The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1939, Page 1

PONGRESsION AL [, WasflquON LIBR4; D ¢ HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8235. — JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OC lORPR 1 193‘) — MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN €ENTS NAZISRAID BRITISH NAVAL BASE NAZIS HURL BIG FORCE FINL 60,000 Germans Carry At- tack Into French-Tak- en Territory MAGINOT LINE GUNS BREAK WIDE THRUST Six Divisiofihrown Info Battle by Hitler's Command PARIS, Oct. 17. German cffensive mile long sector east River was reported French with devastating the Maginot Line. At least six German divisions are known to have taken part in the offensive, making two definite at- tacks One attack carried 100 yards into French territory, military dispatch- es said. Allied army authorities estimated ! || the strength of each German at- tacking division was at least 10,000 | men, putting the total number of attackers at around 60,000 or more men French confidence that the situa- tion is well in hand was reflected in a War Ministry, announcement | that soldiers of the class of 1909 have been released from the army, starting Friday, and the class of | 1910 will be released immediately thereafter. BALTISK1 DAGO@ OFs| — A smashing along a twenty of the Saar broken by the fire from In 1 ination. lowed at Dagoe, Oesel Island and Lithuania, summoned to discuss a Lith capital, on Hnland. SAY FRENCH LOSERS | BERLIN, Oct. 17—The Supreme ommand announced today that French troops have retired from | the main part of German teml.ory4 occupied outside the Seigfried Line during the first weeks of the war.! This Western front development is not regarded here as important. | German sources emphasized con- sistently that the French had mere- ly entered two or three little “fin-| gers” German territory, which means, in other words, little strips only three quarters of a mile to one | and one-half miles deep. DIES COMMITTEE WANTS EXTENSION CONVICTION OF BRIDGES IS UPHELD High Court Sustains Fine, of $125 for Contempt | returned to Lithuania. | —Lieut. | commanding the United States Pa- Russia Lines Up the Baltic AND FREIGHTER TORPEDOED; CREW SAFE 3 :Herelofore Sea Dlsaster ESTONIA SOVIET RUSSIA -2-3 order, Soviet Russia has all but completed her Baltic dom- Map shows (1), Estonia, where Russian naval bases are al- Baltiski; (2), Latvia, where there are to be Russian bases at Libau, Windau and on Riga Bay; (3), similar pact; (4), Wilno, ancient Now demands are being made No Submarme Located in | (aribbean,SaysU.S.Oflicer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct. 17 Commander S. B. Cooke, trol Squadron, said a continued search of the whole eastern Carib- bean Sea since September 12, failed to reveal the presence of a single submarine of a foreign power. TURKEY'S AGENT LEAVING MOSCOW HALTING PARLEY | was killed when the “|of the Only Reported Today } as Survnvors Land LONDON, Oct. 17.—Thirty-two of- ficers ‘and men of the 00-ton Whidby freighter Sneaton, sunk last | Saturday in the Atlantic, have land- | ed at a British port The survivors said fireman sub- one German marine forpedoed the boat The loss of the Sneaton had been reported previously. - SUB CAPTAIN, WITH CREW, IS not fleship to Bottom | Given Crosses 1 BERLIN, Oct. 17.—Commander Prien and the members of his crew of the German submarine | that sank the British battleship| torpedoed the have “been claimed to have battle cruiser Repulse, awarded Iron Crosses. *The awards have been made nL an unnamed harbor. The Grand Admiral of the Ger- man sea raiders hurried to the harbor to personally make the awards and extend umgxaLuLmons of the Reich. Chancellor Commander Doenitz, German submarine to the rank of Rear Adm e CHAIRMEN FOR LEGION'S 1940 has elevated | Commander fleet, Hitler George Guil 'sten General Chairman for Jiineau l $ GIVEN HONORS {Men Who Sent British Bat-| First Picture of French in German T(’rrllor\ This official French picture was distributed with the caption: 1094 “Fighting in Germany” with the official ption saying “French troops moving forward through communication trench somewhere in Germany which is now French.” World War dead in left background. Picture by radio from London, A Nazi Bomber in Action Royal Oak last Saturday and also|* Note the five soldiers moving along trench with church steeple and memorial to ATHENIA CARRIED GUNS FOR DEFENSE OF COAST, CLAIM Department by Passenger WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—An af- fidavit saying that the British liner Athentia, torpedoed and sunk on S(APA | FLOW IS BOMBED, NIGHT TIME German Planes Appear Over Orkney Islands ~Drop Explosives | BRITISH TRAINING SHIP IS DAMAGED Disclosure Is Made that Royal Oak Sent Down in Same Harbor BULLETIN — LONDON, Oect. 17.—The British Admiralty dis- closed that a second German air attack of the day was car- ried out over the Orkney Is- lands in the location of Scapa Flow Naval Base, shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon. Two formations of Nazi raiders, six planes in one and four in another, made the sec- ond attack which followed the raid early this morning. The Admiralty reports no damage done on the afternoon raid. LONDON, Oct. 17. — German bombers di the British | Naval training ship Iron Duke on. |an air raid today on Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, The Government, in the same announcement, stating that several | other British Naval craft were | struck by bombs but undamaged, | disclosed that the battleship Royal Oak was sunk in the same har- bor by a German submarine last 2 ¢Sep!,emner 3 enroute to New Ymk.‘smurdny with only 414 survivors A Nazi machine gunner seated in the nose of a German bombing plane goes into action during an attack on a Polish airfield. U. 8. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., reports that the Nazi airmen devastated Poland by indiscriminate uum.ks on m\htnry and civilian carried coast defense guns for Can- ada and was to have been outfitted | as a raider after completing the trip, was made public today. The affidavit was filed with the | State Department by Gustav Ander- son, of Evanston, Illinois, travel bureau operator, passenger on the Athenia, The affidavit was drawn up on| the basis of questions of Congress- then Francis Case of South Dakota, | Overton Brooks of Louistana, and | Walter Piece of Oregon. Anderson grew up in Pierce’s Congressional district. Anderson’s statement is based on who said he was a | jof an estimated 1200 aboard. | Lord Chatfield, Minister of De- | fense and Coordination, made the | announcement in the House of | Lords and further stated that four | German bombers participated in the raid which occurred at 1:30 o'clock this morning. One German plane was shot down in flames and another was damaged, Lord Chatfield said. Lord Chatfield said two bombs fell near the Iron Duke, an old [ battleship converted into a train- ing vessel. No casualties are re- | ported aboard the Iron Duke. | The Iron Duke, 21,000 tons, was Convention < “ectives aiike. o information of Chief Officer Cope- puilt in 1912 and was one of the land that the Athenia had “plenty” | battleships demilitarized under the of Tribunal 'Russia Ass—efis_AIIies Fail OF PROBE RIGHTS Hundreds Jl—eads fo Un- American Adlivities Result from War WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Mem- bers of the Dies Committee, assert- ing that the international situation provides “hundreds of important leads” for investigation of UnAmer- jcan’ activities, announce they wfll‘ ask Congress to extend authority to | hold hearings for another year be- yond next January when the author- ization expires. — -, SEARCHED SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 17.—The 6,100 - ton TItalian freighter Rialto was searched for possible arms by customs inspectors when she docked at San Diego. The Rialto was the first ship from the Mediterranean to reach San Diego since the European war broke out. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,. Oct. 17.— } The Califonia Supreme Court has affirmed the contempt conviction of Harry Bridges, former CIO chieftain on the Pacific Coast. Bridges was convicted of contempt | in the Los Angeles Superior Court and was fined $125 for declaring in | a published statement that the de- cision of the court in authorizing a, ‘recewex for the Los Angeles long- ‘shoremen was " outrageous | lABOR DISPUTE BROUGHT TO END ANS FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 17. —A new labor dispute on the san | Francisco waterfront has ended | when longshoremen'’s leader Harry Bridges ordered a warehousemen picket line removed from the Don- aldson Line pier. The Warehouse- men declined to cross the picket line, wuntil Bridges ordered it re- moved. Bridges said that the picketing violated a previous award by water- front arbitrator Wayne Morse. A similaxr dispute over, hot pears was submitted to the University of Ore- gon Tiaw School dean last August. Meanwhile negotiations for a new | contraict began between employers and the Ship Clerks’ Union Refusal of longshoremen to cross a picket line established by the clerks resulted in Morse's resignation last week. Since then employers, unions and Federal labor officials hawve joined in asking Morse to re- turn. Alaskans Are Given Honors, Scoftish Rite WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.—The Supreme Council of the Scot- tish Rite Masons for the South- ern Masonic jurisdiction has elected Andrew Nerland, of Fairbanks, Alaska, to the Thirty- Third Degree, and named Her- bert L. Faulkner, of Juneau, and Frank Mapleton, of - Fairbanks, as Knight Commanders of the Court of Honor. * There is neither air nor water on Lhe moon. in Thorough Block- ade of Nazis MOSCOW, Oct. 17.—Protracted negotiations between Russia and Turkey came at least to a tempor- ary halt today when it was an- nounced that Turkey's foreign min- ister Saracoglu will leave Moscow tonight. The Turkish diplomat has been in Moscow nearly a month discuss- ing with Soviet leaders the problems hat have arisen in connection with It the Black Sea and its outlet, the Dardanelles. Izvestia, the Government news- paper, asserted Great Britain and France could not establish an ef- fective sea blockade against Ger- many because of the economic aid the Reich will receive from Russia and Ttaly. D SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 17.—Opera Singer Lily Pons did her bit today to help her beloved France. When she arrived in Spokane for a concert, Miss Pons brought with her a red cross cash box. a sign on it read, “Autographs 25c for the Red Cross, (CC ORGANIZES TENAKEE CAMP A new 10-man Native CCC camp has been organized at Tenakee, Dis- trict Ranger W. A. Chipperfield announced today. The crew will maintain the road and trails, will develop a small recreation area and will reconstruct the reinforced con- crete building over the Tenakee bath pool. Preparations for the 1940 Amer- of guns on the ship for coast de-|1930 London Naval treaty. She was ican Legion Department convention which will be held here next fall are already under way. Convention Committee chairmen were appoint- ed last night by Alford John Brad- ford Post. Post Commander George Gulluf- sen will be General Chairman. Oth- ers to serve will be Ernest M. Pol- ley, Finance; Anthony E. Karnes Publicity; John E. Pegues, Conven- tion newspaper issue; Tom Petrich Treasurer Convention newspaper issue; John McCormick, automobile raffle; Homer G. Nordling, Enter- tainment. Jiggs Dinner Monday A Jiggs dinner will be held next Monday night, with arrangements being made by Fred Cameron, chair- man, John McCormick and Bert| Lybeck. Russell L. Clithero was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange an Armistice Day program and} dance November 11, assisted by Tre- | vor Davis and Allen E. Johnstone. Al Zenger was appointed chair- man of the Sons of the Legion com- mittee and Steve Vukovich chair- man of the Americanization com- mittee. S e - ROYAL MAIL SHIP UNDER ATTACK BY GERMAN BOMBERS LONDON, Oct. 17.—The British Admiralty reports that the Royal Mail steamer Stola, which plies between Scapa Flow and Thurso, port in north Scotland, reports she was attacked by German raiders. Bombs fell all around the Stola but she was not hit. | American inter: ELECTIONS IN MEXICO AND UNITED STATES MAY CHANGE POLICY IN DISPUTE ON OIL two sharp changes in Mexican pol- icy under the new constitution. Shortly after its adoption in 1917 here was a disposition to advance forcefully toward its objectives, to make big estates into littie ones for By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—One of the barriers to agreement in the Mexican oil dispute lies in the hope of some of the operators thaft next | take for the government a greater In Mexico, couservative voices are| o of the revenue from natural asserting that socialization of the ‘r»wuy'xru (Mexico’s newest and big- country under President Cardenas . . ficid, for instance, had to pay has pmcevdul too A’ax for ‘rhlv 1"::::- 115 to 35 percent government royalty.) sl dar wavers] years of the N‘“‘l{-'\ul\mun:\.‘\ party themselves be- : san to acquire property and to turn Dese itive. There were other rea- In the United States ons for the change as well. Even gestion is advanced that | President Calles in 1929 began to ‘};‘ @dministration in (it | express some doubts of the utility of ring a change in our attitude| . . . ..orian e & toward Mexico. Some hardening| "‘i‘t" Arian T might be expected. A shift in the| Then 4 U. 8. attitude would be equal-|he I'v’l“.“" ly as important as a change | :““"( the Mexican attitude. Long experi- ence demonstrates that no adminis- | oll tration in Mexico can survive with- |headway ; out U. S. approval. Huerta tried it |10¢ outiook, for 4 d o for a time before the World War, |in the U. 8, or Mexico, or both, but finally folded |has encouraged ofl men to veek If the U 8. should '(.wot“m%bflt this hole m“l;s’l?:f g K 4 roubles began several years ago. roéogitijion from the present So another 18 months may not be of Mexican government under| ..ol na oo a long way protest that it is irresponsible, |y, esoqpe the full force of the pres time that government likely would on“movican policy fall and one would rise with a dis-| o prevican constitution and ac- pesition to be more “friendly” toward companying laws promise the work- - man an eight-hour day, decreased Already there have been at least| conserva the a change 1941 may sug- came Cardenas. He swung way. Big estates, owned ns well as Ameri- broken up. trouble has made some toward a settlement, but a change of policy as withdraw | type Continuca on Fage Four) fenses (l'. Halifax and Quebec. B FOUND DEAD OAKLAND, Cal,, Oct 17.—Steam. ship Executive Harold ng\!ord Smith, brother of the late British aviator, was found dead in the| garage of his home. He was 61 years | old. Police said Kingsford Smith ap- parently was stricken with a heart attack as he started to close the garage door, after driving out his car. He was a brother of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, in 1935. Haorld Kingsford Smith never abandoned all hopes that his brother might have landed safe on some tiny Pacific Island. He made a trip to Australia to organize a searching expedition two years ago. e MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY IS NOW LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 19.— Assistant U. S. Attorney Charles Cal has left for Washington to turn over to Attorney General Mur- phy results of a Federal Grand Jury investigation of the motion picture industry. The secret inquiry lasted several | weeks. It is understood to cover charges of tax evasion, monopolistic prac- tices, price-fixing, labor racketeer- ing and several other phases. who vanished on | a flight from England to Australia | IN FOR PROBING |once the flagship of British Com- | mander Admiral Jellico during the | World War. Scapa Flow is the naval base where German crews scuttled the ‘(:ernn fleet, on June 21, 1919, nIlcr the World War. CRUISER IS ' DAMAGED BY - AIR RAIDERS Brifish Admiralty Also Says Lives Taken in ' Scofland Atfack LONDON, Oct. 17, — The British Admiralty admits that the German bombers, air ralding on Scotland late yesterday afternoon, slightly damaged the cruiser Southampton in the Firth of Forth and two of- ficers and 11 men were killed. Thir- ty-five others aboard the Southamp- ton were injured. The cruiser Edinburgh and de- stroyer Mohawk were also injured by bursting bomb fragments. The Admiralty also said that at least four of the German raiders were downed. ‘The Admiralty claims that the three naval vessels damaged “are ready for sea” despite the bomb- ings. FRDATERTRE At the end of June the total of social security numbers was 44, 727,520, 1