The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939. _ PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8238, GENERAL WAR FEARED OVER NEW PACT Double Tagedy Is Reported in West Alaska BRISTOLBAY ~(ANADAIS NAZIS FEEL RESCUE BOAT THREATTO STUNNED BY GOES ASHORE U.S. PEACE NEW TREATY Motorship Martha Believ- Germany Tries fo Belittle ed fo Be Tofal Loss on Pact in Fear of Pend- Walrus Island i - ing General War LOST MEN FOUND; | Y H WRECKED AGAIN BRITISH SAY HITLER STOPPED IN BALKANS At Lecsi Seven now Await e Rescue-Village Food Supply Lost Two men adrift on a lighter in Bristol Bay since October 10 have been rescued, but the vessel char- tered by the Governor's office to find them has itself gone on the beach Russian Navy Menaces Finnish Coastal Cities %, Barbour Declares We Must Defend Our British : . Neighbor HITLER HEAPED WITH | SCORN BY ELLENDER Borah Wants Public fo Know Details of Neu- trality Conference An ar-| arms| United | | | | { Ifaly Mum as Three Pow- ers Sign Pledges on Mediterranean OLT—Eventual revolt 5 the the WASHINGTON, Oct gument, that repeal embargo would lead States into war, was answered in| the Senate today by Senator W.| Warren Barbour, Republican of New | Jersey, who said this country must PREDICTS GERMAN REV against Nazi leaders by the German people if they think the Allies would give them a “decent” peace was predicted by Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, former Catholic leader in Germany, on his arrival in New York with his wife. He spoke of “increas- Germans since war began. (By Associated Press) On the diplomatic front there was anxiety in Germany and ju- bilation in the Allied camp over the | British-French-Turkey mutual as- é:.nyi‘luw pact. the Gulf of Finland, in addition to the massing of asized Russia's demands on the republic. and concessionse o naval power in little Baltic state, emph: where it is expected the Soviet will dem Reports of a concentration of Russian Soviet troops along the borders of the Here is a view of the Helsinki harbor, ing despair” among This was the news by the Assc- ciated Press and from the Gover- nor’s office today. Now at least seven men, instead of the original two, are on the beach awaiting rescue Word from the motorship Martha relayed here by Jack Martin, U. S. Commissioner at Unalaska, said the vessel was driven ashore by a severe storm yesterday on Walrus Island near Herenden Bay. The Mar- tha lost a rudder Tuesday night, ~endering it helpless in the storm. Crew Reaches Beach All members of the crew and the two men rescued a short while be- fore reached the beach safely after abandoning ship The Martha was believed to be & total s, a8 was the Lighter with Are Refurned its 50 tons of merchandise. 4 s o The two men who rode the lighter WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Secre- on its stormy voyage from the Nak- | tary of State Cordell Hull said his nek ship anchorage were Nick Hol-| Department is considering whether stein and Jocko Kelnegoff. They|to make representations to Great were found 20 miles west of Ugashik’| Britain over seizure of American where their craft wrecked on the mail enroute to Germany. beach | secretary Hull said Eggegik ocd Lost jment has received reports that Included in the wreckage of the|American mail addressed to Ger- lichter was 50 tons of winter food many has been stopped by the Brit- supplies badly needed for Eggegik ish, the mail censored and much lof it returned to this country Post Office officials said they are now routing all mail for Germany by way of Italy in the hope of es- caping the British blockade. Returned mail will also be sent to Italy for reshipment. The De- partment officials said it is hoped the change will permit letters to reach Germany. - JAPANESE SAY GREW TALKING JU&FOR FUN ‘Tokyo Feels Ambassador Is Not Making Of- ficial Comment TOKYO, Oct. 20.—Japan regards British : Censors U.S. Mail Letters from America Ad- dressed fo Germany village. The Martha, a vessel of 30 gross tons. 60 feet long, is documented at the Cordova office of the U. 8. Cus- toms, where the record shows it is owned by F. Shroder. It was built in 1917 at Eureka, California. A vessel of that size would have a crew of at least five men, it is believed The first appeal for aid to take the shipwrecked crew and the men they rescued off the beach was made to the Coast Guard, which replied it bhas no cutter in that area. New Rescue Effort The Governor's office, which has already spent more than $600 from its fund “for the rescue and relief of lost persons” to find the lighter occupants, asked Commander H. Munter of the Coast Guard at Seattle whether his service can pay the expense of transporting the shipwrecked men back to Unalaska. The Customs, through the State | Department, has authority to return shipwrecked seamen to their home | port, but expenses are limited to two cents a mile and the transport- ing must be done on a steam car-|as unofficial, the utterance of U. 8. rier only. | Antbassador Grew in declaration of Use of an airplane is believed to|American resentment of Japanese be the only practical method of get- | Army “interference” with American ting the men off Walrus Island. |rights iln China. The Collector of Customs here has! The Japanese outlook on the also telegraphed to headquarters statement, reported authoritatively, asking if a plane may be chartered skeptical, indicates an official reply for the purpose. is doubtful. At latest reports today, the men were still on the beach and no ship Ambassador’s statements before the or plane had set out to rescue them. America-Japan society as a verbal expression of policy typified by Unit- e . |ed States fleet movements. Ano‘her Rald | Observers in Washington express- | ed the belief that when the Ameri- can fleet returned to the Pacific |last April, it was for the effect on | A“ ' BEULAH SUND ENROUTE | Beulah . e g Following a six weeks’ (By Associated Press) | Royal here, German warplanes today reached is returning on the North Sea. Scotland on ‘another attempted raid| Miss Sund visited in Montana, but were forced back, without bomb- [8nd also went to the exposition at ing, by British defenses, San Prancisco, . - e vacation Sund, co-owner of Blue Cab Company, the his ‘Depart- AMERICANS WIN "IN FIRST DRAW OF SWEEPSTAKES |Over One | in Prizes Will Come fo U.S. A 20.—A total of ap- proximately $1,314,000 went to the | United States as the result of the first draw in the Irish Sweepstakes. A total of 347 Americans each won | about $3,778 in the major prize draw jon 95 horses originally entered in | the Cesarwitch race which was can- celled because of the war. Six prizes are awarded on each |of the horses, making a total of 570 prizes. DUBLIN, Oct > DeanMorse, ~ Arbitralor, ~ Labor Cases 'Reappoin(ment Announc- ed as Negotiator Coast Maritime Disputes | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 20.— | Coast Waterfront' Employers and | Longshoremen have resumed nego- tiations for a new working agree- ment after a ten-day stalemate. The negotiations were renewed after Dean Morse of the University of Oregon law school accepted re- | | | iLabnr Arbitrator. | Both sides have agreed to abide | by his decisions. | Morse resigned award. Morse may be called to take part in the contract negotiations— if the employers and dock workers find no basis for agreement. | Meanwhile coast ship owners had virtually completed a new agreement Government sources described the | with e Sailors Union of - with the Sailors Union of the Pa: persons having | cific BRIV LT L o 82 BRITISH AIR - FORCE MEN DIE; 80 ARE MISSING LONDON, Oct. 20.—The British Air Ministry today announced the names of 21 more Royal Air Force and business _trip to the States,|men killed or fatally wounded since | making a total of believed to that he had any part in the order | the war began, 82 dead. Two others are have been killed. missing, making a total of 80 miss- iing since the war began Million Dollars appointment as Coast Waterfront last week when | longshoremen refused to accept an' Today’s report adds nine fliers as defend Canada under the terms of the Monroe Doctrine | Senator Barbour said the United | States cannot help its northern neighbor under the existing neu-| trality law and contended that an| attack on Canada will not only vio- late the Monroe Doctrine, but will “force us into war.” “Idiotic Assumpiion” Barbour took the floor after Sen- ator Hiram Johnson, 73, veteran of the League of Natior fight of 20/ vears ago, labelled as an “idiotic assumption” the argument for re-| peal of the arms embargo in which it is claimed Hitler could conquer Europe and “we would be next.”| Repeal of the arms embargo “would | be the first false step to place us!ible, varying from three to 100 miles, | in shadow, walking down the bloody |depending on circumstances under | path to war,” Johnson said. i Senator John J. Ellender, Repub- | lican of Louisiana, advocate of re-/ peal, answered those who contend the action would offend Germany by mad dictator—this violator of trea- ties—that we must tred tiptoe and spare him displeasure”? BORAH RILED } WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Sen tor William E. Borah, exercised over statements he had predicted no wa in Europe this year, today asked that all details of the neutrality| discussion he had with President | Roosevelt last summer be made| public. Borah interrupted the debate on the neutrality bill to refer to a re- mark made yesterday by Senator, Barkley to the effect that he had heard Borah “vehemently phoph there would be no 1939 Europ ean war.” ~ Lose Out, Congress Debate; Special Precautions Taken NEW LIMITS ON . S. TERRITORIAL WATERS DISCUSSED President Explains Situa- “fion af Newsmen's Con‘fre"rgn(e N 1t HYDE PARK Y., Oct. 20. President Roosev takes the sition that the limits of the United States Territorial waters are flex- po- which the linsts are created. In the case of belligerent sub- marines, which have been barred from American or territorial waters, unless they enter ports, on the aying, “What do we owe this|water, flying the flag of their na- tion and forced in by “act of God,” the President said at today's con- ference with the newsmen, that the limit is three miles but in case of neutrality the patrol limit is further out, within the safety zones laid down by the recent Panama onference of 21 American Repub- lics, and this zone extends at least 300 miles out. FISHERMAN'S LUCK SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 20.—An exceptionally good run of albacore nd rising prices attributed to the making fishermen here nnally are appy. —_— By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 220.—Spec- ial precautions taken to safeguard the White House and Congress a few weeks ago probably will be wiped out soon. | "soon after.the outbreak of war | in Europe the congressional galleries | were closed to.the public, except to cards of admission issued by members. The Capitol was | closed Sundays, the White House grounds were shut to tourists and 1(’.‘(”3 police were stationed all | around. | To a lot of folks it seemed as if | the government were trying to im- }pmss upon Washington the near- ness of the European war so that ‘opponents of embargo repeal could | not talk so freely of its being some- body else's war, and not ours. The thing backfired to a degree. Attorney General Frank Murphy had to deny half a dozen times | closing the Capitol. The President, | too, was asked why the Capitol | galleries were closed. That ap- | peared to be an indirect way of ask- | ing him why all the s ecial precau- ions about the White House. The President tossed such -ques- tions -aside, but presently the ex- tra safeguards about the White House were lifted Actually almost wants a card to gressional galleries There hasn't been that special precautions were nec- essary. The galleries have been extraordinarily well behaved anybody who enter the can get much one. evidence Once Mayor New York, whil the House, helped excited gal pistol. Another time a woman was ejected from the gallery for nursing her baby there. Neither house has been sub- cled to such occurrances dur- ing the neutrality debate. People just sit and listen. disarm an One of the most perplexéd mem- bers of the House during this de- bate is Representative Havenor (Continued on Page Eight) con- | of | FRENCH ANNOUNCE NEW DEFENSE LINE ON WESTERN FRONT High Comand s Ready for Any Eventuality, Says Communique SILVER FOX FARMERS IN NEW THREAT Biological S-u;;ey Fears U. S. fo Be Dumping Grounds WASHINGTON, Oct prediction that most of the, 15,000 silver fox farmers in the United ) e States will be forced out of busi-| PARIS, Oct. 20.—The French high, ness unless prompt action is taken |command indicates that it is ready| |to prevent dumping of Canadian|for any eventuality on the Western and European pelts on the Ameri-| front, | can market was made today. The French said their troops have | | This prediction comes from returned from advance positions and | Bureau of Biological survey on|are firmly entrenched in a defens-| war conditions in Europe |ive line built during the first six Restricted or closed fur markets| weeks of hostilities. in England, France and Central The French report does not specify Europe, the Biological Survey re-,Whether the new front lines are on veals, shows that between 500,000 German or French soil and 600,000 pelts might be shipped However the communique said to the United States. that the front lines were “very ap- 3 e b | preciably in advance” of the Mag- | & inot line. Army pllo' The French communique indicated | » forces had attacked in force early | ls & a neiin the week on a three and a half | ¢ BULLETIN — Rains today churned up mud on the western front and both French and Ger- man communiques declared ac- tivities were curtailed after a “quiet night.” 20 The | the deep in German territory to the de- | fensive line built up under the cover of the cawjious advance toward the German Westwall The French admitted that German | | that Prench troops have withdrawn | voluntarily from their advance posts | mile front east of the Moselle River st of the {and on a 10-mile front { Saar Rriver Parachufes Safely fo Earfh r s e o from Altitude of | tance, since the main body of French| | 3,000 Feet |troops already had withdrawn to| | the prepared defense line. | - eee EUGENE, Oregon, Oct. 20.—Army | | pilot Second Lieutenant James Reed, |of Raymond, Washington, parachut- led to safety when his motor went dead in the rugged Cascade moun- FIR I NG IN | | tain foothills 40 miles east of here Reed was not injured | Reed quit the planc at an ali- tude of 3.000 feet and alighted be- | tween two great fir trees. Reed said his oil pumps froze, - - —PARIS, Oct. 20. —An off] communique (o~ night says F h artillery has shelled the German road from Ocar (o Sendorf, just across the frontier of Luxembourg, in an effort to break up troop concentrations at a point where the Germ onto French seil ea week. The latest military informa- tion said the troop action is slow because of heavy rains. - TOM MORGAN RETURNING Tom Morgan, of the Columbia Lumber Company, is on the steam- er North Sea returning from a ‘month’s business trip to Seattle. Stock QUOTATIONS || Quarnigns | BULLE | 1 | NE WYORK, Oct. 20 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 6%, American Can | {11414, American Power and Light| 5%, Anaconda 33%, Belhlehem [Steel 90%, Commonwealth ~and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, | General Motors 54%, International | Harvester 64%, Kennecott 41, New| York” Central 21%, Northern Pa-!| cific 11%, United States Steel 76%, Pound $4. DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are tods Jones averages: industrials rails 34.58, utilities. 25.89 | | Dow 153, | Ankara, European chancelleries analyzed the treaty, signed in Ankara, each nation looking at the document ac- cording to its own fears, ambitions or location and produced varying answers as to what the import of the pact might be. * Germany Stunned Germans, recelving the news, were described as “stunned.” Pear that the pact might hold the spark of a general war is the particular reason for weighing the treaty closely. At the same time, the Nazis sought | to minimize the significance, saying the Allies would not get the aid they expected, because Turkey ls not obligated to fight Russia. Hitler awaited his ambassador to Ankara, Franz von Papen today for his report on the situation. Blocked At Balkans British held that extension of the German influence in the Balkans has been blocked, but at the same time there appeared a conscious effort not to offend Russia, Ger- many's new partner, first in the ex- ception of Turkey from any obliga- tion to fight Russia, and also in the official statement that Great Bri- tain's mutual assistance pact, now that Poland has vanished, is aimed only at Germany. Pact Pledges The Anakara pact pledges Great Britain, France and Turkey to mu- tual assistance if aggression by any European power involves any of the three powers in war in the Mediter- iwrea or involves a call for ench ald to Greece or Ru- malt 5 guaranteed last April. Italy, a Mediterranean power wi added to its Balkans influ- ence at that time last spring be- cause of her conquest of Albania, s outwardly indifferent to the new pact, but is carefully studying it for the possibilities of the future. rane Briu HITLER GETS FACTS BERLIN, Oct. 20. — Chancellor Hitler heard the report on the French, British and Turkey pach from the lips of his ace diplomatic }trvuhle shooter, Franz von Papen, while leading Nazis insisted that Turkey no longer could be consid- ered neutral. Von Papen arrived today from Turkey. s ais /B FLOATING MINE REPORTED SEEN INNORTH PACIFIC Information Is Sent Qut by Capfain of Danish Motorship SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 20.— A floating mine has been sighted in the Pacific Ocean by the Danish motorship Anna Maersk. Capt. K. Hansen today radioed the San Prancisco Marine Exchange that he sighted a floating mine 1,670 miles northwest of San Francisco. Capt. Hansen gave no further in- formation in his brief radiogram