The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8245. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS T PRICE T NEUTRALITY BILL PASSED BY U.5. 5 ENATE Whereabouts of Seized U. S. Ship is Mystery FLINTINTWO PLACESNOW: LAST REPORT State Official Claims Craft Is Still in Murmansk, in Arctic BERLIN SAYS BOAT IS NEARING BLOCKADE ZONE State Secrefary Hull Claims. Entire Situationls | Muddled WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Alex- ander Kirk, Charge d'Affairs in Berlin, advised the State Depart- ment today that the seized American steamship City of Flint is still in the harbor at Murmansk, Russia, under- | going repairs, while earlier reports had come from Berlin that all was well aboard the City of Flint and the vessel was worming its way | through the North Sea blockade zone to Germany, convoyed by both warships and submarines. Kirk sald the Soviet Russian For- | eign Office told him that when the ship is ready to be taken to another port, the United States crew will presumably be aboard to operate it. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt at Moscow, reported he was still unable to talk by telephone with the captain of the City of Flint last night, but was given to understand that all was well. Secretary of State Cordell Hull still terms the City of Flint a mys- tery ship and declines to comment as to which report of the vessel’s whereabouts bears the most truth. He said further he was still unable to gain adequate information from the Russian government. Yesterday it was announced the American _freighter had been re- King Christian of Denmark, King Norway (1. to r.) and P to confer in Stockholm, The conference invitation ri 1914 when, shortly after the o met at Malmoe, demonstra Three Men Marooned Months of Co_ld, Semi-Iso- lation May Be Their Fate VANCOUVER, B. u., Oct. 28, |Months of cold and semi-isolation | may be the fate of three Americans, P R JohnT. Adams | The trio, Pilot C. O. Galbraith, Reports received here said the from 1921 to 1924, died at his home heavy snow encountered. Never seeking or holding an el-|from Juneau, Alaska enabled him to rise in business {rom | Gapraith wired Juneau stating his whose descendants included John couyer, the U. S. Customs and with SPOOKY LOOKING THING MORGANTOWN, Ky—“We saw fore moving to Dubuque, Ta., in 1857. | leased and was on its way to Ger- many with a Nazi prize crew aboard. - forced down on the British Colum- |bia-Yukon Territory border more than a fortnight ago. H H | formerly of Bellingham, Wash.; Ies In owa‘Ru-]mrrl King of Seattle and Her- bert Fisher of Blaine, have been | unable to leave the lonely Lake Tes- 2 .': lin district where the plane was leadmg POII'I(BI S"a'e_ wrecked landing on a flight from s ' f H' D Bellingham to Fairbanks, Alaska. gISAo Is _ay PaSS’ three men are in good condition, {probably have plenty of supplies |is by air. . DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct. 28—John| They have made several attempts Taylor Adams, 77, Chairman of the (o hike to Atlin, 75 miles, but have Republican National Committee peen forced back on account of h""“}OdHY~ ! | The Canadian immigration offi- Adams, for 12 years Towa member | cials said no funds are available for of the Republican National Com-|sending an airplane to bring the mittee and, from 1921 to 1924 Chair- men out since it is not considered man of that body, was rated as one an emergency case and the United of u_me leading political skswxlsts:s-mm Consular officials know of of his day, |no plan for sending a plane, even ective office, he used his flair for —_— organization to make his impress | CRASH KNOWN HERE upon party history, mapping and| The story of the crash and the g campaigns, steering can-|situation confronting - the three m‘?:i‘]«‘s&ind lhde Jociy p¥ay frllJm men marconed, as sent out from rec es and, in general, apply- vancouver, was exclusively printed ing to politics the methods which i, The Empire last Monday. Pilot office boy to the presidency of a big | plane crashed and that he and his m“"“z:‘;:::;g ;zfi‘:f"‘l- fabos two passengers needed aid. There is cal Likin, He inherited his liking for politics. | kind, it is stated. He was a direct descendant of the| The matter of rescue has been Jonn Adwiuk who tampe. 10 America | taken up by the Governor's office early in the seventeeth century and | yith, the American Consul in Van- and John Quincy Adams, the second | 1o State Depart ) and sixth Presidents of the United peEen, B WSy States. The Towan’s father, Shubabel | P. Adams, was born in Massachu- setts, practiced law for 20 years at | Lowell and represented that district | in the Massachusetts Legislature be- | |a spooky-looking thing back there His mother's family dated back eight | at a culvert,” a group of girls told generations to John Livermore, first | Policeman Roy " Morrison. Morrison settler of New Hayen, Conn. investigated and found “spirits” all Started as Office Boy | right—I3 pints and 20 half-pints of John Taylor Adams was born inimoonshine—enclosed in two pillow Dubuque December 22, 1862, He went cases, resident Kyosti Kalli of Finland (in: Sweden, following invitation from King € evived in all Scandinayia the atmosphere of utbreak of the World War the three kings ting their firm wish to stick together. no fund for any emergency of this Sweden, King Haakon of ot) agreed af, Gustaf of Dies Hearing Thrown Info OnTeslin Uproar Today (10 Un ion Leader and | Chairman Have Bitter | Words at Session | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—Chair- ! man Martin Dies today threatened to cite Joseph Curran, President of /the CIO National Maritime Union for contempt of committee after witness Curran had called the House UnAmerican Investigating Commit- tee a “circus.” Both men roared at each other in an angry ange following Dies’ query as to whether or not Curran’s excl union was a “Communist front m‘-} ganization.” Curran finally shouted, “My Am- ericanization 15 just as good as yours!” The committee, standing on its rules, prohibited Curran from read ing a prepared statement into the | record Sharp Reply Is Given FDR NEW YORK, Oct. 28 —Chairman | Dies of the Unamerican Committee, | defied President Roosevelt when he | announced that he had overwhelnr- | ing proof that the Communist Party | controls the American League for Peace and Democracy. Dies answered the President’s con- | demnation of publishing the names of government workers as members of the league in a speech before the | 110th annual convention of the New | York City Federation of Women's | Clubs. The President had described the | Dies’ exposure as a “sordid picture.” Replied Dies: “I cannot hope to compare in prestige and influence | with my Chief Executive. It may ! be that I was wrong, but this T tell | you, Franklin D. Roosevelt, that you | may regard the naming of members |as sordid, but in my estimation Fed- eral servants who belong to any organization dominated by a foreign power, ought to he disclosed,” They Want to Stay Neutral "N AZ' plANE ‘! ,NaZi U SHOTDOWN, AIR BATTLE |Two Germans Killed, Bold | Pilot, Wounded, Re- | mains af Confrols ENEMY FLIER STILL TRIES T0 TAKE OFF 'Hundreds Witness Crazy | Antics of Fighters Over Scotland | LONDON, Oct. 28—Two German | airmen were killed and one, the Nazi { pilot, was wounded, and captured to- |day in an aerial drama over Edin- | | burgh, Scotland { The drama of the skies was wit-} |nessed by hundreds when British ! [ fighter planes. forced down a Ger- | | man air raider which the Air Min- |istry saild was making reconnais- | sances east of Dalkeith Forced down, the plane struck on |a stone wall, but even then the | pilot would not give up and tried | to get his machine once more into | [ the air, running it along the roug’; | ground about a half mile befor he had to stop. | Earlier, the Air Ministry had an- | |nounced a German aircraft was | forced down in Scotland by Brit ish fighting planes The report said the Nazi plane was attempting to reconnoiter east |of Dalkeith. The accompanying air raid alarm lasted half an hour in the Firth of Forth area and machine gun bullets fell without warning in the | streets of one town. JAPANESE MOVE " FOR PEACE WITH ~ U.5. AND BRITAIN 1 L R | |Relations to Be (Iarified,T | Misunderstandings ; Smoothed TOKYO, Oct. 28.—Japan has mov- | ed to clarify her relations with both | the United States and Great Britain Foreign Minister Nomura an- nounced that he plans to exchange | views with the United States Am- bassador t0 Tokyo, Joseph Grew, in an effort to smooth the misunder- | standing which has arisen between lthn Tokyo government and Wash- | ington. Ambassador Grew startled the | Japanese recently when he declared that the United States was shocked |and displeased by the treatment of | American property and American | citizens by Japanese troops in China. Grew’s blast, following the recent notice of abrogation of the United States-Japanese trade treaty by the American government brought fears of a serious breach. German Given Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Oct. 28.—The 1939 Nobel prize in physiology and medi- | ine has been awarded to Prof.| Gerhard Domack, of Elberfield Germany, for his discovery of red dye containing the unportal.t‘ drug, sulfanilamide. ., — | WINTER HALTS YUKON | ICE RUN AT RUBY Ice stopped the surface of the Yukon last night at Ruby, ac-| cording to a report to the U. 8. Weather Bureau here. The ice stopped running in the river dur ing the night. The surface is no yet considered wfe for planeland ing al T ——— Submarine warfare contnues with adding daily to the The British mail liner Lochavon, a ship, was sunk off the coast of Portugal. FRONT, GOOD F TR A toll of ships disabled or sunk. -Boar§ Add These to List of Victims ! British mail liner Lochavon German U-boats 9,270-ton motor- All of officials, NEWS REEL RELEASES FROM ARTILERY FRE ROM GERMANY BUT ARE LOUSY FROM BRITISH EXPOSITION IS TO ADJOURN UNDER POLICE GUARD Law on Walch at San Fran- cisco fo Prevent Vandalism SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Oct, 28 Police authorities assigned 238 pa- trolmen and 75 plain clothesmen to the Golden Gate Exposition for its t two da. The move was made to halt any vandalism and rioting such as attended the close of the Chicago exposition. Fair exhibitors also hired special guards. Police got a sample of what might happen last Saturday when they arrested 35 women, including several prominent in San Francisco society, for stealing flowers and plants frf displays. The fair will close at mid- night tomorrow, with a simple cere- mony that will include a fireworks display and playing of taps by the 20th Infantry Band. e T0 SEEK DIVORCE HOLLYWOOD, Car., Oct. 28.—Al- torneys for film dancer Ruby Keeler announce she will file a divorce suit against blues singer Al Jolson with in a few weeks, charging extreme cruelty. She will demand an ali mony of $400 a week for life or a $50,000 settlement in event she mar- ries—and a $100,000 trust-fund for their four-year-old adopted son. Ruby will ask custody of the boy The attorneys said that Jolson is not expected to contest the divorce. They were married in 1928, when he was 40 and Ruby was 19. - e OVERBY RETURNING Deputy Internal Revenue Col- lector Wesley Overby is a P senger on the Alaska, which left Seattle today for Juneau. He has been attending the annual confer- ence of Deputy Collectors at Ta- coma m | By PRESTON GROVER | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—So far ‘u.u news reel releases coming from Germany are very, very good and | those coming through the British |censor are very, very lousy | The news reel companies di {tributing them are trying to ovel the difficulty. But in a re- lcent show the announcer frankly | apologized because the quality of the or s0 far outshone the other. He cautioned that both were cen- |sored and perhaps reeking with | propaganda. 3 The German release showing the | eru r bombarding the forts at Danzig was an epic of quality. A section of the British release showed the Maginot fortresses supposedly firing on the Germans. It appeared to be an old pre-war pickup, for | the French guns were firing blanks. Apparently the English people |are kicking, too. Recently a new propaganda executive was put in charge. We hope we don't have to look at any more British piling up any more sandbags. come Washington doesn’t know just what interpretation to put upon these reports of submarines in American waters Wwhich the President or Steve Early, his secretary, give out occasionally. There isn't any doubt that they are accurate. We heard a navy officer tell an inguiring reporter that he could just bank om it that the White House statements were based on official informa- jested day keeps One wise-cracker ‘A submarine Republicans away.” | When a report told of a subma- | rine in the Gulf of Mexico not far from Florida, one of the bright lads who occasionally are found in this city discoursed: “Steve Hannagan is back of that If you'd open it up you'd find it full of chorus girls.” Hannagan is Florida’s principal publicity agent. Whenever you see a picture of a pretty Florida girl parading on a Florida shore, chances are that Steve stage-managed it. It is fairly likely the President the a (Continuea on Page Four) the crew of 150 were saved. liner Bretagne sailed from attacked without warning, REPEAL GETS ‘BIG VOTEIN UPPERHOUSE Rescinding of Arms Em- | bargo Victory for ; Administration 'EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | MAY BUY IN AMERICA ‘Musi Pay GEh No Bor- | rowing, Take Supplies | Away inOwn Ships WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Voting | overwhelmingly for repeal of the arms embargo, the United States Senate last night by a vote of 63 | to 30 approved of the Administra- | tion's neutrality bill and immedis | ately seut it to the House where pro= | ponents of the measure claim a small but safe majority. | Provisions | The Neutrality Bill, as it passed the includes the following telligerents in Europe are permitted to buy American pro- ducts _of any kind, . They must pay cash. They cannot borrow any | money here, | Xney must provide foreign | ships for transporting their pur- | chases across the Atlantic. The measure is also intended to insulate the United States from war | by laying'down conditions designed prevent incidents likely to in- flame public opinion or tending to otherwise draw this country into | conflict. For this purpose the bill for- bids American ships to sail for belligerent ports in the danger areas. Forbids American ships to en- ter combat zones to be demar- cated by the President. PARIS, Oct. 28—The Germans | Prohibits American citizens to | intensified their artillery fire along travel on belligerent ships. | Counting three Senators absent the western front today. | " French observers noted that new the final vote was 65 to 31 with the ation receiving almost ex- pieces of artillery are being put into Administr action and the fire is becoming more actly the number of votes estimated | regular and systematic. Whether the 1t Would receive when the session | increased volume of artillery fire in- n five weeks ago. dicated an imminent German offen-| Much oratory and much sive, French military leaders will not Preceded the final vote. say. It also is noted that the Ger- NOt even standing room was aval | mans have been inoreasing the Page Biaht | strength of their patrols so that 100 | men are now being sent out where | parties of a dozen were making raids on the French outposts. French experts said that informa- {tion reaching the high command | indicated that the Germans had ev-| [ erything in readiness for large scale | operations when and if the word is given from Berlin | German troops are reported to be | concentrating in northwest Ger- many behind the Netherlands front. The forces are said to be arriving | in small units, one regiment at a| | time. | French The French passenger the West Indies and was according to Bri INTENSIFIED ON WESTERN FRON Germans i?epor!ed Con- centrating-French Ob- servers Puzzled | | [ ! i | | it voting HOUSE DEBATE ON NEUTRALITY OPENS TUESDAY Adminisfration Claims Ma- jority for Speedy observers said it is lm-l Apflmval | possible to state the purpose of this Diss3s { concentation. The French highl WASHINGTON, Oct, 28—Mem- | command was not, however, over- bers of the House of Representa- ;]uuklng the possibility of a German |tives were ordered by their leaders | thrust into the Netherlands. | today tc assemble in full force on | - | Tuesday for the opening of the neu- | | (trality debate in the lower Cham- IN(OME OF u S ber. Administration leaders be- e I lieved that the House might take | | . CITIZENS IS UP | | TWO BILLIONS final action in two on the Ad- ninistration neutrality bill passed Big Increase in First Three Quarters Over Last | st night by the Senate. Oppo- nents of the measure rallied their orces to demawl more lengthy dis- cussion The House passed its own neutral« ity bill early last summer. This measure was entirely rewritten be- Year fore it emerged from the current WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 cans received two billio: {more in wages and dividends and| lother forms of income in the rist| three quarters of this year than for| 4 similar period in 1938. special session of the Senate. This is the announcement made The House action technically will be an efforf to compromise différ- | today by the Department of Com- merce which estimates income for ences between the neutrality bills passed by the two chambers the first nine months of this year ! At $50,789,000,000 | | | 1 | Ameri- | lollars \dministration plans call for al- most complete acceptance of the Senate's version. Leaders in the House agreed today that there is now a slight margin of votes in fa- vor of arms embargo repeal and the administration cash and earry neu- trality bill,