The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LIV., NO. 8232. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS Presbyterian Mission Boat Wrecked; Before Going Up :NORWEGIAN ? | | PRINCETON HITS ROCK NEAR HERE Sea Going Reverend Saves All - Sends Radio Call for Aid TWO JUNEAU BOATS PROCEED TO SCENE Vessel Strikes Reef in Black of Night in Heavy Sea, Wind The 68-foot Presbyterian Mission boat Princeton piled up last night on a reef off Lincoln Island north of Pcint Retreat in hei wind, drenching rain and utter ness while a few amazed Ju- neauites heard on the short wave radio the dramatic call for help from the stricken vessel by its cap- tain, the Rev. John G. Falconer. Rev. Falconers radiophone broad- cast, fortunately reaching the “open” receiving set of the U. S. Signal Corps station and a num- ber of Juneau residents’ radios, advised that all five passengers were put ashore safely. Aboard the Princeton were three Native orphan girls of the Roberts family, from Haines, on their way to Craig, the Rev. A. D. Swogger of Metlakatla, and his son Dallas and Capt. Falconer. Radio listeners heard ev. coner calling for aid until his radio batteries grew weak at 11:15 pm,, two hours and 45 minutes after the ship had struck. Those who heard the Reverend’s broadcast said they could hear the boat pounding on the rocks and heard the wash of striking 5 black The last thing Rev. Falconer said after advising that his passengers | had been taken ashore by skiff with blankets and food, was “Water GERMANY WANTS U.S., INTERVENE, | Nazi Bombers Among new pictures to arrive in the United States from Germany is this one showing a Germ: flight commander talking over a mi air battle” between German and Safe Get Orders CAUGHT IN NAVAL WAR Fishing Boat Almost Victim of Fight Between Brit- : and Germans |LITTLE CRAFT BOBS LIKE CORK IN SEAS 'Skipper Says 150 Nazi . Bombers Attacked Five English Warships ALESUND, Norway, Oct. 13 The a Norwegian fishing boat ame into port here today {with a hair-raising story of having ridden out a major naval en {ment Monday b e veen British war- ships and German bombing planes in the Nor for an hour and a half The captain said his sturdy craft was canght in the thundering battle participated in by five British ships and about 150 German planes. | Kvaloy th S an homber vy objective with the bomber’s crew before members go up. A “great | British planes was reported over the Siegfried line. WHAT'S WRONG SIEGFRIED LINE! GERMANS ; APPAREN“.Y DOUBTFULForeign Office”RevoM Re- Fal- | French Feel j - Wonder with ~ Fronts Calm is rising. My batteries are getting | weak and I am standing in three inches of water. I'm going ashore.” Alaska Game Commission Execu- tive Officer, Frank Dufresne, sent the commission vessel Bear to the scene at 11 o'clock last night after | he was advised of the Princeton's condition by the Customs House and the Radio office officials. U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray also commissioned the Treva C. Capt. Ralph Reischl, to speed to the scene from Auk Bay last night. Both vessels should have reached the Princeton before daybreak this morning, but with no word having been heard from the scene at a late hour this afternoon, it is be- lieved the rescue craft were mak- ing an attempt to salvage the Princeton at high tide this noon The Princeton, 68 feet overall, of 32 tons, is one of the best equipped utility craft in South- cast Alaska with sending and re- | ceiving radio and extensive living accommodations, Extent of damage to the craft is unknown. Eucharistic Congress s Called Off VATICAN CITY, Oct. 13. — The Vatican announces that the Inter- national Eucharistic Congress sched- uled to be held at Nice next spring has BEuropean War, - —— AT BARANOF raveling men H. B. Allabach and Ken Edwards came back to Juneau on the North Sea and are at the Baranof Hotel. - e AT GASTINEAU Fred Fiske, American Radiator man, is at the Gastineau Hotel, after coming in from Sitka on the North Sea, | Observers Puzzled as Ger- | man Affacks Cease on Clear Night PARIS, Oct. 13.—German patrols are reported to suddenly have aban- doned attacks in which they have failed in five days of battle to cap- ture any French prisoners Military advices said the French army is keeping a sharp watch on | the front wondering why, on “magnificently clear night” it was |calm except in the Warndt Forest I region. No Hits Scored So far he could ships nor planes scored hit The captain related that after the warships steamed away there was wrrific explosion and a column of fire spurted skyward As the warships approached close to his boat, he said, planes began raining bombs the pompom anti-afrcraft guns began chattering in reply. as neither | JAPAN CABINET " NOW CONFONTED SERIOUS CRISIS WITH THE " sults in Over 150 At- faches Quitting Seas Kicked Up Bobbing like a cork from the heavy :as kicked up by the exploding pro- | jectiles, the Norwegian skipper at- tempted to steer west, but to his TOKYO, Oct. 13. — A mounting dismay the warships also turned crisis confronts the entire Japanese west Cabinet of Premier Nobuyuke Abe as Finally the warships, which fol- < the result of a Foreign Office revolt jowed a zig zag course at full speed | dicate the Germans are afraid their |y, wpjch more than 150 officials|during the battle, withdrew and | west wall is not too stout. The Ger-),nq subordinates have tendered the bombers roared away By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — War news from far behind the front Ts something wrong with the Sieg- fried line? Military men here say | that German counter attacks against |the slowly-penetrating French in- | [ | i announcements among the |er SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 13. John L. Lewis was today re-elected President of the CIO after a cauc- | HITLER IS READY TO . ORDER WAR «Hitler Started—We Finish!” —_— ra ation Made Only ) Decla | One National Can Pre- vent Bloodshed NAZI REGIME THROUGH WITH BRITAIN, FRANCE Situation ls?ufilmed Up by | Official Statement Issued in Berlin BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Odt 13. — Presidenit Roosevelt was asked today at his conference with the news- men about the latest informal peace bids from Berlin and he id he had nothing to say on that as he has received no of - ficial word from the German sovernment. I.I. N. Radiophoto | Lord of the British Admiralty, broadecasting ares there will be no peace on ntil the German dictator_“has | BERLIN, Oct. 13. — Fuehrer Adolph Hitler is ready to order a total war against Great Bri- 1 tain and France but there is one power——the United States ——that can yet intervene to prevent the ‘“most gruesome bloodshed in history.” This was the announcement made this morning to all foreign correspondents by Dr. Otto Diet- rich, the Reich's press chief, emerging from a conference with Hitler. Dr. Dietrich declared that the United States could put an end to the present war in Europe if she would unequivo- cally tell Great Britain she will not support her in the fight un- less efforts to settle the prob- lems at issue are first made at a council table, | | your successor has quall-|gajq (Continued on Page Five) - Winston Churchill, First from London to the British empire, decl Hitler's terms, that the war will go on until f had enough.” His address anticipated Nazi peace overtures wadioed from London to New York. President Asks Governor To Continue in Office Until Successor Qualifies D l RES ’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 13— Presi- | FDR E A | dent Franklin D. Roosevelt has re-| quested Gov. John W. Troy to con-| Russ‘A“ MOVE | tinue as Governor of Alaska until| | Dr. Ernest Gruening qualifies as successor. the resignation to be effective Oc- TR ' | tober 15 (next Sunday.) Dr. Gruening has been appointed | Says Represen'ahons '0‘(3()\’14‘)10!‘ but ;Ls nomination is not | o | expected to go to the Senate until| Moscow NOI Pres | after the Neutrality bill is disposed | sure Actions |of and this situation necessitated ‘l])P Presidential request made to| WASHINGTPON, Oct. 15~Prasta; 000 o0 0 8 I i s dent Roosevelt said today that Am- PRESIDENTS WIRE | GRRMANE THROUGH “.'All.Al)lEE erican representations to Russia| precident Roosevelt wired Gov.| CHAMBERLAIN, D. : were merely an expression of in-lm. ?l',\l (;-“ g L bt -.(’m.l" BERLIN, Oct. 13—An authorized Terest abd’ Hope GHaL nothing will, ey i l‘,’“iws', ("‘"P"lm“ ar- statement issued by the Nazl Gov= be doms’ to AEth peacerul PR Lo ms s Al‘f Mt K,m.‘ fly?d,be' ernment today says Germany is tions 45 “the’ BRI e the' AGDRNs | s, to! T = yad i na- | through with Prime Minister Cham- dotios Gt PERS |tion to the Senate during discus-perlain of Great Britain and Pre- |slon of neutrality legislation. T|mjer Daladier of France. Roosevelt told a press conference iwould appreciate it if you will con-| The statement said however, that t_hfxt diplomatic action is }v){ ‘j""'.junm‘ as Governor, and With your|ihe Nazi government is waiting for stxu(?d n. 18 0888 It BNV way 85| consent, I will withdraw my:accept-|a neutral response to Hitler'’s Reich= u{ pressure move by the Amuu.un‘u,,“. of your resignation as of OC".smg speech and any such action by e tober 15, and will accept it as of | neutral nations, among whom it is 3 g : |the date the Government regards the fled | United States as the only one power= Iwo Subs L 5 T 35 i1 ugh to do something effecs | TROY'S ANSWER tive. Gov. John W. Troy answered the | Presidential message as follows: “I D w appreciate your telegram and will | be happy to agree to any arrange- iment that will be in accord with jour plans. Therefore I consent| A communique from this region o . i A ; | Siegfried line. After all, the Ger- said small enemy patrols were re-| 7 mans had barely a year to put ous and 32-minute demonstration e | their line in order. RUSSIA AND British | that you withdraw, your acceptance i main fortifications. That is not|, .o Trade Ministry. the lighter and more effective Ger- . e P e Reeleded Kasaan Is Desfroyed Off saan, owned by Booth PFisheries of Admiralty announced this afternoon of my resignation as of October, 15| sound tactics unless the wall itself| Recent trade | man artillery could get at them, and Instead, the Germans are coun- Shore Near Sea"le seattle and Ketchikan, late yes- that British Naval patrols sunk two and will continue in office until my P been cancelled because of the French observers speculated as to | whether or not the Germans intend- ed to launch a major offensive. These observers declared the Ger- | mans, in their attempts to take pris- ioners despite adverse weather, seemed equally anxious to know the | French intentions. | g 'FATALLY BURNED - IN CABIN BLAZE ‘Frank Mandic, of Fox, In- terior Alaska, Dies in Hospital FAIRBANKS, Oct. 13. — Frank Mandic, 57, was fatally burned terday when his cabin at Fox, 10 miles from here, was destroyed by ‘fu'(' following explosion of a gaso- | line lamp. Mandic struggled from the burn- ing cabin and was brought by am- bulance to the hospital here where he died as the result of his burns. | - | FOR GIRL LEFT BEHIND | TRURO, England—Memory lock- ets, suitably inscribed, are being Ibought by the score as gifts from soldier to wife or sweetheart, jewel- ers say, Trained observers have suspect- ed that a year was not long enough to build impenetrable fortifica- tions. Now they feel that the pre-| mature German counter - atta support their views. ‘ w mans have launched heavy counter | ci. resionations. b | e abnicy caused the dissension beat the French to soup. A counter |ter attacking to keep the French terday. Crew of three escaped in attacks in the Moselle region, al- | premier Abe announces the Gov-| | though the French are not nearer|..nment is now prepared to make l laska Fish | Sound tactics would be to \\'1\:1;[“”10]““““ corps. ‘ until the French have penetrated| g . ’ attack then could be launched from behind the security of the Siegfried far away from the fortifications.| Why? Swiss reports tell of large SEATTLE, Oct. 13. — Fire de-| lifeboats. | Kasaan was inbound from Alaska | | than seven or eight miles to the |, compromise on plans to create a | within perhaps two miles. By then Lewis Is Crew Escapes line with expectation that it would labor corps working behind the stroyed the 42-ton fishing boat Ka-| . LONDON, Oct. 13.—The and burned one mile and a half off DEL ROSA CHARGED WITH ASSAULT ON WOMAN, DAUGHTER shore near Richmond Beach i Capt. McGlinn, United Airlines Pilot, reported via radio that a boat | Good sources here are convinced was in distress while he was flying the Germans have supply ships| Pablo Del Rosa was arrested by hidden in out-of-the-way islands in|the U S. Marshal's office today a bases. from Vancouver, B. C. the ‘Caribbean. The ships, presum-|on a charge of assault. Del Rosa | total los the Caribbean and in the North have mnot been heard from since. out and destroyed by the British | our mnavy would be obligated to p———— waters as bases of supplies. Ithe crew of 36 men off the British | Texas, on September 17 with 136,000 bound for Boston. He is winging his| The Heronspool was torpedoed | the largest tankers afloat i Coast Guardsmen rushed to the ably, refuel submarines. |is accused of striking Mrs. Joe |scene and picked up the lifeboats. ¥ shipping report} point to the Anderson and her 1l-year-old| It is believed the Kasaan is presence of German submarines in | daughte Atlantic. It is known that the Ger- | mans bought a number of old| ships in the Americas shortly be- | fore the war broke out. The ships ; L] | They would make admirable fuel | supply | [ [ [ Doubtless they will be hunted| ! States found any of them, or any submarines, hiding in our waters capture or sink them. As a neutral| NEW YORK, Oct, 13.—The Ameri- flames but the crew had apparently we must see that no belligerent|can liner President Harding raidoed | drowned as no life boats were seen ships use our ports or territorial|this morning that she has rescued| The Emile Miguet left Houston, T | freighter Heronspool while * pro- | barrels of crude oil aboard, The| Retired Marine General Smedley |ceeding to the aid of the attacked tanker has a registered tonnage of D. Butler shoves into Washington | French tanker Emile Miguet. 14,000 tons, which smade her one of way over the U. 8. in a series of |and sunk off the Irish Coast. The President Harding left Lever- —_— | The President Harding radioed|don on October 11 bound for New that later she found the tanker m‘Ym‘k with 597 passengers aboard. (Continued on Page Three) successor qualifies if that is your German submarines today - - wish JOHN GLEASON 1S FOUND DEAD Alaska, Oct. 13 John Gleason, 47, was found dead| in his room in a local hotel i Gleason worked as a cook on Liy- engood Creek, His relatives are not known he - TURKS FORM " FRESH PACT DESTROVED; JAPAN . i PLANES IN RAID " Toks vt s CHUNGKING, Oct. 13.—Practi- | cu‘ 0" leally all of the extensive property| — |of the United Canadian Churches| MOSCOW, October 13.—Reports {at ‘Tsellutsing, Szechuan Province,|were current today that some |has been destroyed by Japangse| form of agreement is being pre- | bombing planes, according to of-|pared for signing by Russia and ficial advices received here. Turkey within the next day or | The reports indicate that no for- | two Closing eigners were hurt in the lmmhmgr.v‘r Turkish Foreign -e CHURCH PROPERTY FAIRBANKS, S Minister today Sukru in NEW YORK, O quotation of Alaska stock today is 67 111, American Power 5%, Anaconda 33’ Bethlehem Steel 39% Commonwealth- and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%,| General Motors 54%, International Harvester 65, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 20 Northern Pa-| cific 11, United tates Steel 75%, Pound $3.99% 13 Juneau American Can and Light mine Py !’l'lw Swedish DOW, JONES AVERAGES | ordered strengthening of all mili- The following are today’s DoW,|tary Tefenses in the upper north- Jones averages: industrials 15085, | Jand in northeast Sweden near the rails 33.65, utilities 2534, Finnish border b im0 | Saracoglu was received ! In the absence of any official | comment from either side, observ= lers believed a prospective pact is |being shaped to settle questions FOR DEFENSEéDamancI!es and define the atti- |tude of each nation toward the STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 13| The impression grew in diplo- Government tonight | matic circles that the agreement with the Turks caused indefiniie postponement of further conserva- | the Kremlin. | relative to the Black Sea and the ade |other in the present war. is imminent as the Kremlin's talks tions with the Finns,