The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8237. NEW TROUBLE NAVY PLANES | IN CRASH: 4% MEN KILLED Bombers from Aircraft Car- rier Lexington in Ac- cident in South SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct Two Navy planes collided burned at Murray Lake near here, at 8 o'clock this morning, killing four men, two from each plane. The planes were bombers from Squadron 2, of the aircraft carrier Lexington, on a practice flight. Three of the occupants of the two planes killed have been iden- tified as Ensign Theodore Smith, 24, of Kansas City; Ensign Harold Pence, 22, of Hillsboro, Illinois, and Chief Ordnanceman Edward Eakins, 33, of San Bernardino, Cal. There no witnesses to the crash. ’ | | 19. and | were e SOVIETS ARE MARCHING IN ONESTONIA Well-Versed Trbops Areto Occupy Various Mili- fary Bases MOSCOW, Oct. 19.—Picked Soviel troops, well versed in Russian Com- munist ideology, are proceeding on schedule through Estonia to occupy military bases granted by the little Baltic nation to her huge eastern neighbor. Y Tass dispatches received here from Talinn said the Russian sol- ¢ have been received in a “friendly manner.” They started the march yesterday R D B ALASKA FOR REFUGEES IS STILL PLAN Secrefary Ickes Says Re- port May Go Before Int. Committee WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said the Government’s report on Alaska as a possible haven for| Europe’s policial refugees will prob- ably be placed before the Inter- national Committee on Refugees here. President Roosevelt will make the decision however, the Secre- tary said. The report was prepared last July by the National Resources Com- mittee and said many refugees could be rehabilitated in Alaska by private funds. Secretary Ickes said it will be necessary for Congress to alter the immigration quotas to permit of the establishment of the Alaskan Foreign Colony since most of the immigration quotas are exhausted. Native Americans who wish to enter such a colony will be given equal opportunity and encourage- ment, Secretary Ickes said. COUNCIL TO MEET TOMORROW NIGHT The regular meeting of the Ju- neau City Council will be held to- morrow night at 8 o'clock at the City Hall. Only routine matters are! pending, according to City Clerk Harley J. Turner. .- Germany provides 3,101 and Ttaly 2671 of Australia’s population in- Loading Eggs tor a Warbird A ground crew of the German air force loads a big truck with medium« sized bombs for one of the Nazis’ great Heinkel bombers which did so mpch dnmng_e in Polish territory. Experts believe these planes and bombs will play a big part in the Nazi drive planned against the British blockade War Debt Currency 7 JProuno- e) rs}nmuz MIQUELON GrEnCH) 2 ~ Senators Bennett Champ Clark and Ernest Lundeen, members of the Military Affairs Committee, pro- pose that Britain and France sur- render their Western Atlantic in- | sular possessions in part payment of their war debts to the United States. France would give us Guad- | eloupe, Martinique, St. Pierre Miq- | melon. | foundland, Bermuda, British Ba- | hamas, Britain would cede New- Jamaica, Barbados and Fighting in West Region NowElgging. German Communique Says| Engagements So Far Unimportant (By Associated Press) Germany today dismissed the war thus far on the Western front as devoid of military importance because it failed to develop any sub- stantial fighting between the Allies and Germany. “The first phase of the war” has been terminated by complete with- drawal of the French from German territory is the report in today’s German communique. The communique minimizes the French-English military activity on the wester n front which was launched September 3 The French military day says “All is quiet” in the west, but asserts the French are still on German soil and makes no spec- ific claims concerning front positions. report to- The German communique admits there has been air and artiller: fighting on the western front bu engagements involved {importance. STORM WARNING GALVESTON, Texas, Oct. 19. line nothing of | MUSTWATCH NEW THRUST BY RUSSIANS Otcupa!ion'oNfrEastern Po- land by Red Army, Means Something TON, Oct. 19 The it may play on the western front, but the attention of knowing statesmen and historians is riveted on the astonishing thrust of Asiatic influence into Europe— the occupation of Poland by the Red troops of Stalin. Uppermost in their minds is the frank admission py Herr Hitler that he himself made the agreement with | the Asiatic-minded Stalin that en- ables Russians to drive their mili- tary machine up to the gates of ! Warsaw. Hitherto, European rulers have | compromised with Asiatics, dickered | with them, signed treatiess with | them, but they have never ventured | to incur the wrath of their own people by prdctically bowing the Asiatics into the Buropean parlor | Any statesman who does that vio- lates a natural law that existed long | before Kipling put it into words: “East is East, and West is Wi and never the twain shall meet. THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE Tt is not yet certain just how far | Hitler has invited the Russians into | Europe. But it is certain that he | admits his aims in the east are “lim- ited.” Tt is certain that the toe of | the Russian boot has been planted | firmly at the Rumanian gateway to the Balkans, and Stalin is closer to | Warsaw than any Russian before ihim ever got, save by military con- | quest. Keep this point in mind: The old (Russia of Catherine professed, at | least, to be a Christian Russia. Buf not so Stalin; he professes atheism. | And Christianity is still a living 3rorce in western Europe and has |affected history time and again. | It was the Christian heritage that |enabled the Austrians to summon |up the courage to beat off the Ot- toman hordes at the gates of Vienna |in 1529 | It was the Christian heritage that | more or less bound England, France, Austria and Spain together against |the Russian advance on Poland in days of Catherine II, even ithough Catherine was powerful | enough to dub Poland her doormat | to Europe. Her legions did wipe their feet on the Polish doormat. But they | never entered the door to the west- ‘Icm world And it was the | heritage that finally ‘Eme great Ottoman | Solyman built. Eventually the west- same Christian dismembered empire that cre; i r Id-ti; S o crease of 9,137 from immigration|The old-timers along the Texas|ey poyers divided it smong them- in 1939 - e —— | The sun has a diameter of 864.- 100 miles. coast say there’ll be some bad storms soon. Fishing has been unusually good. The ot.’s say that always is a sign of foul weather ahead, | selves as ruthlessly as the Turkish l_, s (Continued on Page Fivey | soldiery had split up and conquered‘ Speaks with the Voice of Authorit; | admitted that the signing! AGREEMENT SIGNED [ LONDON, Oct. 19.—Great Bri-} tain, France and strategic Turk(‘y.[ ol A Gaasirs themselves against the Speaking with the voice of authority, this heavy artillery piece hurls an explos West Wa " French al concussion, ramount News, the latter one of the Allies’ World War enemies, tonight signed a treaty for mutual assistance in the eastern | | Mediterranean for a “minimum | period of 15 years.” { The action put into a formal in- ! strument agreements among the three nations made earlier in the year to each other in the event of aggression leading to war {in the Mediterranean area. Prime Minister Chamberlain an- nounced the signing of the agreg ment in the House of Commons. Turkey is obligated to aid France and Great Britain if they go to war and in fulfillment of their guar- antees to Greece and Rumania Turkey remains free, however, of any obligation to go to war with Russia, from “somewhere in Franc lerymen are shown brac Associated Press photo as for Subs —— ON TONIGHT T0 JAPANESE | ment fo Be Signed by DIPLOMATIC SPEECH it virtuaily gives the Med- | facts, not propaganda, believes that T o ' sl 3-NATION U.S. THROWS | T 'Mutual Assistance Agree- C American Patience Allied Powers i Is Near End | nounces that a treaty for mu(u:ll‘ assistance between Turkey, Great| Japan's Ads Destructive of , U.S. Hopes for Peace iterranean to the Allies and blocksl ossible aggression” ideas by Rus-} TOKYO, Oct. 19.—United States jor Joseph Grew declared many things injurious to the United States which have been done and It was one of the strongest and ;m()\I, remarkable diplomatic speech- JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939. France ! ' PACT GOES DOWN GAGE | (By Associated Press) | . ) A : I : ; o Britain and France will be Mgm‘di b : . reement is a most powerful | ‘ Is Warning erican opinion, based on are being done by anm‘xvew agen« les in Japanese-U. S. relations. Britain’s Navy Plows Turbulent Grew, who recently returned to his homeland for a visit and for a meeting with President Roosevelt, said his talk came “straight from the horse's mouth.” In addressing 250 members of the America Japanese Society, often a sounding board for authoritative discussion of American-Japanese re- lations, the Ambassador asserted: Veiled War Threat “They (the American people) re- gard with growing seriousness the violation of and interference with | American rights by Japanese armed forces in China in disregard of treat- jes and agreements. They feel the present trend in the Far East, if continued, would be destructive of hopes they sincerely cherish for an assist B o wartime, but a constant vigil Describes Smtion at Col- ony as Acute for Two Reasons PALMER, Alaska, Oct. 19.—Ross L. Sheely, General Manager of the Government - sponsored Matanuska | Colony, submitted his resignation a Fisherman Finally Found" by Cyane-Is Taken fo Hospital a a a guns on ac- equal pos BROOKSVILLE, Ky. Oct A PORT WOULD HELP a year ou orderly world.” i Grew asserted this opinion was ernment policies. patrol duty. Little news is heard from the fleet in is kept for enemy At s i St S ‘ k day that his German-American though he wholly approves of the The perspiring leader of the Ger- German pact amid excited exchans I ‘ ‘ Kuhn asserted in response (0, o, gurycmon Oct. 19, So!Under a naval barrage, troop ships |in the fact that a majority of the los W 9 RaL is Al | tew hours after he described the fense over naval power in attack load men and cannon. That is a, | settlement’s situation as acute be- i ersistent | States munitions industry. b . o 2. Shore g ave the legs. ‘side stories that the British another thing. Shore guns have|fully burned on the legs, side and | ™p ol il 0 N Gioation of any con- nection between the two develop- 5 e asl v or . Norf 2 shore, when he asked Kuhn whether the NOrth German s is in full view, Sighting and ranging | let last Sunday morning. finally | ists. bility that the British fleet may | qerior to those that n be in-|y day afternoon Via . the Coast required attention. off German trade with Sweden, so{ 1 |know any better than that,” Kuhn|important because of rich S\wdul\vu“ sxample 1Gr 11 will receive special treat tered because of insufficient feed it The coast guns know | Brétate He1 s navy ks Aoghore: 963, | be made to hold such ‘losses to the “COllects I ‘ tion to set off to hit a ship wher- | fast the Albatross last Sunday | » force in the face of German POWET|on fixed ine dar- mere Losses to hay, potato and othes stove and serious burns resulted to| RS A e — | Navy would undertake if any other| . = l.nding the British navy ‘ 3 o | vell headed his boat for View Oov paper and make them stay there, |OPen. A Britain hard pressed ini o o4 b ecessary -for the heavy s o ba The Cyane was at Juneau and pro- { | a hobby of collecting scents. He has | N8 Odds against st are high. |y cos back while troops landed. | ceeded from there to locate Gravell 80“(““'0 Funds | " i her | file. They include such rare fra-|might be launched against her ig.ore put men out in small boats, | ing, and then brought him here. took protective qang trust to naval fire to keep - . {000 contribution from the city of | bitter orange. portant step. As a Ire 3 San Francisco to keep the ‘Golden | was not strongly fortified againstyum, ! DANGEROUS WORK IS GOOd’ | Directors will decide within the R AR e el tleship. You can almost bank on it| Byt for a navy to stand off h“”""lank vou i“fl“ pianglil i g | surfaced with gravel from a local ubmarine in the German navy < " . 19-A1300,000 for the fair be included in v would be concentrated on the fleet, | Brooksville druggist dis this| the city budget, and that $50.000 | gineer took a sample of the mater-| More than a ago Germany ! ial and found it assayed $4.20 a ton : could ruin the British navy earth—my customers.” raised by supporters of the fair to Such values in large quantity |undoubtedly was only lightly armed paif hour. And they would try to - - nearly a million doilars. About $700,- would make mining of the sand | until Germany took over. - unanimous in the U. 8. and that as such had a profound effect on Gov= | : This striking photo shows warships of the British Navy plowing through turbulent waters on submarine { . & | Communists-Approves | Re“ ns ]ob raiders. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Fritz P Kuhn told the Dies Committee to- | Bund is still fighting Communism IRollER BURNS | and Communists in this country al- DE( I D E D v I A BAlTI( SEA IS | | new Russo-German pact. ’ AlEx GRAVELL‘ man-American Bund made the dec- laration of approval of the Russo- es between the witness, his counsel, ‘ [and_eonunitier Megiees. By PRESTON GROVER jan ideal spot to make a landing | questions, there is significance o rig " 4 g g no signiffcance) Lt e superlority of coast de-|could sall right into port and un | Bund's 71 units are located in areas | dres situg ¢ a nav LRTC a o i | occupt 90 % | that authorities here discount al-|dream situation for a navy | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 19 ause of the destruction of crops occupied percent by United Breaking into a fortified port is|Alex Gravell, Tacoma troller, pain- most 100 percent the ‘ i B 5 4 by an early snowfall and freeze-up. 4 fleet may Representative Joe Starnes, of tremendous advantages over naval | ha p 3N b S g > € s advantages over naval|hands, in a gasoline stove explosion Alabama, precipitated an outburst attempt to force a landing on the i A Aringn1a s THIa NAVY f s % i T |guns. They are concealed. The navy on the' troller Albatross at Rose In-| oo " gyools” caid but his own ‘Bund was still fighting Commun-| They don't discount the pu~.~1-1m.‘,“9_\ for shore guns are greatly S Ketchikan hospital ]“.,nf““m the second largest in Alaska, “Mr. Starnes, 1 am surprised at break into the Baltic sea and Shut|gjieq on a ship {Guard Cyane after weather pre- |, Sy ;"id ‘Tlm;m Drl ":: c.l]’lm’;;l you and how 6 Oongressman don't | Take Pearl Harbor, Hawaii vented ‘an emdrgency: phane’ flight.| SHEY Satie Wl hasH 50 b8 A | The water all around 7R te exploded. iron. But even that would be af " ment and will recover satistactorily or the winter. i Gravell was preparing his break- | Attempting to land an armed|eyer it may be seen. Land minimum. ) i | morning before heading for Taco-|yoot crops are particularly severe, :Perfume along the Baltic or North fSealcyrate than naval guns rolling at|{ma. A battery spark exploded the|gheely added would be one of those tasks no!g., Thejr range normally is ¥ e Byt Gravell bl NORMAN, Okla., Oct.19.—Having avenue of attack remainec Mateoald atta 4 = B R0 PN g ould attempt likely would be| Because of stormy weather, Gra- discovered a way to place odors on | thoritles always leave one avenle|, .., gome unfortified shore. It | o en a e alr instead of Ketchikan. At View Cove | | Dr. Ralph Bienfang, professor at|Other quarters might ”’“_K" the | ips to stand offshore and lay|a call was sent out for assistance. | May Be Kep' open; | the University of Oklahoma, make},idesperau- attempt at a shore m““'w:rmn % age to keep defending | | more than 250 of them, gathered Long ago Germany saw the Troop ships, convoyed by destroyers| but on account of a gale, did not |from all parts of the world, on|sibility that a British fleet action| gang cruisers, would crowd closer into|find him until early yesterday morn- | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 19. | grances as the scent from oil of|the Baltic. She Mayor Rossia has approved a $350- |rose and neroli oil distilled from |steps. Taking Danzig was one Im-|epemy light and heavy artillery fire i city Danzig | and machine gun fire to a mini- Busmess Gafe Exposition operating next | |naval attack. Polish forces there| l\vnr. 2 i ¢ | SIREEIS or GolD | failed to beat off one German bat- 52 | that by nmow Danzig is well forti-{ang pound away at land troops is permanently October 29. fied. risky business. Undoubtedly every | The Mayor recommended that rock crushing plant may be said to be paved with gold. A curious en- A half dozen, breaking through the 5181 on his front door: “Throughipe paid out of the publicity fund. crowded Lithuania of Memel.|cereen of destroyers and cruisers, |this door pass the best people on| qne city's promise brought funds |in gold. That is another Baltic seaport that " i Bas 40 shows algo0 more is necessary if the exposi- An undefended port be ‘i”(m is to reopen California dog would ‘Continuea on Fage Four) year lrlepnsil profitable,