The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA NEWS ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE N EMPIR VOL. LV., NO. 8248. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINLAND THREATENED BY SOVIET RUSSIA Sub. Makes Attack Off U.S. Coast BRIT. SHIP SENDS OUT 5.0.5. CALL Freighter Flashes Ouf Dur-| ing Night Requesting Assistance COAST GUARD BOATS ARE RUSHED TO S(ENE Arrivals on DeSIgnated Spot Find No Trace- Search Confinues WASHINGTON, Nov. can rescue craft both afioat and in the air this afternoon widened their search for the British freighter Coulmore which flashed an “S.0.S." last night she was being attacked by a submarine about 680 miles west of New Yor] First to arrive on the scene was | the Coast Guard cutter Bibb of the neutrality patrol fleet. No trace was found however of the 3,600-ton craft nor survivors The Bibb then left for a northward. Besides the Bibb, cutters Hamilton, Campbell, Che- lan, Argo and Duana with two Coast Guard planes and an unan- ncunced number of United States Navy vessels combed the area. A moderate southerly gale blowing. This spot. Coast Guard afternoon an extensive search is being made and messages | are to be dispatched in case amy news develops. The Coulmore was last naported at Baltimore on October 15. At that | time the craft was under com- mand of Capt. Ernest Davies and a crew of 3¢ men was aboard. The wife of Capt. Davies is also reported aboard. e e "Jew Free’ Is Ordered OnVienna Are Requirfio Leave b March 1-Properties Confiscated BERLIN, Nov. 1—At least 4,000 Jews have left Vienna during ti last two weeks headed for the Jew- ish reservation in former Polish territory, local authorities said, add- ing that Vienna must be “Jew free”| by March 1. The Jews have been given three days to leave the Reich and.allowed to take only $120. Other properties are apparently confiseated. lews in other cities now fear their turn is coming m SUB-ATTACKED BRITISH BOAT SINKS IN TWO Crew of F(W and Lone Passenger Are Taken Safely fo London LONDON, Nov. of the 5300-ton British steamer Bronte was disclosed today on the arrival of her crew aboard a rescue vessel. The crew of the Bronte, and one passenger, were rescued by a ship which attempted to tow the crip- pled Bronte to port after a sub- marine attack. The attempt to tow the Bronte in failed and the vessel sank. is 1.—~The sinking | | Flier’s Wife Home I | | [ | 1.—Ameri- | Wife of the noted American avia: tor, Mrs. Clyde Pangborn arrives| in New York aboard the Presiden: | Harding. She was a French actress | prior to her marriage. Her hus. | band remained in England. | | | v ! i BRITISHTO DOLEBACON ~ ANDBUTTER 'Ration Orders Issued as Commons Expresses Fear of Raiders (By Associated Press) | Great Britain today declared |the first food rationing since the war brought German attacks on | British shipping. | The Government announced the | raticning of butter and bacon, for ‘whlch products Great Britain de- ‘pmds largely on Denmark, the ra- ‘Llomng program to begin next menth, because of reduced imports. | Britain’s concern over German | sea raiders is indicated in the House \or Commons by First Lord of the | Admiralty Winston Churchill, who said one, and perhaps two of Ger- | many’ 's swift pocket battleships are lmsp on the high seas. I Food restrictions familiar to most | European nations in war time, are |already in effect in Germany on an |even wider scale than those immed- |iately phmm! in Great Britain ‘6 PLANES SHOT DOWN BY NAZIS| BERLIN, Nov. 1—A communique vfrom the Supreme Command, is- sued today, raised to six the num- |ber of planes shot down by the | Germans on the Western Front and lin the North Sea. | Four of the planes were British, | |the announcement said, but the identity of the others was not disclosed. | '5 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Nov. arriving from the western banks and selling their catches today are |as follows: Tririty 43,000 pounds, 14% and 13 cents a pound; Thor 40,000 pounds, 13% and 12 cents; King- fisher 24,000 pounds, 14% and 12%; |Tlene 36,000 pounds, 14% and 13 cents; Holinda . 24,000 pounds, 14 and 13 cents. Sable fishers arriving from the local banks and selling include the Faith No. 2 with 21,000 pounds, Tacoma 20,000 pounds, White Hope 17,000 pounds, all selling for 6% cents a pound straight; Ionic 15- 000 pounds 6% cents straight, | a deficiency appropriation in Janu-| 1. — Halibuters | 7DEFENSE OF - NATIONTO BE COSTLY Roosevelt S as Congress, Is fo Be Asked for | $215,000,000 ‘ WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Presi- dent Roosevelt estimated today that the cost of safeguarding American neutrality for the first ten months of the war will be $275,000,000. | The President told reporters the sum is to be asked of Congress as| ary, thus strengthening the belief of officials that the total nauunux] defense appropriation for next| session of Congress will exceed L\WO‘ billion dollars. President Roosevelt said the de-| ficlen(-y money is needed to pay | for increases in the armed forces as proclaimed in Septembes under a limited national emergency head- | ing. The Army is expected to take a | billion dollars next year, the Navyi almost as much, and other lesser | services the balance,, R fposromcnofi BE REMODELED, | WILE ANNOUNCES Postmaster Returns from| Attending Convenfion | at Washington Bids are to be called immediately | for remodeling of the first floor of the Federal Building here in order | to give more space to the post office, | Postmaster Albert Wile announced today on his return from Wash-| ington. Plans for remodeling include the placing of an additional section of | boxes, enlarging the window space, | | moving the office of the Postmaster into space now occupied by the Territoial Treasurer and en]a)gmg lobby space by tearing out the ln- ternal Revenue office. Construction of a new wing for the building is first on the list for | Federal construction in Alaska, Wile }learned. It awaits an appropriation | | by Congress, probably at its next| | regular session. | Attended Convention | Postmaster Wile went to Wash- |ington to attend the annual con- | vention of the National*Association of Postmasters, a gathering which | | he described as the largest and fin- | est ever held at the capital. | Only other Alaska postmaster at the convention was Mrs. Agnes‘ | Reinert of Ketchikan. Besides attending sessions of thel convention October 10 ,11 and 12 Wile visited points of interest at the’ | capital, met Jim Farley and henrd' President Roosevelt greet Postmast- | ers on the White House lawn. When he went into the Senate gallery to hear part of the neutrality debate, Wile sat down next to Mr. and Mrs. william B. Kirk, a ‘“coincidence” which he found out later was ar-| ranged by Delegate Anthony J. Di-, | mond. Former Alaskans In Chicago, Wile visited A. A. Humphrey, formerly of Juneau, and in Washington saw R. L. Jernberg, former Juneauite who is planing to return here next year to open a law office. The Postmaster said all the former Alaskans he met on the trip were anxious to return to the Ter- ritory. In New York, the Postmaster vis- ited his sisters, one of whom he had not. seen in 30 years. Former Alaskans visited by Wile in Los Angeles included Hazel Fer- guson and Mike George, father of the Juneau George brothers. ———————— MRS. ZINGELER HERE Mrs. Emile Zingeler and daughter Suzanne arrived on the Alaska, re- turning to Juneau after residing in California for the past several years. Mrs. Zingeler is with the Alaska Juneau Mine Company. They have taken an apartment in the Assem- bly. German Sea Raider Seizes American S e American freighter Ci hip 7. | y of Flint (top) was seized in the North Atlantic by a German sea raider, the Emden (lower) and taken to the Soviet harbor of Murmansk after the City of Flint had picked up the crew of the British freighter Stonegate, sunk by the “pocket battleship” Deutschland. was seized as war contraband, the Germans claim. MASTER Capt. James A. Gainard (above) is master of the U, S. freighter City of Flint, seized by the Ger- | man raider Emden as a prize of war. NEUTRALITY BILL IS GAINING SPEED FROM HOUSEMEN Thirty-Vofe Majority Pre-. dicted for Adminis- fration Bloc WASHINGTON Nov, 1 this afternoon after the House gone into session an hour earlier for its last full day of battle on the neutrality bill observers pre dicted at least a 30-vote majority for the Administration Isolationists have apparently weakened in an attempt to stall the measure and it is expected to go into conference tomorrow for speedy completion, La The City of Flint U, 5. PRESIDENT MAY GET 'CHANCE TO SETTLE STRIFE ; BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA Flml Belleved In Norwegian a Island Maze BERGEN, Nov. 1.—The Am- erican steamer City of Flint, bound from Murmansk, Rus- sia, to Hamburg, Germany, with a Nazi prize crew aboard, is be- lieved by shipping circles to be threading its way southward through the countless islands of Norway's western coast. If rumors of the vessel's posi- tion are correct, the craft should enter “danger zone” waters to- | morrow morning. American diplomats are watching the progress of the Citf of Flint carefully after is- suing a warning to belligerent ations that the lives of Am- erican seamen aboard the vessel must nnt be endangered. RS SECOND FBI MAN JOINS STAFF OF JUNEAU OFFICE 'E. M. 0’Donnell Arrives fo| Work with Vogel-Nofre Dame Graduafe A second G-Man was added to the staff of the Juneau FBI office to- day when Special Agent E. M. O'</pan's need for an Donnell arrived on the steamer Al- aska. Both O'Donnell and Agent Ralph | Vogoel will work out of the local: O'Donnell is a graduate of (No, office. Notre Dame. | football there.) he didn't play, | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — Right now prospects for peace seem only moderate. Yet some persons see a | possibility that President Roosevelt, | by good diplomatic headwork, could | score a grand slam by bringing peflce‘ not only to Europe but also to Asia. | Washington did not respond im- | mediately to Berlin's | suggestion that the U. S. mediate. | | But that opportunity promises to| remain open. It is a “developing” situation. Wholly overshadowed by the Euro- pean war, is the dawdling conflict | in the Orient. Persons here with| wide diplomatic contacts, especially | |with far eastern figures, say the| |time already has arrived when the U. 8. could put an end to the Jap- mnexe -Chinese affair with one warm | gesture, The hitch lies in the fact that the | warm gesture would have to be made toward Japan. That would take con- | “preparation.” Am-| siderable public ericans lately have become soured on the Japanese. Americans are dis- | posed to call for hard treatment— | not for warm gestures | WE ARE JAPAN'S SILK STOCKING DISTRICT But that Japan is more amenable to U. 8. influence just now is clear. She has asked to revive the trade [uvu'\ denounced by the U. 8. last {July. She can't afford to lose her | | mdmr source of international spend- |ing money—her iarge sale of silk to {America. The U. 8. could use that | situation to press upon Japan for improved conditions in the Orient. A more important aspect is Ja- international big brother” among the western nations, as she once had in En- gland. That relationship ended in 1922, when the U. S, as a condi- {tion of naval disarmament, insisted (Continued on Page Three) ) unofficial | DEMANDS ON FINLAND ARE MADE PUBLIC Soviet Russia Discloses| | Just What is Want- ed and How 'STRIPS OR LAND, ALSO " NAVAL BASES ON GULF ;Demilifariz;lion of Front- | ier Among Several i Issues Raised (By Associated Press) The manifold declaration of So- | viet Russia’s foreign policy and the | drastic shakeup of the Italian Fas- | | cist regime, today gave Europe ample food for thought as to how its current war without major bat- tles might be affected. Premier and Foreign Minister Molotoff’s speech before the Su- | preme Soviet Council shed new light on the Finnish - Russian negotia- | tions, bitterly criticized by the Allies, and also hinted that Soviet rela- tions with Japan might also be im- proved very soon. Molotoff's disclosure of his terms demanded of Finland caused a flur- ry in Helsinki where details of the negotiations have been kept a secret | by Finland's delegation which, how- | ever, | Moscow following u telephone con= sultation with the Finnish Govern- | ment as the result of the new situa~- | tion created by the demands. | Demands on Finland The following are the demands made by Molotoff on Finland: One—Strip of Finnish territory | north of Leningrad. Two — Naval base on Finland's side of Gulf of Finland and on some islands in the gulf, Three -~ Portions of Finland's northern territory. Four — Demilitarization of Fin- nish frontier in exchange for Rus- sian protection. | Finland’s fortifying the Aaland Islands. It has been decided by the Fin- nish Cabinet that negotiations con- tinue so that Finland cannot be | accused or dl upting the talks. i AMBASSADOR T0 " RUSSIA ON WAY . BACK TO BERLIN BERLIN, Nov. German news agency, said today German's Ambassador to Russia, Moscow tonight for Berlin. While in Berlin Schulenburg will | \ visit several days with German Am- | bassador to Italy, Von Macekenstein, | who returned to Berlin early this week is continuing conferences in | Russia withdraws objections to| 1—DNB, official | Count Von Schulenburg, will leave | SCANDINAVIA CRINGES AT RUSS THREAT Molofoff's V_V;?ning fo Fin- land Casts Gloom on Neighbor States | GERMANY GLEEFUL AT SOVIET STAND Britain Ir?le-rpreis State- [ ment as Committing [ USSR Neutral (By Associated Press) | Russia's foreign policy, as oulined by Premier and Foreign Commissar Molotoff, today produced widely di- | vergent reactions in Britain and Germany and cast gloom on the | Scandinavian countries. Molotoff's warning to Finland to jcome to terms with Russia shocked ‘publlc opinion in nearby Scandi- navia, Newspaper editorials were | cautious but commentators agreed in describing the situation as “om- inous.” | Feeling that Russia, having once | broadcast her terms to the world, |will not modify them, authorized German sources expressed them- selves as highly pleased by Molot~ | off’s address to the Supreme Soviet Council. Anybody that believed Germany is cisappoiited Is completely mils~ taken, they added. Germany Applauds | Official Germany is evidently es- | pecially well satisfied with Molot~ | off’s analysis of the causes that led to the present European conflict. He asserted that the restitution of Poland and the alleged fight for ideadlogies were being used as mere excuses by Britain and France. There was an official silence in Great Britain regarding the speech but British newspaper headlines de- clared “Soviet neutral.” Tt is ap- lparent from the tenor of the press that the feeling persists Molotoff offered Germany “a packet of words and very little else.” They feel it leaves Russia committed to a posi~ tion of neutralilty. NEW CHIEF CLERK FOR INDIAN OFFICE ARRIVES ON ALASKA | Fred Geeslin, new Chief Clerk for the Office of Indian Affairs, Alaska Division, arrived on the steamer Al- aska today. He and his wife are |registered at the Baranof Hotel. Geeslin has been connected with | the Taholah Indian Agency at Ho~ | quiam, Washington, doing special ‘Iu-ld work., e formerly was chief | clerk for the United Pueblos Agency at Albuquerque, New Mexico. M For a summer touch, mold frozen ‘saladl or desserts in halved orange skins. | [ [ [ | Recallof U.5. A WASHINGTON, Nov, 1. — De- mands that the United States recall | its Ambassador to Russia because of Premier Molotoff’s criticism of | President Roosevelt was injected into | the House neutrality debate by Rep- resentative McCormack of Massa- chusetts. Representative McCormack said 'he had read accounts of Molotoff’s Council in which Roosevelt was criticized as “intervening” in Rus- sia’s negotiations with Finland. “For that statement made by an official representative of Soviet Rus- sia,” McCormack said, “the United | States ought to recall its Ambas- sador That should be the answer of the United States to this attempt to influence American public opin- ion. This is a grave breach of inter- national law.” Molotoff yesterday told the Su- kpreme Soviet Council the United | |address to the Supreme Soviet| mbassador ~ ToRussia Made Because of Molofoff's Attack on F.D.R. States is acting In contradiction to the United States policy of neutral- ity and in the face of Finland’s re= fusal to accede to Russian demands, accused President Roosevelt of mix- ing in the negotiations. STATEMENT TIMED WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Stephen Early, White House Secretary, ques= tioned as to whether or not it was “purely coincidental” that Molotoff criticized President Roosevelt at a time when an important vote is scheduled in the House on neutrality legislation, said he did not know whether or not the President had read Molotoff’s remarks as yet. Early said, “The decision to speak yesterday and give the first revelas | tions of points being discussed be- | tween representatives of Finland and Russia, whether by colncidence |or not, seems to me to be worth considering as a question of w