 10. — French troops are reported to have turned back numerous German assaults south of the strategic city of Saarbruecken. Hand grenades and rifle fire were used in the Nazi thrusts. These reports indicate apparently that the Nazi thrusts are aimed at an attempt to break the French lines | now tightening. on three sides of | German raiding parties are ailso reported to be seeking to capture s for the purpose of quizzing and obtaining information regarding the French advance po- sitions, The Germans have failed to take any objectives although they fought a raking fire. A heavy artillery bat- tle was launched Sunday by the Germans and this was answered by, from the Luxembourg border to .- — SAYS U.S. MUST KEEP ITS HEAD, PRESENT ISSUE fortresses through which they Should the rumored German drive through Belgium toward northern France occur, the invaders will a0t find the open country dotted with isolated 3panning the little country from north to south is ium’s version of France's Maginot string of concrete and steel forty which connect “Little Maginot” Line Awaits IACUATED BY CIVILIANS| to the North Belgium's “aspal swept in 1914. line—a with the Maginot line on the south and sweep up Map at bottom shows how Belgium’s “Little Magi- not” line connec The “Little Maginot” is now fully manned, pre- pared for anv eventualitv. Attac NAVALSHIPS GATHERING AT SOVIET BASE ‘Greafest Activity Is Report- l | edatKronstadt, | ‘ Finland’s Gulf 1 'WHOLE ARMADA IS | READY, QUICK MOVE| {Hundreds of Thousands Troops Are Also Be- | ing Mobilized | | MOSCOW, Oct. 10.— Re- | ports of concentration of Rus-| isi;m Naval Power on the Gulf | ‘of Finland emphasizes the lvigor with which Russia will |drive to regain dominant po-| !sitions on the Baltic Sea held before the World War. | Dispatches from Kronstadt, Russian Naval Base near Len-| ingrad, say “The whole arma-| da of battleships” i8 massed | for naval activity which is un-| ceasing. | Kronstadt is only a few | miles from Finland’s territor-| ial waters. | Naval mobilization of Rus-| sia coincides with the mass- ling of hundreds of thousands |of Soviet troops along the !frontiers facing the Baltic | states. Many states have al- i ready made concessions to the : s |Soviet government. The Fin- ‘ oscow and expected tomor- row for a “called” conference. | e of ts with the French fortifications. Bankers Says We Must Attend Own Affairs DEL MONTE, Cal, Oct. 10.—The President of the Investment Bank- ers of America, Jean Witter, of San Francisco, told delegates to the IBA national convention that it is most important for the United States to FOREIGN SHIP COMPANIES AITEMPT Io TAKE STRANDED gEflorls Being Made fo Se-| Portly and tired business men| The Fuehrer expressed the Reich's members of the Juneau Rotary Club | “readiness for peace” but if this decided today they would RtLEmp(:iS declined by the western Allies, to turn back the clock to the days | the fight will go on. when they were able to step rapidly | Hitler declared that “one reason without wheezing. | for jealousy of other nations lies An evening gymnasium class, to in the fact that our achievements meet once a week at the high‘nre along social lines such as they school, is being organized within |fear as our socialistic ideals might the club by Alex Dunham. The firsb‘cross our frontiers and knock at session will be held next Tuesday | their doors.” evening from 7:30 to 9 o'ctock. ‘ Referring to his ip to the Polish keep its head in the present emer- gency. Witter warned that a long war| | will have unpredictable consequences | | throughout the world. He said that | { bankers should recall the unpre-‘ cedented boom and the collapse that followed after the last World | | i By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Yankee | ship lines stopped foreign ships| from raising prices for returning frantic Americans, | ES AMERICANS FOR 'REAL RIDE' PSS, government operate 148 vessels of 1,028,000 tons total. W, LARGE TANKERS Of course that isn't all to which ArLconvention Roosevelf, fle Dispute Befween | Endorsed Two Unions ‘ 1 | CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 10.—The | annual American Federation of La- | | bor convention is in its second week i with the delegates considering num- | erous committee reports. Immediately on the outbreak of war, American ship lines, the bulk of which are in debt to the govern- ‘War. Said he: “We should attend to| "m- U. 8. would have access in time| Most important is a part ial report |of war, U. 8. deep-sea tonnage is|of the committee on the Executive | {only a minor fraction of the vast| oo i recommendations. {our own affairs so that we will be| | better able to see the problems of | Europe in their true prespective.” Maritime Commission that no pas-| ment or subsidized by it, told lhrJ Rotarians will play badminton, | front, Hitler declared he had seen | volley ball, cage ball, indoor base-|vast regions where the people suf- ball and ping pong. Tennis shoes|fered much more than the Germans | are required. No smoking is allowed as a people. i in the high school. IR e | All equipment, except shuttles for the badminton, will be furnished G l by the high school. It is planned for \ Rotarians to raise a fund to pur- chase lockers at the gym. (oast e Sailors N vo'mg SEATTLE, O¢t. 10.—A Unted | States deputy marshal has left for | San Francisco with John Cam- | pagna, alias Catalano, said to be a former New York gangster, The U. S. attorney’s office said Cam- pagna is wanted in San Francisco and Brooklyn on illegal liquor trade charges, and in Italy for a murder committed in 1919, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 10,—Harry Lundeberg, Secretary of the Sailors Union of the Pa- cific, said that according to first returns on coast voting, the SUP members indicated almost unanimous sentiment in favor of ratification of the tentative | “°J X 3 new contract between the sail- | CmPagna was arrested in Van- ors and ship owners, jm'"’”' P > senger rates would be raised until| American fugitives were brought R.C.JEWELLTO [ s G | There was considerable growl- ing among foreign lines. An Ameri- can stranded on a war-ridden shore is fair game for whatever foreign- ers can shake out of him. BE IN COMMAND GUARDER HAIDA Sarratt Named Command- | er of Western Train- ing Station SEATTLE, Oct, 10.—Lieutenant | Commander R. C. Sarratt, of the Coast Guard cutter Haida, station- | ed at Juneau, Alaska, has been named Commander of the Newport-| On completion, they will add Townsend Training Station. |more than a million tons to U. S. Lieutenant Commander R. C. Jew- | tonnage. That will double, our efl, of Portland, Maine, has been Present deep-sea tonnage. The 18 assigned to command the Haida. Imajor lines now subsidized by the During tne World War, returning Yankees had little recourse. There weren’t enough American boats. Now there are. It has been an expensive Job to build up the American mer- chant marine but it seems now (o warrant the trouble it took Since the shipping subsidization program was given new life about three years ago, 108 passenger and cargo vessels have been ordered. Of these, 19 have been launched Others are far along in the building. coast-wise tonnage, part of which is fully capable of diversion to deep- ea transportation, Meanwhile, it is reported that ef-| forts are under way to settle the| American Federation of Labor Passes Resolu- tion af Convention CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 10.—The | American Federation of Labor con- vention delegates huve voted a non- concurrence resolution calling for the endorsement of President Roo- CIVILIANS, TWO PORTS, MUST FLEE Minister of Inferior Issues Warning, Precaution- ary Measure MISSION SUMMONED T0 CONFER, MOSCOW Thousands of Russian Troops Reported Con- centrated, Borders HELSINKI, Finland, Oct. 10.—All civilians who can go are urged to make immediate preparations to leave the en- virons of Helsinki and Vii- puri was the broadcast this afternoon by Minister of In- terior Kekkonen. Kekkonen said the measure was purely precautionary and the sooner carried out the better. The warning was given as the Finnish Mission was on the way to Moscow on invita- tion of the Russian Govern- ment to discuss unspecified economic and political prob- lems. CONCESSIONS Russia has gained sweeping concessions from similar mis- sions from the smaller Baltic states. The Finnish mission is ex- pected to reach Moscow to- morrow. Helsinki (formerly Helsing- fors) is the big Finnish port {on the Gulf of Finland and Viipuri, a smaller port on the gulf, is almost directly north of Leningrad. | FORCES Russian warships are re- ported massed at Kronstadt, the huge Russian Naval base near Leningrad. Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops are now on the frontiers of the Baltic States. Even before the broadcast of Interior Minister Kekkon- en, trains and busses were crowded with women and chil- dren leaving Helsinki for the country. FLEEING dispute between the Teamsters and Brewery Workers unions. The Brew- ry union has refused to surrender | its truck drivers to the Teamsters | Union—and last week was granted an injunction in Washington re- straining the federation from trans- ferring the drivers. The Executive Council has recom- | mended suspension of the Brewery | | Workers Union, - [EXECUTIONER OF | In addition 1 tne snips already | ordered, bids were opened by the Maritime Commission late in Sep- tember on an additional 34 vessel including 12 “national defense tankers, " These are tankers capa-‘ ble of accompanying the fleet in |action but serviceable in peace- | time commerce | These tankers are of 16,900 horse- | power, compared to aboul 4,000 | horsepower for the ordinary tanker | Their capacity is 000 barrels, |about double ordin; and their speed is 20 knots, which again is al- (most double that of rank-and-file | 5 STATES PASSES By agreement, the cost of extra speed facilities, gun implacements ez, A and other essential navy features| NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Robert C. are paid fAr by the government. Ol | EMliott, 65, official executioner of | companies pay the balance of the|five eastern states, died at his home cost of the ships. today as the result of coronary em- The government owns outright | Plism. about 40 commercial vessels now| Among the persons he has put to BB AERAC WA AN death were Hauptman, Sacco and (Continued on Page Five) Vanzetti, ' SELECTING JURY, Railways added extra trains to accommodate those fleeing. Radios and newspapers are instructing the populace re- garding air defense measures and volunteers are flocking to the Civil Defense Service. : Gas mask sales are mount- ing. Chandler Is Now Senator sevelt and the New Deal. The resolution was voted without debate or tumult that attended pre- vious discussions. -, ANTI-TRUST CASE SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 10.— Attorneys are selecting a Federal jury to hear the Government's case charging General Motors and sev- enteen individual defendants with violation of the anti-trust laws. The automobile manufacturing corporation and other defendants pleaded not guilty. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. — A, B. General Motors' Chairman Alfred | Chandler, former Governor of Ken- Sloane has been named among those | tucky, who resigned as Chief Execu- accused of coercing dealers to make tive, took the oath and his seat in car sales through a General Motors the United States Senate today, suc- credit firm, ceeding deceased Senator Logan.