The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8246. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEIZED U.S. SHIP IN HANDS OF CAPTORS TORPEDOES SEND DOWN MORE SHIPS Three Brifish Vessels Sunk | ~Total Toll of Lives Now 1,850 NORWEGIAN CRAFT I WRECKED IN NORTH SEA Neutrals Have Lost Thirty Since Inauguation of Sub Warfare (By Associated Press) The sinking of four more ships,| three of them British, has sent the | known total loss of all nations in the submarine warfare to 102 ves- sels with a gross tonnage of more than 408,000 tons, The loss.of five seamen aboard the 7,900-ton Cunard-White Star line freighter Malabar, from which 70 men were rescued, sent the sub- marine death toll to at least 1,850 | lives. England’s known losses today rose to 56 ships, with the sinking and destruction of the fishing trawlers Nidan and Lynx. An unidentified Norwegian steam- | er was sent down yesterday in the| North Sea after 30 of her crew were saved. Norw has suffered her ninth loss, the 30th suffered by| neutral countries. — e i CAMPAIGNFOR PENSION PLAN | IN CALIFORNIA Final Weeki—oEnlisl Sup- port for $30 Every Thursday SAN FRANCISCO, val, Cct. 30. —The off-year election campaign dominated by a proposal to revive California’s economic system with a new and comprehensive “Thirty Dol- lars every Thursday” pension plan, headed into the final week, from a dozen radio stations to large mass meetings with scores of pension plan speakers back by penny-a-day do- | nations. At least idea today Vote” di loting. 370,000 believers in the| started on a “Get out the | for the November 7 bal- FINLAND'S REPLY TOMOSCOW NOW READY, DELIVERY HELEINKI, Oct. 30, — The Fin- nish Government announces that its reply to Russia’s demands has been drafted and approved. The reply will be taken to Mos- cow tomorrow by the special Fin- nish negotiator, Finnish officials maintained ab- solute silence concerning the tone of their paper, but stated that the answer was approved by all mem- bers of the Cabinet and leaders of the political parties of Parlia- ment. The Finns have insisted that they would accept no settlement with Moscow which would endan- ger Finnish independence or her stand of absolute neutrality. The Moscow demands were un- derstood to inciude proposals for establishment of Soviet Military and naval bases in Finnish terri- tory which would be regarded as an infringment on Finnish sover- eignty. Moscow also was said to have proposed a mutual assistance pact which would have compro- mised Finnish neutrality. Hits Harder As Hurler CINCINNATI, Oct. 30. — Bucky Walters, the converted infielder, hit harder as a pitcher than he ever did as an infielder. | Rich Fugitive Fights Return Richard Gallogly and Sheriff R. A. Schmid siving himself up at Dallas, Tex., after escaping from the Georgia state prison, Richard Gallogly, 0, member of a wealthy and promi- nent family, has appealed to Texas justice to save him from a life sentence for murder in Georg iff R. A. Schmid, said he and fight extradition. and “legal” fugitive from G st a. aped o ed in Gallogly, uld he suce orgia ju shown with Dallas nly to come to Texas, sur ed, he would become the sec- ce, & free man as long as he Texas. AIR RAID PROTECTION FOR GREAT BRITAIN IS FACING HUSBAND OF SLAYER HAS DISAPPEARED Dr. Judd Leaves Hospital in California-Wife Still Missing PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 30.—The apparent disappearance of Dr. Will- iam Judd complicates the search for his estranged wife, murderess Win~ nie Ruth Judd. The woman who Kkilled two Ju-| neau, Alaska, friends, eight years| ago aped last week from the Ari- zona State Insane Hospital. Dr. Judd, a patient at the Vet- erans’ Hospital at Sawtelle, Califor- nia, left the institution after his wife escaped. He said he intended to go to Phoenix to aid in the search for her. Police at both Los Angeles and Phoenix said they have no information about Dr. Judd’s where- abouts. Police continued to check repeated | | reports that Mrs, Judd had heen seen at various points in the south- west, but all of the clues apparently were false. B s FLIGHT OVER GERMAN LINES MADE IN SUN First Clear Day in Weeks on Western Front Per- mifs Air Expedition PARIS, Oct. 30, — Military dis- patches said French scouting parties, taking advantage of the first tlear skies in several weeks, began a series of cautious exploratory operations today before the heavy German line between Saarbruecken and Swei- bruecken. The results obtained remain a se- cret although commenators here as- sert the fiers returned with valuable information regarding the strength of the German concentrations. If the Germans plan an assault, they must wait for several days for the ground to dry from the recent thorough drenching. The 90-mile front still remains a sea of mud under a bright sun, TEST; STRATEGY REVEALED By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct: 30. protection well worked out. If the war doesn't end too soon there will be cha 5 to test thoroughly home defense against air attack. Brit- ain’s air-raid is falrly A fresh analysis of What’s What|sotheast Europe and hope for a| in the air over England is made by Major General H. Rowan-Rob- inson of the British army U. S. Coast Artillery Journal. He flies right in the face of many an amateur strategist who says the famous London fog is Albion's greatest protection. Bad weather, s General Rowan- Robinson, is all to the advantage of the raiders. They escape observation. They can hide in the fog or clouds, and skim along the tree tops to get the best view of the objective. Over London. the hombers’ prob- lem becomes more complex. The much discussed “balloon barrage” protects the city. loons hang in the air, tied to the earth by stout but slender cables. The balloons are kept just under the cloud bank that habitually hangs over London. A raiding plane coming down out of the clouds may hit one of the balloons and be incinerated by the explo- sion of hydrogen gas. If the raider dives under the balloon, the cables wreck his plane. If he flies just over them, the air artillery knows 5 exact elevation because the inners know how high the balloons are and how high the clouds are With elevations known in advance, anti-aircraft artillery is very dan- gerous. TEST FLIGHTS The British tried out their system in practice. Comments General inson: “On the whole, results were dis- tinctly disappointing to the de- fensive.” In the first 45 minutes of the mock war, the fleet of “enemy” planes made 11 raids. They aver- aged 100 raids a night over south- ern England during the four nights of the test. They made effective use of England's bad weather, of which she has a lot. The defense had serious prob- lems. At the time of the test, just before war was declared, English- men wouldn’t take the air attack business seriously. They had en- joyed 900 years of freedom from fear of foreign invasion. In a “black- out” of London, many persons failed to dim their auto lights. Lighted train windows showed the line of railroads. The General implies that one real raid will lessen the average English- man’s optimism about air safety. Rowan-Rob- THE NO. 1 WEAPON Searchlights hunting the planes had an unhappy faculty of reflect= (Continued on Page Three) in the| Hundreds of bal-| NEW TACTICS PURSUED IN EUROPE WAR Massed Armies Inactive as Less Dramatic Weap- ons Are Being Used NEUTRAL ROLES OF U. ., RUSSIA BEING WATCHED j New Rivalry in Balkan Sec- tions Is Also Aftract- ing Aftention (By Associated Press) Europe’s war is quiet today, with- | out battles on the unruffled surface | as armies massed on the western front were kept inactive by Germany and the British and French allies as contenders pursued the conflic with the less dramatic weapo propaganda, diplomacy and bloc ade. | All of Europe shows particular in- {terest in the neutral roles of the | United States and the Soviet Union. British and French newspapers |continue to express gratitude at !the United States Senate’s vote on repeal of the arms embargo, but French Deputy Henry de Kerillis urged wider production at home as protection against the draining of French gold into the United States as an eventuality. U. 8. Filling Orders American industry has immedi- {ately gotten busy in filling British orders. Europe watches to see what the American House will do on the neu- | trality legislation, Europe is also anxious over the ussian-Italian rivalry for leader- in the Balkan nations in | ‘R | ship "definlte statement by the Russians {on aims which might be made to- morrow when the Supreme Soviet | Council meets at Moscow in an ex- traordinary session. | Reports are that Russia supports | Bulgarian claims against Rumania |and return of the Dobruja district |on the Black’ Sea. | Italian influence is understood to |have the upper hand in Jugoslavia and Hungary. e IR e FIVE BOYS - KILLED BY - EXPLOSION Bodies Scatfered When | Rifle Shot Sets Off ‘ Dynamite Blast ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 30. Pive Rock Springs schoolboys were killed by an explosion yesterday which . Sheriff Dankowski said was a dynamite blast set off by a rifl bullet. The splintered stock of a .22 rifle the boys borrowed for a hunting trip, was found near the crater. Parts of the bodies of the boy were scattered about and pieces of the clothing of the boys were found dangling from telegraph wires LIQUOR RACKET INVESTIGATION T0 BE EXTENDED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 30. Grand Jury investigators have gath ered fresh evidence in the expanding probe into the Los Angeles liquor business. The investigation, which began as a probe into the activities of so- called “B Girls,” has expanded into a study of alleged big shakedowns by wine and liquor wholesalers. District Attorney Burton Fitts said he expects to seek new indictments in an effort to identify the big shots behind the liquor racket in Los Angeles, | British Port Menaced by German Bombers | | _ PRIZE CREW © ON HIGH SEA FORTROMSOE City of Flir:t—Repor!ed fo & Have Sailed from Mur- mansk This Afternoon PROBABLE DESTINATION - 1S HAMBURG, GERMANY ‘Norwegian Officials For- bidden fo Give Out Information STOCKHOLM, Oct. 30.—Re- po received here state that the seized American freighter City of Flint has finally been released at Murmansk, and with her German captors in com- mand left there for Tromsoe, Norway, late this afternoon. miles Tromsoe is about 500 from Murmansk and more than 800 miles from Hamburg which Shown here is Hull, England, which is threatened by Nazi bombing planes. Following a German air raid on the Scottish coast, bombing squadrons were reported seen heading west from Germany and the alarm was sounded in Hull. At night the city is blacked out. o air view shows part of the ten miles of docks | ving the Hull and Humber Rivers and the heavy indnst DEAD HANDS ~ Last Curfain ' GUIDEFERRY, RunDownon . PUGETSOUND Alice Brady |Captain Is Found Dead af‘(e|eb,afed Star of Stage Controls After Vessel and Screen Dies in Crashes Info Dock } New York | MANCHESTER, Wash., Oct. 30.— | Her controls in the hands of a dead| NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Alice man, the Black Ball ferry Croslie | Brady, celebrated star of stage and smashed into the Manchester dock |screen, died last Saturday, a few yesterday, wrecking the warehouse, | days before she would have reached damaging her own superstructure | her 47th birthday. The daughter of and terrifying passenger !the famous producer, Willlam A After the crash, inve tion re-|Brady, her greatest triumph was vealed that Capt. Frank Clements, Mrs, O'Leary, the character part in 69, was found dead on the ferry's|“In Old Chicago.” bridge. | Rarely in the theatre has ill for- - |tune so dogged the footsteps of U.5. ARMY NOT READY FOR FIGHT s ! Commander of First Army;' | Area Makes Poinfed | Statement g BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.- ant General Hugh Drum s the present strength and ::quipm('n!“ of the army is not sufficient to| protect Amer from the Europear | turmoil. | Lieuten- | ates that ALICE BRADY glamor and suc 1 the care of Alice Brady. Time after time daughter of one of Broadway's mos successful producers and a g French mother, achieved triumpt on the stage or ou the screen and in just so many instances the triumph was marred by iline other misfortune. General Drum is Commander of the First Army Area. He addressed | the annual convention of the Na- tional Guard Association of the United States. Said General Drum: ready for war. We ready for defense. Recent man- nevers revealed our forc to be lacking in almost every ntial | = er except ene aggressiven and w4 the famed actor-manager NS Brad A and her mother | Rene, a Parisian singer. We are not | are not even St York City on father was William Rose 5 born in Ne $ 18 Her - Trials When Young MOIOR MAG"AIE lm the theatrical tradition of hi | mosphere, he sent her to Boston has established a residence in N""!;rm\d opera singer Mrs. Chrysler expects to charge pilay?d in New Haven under the | parents. But her father did not wish TO SEEK DIVORCE g | Conservatory of Music. This fitted vada to obtain a divorce from Wal-| * ghe made her first appearance on her husband with extreme cruelty WIFE OF SON OF 'FE 0 | Her trials began wneu she was a young girl, determined to carry on her to go on the stage and, to get her away from the footlight at- " RENO, Nev., Oct. 30.—Friends re- |y, with her plans, for she spent most veal that Mrs. Margaret Chrysler| of per time there studying to be a ter P. Chrysler, Jr., son of the motor | the stage supporting Robert Man- magnate. tell in “As You Like It.” In 1911 sk when she files her suit in Reno. al sector whirh make the city an inviting target, accident or | i - (Continuea on Page Three) has been mentioned as the ves- sel's probable destination if it is to run through the British block- ade. The German prize crew aboard is supposed to have been in- structed to take the freighter to a German port where it will be held as a prize of war. Newspaper sources, when questioned in response to an in- quiry about the City of Flint said they were forbiden by ol- ficials to give out any infomn«. tion. No mention is made of the American crew. MURDERIN PLANENOW SHOWN UP. British Craft and German Bombers Reported in Engagement rd, my | i ne NDON s g field Barnstorming Aviator Con- tor, is being taken to Missouri by ing Rivens during a desperate strug - | body," said Pletch, “pushed ‘1 i 13 trols, causing the plane to continue| 7Tpe officlal communique says: landed the plane. He got out, placed | pnown whether the enemy suffered fesses fo Slaying of | officers for the airplane ride slay- gle in an airplane trol stick forward and LC Oet. 30.—~The British to dive ached forward, pulled | «rhjs morning, off Dogger Bank, a Rivens' body near a fence, and the “‘dumm,'lv i | e INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 30.—| Twenty-nine-year-old Ernest P.| Pletch, barnstorming Hoosier avia-| ' ing of Carl Rivens, Brookfield, Mis- | souri, flying instructor | State Police Superintendent Sti- ver said Pletch confessed to shoot- | The trouble started when Rivens refused to go through with 2 pian to steal the plane. “As Rivens pulled me fory went, into a power dive. I pu mY | Admiralty announces that British {revolver and fired two shots which | gesiroyers aud German planes met hit him in the back of the head. The | jn a paiie off Dogger Bank, North body slumped forward on the con-|Sea. today. the body back and got the plane| fotilla of our destroyers came inta stralghtened out | action with two German bombers. Within 15 minutes, Pletch said, he | here were no casualties in or dam= sighted a suitable looki and | ae to destroyers. It is mot took off again | iy Yeteh was arrested later when he | made a forced landing near Bloom- | ington. RPOCTE e 5 GERMANY MUST PAY 50 MILLION IN WAR CLAIMS Walch-Charm | | Quarferback vixed commission Makes Award in 1916-1917 Sabotgge_ (ases Oct. 30 | HOUSTON, Texas., e | Marvin Morganrath, quarterback, | | hasn’t pulled any white rabbits : out of his football helmet yet but| WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The his hopes are high. In a game be-|German-American Mixed Claims Houston and San Antonio | Commission has awarded approxi- schools Referee A. C. John-|Mately $50,000,000 in claims against son lost his watch, He stopped the|Cermany arising from the Black game and searched all around but|T0M and Kingsland, New Jersey | couldn't find it. Later in the dress- |53botage cases n 1916 and 1917 10g room ripped off his jersey and| The Commission last June 18 out tumbled the watch. It had | found Imperial Germany responsi- lindi st e |ble for the munitions disasters in f;:‘;:::f . ;”" 'I',_]”:“' P b el oo | the New York Port area prior to the i e e |entry of the United States into the | World War. The action today made definite | AT THE BoTToM the claims for damages totaling $21,- 000,000 plus five percent interest, it estimated total of $50,000,000 in all. PALO ALTO, Cal, Oct. 30.—Foot-| Germany made a special deposit ball players have the lowest grades|to the account of the United States of any athletes on the Stanford Uni- | Treasury between $23,000,000 and versity campus, an official survey |$26,000,000 to meet the award. The showed. Tennis and track men had|Treasury also holds about half a the highest. billion dollars “paper value” of the The survey also showed women'German Republic bonds. | beat men in class work by a ratio of Germany has, however, denied | 265 to 245, Jjurisdiction of the Commission, of | ! tween higt high