The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA ~ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, A ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, U( TOBER 25, 1939, " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8242. NAZIS PLAN BOMBING OF BRITISH ISLES Slayer of Two June Her Heels WINNIE RUTH JUDD BREAKS DURING NIGHT Leaves Bed So Arranged| as fo Give Impression She Is Asleep IS FREE 12 HOURS | BEFORE DISCOVERED Horrible "Trunk Murder” Case Principal at Lib- erly in Arizona TIN—PHOENIX, Ari- zena, Oct, 25.—Winnie Ruth Judd, 24, bionde slayer of two Juncan wemen companions in 1931, twice condemned to hang, escaped Arizona joved more than 12 hours of freedcm before her escape was dis cvered, Actherities said apparently she esceped by a ruse, leaving her bed so as {o appear she was still cccupying it and the at- tendants believy he was asleep. Mrs. Judd, wife of a physician was convicted of the “trunk murder” of Hedvig Samuelson, fermer Juneau school teacher, and Anne E. Leroi, former Ju- neau nu Miss Samuelson became ill with tuberculosis in Juneau and came here accompanied by Miss They occupied a cottage with Mrs. Judd. | A trunk shipped to Los An- geies was noticed dripping blood. Opened by the authorities, it was found {o contain the hor- 22 A X WL ey s VISITING JEWISH ' GIRL EXAMINING | | | | BUL fo & Liylug DEEr LOAL i Twice her acrobatic dancing won fuehrer Hitler, LOUD SPEAKER Mrs. Judd was finally arres ed and charged with the c Jealousy over the alleged atld‘n- tions of men to the Juneau wo- | men was given as the cause for | the double slaying. ! Two executions by hanging were stayed and Mrs, Judd was fivally placed in the Arizona State Hospital for the Insane. e — SITKA AR BASE WORK IS STARTED Clearing offiBegan This Afternoon-Hall and Keymen on Job Homer - "In Llove” with Termory young Charlotte Connecticut, Brown eyed | Schnee, of Fairfield is at the Baranof Hotel after two months in Alaska examining the | potentialities of the well known Slattery report on refugee coloniza- tion possibilities in Alaska, admns a love for the Territor growth ahead for Alas | admits also she does not know how | far the refugee colonization of Al- |aska might go on an e onomically She is .1 a 1938 journalism grad- uate of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and SITK. i = |aided in the research work coinci- A, Alaskg, (Oct. 25—GCener-| o, (4 the framing of the Slattery al Superintendent O. I. Hall and Report key men of the Puget Sound | Ppos Dredging Company, arrived here this morning on the steamer North Sea and immediately made ar- rangements to begin actual work | on construction of the Air Base reaqy (o advance Alaska develop- today. ment plans, she said, if immigration Employment applications of local | i facilitated under the men totaled 250 at noon today but|stydent” regulations which “permit only a few will be put to work this | such students to travel at will in afternoon. America under visa for Work will consist of clearing off 'and establish citizenship if they so brush and timber in preparation desire. for future construction. Opie Read Alaska re- report nega- has been She has found popt |action to the Slattery tive, but feels the plan misunderstood. Corporate money—“big money”—is Refugees Not All Jews | And the refugees in question with the argument are not necessarily | Jewish, she will tell you, adding that |the Spanish have made thousands | of refugees, for example and many more from many countries are po- ear Dea'h litical or _economicrefugees, mot | Jewish in sense. There are | also refugees in America, she says, CHICAGO, TIll, Oct. 25. — Opie|refugees with money—not refugees Read lay near death today. Physi- on the breadline. cians said the 86-year-old creator| Carrying on her survi of the famous “Arkansas Traveler,”|ing in Alaska on her is critically ill. Complications, blam- |at her father’s expense—he is in ed on his advanced age, forced him |real estate to take to his bed several weeks ago. | Schnee presented proof of her His condition has grown slowly|-— worse since then. (Continued on Page Seven) 1e sollis of Nortn Holly here in Jersey City on her return from Europe on the liner Scanmail. BY GERMANS, FRENCH MAKE SHORT REPLY SLATTERY-ALASKA }Files for Homestead at five years | in New York—Miss| “fall- | W 'nu II (’llb vood, applause and flowers from Reich- S ARE USED WEST FRONT; PARI tillery Oct. 25.—~§poradic ar- fire boomed along the western front today as small infantry patrols skirmished in the cold and mud west of For- bach ‘where the French troops still occupy a narrow salient on German soil. Through the sullen rumble of guns, loud speakers on the German front lines blared a | monotenous refrain: “Frenchmen, lay down your arms and shake hands. The Ger mans don’'t want to The French soldiers are shout- ing back: “Change tne record.” Military dispatches said French machine gunners sil- enced one loud speaker on a mounted truck behind the Ger- man lines, The French General Staff summed up the situation regard- ing the situation last night by the terse communigque: “On the whole, the night was quiet.” Browder Isfo Face Trial November 27 Communismegder intl.S. Released on Bail Bond, $7,500 NEW YORK, Oct ~The trial of Communist Earl Browder, charged with obtaining passports through false representations, is set for No- vember The hl‘All of the Communist Party in this country appeared extremely nervous after his release from a Fed- |eral detention cell under a bond of $7,500 posted by Mrs, Hester Hunt- | ington, society in-law of Rebert Minor, leader. “foreign | 25. ———-—— Thirty thousand craters }ble on the moon are visi- SEIZURE OF woman, and sister-| Communist | U. 5. VESSEL PROBEDNOW Dehcale Question Ar |ses’ Concerning Capture by Sea Raider INTERNATIONAL PRIZE | LAW IS MOOTED POINT German, American Offic-| ials Aftempting fo Get All Information BERLIN, Oct. 25.—German au- thorities are working with the United States Embassy officials here to clear up the complicated circum- stances surrounding the seizure of | the American freighter City of Flint by a German sea raider Charge de'Affaires Alex: has been told by Baron Ernst Weizsaecker, Secretary of State, that the German Foreign Office of the Nazi government is discussing the case with Russia The City of Flint has been taken to the. Russian Arctic port of Mur- mansk { Expert Goes to Russia 1t is understood Germany has sent a marine expert to Russia to nego- tiate for release of the prize crew and establish what shall be done! with the City of Flint | One charge for seizure is that the freighter carried contraband of war | and this is acknowledged as a deli- | cate question of International Prize .aw and is now all the more in- volved because of the fact that Rus- sia is neutral. ! Germanys Report According to German reports, the City of Flint was taken to Tromsoe, Norway, as “unseaworthy’ becaus the American crew put certain maps | essential to navigation out of the way before the Germans took charge | of the vessel. Lacking maps essential to naviga- | tion it was explained that the ship | could not navigate through the com- plicated North and Baltic Sea walers and therefore was taken far north It is said at Thomsoe that the prize crew attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the missing maps and then the City of Flint was taken to Murmansk von TO I'OLLUW CASE THROUGH WASHINGTON, Oct, .2 Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull said today this Government is determined to follow the case of the seizure of the City of Flint through to what he called its logical conclusion from the standpoint of International Law and American rights. | Secretary Hull said no word as to the whereabouts of 41 or 42 Amer- ican sailors aboard the City of Flint has been received. | It is well known that the incident could have been averted if the new neutrality bill, preventing American shipping entering danger zones, was on the statute books. MAY RETURN SHIP WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — Au- thoritative sources leaned today to the view that the United States | steamer, City of Flint, will be re- ! turned voluntarily to her American owners. Some authorities believe that the German government itself will take the position that the ship will be given back to the United States now that its contraband cargo has been seized. The spokesman pointed to the speech of German . Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop Thursday in which he took a concilatory attitude to- ward the United States It was further pointed out that under International Law, the Ger- mans would hardly have taken the City of Flint to a neutral port if they expected to intern her for the duration of the war in Europe. She is held near Murmansk, a Soviet Arctic port. Official quarters in Washington indicated from the first that no ac-| tion will be adopted until full facts| of the seizure are obtained. \ (standing in car), s ship Royal Oak, is shown in the radiophoto acknowledging cheers the Hotel Kaiserhof. He and his Adolf Hitle life on the Royal Oak was officially announced as 830, with 370 saves d. ALLEGEDLY Briti COMMUNIST ~LISTREAD Dies Committee Accused by Member of “Damn- able” Action Today MANY GOVERNMENT EMPlOYEES NAMED American league of Peace and Democracy Given Full Pubhmy : The Commander Prien ew were received by WAS SHINGTON Oct. 25 Dies Committee published today the Washington “membership and mailing list” the American League of Peace and Democracy. One of its own members prompt- accused the Committee of tak- most damnable, most un- an action accusations were by John J. Dempsey, New Mexico was absent when names was given of 1y a made Rep. Demox the list of out The who 536 list made no distinction be- tween those Government employ named on it who might be mem- bers of the Washington branch of | the League and those who might merely be on the League's mailing list here. Previously the Committee charged that the League was dom- ated by Communists. League of- consistently denied the Admiralty announced, Some 370 survivors British were killed, names were 1an, Assist- | Interior; Ed- of the Na- Board; Loui: Among those whose listed are Oscar Chaj Secretary of the Smith, member Labor Relations member of the Maritime Board, and Mordecai E kiel, Director of the _f\mummr;u Adjustment Administration - - Republicans Are fo Meet The Young Republican Club mem- pers will hold a meeting tonight and according to President Ronald E. Lister, the session called for 8 o'clock. The meeting place is the} Game Room at the Hillcrest Apart- ments on Gold Street. All members are requested to attend win tional Bloch, Labor By PRESTON GROVER We front 'ON, Oct back from the the War Deparument and an eyewitness report that Secretary Louis Johnson Secretary Harry strictly un- WASHIN 25 \ave just come give sistant still there and so is H. Woodring, in spite of officials shelling that I for two years or more. It has been no secret for that these two major figure ar Department have been gerheads. Fundamentally, the trouble is this Woodring is no dynamo. He prob- {ably will not go down in history as £ G |one of the GREAT secret There are about 2,000 stars visi- war. Yet he was once Gov | Kansas and has certain established |ble to the naked eye on a Chdl"K nsas i has certain establishe night, qualities as an executive Johnson 18 a dynamo, He is a gi- continued months the at log Il s “\um ”ml inr Mme li iw *’mnk !mw-l ()uh and salutes on his arn The 29,150-ton British battleship and it was battleship fo go down, and her sinking was caused by a Nazi U-boat. ALL IS QUIET ALONG THE WAR DEPARTMENT SECTOR, Against Rail OUR CORRESPONDENT FINDS Lines of U. §. au Women Makes Escape AIR RAIDS ONENGLAND NEXT MOVE | Official Newspaper, Field Marshal Goering, In- dicates Action 'RAIK OF SHELLS IS PROMISED BY NAZIS Pafience Is Reported Ex- hausted - French Are Driven Over Border BERLIN, Oct. 25.—Germanys next war move will probably be to loose a shower of bombs on England. This is indicated authorita- tively in the newspaper Na- tional Zeitung, of Essen. The National Zeitung is a daily newspaper especially close to Field Marshal Goering, Arms Minister, hence editorial com- mand special attention. The newspaper today says: “The moment has come when war desired by England must result in a rain down of bombs upon the British Isles istelf. “Patience of the German peo- ple has its limits.” Meanwhile the High Com- mand’s communique reports another company of French troops have been driven from German s0il on the western front. How many French remain is not fllkd 'MORE SHIPS WRECKED IN SUB ATTACKS Greek VesserUnder Con- voy, Reported to Have i Been Torpedoed g | LONDON, Oct. 26.—German sub- marines continue their raids | A radiogram says the Scoltish |Clan Chisholf has been torpedoed |but survivors and details are not given The Greek Konstantinos Hud)h | pateras, 5,000 tons, has also beer! |sent down in the North Sea. This craft was loaded with scrap iron from Boston to the Tyne. It is be- lieved the vessel was under convoy. Fifteen members of the crew escaped unu four are lost. - oe — (harges Made and Prien was decorted. Loss of invaders Royal Oak (above), was sunk, the reported 830 of her crew were listed. She the second Rl .,..,..‘Aflornev General Murphy Authorizes Filing of Complaint Wood blackout in an By law the department industrial prep- almost complete he is the man in | who deals with the aration for the big war the army| waSHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Attor- must always be ready for. That has|y . General Frank Murphy an- W‘« e "“;‘ even more of an edge OB yaunces he has authorized the filing oREmS |of a complaint charging violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act against the Association of American Rail- | roads, its officers and directors. Two hundred and thirty-six mem- |ber railroad companies are men- tioned in the complaint. The Attorney General says it is asserted the railroads have combined in restraint of trade by agreeing not to extend to motor carriers the same cooperation in carrying freight and passengers which railroads custo- marily extend to each other, ATRPLANE AFIAIR champloned a He talked of an iir expansion of four, five or six times. He got the ear of the Presi- dent last year on the heels of Eu-‘ rope’s Munich. Such a program rep- resented not a mere purchase order but a matter of army policy where the secretary himself could have| Johnson air force Further, whopping (Continued on Page Five)