The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1939, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8240. JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY.;OCTOBER 23,1939, — NE CRASHES AT TESLIN; AlD WARFARE IN EUROPENOW IN 8TH WEEK Attempts Airei Iéeing Made| fo Break Various Blockades WASTING OF BLOODSHED, LAND FIGHTING, STOPPED Propagandfi iplomacy Being Resorted fo by Belligerents (By Associated Press) The eighth week of the European | was found the belligerents, France | and Great Britain against Germany. trying to break each, other by block- ades, by propaganda and by diplo- | macy rather than wasting blood- shed on land warfare. Big guns, tanks, planes and mass- ed troops are on the Western Front where the French have withdrawn | virtually from all positions on Ger- man soil. French are still in pos session of the heights to the south- west of Saarbruecken, important in- | dustrial city. | It is quiet, according to reports, | on the Western Front with the ex-| ception of scouting activity, but the belligerents are calling on other po- tent weapons in the struggle to| shatter enemy morale and also win | support of non-belligerent nations | as a corollary to war. Russian Movements Russia continues a diplomatic campaign of dominance in Eastern Europe which has already brought Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under her sphere of control. A delegation from Finland has re- | turned to Moscow for more talks on Kremlin's proposals which Russia has advanced to her northern neigh- bor. A Russian mission has arrived in | | ! | Lithuania. | Five Soviet warships are anchored! off Libau, one of three Latvian ports | set aside for Russian naval use under the Soviet-Latvian mutual as sistance pact SUDDEN | ACTIVITY | PARIS, Oct. 23—The Western Front sprang into life late this afternoon after days of calm Reinforced patrols are fighting| THREE HUN (GERMAN SUBS She Saw Her Sister Killed Copyright, 1939, Julien Bryan Julien Bryan, American lecturer.phatogrnphe;, comforts a little Pplish girl just after her sister was shot down and killed by a German aviator who strafed a group of peasant women who were picking potatoes in a field near Warsaw. DRED MILE BAND OF "TERRITORIAL WATER" I SUBJECT FOR QUESTIONING SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON British Aircai‘ in Raid in North Seaandon | brisk engagements on the northern | . | flank. | A"anh( | This was fevealed in a High Com-| - . mand communique issued shortl” LONDON, Oct. 23—~The British after Premier Daladier announced | ajr Ministry announces that British he has called Parliament in an|yarplanes have made two attacks on extraordinary sessions for the second | German submarines that are ‘“be- week in November for the purpose | jieved to have been successful.” of approving financial credits. The announcement said one at- Skirmishing is reported to beltack took place in the North Sea heavy in the sector extending west area and the other on the Atlantic toward the Luxembourg frontier | many miles from the air crafts’ base from the Saar River Valley area. “After both attacks, the pilots Two massive armies faced each|remained circling above the places other across the German-French | where the submarines disappeared frontier, but with the exception of | but nothing more was seen,” the the occasional blast of a cannon and | communique says. the furtive movements of small| - - bands of uniformed men stealing cautiously through no man’s land;FouR BABIES ARE there was nothing to indicate the death struggle of major powers prior to the latest night report. Valve in Radiator Blows Out-Two Infants Are Saved Rain, mud and the menacing rise of flood waters have slowed battle PERTH AMBOY, New Jersey, Oct. 23.—Four of six infants in the nur- operations in the entire Western Front to a virtual stop. Germany has a million and a half soldiers on her border, and at least an equal number of French and British troops are on guard on the French frontier. sery of the General Hospital here died from asphyxiation in less than an hour before they were to be ta- ken to the rooms of their mothe| for the 2 o'clock feeding this morn- ing. B Coroner James Flynn said a valve | | | PRESIDENT HEARS PRAYER OVER WAR HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 23— President Roosevelt attended church services Sunday and heard the min- | | ister pary for a British victory over Germany. The churchman expressed hope that Britain would triumph | in the end over her enemy. President Roosevelt heard the| prayer during the dedication of a | King James bible which was pres- ented to the church by King George and Queen Elizabeth in commeora- | tion of their visit to Hyde Park last summer. e BACK TO MINE | B. B. Nieding, Superintendent of the Polaris-Taku, and Malcolm Mc- Callum, office employee, returned to the mine today, flying up with Pilot Alex Holden of Marine Airways. blew out in the radiator in the nur-| sery, filling the nursery with steam | that exhausted the oxygen and re- sulted in *accidental asphyxiation by steam.” Four physicians were called and with two hospital internes worked for several hours applying artificial respiration and administering oxy- gen but only two of the babies were saved. | The dead are: Five day old babyy boy of Sergeant and Mrs. John Riggs of the Raritan arsenal; nine day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jan- kowsky; ten day old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ruszalla, and | four day old daughter of an unwed | mother. l By PREST! GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—All in- ternational law authorities seem to be against it, but the United States and its Pan-American associates | probably can expect belligerents to observe — within 300-mile band of “territorial water” established as a safety zone. The trouble with extended terri- torial waters however, that in addition to the privileges involved, they also impose obligations upen the nation that sets out to establish them. A national is, “territorial water,” law, is a strip in inter of water over which a country has full po- | lice and maritime control. “Peaceful commerce” is entitled to use of the water. For generations, “territorial wa- ter” usually has referred to the three-mile belt of water extending out from a nation’s shore. War- ships of a belligerent nation may enter that water only under the strictest regulations. chooses, it may exclude warships altogether from its “territorial wa- ters” and any that enter will either be s tion has the power to do that. 'ED AS A NEUTRAL Therein lies the hitch. A neutral nation MUST make belligerent ships stay out of territorial waters if it wishes to be respected as a neutra Just now we very much wish to be. Therefore we must undertake a pa- trol to see that British and French warships as well as German sub- marines stay out of our territorial waters. If a belligerent submarine or surface warship should steal in- side the territorial waters and put down a couple of merchant vessels, we might be made to pay for the loss. It would make this country very angry to have to pay for half a - dozen British merchant ships sunk by German submarines in- side our territorial waters. Again, it is likely that both sides would respect our greatly enlarged strip of territorial water, after some preliminary grumbling, simply because our na could fairly well enforce it. But even more questions arise. Britain is arming her merchant vessels. Germany has declared that they must be treated just like war- ships because in a gun-for-gun bat- tle a big merchant ship can whip a submarine, If we set out to be strictly” neutral, we may have to agree with Germany that armed merchantmen are warships, so far as privileges in territorial waters are concerned. Then we would be obliged to keep armed British merchant (Continued on Pagé Seven) limitations — the | GIRL RESCUED IN LEAP FROM 5. 5. TONGASS Near Suicide Becomes Fine | Example of “Good | Crawl Stroke” Officers on the steamer Tongass | said 19-year-old Betty Kinsella, who leaped from the vessel in Frederick | Sound yesterday with apparent at- | tempt at suicide, “had too good an | Australian crawl to be sincere in her intentions to drown herself.” Capt. Larry Parks said the girl, | who crewmen said had been “high as a kite” in the morning, jumped lwilhuut warning from the lower deck at 8 o'clock yesterday morning while the vessel was under full way in Frederick Sound. Parks said that any intentions to “she got over them in a hurry,” | cried for help and “swam like a fish” after the Tongass. In response to a seaman’s cry of | “man overboard” the ship was slow= ed down and a boat put over with First Mate M. M. Merkley in charge | to rescue the swimming girl, taking, | her aboard after she had been swim- ming for approximately twenty minutes. | Capt. Parks said the girl offered | no explanation of her leap and had | merely said she was on her way to! | rejoin her husband and a five months' old baby in Juneau. She boarded the vessel at Seattle. | Capt. Parks placed the girl under | |lock and key until her arrival here when he turned her over to City Police who would make no comment | today, but said she was not held. - STILL CLAIM BRITISHSUNK | LINER ATHENIA | | BERLIN, Oct. 23.—German Pro-| | paganda Minister Goebbels denies | !again that a German U-boat was responsible for the sinking of the| British liner Athenia in the early hours of the European war. The| Athenia sank off the coast of Scot- | land with the loss of nearly 100 | lives. | Goebbels brought up the subject | of the Athenia sinking in a radio‘ broadcast—which was carried over a network embracing every station if the girl had drown herself | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Pointed Warning to Enemies of the U.S. Shown is one of the fourteen-inch guns that guard the Panama Canal, vi the event of war. Mounted on a turntable, the giant rifle can be aimed towards the Pacific. The gun can hurl a projectile 30 2 AMERICANS UNDER ARREST FOR ESPIONAGE +STOCKHOLM, Oct. 23. Two Americans and nine other foreign- ers are under arrest, suspected of esilviage. The names cans is not The police were taking JUALIN ORES 10 BE GIVEN. Aga I(il;‘n fo 5 Cometo U.S. i Belgian Interests Will Pu Pilot Mill on Berners | of the two Ameri- | isclosed said the photographs foreigners in the LONDON, Oct. 23.—It is reported tal lifeline of the United States in in any direction. Here it looks out miles out to sea. NEW GOVERNMENT IN NAZI LAND PROPOSED TO BRING PEACE:SCHEME UNCENSORED I NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—~The New | York Daily News, in a copyrighted story, says “according to informa- tion reaching New York through channels untouched by censors, the British Government is considering recognition of a de jure—rightful rather than actual—German Gov- ernment seated in London.” The Daily News says the strategy behind the action is two fold as follows: First—To make clear to the Ger- man people the Allies have no de- sire to war upon them and honor- able terms will be acceptable to a government, other than Hitler’s. SKED — RiTeaE THREE U .S. PASSENGERS, SAYS PILOT ;No One Hurt in Accident, Is Belief Here - In | Remote Country SHIP DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR Alaska Asked fo Send Res- cue Plane - Further Defails Sought Enroute from Seattle to Fair- banks, the plane of Pilot C. O. Galbraith has crashed at Tes- lin, Yukon Territory, the office of Gov. John W. Troy was notified today. Appealing for help, Galbraith said in his message that three Americans are included in the stranded party. No names were given. The plane, Galbraith said, was wrecked “beyond repair.” Travel by boat in the Teslin Lake district, east of White- horse and Atlin, is now impos- sible. Galbraith said that only by airplane could the party be rescued. He asked that the Territory of Alaska send a plane, NO RESOURCES “Except for emergency ratioms,” the message said, “we are com- pletely without resources.” The United States Consul at Vancouver has refused to aid the stranded passengers, Gal- braith said. Teslin Lake lies on the Brit- ish Columbia-Yukon Territory boundary approximately 140 miles northeast of Juneau. The Governor's office here has sent a telegram to the Canadian Mounted Police at Whitehorse asking further particulars of the plane crash and why Alaska should be ex- pected to extricate the trav- elers from their predicament. in Germany. | in London that The Aga Khan plans The Goebbels’ speech later was re- | 0 move his stables from Great Bri- broadcast in English, French and|tain to the United States for the Bay Lodes Second—It would serve to answer | former Prime Minister Lloyd George | Italian translations. “How is it that Winston Churchill | | immediately blamed a German suh-‘ }marine. when he must have known | |that British destroyers sunk the | | craft?,” asked Goebbels, { } Goebbels also asked why Churchill | | had failed to mention that the Brit- | | ish destroyers had fired on the sink- |ing liner. The German Propaganda Minister | If a nation,| asked how Churchill expected to ex- plain the fact that the Athenia re- mained afloat 13 hours after being torpedoed when the battleship Roy- | l | ik or seized, if the neutral na- | g) Oak sank in a few minutes. Goeby| General Motors 547%, Internation | bels then asked Churchill to tell| | where he had found the witnesses! | to swear that they had seen a sub-| | marine near the stricken craft. The | German official declared that the | entire world is waiting for what he termed Churchill’s confession, Germany has consistently claimed the Athenia was not sunk by a Nazi | | U-boat. d | duration of the war. The Aga Kahn | | A pilot mill will be installed on richest men. | i the old Jualin mine property at JB(.'rm:r's Bay this winter and E.‘ Ponoin, Europe’s leading | { geologists and mining engineers will| run ore tests to determine the mill- ing requirements of Jualin ore should | llarge scale work be undertaken. This was revealed today by Charles | Mulder, representing Belgian inter- | ests in the Jualin, He and Poncin | returned yesterday from the prop-, erty with Raiph Reischl on the Tre- va C. after several days of recon- naissance work. Poncin, who speaks little English | and talks through Mulder, will re- main here indefinitely to pursue test mill work, while Mulder said he would sail south shortly. Extent of proposed prospecting | is one of the world e - 4 Stock QUOTATIONS one of NEW YORK, Oct. 23 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 67%, American Can 114%, American Power and Light 5 Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem 90%, Commonwealth and!| Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 8 Steel al Harvester 65%, Kennecott 4 New York Central 21%, Northern Pacific 11%, United States Steel| 6%, Pound $4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 153.7 rails 34.55, utilities 26.09. inite, Mulder said, declaring that| ___|the ore will be tested for cyaniding, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 2 | ‘Stim’ Williams, May Have Perished on Cycle Trip, Fairbanks fo New York John Logan, | concentration and flotation to de-| | termine what the mill reqiirements | | would be for the operation of the | mine, | Poncin, one of Europe’s promi- | nent geologist-engineers, according | | to Mulder, was apparently enthused | | with the large scale mining possi- | bilities of the Juneau-Berners Bay | mineral belt. ! He said that geoligically, this dis- | trict, marked by dirite intrusions into sedimentaries, is markedly sim- | jlar to the large gold producing area high Groundhog Mountain passes.|of Nova-Sibersk in Siberia, and that| whose group is clamoring for care- ful consideration of Hitler's peace offer. Not only Great Britain, but France will recognize the new government but certain neutrals are also asked to do so. The report received also states that a loan of two million pounds sterling will be made to the new | government for diplomatic activities. Four prominent German exiles, living in Great Britain and France, are appointed as a nucleus for a cabinet, as follows: Dr. Herman Rauschning, former ate, for Chancellor. Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, Nazi expert on foreign affairs, Foreign Minister. Dr. Joseph Wirth, former Chan- cellor, for Finance Minister. Captaif Lieutenant Gootfried Tre- former for ' work to be done at Jualin is indef- | viranus, one-time member of the | Bruening Cabinet, Minister without a Portfolio. S eee ZAVODSKY GOING SOUTH Pioneer John Zavodsky is leav- ing for the sunny south aboard the Tongass and may remain for the entire winter, - .- The U. 8. imports balf the world'’s | rubber EARL BROWDE SALLY RAND 1S INSEATTLE - WITH BEAUTS SEATTLE, Oct. 23—Sally Rand | gamely stripped herself again today | for a new battle, The bubble danc- | ing business woman who filed a | Nazi President of the Danzig Sen- | PAnKruptcy petition at San Fran- cisco a week ago arrived in Seattle by air liner and put up at the most | expensive hotel, Twenty-five of Sal- ly’'s beauts who performed at the San Francisco fair arrived later by train . They will begin a national tour by appearing at a Seattle night club. Sald Sally: “It’s no disgrace to be broke but it's a disgrace to . stay broke. We're on our way back.” FEDERAL EMPLOYEES MEETING POSTPONED The monthly Federal Employees | luncheon has been postponed from October 25 to November 8, it is' an- nounced today. R, COMMUNIST John Logan and “Slim” Williams, | He said this, he believed, would be | adventurers attempting to cross| through the wilderness of Alaska | and Canada from Fairbanks on| motorcycles enroute to the New York World Fair, may be traveling within 400 miles of the highway end at Hazelton or perhaps have per- ished in the mountains of Northern | British Columbia. | This is according to Al Milotte, Ketchikan photographer, who has just returned from Iskut Lake, 75 miles southeast of Telegraph Creek, where he met Logan and Williams. Planned Dangerous Route Milotte' said the two had traveled 1,000 miles and were in fine shape ‘but were contemplating crossing the 4 fatal as a blizzard and heavy snows followed. Perhaps Logan and Wil- liams changed their finds and trav- eled around the mountains. Finds Weather Balloon A balloon, sent up from a weather station near Baltimore, Md. with a radio set, came down in the wilds of Northern British Columbia near Iskut Lake and is being taken east in custody of H. E. Millard, a busi- ness man of Annville, Pa, who found it while big game hunting Millard is in Ketchikan aboard the| Northland bound for Prince Rupert to eatch a train. This is believed to have set a record for a weather bal- | loon to travel extensive prospecting work at depth should show large low grade ore bodies. Poncin stressed his belief, ever, that this region offers to the small operator, and insists | that development here can come only through expensive prospecting by large companies who can bear | | the burden of the expense. | Poncin was also puzzled as to the| |reason no road ‘has been bullt to| Berner's Bay from the present end of travel at Eagle River | “A road to Berner's Bay, follow-| ing the dioritic contact zone should | develop a tremendous mineralized how- little LEADER, IS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK; HELD ON $10,000 BAIL NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Earl Browde ecretary of the Commun- ist Party in the United States, in- dicted by a Federal Grand Jury on a charge of false application of a | Dies Committee that Browder trav- passport, has been taken in custody. | eled to Europe during the past two Browder was immediately arraign- | years on passports bearing a fic- Bondy. He pleaded innocent and is held under $10,000 bail. No date has been set for his hearing. Testimony was given before the (Continued on Page Seven) “led before Federal Judge William | titious name.