The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" — VOL. LIV., NO. 8234. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'ATTEMPT AIR RAID ONSCOTLAND e ERMAN SUBS AGAIN STRIKE AT ALLIES REPULSE 1S CLAIMED TO BE DAMAGED 32,000-Ton Battle Cruiser Reporfed Disabled by U-Boat ONE BRITISH, 2 FRENCH VESSELS ARE SENT DOWN Nazi Assérrt' ‘They Have More Successes in Hostilities af Sed (By Associated Press) Germany today made new claims of suceess on the sea against the Allie The German High Command de- clares that the same German sub- marine that sunk the British battle- chip Royal Oak has also disabled the 32,000 ton battle cruiser Re- pulse. The British Admiralty, early to- day, refused to make any comment on the German claims. The Re- pulse was at one time scheduled to carry the King and Queen on their recent visit to Canada and the United States. Sea Hostilities It is officially announced that in the , warfare, the Norwegian freighter Gressholm struck a mine last Friday and was destroyed. Three more allied ships, torped- oed, marked the sharp increase in sea hostilities as the German-Allied war entered the seventh week. ht survivors of the Gressholm, 621-ton wooden ship, have arrived at Ymuiden, The Netherlands. Three of the crewmen are missing. Raiders Sink Three Ships German raiders sank over the weekend the British Royal Mail steamer Lochavon and the French liners Louisiana and Bretange. British warships rescued 60 pa sengers and 56 crewmen of the Brit- ish Royal Mail steamer Lochavon and approximately 250 passeng and sailors of the French liner Believed Perished At least 15 are believed to have perished when the French liners were torpedoed. Of 30 injured, who were brought ashore, ten were women. The Bretange was a 10,000-ton ship; the Louisiana was of 6,900 and the Lochavon 9,200 ton. Toll of Sinkings three sinkings has The now brought the total sunken tonnage |delegates return indicated the Na-| of the war to 341,000. Of 73 ships reported lost during the war, 36 are of British register, six French |pressed the belief that Finland will| register, 22 neutral and dead ap- proximately 1,578, Nine German ships a ported to have been taken. Dead of Royal Oak The British Admiralty lists only 414 survivors of approximately 1,.- 200 aboard the British battleship Royal Oak. also re- T U-BOAT PARIS, Oct. 16.—The French r “GE or t 3 erma o port that one of the German sub-|pussian demands—recognition and| marines which sunk three French cargo ships during the past week, has beeni sent to the bottom. et 1939 Has Had 25 Inches Too Much Rain Rainfall for 1939 is more than 25 inches above the normal for this date, Meteorologist Howard J.|0f Valdez was fined $75 today by | Thompson announced today after a bout with his records in the U. S. Weather Bureau office. The total to noon today was 87.64 | Clarence Rhode. The law allows peen yisiting along the Paoidc inches, whereas the normal would 8&me to be served in camps em-|Gogct for several weeks, is a pa;- be 6144 inches. October rainfall to|Ploying five men, but not In larger | enger for her Juneau hotde RHOAES noon today was 1012 inches, —s Gas-Bag Car % }“ [ NATIONS AT WARTOPAY U.S. INCASH No Credit Will Be Extend- ed, Is Amendment fo Repeal Measure 90-DAY PROVISIONS 10 BE ELIMINATED Protests of Senators on . Both Sides Prove to 1 Be Successful WASHINGTON, Oct. 1f Here Again provisions in the present bill which . would have allowed 90-day credit | ‘This provision was eriticized by many Senators on both sides of - the arms embargo controversy, con- | Because of the rationing of gasoline in England, the gas-bag car tending that 90-day credits would again makes its appearance in London. This one is the first to provide an entering we for appear in this war. A'l‘he great bag on top of the car is filled with |longer credits and might drag thi coal gas which is piped to ‘thu mou')r through the vnhher hnea at country into the present war ¥ SL ot cax Among the Democratic Senators CRISIS IS ~ NOW FACED ~ BY FINNS : Delegalion_igturns from ' Moscow But Will Go 2 Back, Is Report (By Associated Press) The Soviet diplomatic campaign brought additional military prepara- tions by Turkey and tension in- creased in Finland. | In Finland, the Nation waited the |outcome of the Finnish delegation’s visit to Moscow. The Foreign Office spokesman said the delegation members, who | returned today, will go back to | Moscow for further talks at an un- | specified date. Silence of the crowd watching the | tion feels it is facing a crisis. | Unofficial Moscow sources ex- | probably concede to Russia cer [Baltic Sea islands for naval b |but balk at a military alliance or »ncessions on the tegic Aaland |Islands between Sweden and Fin- {land. | The Turkish mission is ¢ to leave Moscow soon afte |some agreement with Russia on pas- |sage of warships through the Dar- | danelles into the Black Sea | At Istanbul it is said Turke | Foreign Minister has rejected three pected signing s | partition of Poland, formation of a 1““‘"31 Balkan bloc under Russian | domination, and expansion of the Buigarian-Russian pact at Ruman- ia’s expense. 'SERVED GAME MEAT 10 (AP, FINED §75 Found guilty of purchasing and |serving game meat in a camp of {more than five men, J. M. Elmer | U. 8. Commissioner Margaret Har- rais, the Alaska Game Commis- sion was notified by Wildlife Agent camps, - it is reported that members of the Foreign Committee are interested in relaxing the provisions against | American shipping in visiting war- | ring nations. The committee will | meet early this week to work out an agreement on the subject. - 'HOLDUP MAN " L0SES FIGHT WITH vieM Rev. (oudeyre Tu(lisequah-;liner Foils! un Robber - Y (Niae & Man in FederaI(}laI?Ig EDIes in Seame the Federal Jail today because Fran- | ciseo Quaren, husky Tulsequah min- | er, identified him as the man who | Catholic Cle;g—y—man of Ket- attempted to held him up at lhe; point of a gun last night. - ( Quaren told Chief of Police Dan (hlkan PBSSCS Away Ralston that he was accosted by a | . masked man shortly after midnight | —Heart Ailment last night near the entrance to the Goldstein cabins on South me} KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 16 Street. | The Rev. A. J. Coudeyre, of the So- “Stick ’em up!” Quaren said the|ciety of Jesus, died in Scattle Sat- masked man commanded, backing urday, according to a message re- up his demand with a revolver. }ceived from Bishop J. R. Crimont | Quaren told police he grappled|by the Catholic Church here. with the man, tore off his mask,| The Rev. Coudeyre was relieved t took his gun away, but was unsuc-|as Priest-In-Charge of the Ket- cessful in holding on to the man,|chikan church a few weeks ago be- who wormed from his grasp, leaving | cause he suffered from a heart ail- his green and black checkered ment. mackinaw behind him with his mask | He had been active at Gonzaga and gun. | Spokane, Wash., and at the Seattle Quaren said when he tore the|College many years preceding his mask off his assailant he recognized | transfer to Ketchikan. him as a “man he'd been huyingl The Rev. Coudeyre drinks for a short time earlier” at France, June 30, 1875 a downtown beer parlor. | Special services will be held here was born in City Policemen Ken Junge and tomorrow morning. John McCormick an hour later ar-| it rested Fenzel in Roberts’ Row and | SERVICES TODAY Quaren declared they had “the right| SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—Funeral serv- man.” ices are being held here today for Fenzel, kept in the City Jail over-|the Rev. Coudeyre and interment night, was turned over to the U. S.|will be in Spokane. Marshal’s Office this morning for| lodging in the Federal Jail to await arraignment. | Well known here, where he at- | tended the lower grades, Fenzel ————— AR later moved to Ketchikan, coming back to Juneau a little over a year ago to work at odd trucking jobs. Arraigned late this afternoon, | ! RETURNING HOME | SHANGHAI, Oct. 16.—Authorities | estimate that 450 Chinese men and | women laborers were drowned when | the overloaded 180-ton river vessel Fenzel pleaded guilty to a Federal charge of robbery by force. He was | Hsin Taiku Maru capsized in a storm this afternoon that swept the Yang- bound over to the Grand Jury by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. Alice Bach-Coughlin, who has the Northland, 'I'hv‘ the Administration's leadership in Senate L greed to amend the arms em » repeal bill to pro- hibit all credit to warring govern- ments | nator Key Pittman proposed’ the amendments to wipe out the tze estuary, 12 miles from Woosung.erland, ! fommies Land in France in I;ace» o?l—led Threat | | i | | -~ Russia and Germany concluded thei citizens into the war in alliance wi nize the conquest and make peace. soldiers disembarking from an En determination to continue th FIGHTING IS STARTED ON - WEST FRONT Heavy French Arillery| Opens Fire on Advan- | ing Nazi Horde | PARIS, Oct. 16—French heavy | artillery is reported to have n|nvxv.»-n“ fire on the German for ssing | behind the western front in appar-| ent preparation for a gemeral ut-} sive. Military dispatche said the French yuns are dropping a heavy barrage on the German communication lines and troop concentration camps along a 100 mile front extending from the Moselle River to the Haardt River sector, the extreme left of the French flank Earlier in the day the General | Staff communique reported great activity from the German lines and later advices said an attack by the Germans was imminent. Attack Is Launched Late this afternoon, the German troops are reported to have launch- ed the attack in force against the | northern flank of the French on the | western front, driving the French from their positions in German territory and back into France be- fore the Nazis were repulsed by the | Prench counter attack | The French official communiqui | tonight says the Gérmans are at- | tacking up the Moselle River alley just east of the Luxembourg fron- tfer but have been' finally halted { Shock Movement | The Germans, in the first shock | movement, penetrated into the | French lines and rolled them back but when the French forces reached | about one mile and a half of their | own frontier, r and threw the | Germans back | It is officially admitted that the Germans are tonight occu 1g the | strategic heights of Sheeberg, lvvhere the western slopes fall away linto France. 'Former President - Of Swifzerland, Dies | ZURICH, Oct. 16. — Dr. Robert Haab, 75, twice President of Switz- died suddenly yesterd: I. 1. N. Radiophoto Poland and threatened to throw the Soviet’s 160,000,000 ith the Reich’s 80,000,000, should France and Britain refuse to recog- This photo, flashed by radio from London to New York, shows British glish troop-ship at an unnamed French port, symbolizing the Allies’ e war until Hitlerism is stamped out. r partition of Leaders of the Women World War Veterans call on Colonel Edwin A, Halsey, secretary of the U. S, Senate, with a resolution endorsing the President’s stand on neutrality through repeal of the Embargo Act. Left to right, Florence Caldwell, quartermaster; Halsey, and Dorothy Frooks, of New York, national eommander 'HAM-AND-EGGERS' OUTTO GET CALIFORNIA SENATOR; I By PRESTON GROVER product of the major enterprise He is against “Ham-and-Eggs” SO WASHINGTON, Oct, 16.—Calllor= 4oy are against him—or at least | nia “Ham-and-Eggers” have set out| (5% “10 TN dicate - they are. to make this the last fight over for ypep pe comes up for re-election eign policy in which Senator Hiram | oo™ i o Tl have a candi- Johnson will participate. They are|gove aooinet himif they can— out to beat him and shake him loose from the po- Ham-an gers not €on- | giiion he has held since 1916. oarned, .o " cotrse, he €Ul .pgm-and-Eggs of course, rent battle over murfnm simply the popular title for the Act. Poreign alf have nothing | .peme under which a flood of to do with thelr campaign. TheY money would be distributed In have a plan to put in the ! oayirornia by pouring it first into jeans of every man and WOMAN ;o' yonac of people over 50 years over 50. The idea has caught on| c oo 0 widely that h the past year they have ted a gover- pow nor, a United enator, and | now hope to \eir scheme po Bl e IS solidly - on at 8 ‘No- " of California will be given vember election. - slips of a face total of $30— It might be added at thi ‘;;l’”;' not cash, but a circulating medium Sena- that the proposed defea t of Johnson is largel a by (Continued on Page Two) 'NAZI PLANES MAKE ATTACK BRITISH AREA IN DAYLIGHT Assault Reported Beaten 0ff with ""Heavy Casual- ties” — No Property - Damage Reported | BULLETIN — LONDON, Oct. 6. — German airplanes '“attempted an attack on | coastal objectives in Scotland this afternoon” the British | Admiralty reports. The Royal Air Force in- flicted “heavy casualties on | the German air raiders” the official report continued. ;i Three German bombers are | reported to have been shot idnwn in the Edinburgh area, | l one over Firth Forth and two on land. No word of any damage has been received in London, although several bombs are said to have been dropped in the vicinity of the Firth | Forth bridge. The Nazi raid was made quickly and followed the Brit- ish reports of successful re- connaissance flights over | Northern and Central Ger- many last night. | Reporting today’s air raid attempt, Edinburgh said the British anti-aireraft guns went into action just after 2 o’clock this afternoon when the air raiders were reported, e Sally Rand - IsBankrupt SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 16.— | Fan and bubble dancer Sally Rand has filed a voluntary petition of bankruptey, after spending most of last week dodging creditors, Miss Rand filed the petition un= der her true name, Helen Gould- beck. She listed total labilities of $52,621 and assets of only $8,066. The petition showed that while the dancer earned large sums for appearing clothed in fans, bubbles and less, her outgo likewise was con= siderable. She reported that she had a gross income of more than $128,000 in 1937, but a net income of only $1,032.56. Among liabilities Sally listed fur- nishings for her Golden Gate expo= sition concession—Gay Paree—that closed last week, and medical serv= ice for her pet dog. — e BRITISH PLANES . IN NIGHT FLIGHT OVER NAZI LAND |Public Repo—rfiails fo Indi- cafe Resisfance En- countered LONDON, Oct. 16—British of= ficials report that Royal Air Forces made a successful reconnaissance flight over Germany last night buf | did not say whether planes encoun= tered resistance