The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8247. JUNEAU, ALASK bl A, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATIONS WARNED AGAINST SINKING FLINT MURDERESS SURRENDERS AT HOSPITAL Slayer offio Juneauj Women Gives Up Affer | Six Days’ Liberty | WINNIERUTH JUDD | IS BACK IN ASYLUM Appears fo Be Nervous,f Mental Wreck - Wan- derings Not Stated | PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 31. — MI'S,! Winnie Ruth Judd returned volun- | tarily last night to the Arizona State Hospital for the Insane. She walked out of the hospital on the| night of October 24 after arrang- ing her bed with blankets, etc., to give the impression she was as]r‘opi it. The convicted slayer of two Ju- neau women, eight years ago, was in a highly mental and nervous| state and was suffering from star- | vation and exposure, her physical condition being pitiful. Mrs. Judd first broke into the| home of the Engineer of the hos-| pital seeking foed. She then went| to the Hospital, banged on the door | and to the attendant who opened it said: “Here I am.” | The Superintendent questioned Mrs. Judd but would not say where | she had been for the past six days.| Jusl Wandered Apparently the murderess has| just wandered after paying a visit| to the home of her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. McKinnell on the night of her escape. Her father is seriously ill. Since the escape, authorities have made a wide and extensive search for the slayer. It was first be- lieved that she might have gone to California where her husband, Dr. William Judd, is in the Vet- erans’ Hospital at Sawtelle. His disappearance Sunday night | further complicated the case and it was then believed he might have met his wife and together crossed the border into Mexico, although attendants at the hospi- tal had stated he intended to re- turn to Phoenix and aid in the search for his wife. Gov. R. T. Jones revealed that the famous woman criminal sent a letter to his office charging that she was being persecuted by the asylum officials and that she had left only to visit her parents. If Mrs. Judd is ever declared sane, she must die on the gallows for the crimes committed. e EVERY ITALIAN | WILL BE A SPY; DRASTIC ORDERS ROME, Oct. 31.—A rigid scheme to turn every Italian into a spy and clamp down on their most harmless conversations with foreigners ap- pears destined for enforcement in Mussolini-land . Dire effects of the man-in-the- street’s innoguous remarks even about the weather to “these foreign agents” was painted for the Italian | people in the Giornale d'Italia by | Virginio Gayda. Gayda, regarded as the foreign office unofficial spokesman, is con- sidered the most accurate journal- ist reflector of directives of Italian internal and foreign policy. (alklaaa' fi Sure 0f Sugar During War OTTAWA, Oct. 31.—The Govern- ment announces that the Canadian | Sugar Administrator, under the war- time prices trade board, has been given full control of imports and exports of sugar. Special permits | in | | sistant Director of Alaska CCC. | 54% International Harvester 63 Ken- i tricky. THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, Oct. 31— Proclaiming November 23 for general Thanksgiving, President Roosevelt today asked that thanks be offered “for hopes of the lives within us” and the coming of eventual world peace. The proclamation designated the next to the last Thursday instead of the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, in accordance with the Pre dent’s decision to move up the | | holiday for busir~ss reasons. President Roosevelt in proclamation said it is fitting to continue the “hallowed” cus- tom begun by President George Washington, when he asked that the Nation lay down all tasks tor one day a year and give thanks for the blessings granted by the Divine Providence. Some states, it is understood, will observe Thanksgiving Day on November 30, his SAILING OF SEVEN SEAS IS GETTING TOUGH; WAR BRINGS HAZARDS TO NAVIGATION Burdick fo Have Tough Assignment Juneau Man—i;CuI 80,000‘ Non-Native Owned Rein- | der Out of Big Herds ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Picking 80,000 reindeer now owned by whites | out of a total Alaska reindeer popu- lation of half a million and buying them for the Govenment at a cost of not more than $4 a head will be the task of Charles Burdick of Ju- neau, recently appointed by Secre-| tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to carry into execution an order of Congress for doing away with non- native ownership of reindeer in Al- aska. Burdick will have $720,000 to buy the reindeer and distribute them to the Eskimos. Congress plans to acquire for the Eskimos all Alaska reindeer, as a means of conserving the deteriorat- ing range and providing a subsist-| Within a month after war started, ence industry for many natives now regulations for traveling through the unable to maintain themselves from English Channel had been changed traditional sources of food. veral times. A special English pilot Burdick has been an employee of‘xs required to take a ship through. the U. S. Forest Service in Alaska}Any commander can try going it for 14 years and recently was As-|alone, but his chances of hitting a | mine are very good. | And there are extra special haz- rds. On September 28, floating | mines were reported in the narrow | southern channels of the North Sea | east of Norwich. The same day an- other was reported in the Mediter- WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. — Day by day in every way, sailing the seven seas is becoming tougher and tougher The war “hazard day. is brings a new to navigation” almost every And each new hazard reported carefully recorded in the daily bul- letins of the naval hydrographic bureau, which are distributed widely. Most exeiting hazards are float- ing mines—that is, if you except submarines and other ships of r. he hydrographic office does not record warships as “hazards to navigation.” It is not considered to be one of the most friendly acts in the world to tip off one belliger- ent where another belligerent's ship is to be found. That does not mean that marines and belligerent warships in general are not reported by Yankee merchantmen. They are. But the navy considers such reports as confidential. The only bit of that sort of in- formation made available was the statement by the President that submarines had been seen off the Atlantic coast and again up around Alaska. The President did not say whose submarines they were. You had to guess. | THERE ARE VERY SPECIAL HAZARDS sub- RT SUB REPO |ranan just off-shore from where Spain and France join. | More reports run this way: | | September 29—Britain lays down |new rules for ships entering the | harbor at Bermuda. Obery them or |you may draw fire. Three floating {mines are reported in mid-channel | between Holland and England. Eng- land announces the area of a new mine field along the North Coast from Hull to Newcastle. September 30—The commander of Fort Monroe, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, warns ships to stay out of a certain area where this im- portant coast defense point is try- ing out a mine operation. Italy closes |all channels but one for entering the Adriatic seaport of Trieste. STOCK QU‘JTATIONB ,‘ October 2 — Germany sends the § | U. 8. a note of caution that neutral ships approaching the English or | French coasts must not resist search, NEW YORK, Obt. 31. — Closing| must not try to run away or send quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|radio calls about the presence of stock today, the last session of the!sybmarines. month, is 6%, American Can 109%,| October 3—France sends word that American Power and Light 5%, An- | nayigation lights on channel islands aconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 89,|off the north French coast are ex- Commonwealth and Southern 1%, tinguished or reduced in power. Sail- Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors |jng there without shore lights is PROVIDENCE, R. I, Oct. 31— An unidentified submarine is report- ed to have been sighted off Narra- gansett Bay yesterday by shore res- idents. The report was circulated a short time after the British freighter, King William, put into Providence to load scrap iron. Coast Guard officials said they have not received any word con- cerning the submarine. - necott 39%, New York Central 21%, Northern Pacific 11, United States| LIGHTS MAY GO OUT Steel 74%, Pound $3.99'%. —WITHOUT NOTICE October 4—Britain warns of two HOUSE ACTS QUICKLY ON NEUTRALITY Measure Is fo Be Sent fo, Senate and House Con- | ference Committee WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 The Administration’s Neutrality forces advocating arms embargo repeal, won the first test of strength in the House today when procedure in considering the measure was adopt- ed. The test came on the rule provid- ing that the bill be sent to a joint Senate and House committee for a conference to compose the differenc- es between the two bodies of Con- gress. : The House measure, approved at the last session of Congress, con- tains no arms embargo while the last Senate measure does. Action today came within a few minutes after the House beat down 237 to 177, the Republican attempt aimed at opening up legislation to House amendments. MUSSOLINI SHAKES UP HIS CORPS Changes Made in Cabinet, Fascist Party, Other Top Positions (By Associated Press) Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy has reorganized the entire leader- ship of the Fascist regime in a shakeup of his Cabinet, Fascist Party and top military posts, un-| precedented in its sweeping scope. | Seven Cabinet ministers, Secre- | tary of the Fascist Party, Chiefs ot the Staff of Army and Air Force, Fas¢ist Militia and four Under Sec- | retaries have been replaced in a drastic reshuffling and in addition, | Mussolini has yielded the Portfolio of Minister to Italian Africa to Gen. Attilio Teruzzi. | Notables Shifted Chief among those shifted are two Fascist notables of widely credited progerman tendencies. They are Lieut. Gen. Achille Starace, who has |been relieved of the Secretaryship jof the Fascist Party at “his own request,” and Dino Alfieri, Minister of Propaganda. ! Starace has been named Chief of the General Staff of the Fascis Militia and Alfieri to an Ambassa- dorship, awaiting assignment. Although some observers say the shakeup gives evidences of lessen- ing German influences in Rome, for- | eign diplomatic circles generally at- | tribute it to conditions within the | Fascist Party. | However, it is noticed that the |shakeup came shortly after Ger- |man Ambassador Viktor Von Mach- |ensen left for Berlin Sunday, be- |cause, his Embassy said, for an “ex- . | traordinary reason By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. — One glance at the blueprint of the cur- rent Soviet Five-Year plan, and you wonder whether Stalin is (1) sac- rificing the plan on the altar of Russo-German trade, or (2) pulling Hitler's leg. Go back, as T did, to January of this year, when Stalin laid down the law for the third Five-Year plan (1938-42). Here's a part of what he said: .Jol;eurfound in New Trade - Agreement Between Russia - And Germany;Something Up Hcw German Luxury Liner Dodgcd the British SEPT.6: BREMEN MET i AND ESCORTED TO POR UNDER SOVIET FLAG SEPT. 3. WAR DECLARED BY | ALLIES - BREMEN'S MASTER ORDERS SHIP TO BE SUNK BEFORE. CAPTURE iAceording to a story told by the ook of the Ger man liner, Bremen, missing for ship is in the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk, Army Plane InCrash; 2 Men Killed Instructor and Student Are First Victims in Aviation Training Program DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 31. — An Army airplane crashed here today | killing Joseph A. Killman, 25, an instruetor, and C. H. Goodwin, 24, student, Officials said it is the first fatality in the new national civilian avia- tion training program. to per capita production: in such respects as electric power, pig iron, steel and coal production and the manufacture of consumption goods, such as textiles, paper, soap and some others, the USSR. is still backward. . . . This backwardnesi must be completely overcome before communism can triumph in its his- toric competition with capitalism. Stalin was concerned with com- munist stomachs, too. He said: “The third-plan period is to carry AuG 30: BREMEN SAILS AFTER DELAY HROUGH U.S SEARCH FOR ARMAMENT ABOARD The liner Bremen New York, Aug. get through the weeks, the Nazi Patrols Are OrganizedbyB.C. THIRD TERM Police fo Search for Two Men, BOOM DRAWS Bound, Fairbanks fo New York CRY, LEWIS | B | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Oct. 31 | —Provincial Police have organized | patrols to search for John “Jim"” Logan and “Slim” Williams, motor- | [ enroute from Fairbanks to the New York World Fair and who i have been unreported for nearly one |month, since Indians saw them along the Klappan River, 60 miles | southeast of Telegraph Creek on September 26. | Two patrols are leaving, one going jout and following are probable | motorcyclists’ routes to Hazelton, one via the Sixth Cabin on the old | Yukon Telegraph Line and the other | patrol via the easterly Groundhog | Mountain country. | 'The police have also received a suggestion for an aerial search should the land parties fail. On October 23, Al Milotte, Ketchi- kan photographer, returned to Ket- | chikan from Iskut Lake, 75 miles |northeast of Telegraph Creek, and said he met Logan and Williams. Milotte said the two had traveled| 11,000 miles and were in fine shape | but were contemplating crossing the | | high Groundhog Mountain passes. | He said this, he believed, would be ‘!atal as a blizzard and heavy snows followed. Perhaps Logan and Wil- | liams changed their minds and trav- l‘elv(l around the mountains. The two motorcyclists may be on the Hazelton Highway several hun-| dred miles from that British Co-| lumbia city, or may have perished in the mountains of northern Brit- ish Columbia. - A HALIBUTERS | ‘ SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Oct. 31— Halibuters | arriving from the western banks | and selling today are as follow. | Pacific 32,000 pounds, 13 and 12‘ having dodged British ships on a tense voyage from SEIZED SHIP IS REPORTED OFFNORWAY Vessel in Command of Nazi Prize Crew Nearing | Danger Zone | BATTLE MAY BE HAD | BETWEEN 2 NATIONS Both Great Britain and Germany Told Not to Destroy Craft | BERGEN, Norway, Oct. 31, — The seized American freighter City of Flint, in command of a German prize crew, has felt its way south- ward along the northern Norwegian coast with a Norwegian naval watch dog close on her heels. ‘The seized ship has been sighted joff Lodingen Light, apparently | bound for some German port from Murmansk. WARNING ISSUED WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. — The | United States Government has |served notice on both Germany and | Great Britain today that the safety (of the crew of the freighter City of Flint must be insured. The seized United States vessel is proceeding toward Germany in |the hands of a Nazi prize crew. Her course lies through the North Sea waters where Great Britain has set |up a naval blockade. The United States crew of the freighter is aboard. | High authoritties in Washington | revealed that instructions were for- | warded to United States envoys in Berlin and London, for relay to the | governments, The instructions expressed the | deep concern of the United States |Government for the safety of the American seamen. The representa- tions were in the form of an im- plied warning that all belligerents must take precautions to avoid en- dangering the Flint's officers and saflors, It is belleved the Germans were cautioned against any plan to sink the City of Flint should |she encounter the danger of cap- | ture in the British blockaded zone. | Officials in Washington believed the Germans are trying to take the Flint to a Nazl port—probably for prize court proceedings. 50. Fog helped the luxury liner British blockade. (10 leader_Re\}eals West- ern Parley Plans fo Boost Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. charge by John L. Lewis, A [e) (o] | for another term for President Roo- | Py mainstem, that assistants to two cabinet member: a western conference and start a | third term boom for President Roo- sevelt, today brought from Sena- | tor William King of Utah, a de- mand for full report of the 0”)-1 cial's activities | In a letter to Gov. Culbert Olson | of California, Lewis declared a January meeting of “progressive | leaders” in eleven Western states | had been arranged by Norman Lit- tell, Assistant to Attorney General Frank Murphy, and Marshall E. Dimock, Second Assistant to Sec- retary of Labor Frances Perkins. Lewis said labor's Non-Partisan League, which he heads, would have no part in the conference, be- cause, among other things, labor is excluded “from making sugges- tions to a legitimate program.” Friends of Lewis sald his letter indicated nothing as to his views sevelt, Lewis expressed doubt that “President Roosevelt had knowledge of or approved of the plans formed those over-zealous individuals responsible for this program.” for 6 cents a pound straight; Eu- reka 7000 pounds, 6% cents straight FLAKNE MAKING SITKA ROUNDTRIP Director Joseph T. Flakne of the Alaska Territorial Employmnt Serv- cents a pound; Sea Bird 30000 jce left on the Northland this after- pounds, 13 and 12% cents; Nation-|pnoon for a brief business trip to al 6000 pounds, 13% and 11% |gjtka in connection with hiring for =ee e Alaska Bound i Ship Hits on Rock, Report Freighter M—a—ry7 D, Enroute fo Kefchikan, Has Accident KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct, 31.— The Alaska Steamship Company's freighter Mary D, enroute to Ket- chikan, is understood to have struck a rock in Grenville Channel last night and is believed to be proceed- ing to Prince Rupert, or has arrived there, IS AT RUPERT PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Oct. 31. —Freighter Mary D. has been docked here for inspection of dam- age suffered when the craft struck a rock in Grenville Channel last night. Divers will go below to examine the stern and further disposition regarding the vessel will depend upon their report. BERNHOFT WINDING UP BUYING SEASON ‘Three trollers brought small car- goes to Juneau today, selling to Al- aska Fish Products buyer Bernhoft, . Tt is undeniable that . . .| further the satisfaction of the needs | ¢énts; Polaris 42,000 pounds 14%|the naval airbase project. the country (U.S.S.R.) still lags be- | and desires of the workers for food- | and 11% cents. | - R hind the capitalist states in an econ- | stuffs, housing facilities and servic s| Sable fishers selling are: Helge-| Chocolate biscuits are some- omic sense. . . . Because of the low | of & domestic and cultural nature.|land 24000 pounds, Sonja 14,000 thing very different. Make biscuit level of industrial production which } it | pounds, Forward 14,000 pounds, dough the regular way, then spread prevailed before the World War,| And how did Stalin plan to carry | Antler 13,000 pounds, Unimak 11,- each biscuit generously with grated the present level is still below that 1000 pounds, Augir 4,000 pounds, sweet chocolate, Fold half over and through this advancement? of capitalist countries with respect | (Continued on Page Seven) Presho 15,000 pounds, all selling|bake as usual who calls his purchases the “end of the season. The Ida II, had 382 pounds, the Mary, 219 pounds, and the 31A47 251 pounds, all selling at 20 cents a pound for large red Kings, and ten cents a pound for mediums and whites, will be requested to either import| il or export sugar. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | protective mine fields off the south The administrator also is empow-| The following are today's Dow,|and west coast of England. Four ered to buy sugar from the British| Jones averages: Industrials 15188, fioating mines are reported m mid- sugar controller and sell to refin-|rails 33.91, utilties 25.80. i North Sea channel between Har- eries and others in Canada. The T AT T wich, England, and Rotterdam, Hol- Government said the plan assured| A fruit jar, tightly capped, can|jand. Canada of a regular supply at estab- | be used effectively for mixing fruit| October 5—U. S. S8hip Trenton re- lished costs. or milk shakes. (Continued on Page Four) 1