The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV,, NO. 8252. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS B : , PRICE TEN CENTS CREW OF CITY WORKERS OF ALLIES GET SOVIET CALL Moscow Urges Laborers in | France and Britain to Halt War REPEAL OF EMBARGO | | DRAWS RUSS ATTACK Bolsheviks Celebrate|, While Rome Ignores | Anfi-Red Event | . (By Associated Press) The working classes of Great Britain and France have been| urged by the Communist Interna- tionals to halt the war. soviet Guardian of the Black Sea | | ‘eople’s Commissar Kuznetsov, chief of the Soviet navy, is shown | From Moscow, headquarters of the Comintern, an appeal is sent out to British and French work- ers “against those who favor a continuation of this imperialistic | war.” | The appeal goes in the form of a manifesto celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revo-| lution. | The United States is assailed| for repeal of the arms embargo| and attacks are made against both | Italy and Japan. | 3-Day Celebration ! Russia started a huge three-day | observance celebration of her revo-| Jutionary anniversary while Fin- nish-Russian negotiations over So- | viet territorial demands were held | in abeyance and another anniver- sary, Italy's second year anniver-| sary in the signing of the anti-| Comintern pact, was ignored Congratulations ‘ This pact linked Italy, Germany | and Japan against Communism. | Signatories of last year, Hungary, Spain and Manchoukuo, exchanged | congratulatory notes. | Since these signings of the anti-| Comintern pact Germany has signed | a non-aggression pact with Russia, | so Italian newspapers, instead of discussing the anniversary of the| pact pointed against Russia, de-| voted attention to Premier Musso- lini's declaration Saturday that| Italy is “strengthening her forces| for the future.” ! - e — AIRPLANE " BUILDING 10 BOOM Predicted 20,000 Men to Find Jobs-Orders Tota! $35,000,000 Now LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 6—Of- ficials of Soufhern California air- craft companies estimate that 20,- 000 men will get factarv johs hefore | January 1 as result of the arms em-l bargo. At the same time the companies announced receipt of European plane orders totalling $35,000,000. All factories will operate at capacity to fill the orders. PG EARLY MOUNTIE ON LAST TRAIL Adam Dickson Passes at Carcross After Many Years in Klondike Word has been received in Juneau | that Adam Dickson, one of the first seven “Mounties” to go into the Klondike country, died October 17 in Carcross, Y. T. Dickson, known well all through the northern provinces of the old| gold rush trail, first went to the rush area with six other Royal Mounted Police in 1897. Death came from a lingering ill- ness, uring maneuvers in the Black Sea, which the Soviets consider their | rivate lake. Passage through the Dardanelles into the Sea may be one | f Great Britain’s benefits from the the Allies and Turkey. BOY LOST SIX DAYS IN WILDS Seven-Year-0ld Lad Finds Way Out of Rugged Arizona Area HOLBROOK, Ariz, Nov. 6. — A level-headed boy who was lost for six days and six nights but finally found his way out of some of the most rugged country in Arizona, lay in a hospital bed and wisecracked about his adventures. Bruce Crozier, aged 7, awoke yes- terday in the first bed he had slept in since he separated from his par- ents a week ago Sunday at a moun- tain auto camp, to ask: “Nurse is there any hot water? I sure need a bath.” The youth walked into a deer hunting camp southwest of here while searching parties were hunt- |ing for him, at one time over 900 men and boys being on the lad’s trail. Little Bruce appears to be the worse for his experience. D e President Is At Hyde Park HYDE PARK, Y., Nov. 6— President Roosevelt rested Sunday at his Hyde Park estate after a strenuous week of activity in Wash- ington. The President braved the heavy downpour of rain to attend church. He had no official engagements in the afternoon. The President will remain at Hyde Park until after he votes in tomorrow’s election. TRADE AGREEMENT IS MA DE BETWEEN VENEZUELA, U. §. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. — The State Department announces the signing of a trade agreement be- tween the United States and Vene- zuela. The agreement is the 22nd nego- tiated by the United States and the eleventh concluded with American republies. DRIED FRUIT FIRE REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Nov. 6.— A fire destroyed the Pratt-Low fruit warehouse with an estimated loss of $125,000. Thirty carloads of dried fruit burned with the building. none 3 mutual assistance pact signed by Soviet may object. Bldckade Proposed | By Nazis; set British Blockade, U. | S.Embargo Repeal | (By French Associated Press) economic experts today {accused Germany of trying to off- |set the British sea blockade and United States arms embargo re- \peal by closing all European sourc- |es of supplies to the allies. The French experts declare Ger- to Great Britain or France. Germany calls the repeal of the arms embargo by the United States as ‘“unneutral.” It is also intimated by Germany that intensified sea warfare might result as the result of the arms embargo repeal, | German newspapers and also semi-official comment expresses bitterness against U. S. President Roosevelt and attributes the lift- ing of the embargo to him and not the wish of the people. D AIRBATILE REPORTED Nine Out of 27 German Planes Shot Down by French Squadron PARIS, Nov. 6—The i High Command announces that the French air forces have been vic- torious in the biggest air battle reported thus far since the begin- ning of the war. The French communique said | | that nine German planes had been | shot down out of a squadron of 27 when a squadron of nine French pursuit ships attacked the Ger- mans. The air battle was described in the nightly communique of the French high command and said: “There was great activity by both air forces. In the course of a vio- lent air battle nine French pur- suit planes attacked a group of 27 German pursuit planes. Nine of the German planes were brought down, at least seven of them fall- French | ing in our territory. Our patrol | returned complete and unharmed.” - e, MISS PATCHIN SOUTH \swamer Tongass following a visit here as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cook. f itack from lis in war !in Europe and declared “The capi- | MOLOTOFF CONDEMNS U.S.BILL Stalin Cheers Orafion As- sailing Allies and Capitalism MOSCOW, Nov. 6.—Premier Mo- lotoff assailed the United States today for repealing the arms em- bargo, asserting, “It is only a mask to cover a struggle for profit.” Molotoff delivered his accusations in a speech opening a three-day celebration of the Bolshevik revo- lution’s 22nd anniversary. Britain and France also drew at- Molotoff, who accused them of wishing to prolong the war against Germany. Stalin, War Commissar Voroshi- loff and other leaders were among those at the Bolshoy opera house who applauded Molotoff's words which included a sweeping attack on capitalism. Molotoff asserted half the world because of the conflict talistic system is sure to fall now,” Workers and peasants will no longer put up with the capitalists, especially those who want to fight under the pretext of ‘“defense of democracy,” Molotoff said B TWO SHOT DEAD IN FARM HOUSE: MAN WOUNDED Germany toA—flempI 100ff- Son-in-Law of Dead Wom- | an Is Sought for Questioning ‘WINCHESTER, Va. Nov. 6.—Two persons were shot to death and a third seriously wounded in a farm home here yesterday. The home is owned by Stewart, aged 30. The bodies of Mrs. Annie Miller, middle-aged housekeeper for Stew- Robert many is attempting to get ‘Euro- ... ,nq samuel Carter, 55, a visi- pean neutrals to agree to trade (. . VR, tor were found on the floor ar only among themselves and not sell giewart i ahok n\r “""“]I neck. He is in a critical condition Harry Orr, son-in-law of the dead woman, is sought for questioning. |gave old age pension proposals their | —————— SIX CONVICTS IN VAIN ATTEMPT T0 BREAK TO FREEDOM One Guardmanlly Killed -Woman Wounded- During Grid Game long-term econvicts, attempting to escape while the inmates were 'watching a prison yard football ‘, tax equal to one-fourth of the Fed-| game, killed a guard and wounded a woman visitor in their vain at- |tempt to break for freedom yester- lands. day in the southern Michigan prison. Chief Inspector of the guards Fred | Boucher, 54, was dropped with a dollars every Thursday” program | shotgun charge and died instantly. A stray bullet struck Mrs. Doro- | thy Roberts, of Kalamazoo, hurting | non-workers over $50. her slightly. The convicts were recaptured and placed in the dungeon. Military District Declared by Nazis BERLIN, Nov. 6. — All German territory on the left bank of thf’] Rhine was declared a military dis-‘ trict today and placed under strict| police control. The decree adds the city of Cologne to the mili- tary area. ICKES AGAINST HAM, EGG PLAN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Nov. 6.— Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes Miss Virginia Patchin of Castle | urged California voters today to de- | Rock, Wash., sailed south on the|feat the ham and eggs old age pen- | daughter of motion picture director machine guns and small cannon, sion plan in tomorrow’s election. Said Ickes: “I like ham and eggs | engagement to New York actor and - T NoRTH 2 NOUR_EXTREME RANGE (500 MILEL) ¥ *BIRMINGHAN NGLAND If Germany attacks through Holl greatest airport, which the Nazis Holland captured, Belgium wi major barrier, and the Belgian for PENSION PLANS ' WILL BE VOTED © UPONTUESDAY 'Three Big Cities fo Pick | Mayors in Offyear 1 Elections (By Associated Press) Citizens of California and Ohio |1ast once-over today before voting | their convictions in tomorrow’s off- | year elections while office seekers in a dozen other states argued large- |1y over local issues, with elections of mayors for Philadelphia, Detroit and San Francisco outweighing the | political interest in campaigns for | three seats in the House of Repre-| | sentatives and the Governors’ chairs in Kentucky and Mississippi. | Herbert Bigelow, leader of the, Ohio pension drive, said tonight that |if his proposed amendment to the | | state constitution is defeated, he will ‘drart a revised proposal incruslng‘ taxes for pension payments to guar-) antee every retired Ohioan over 60 | vears of age at least $50 a month. | Bigelow said he would collect a| | eral income tax and will tax two| | per cent of the value of certain| The pension battle in California centers around the revised “thirty under which some pensioners would | draw from $15 to $30 a week and Population Exchange, | ———ee | ‘Will Be Underfaken - | ‘ MOSCCY, Mov, 6—The Soviet| Government is understood today to have begun negotiations with Lithuania for an exchange of pop- | observers, transmits it to a dial nt settlement of |on the gun. is| keep a sort of pointer on the gun ulations. The rece the Soviet-Lithuanian border said to have left about 180,000 peasants living in Soviet territory. They will be exchanged for an equal number of Russians and Jews living in Lithuania. - ISENGAGED HOLLYWOOD, Cal.,, Nov. 6.—The | Frank Lloyd, Alma, announces her for breakfast, but not in politics.” l,,];.ywngm Franklin Gray. present bases at Wilhelmshaven (3) and Emden (4) are almo: industrial centers, First move would be capture of Utrecht (2), center ould be next, observers believe. The Albert Canal ( d Namur (8) would attempt to hold up the invader | pending Allied reinforcements. Britain's vital cross-channel routes are at (9), and Lille (A) is Britain’s ARMY DEMONSTRATES THA IN WAR TIME THERE'S NO PLACE WHERE MAN IS SAFE and, her main objective will be Rot! would make a jumping-off place for st double ts at Liege (7) an air base in France. I By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—For the benefit of ourselves and 3,000 others, the army demonstrated its latest | fighting gadgets to such telling ef- | fect that we are convinced that in war there is simply no place where a man can be comfortdble or safe. One plane dropped three dozen or more small bombs all in a row, the way you sow radish seed. Strewn | along a road they would have wiped out a regiment. | One big bomber, from high up, dropped a 2,000-pound bomb, It is the biggest the army uses as a regular thing, although it has some 4,000-pound jobs — heavy as a cadillac—in reserve. The one-ton | item burst a mile from where we lay hidden behind some low bushes. It smashed up the air so badly that fragments of the noise reached us like a burst of machine gun fire be- fore the shuddering “boom” closed in on us. It threw dirt and brush 300 Xe(fl in the air and lifted out a cone of earth into which you could have| placed a two-story house. We were told that medium artillery can shell a heavy concrete bridge all| day without wrecking it, but one of those 2,000-pound airplane eggs nestling into it will take out a whole section. Where bombs fall there is no peace. PLANES ARE AS BAD But with anti-aircraft artillery busy on the ground, there is no peace for the planes from which the bombs fall. A nastier sight we never have seen than the way the muzzles of those anti-aircraft guns follow a plane across the sky. It is like nothing so much as the way a| snake, with head uplifted, eyes a bird. Observing instruments spread over the ground in a wide triangular formation focus on the plane. The cumulative result of their “seeing eyes" is communicated to a central sighting mechanism which looks like the upper half of an iceless refriger- ator, heavily studded with dials. This mechanism digests the in- formation and, together with data which may be supplied from other The gunners simply | following the sighting dial, and |the muzzle creeps across the sky, spitting three-inch shells at the rate of one every two seconds. From | then on the clear-blue air about the plane is a thick mixture of flying | shell fragments. Three targets towed lacross the sky in simulation of an | enemy airplane were shredded by shell fire, In turn, two tanks, armed with | bounded across a ditchy field pour- | (Continued on Puzve Beven) on Holland of Holland’s flood control system. {‘Baron Max of Brussels’,” he said. | with the Bruxellois, however, long | | before the war made him a national | | | g terdam (1), Western Europe’s raids on England. Germany's the air distance from England’s 5 and 6) would offer a } [ ADOLPHE MAX, | " HERO OF WORLD WAR, DIES TODAY ‘Was Taken Prisoner by| | Germany, Escaped- Remarkable Record | | | BRUSSELS, Nov. 6. — Adolphe Max, Burgomaster of Brussels, im- | prisoned by Germany during the World War, and who has held of-| fice ever since, died today at the age of 70 years. Adolphe Max, who once declined | the Belgian premiership to remain | | mayor of Brussels, broke all records | 'as holder of that office. He was named burgomaster on October 12,| 11909, and was chief citizen of the Belgian capital for a longer period | than any of his predecessors| \throughout the city’'s centuries of | history. | His heroic stand against the Ger- | man invaders on the outbreak cf the | war in 1914 made him easily the most popular man in the whole of | the 4 ny kingdom, and he never lost | his place in the hearts of all Bel- | gians, Refuses Title Honored by many foreign coun- tdies, he perferred to remain plain | Monsieur Adolphe Max in his own | When King Albert offered him a | barony as reward for his unflagging | services to the capital and the coun- | try, Max refused. “‘Adolphe Max’ sounds better than Max was Burgomaster popular hero. He had been mayor for six years and city councillor for eleven when the war broke out, and had never lost an opportunity of mixing with the citizens of Brussels high and low. “Our Max” to All He was at ease at an official ban- quet or quaffing a glass of Brus- sels’ famous beer with the bargees in “Les Marolles,” heart of the old city. He was “Our Max” to one and all, At every carnival, he would be | there to kiss the carnival queen, and when grief afflicted his city or | his country he was the first to offer sympathy and start relief measures. Max more than anyone else led the nation’s grief on the tragic oc- casions when King Albert and later Queen Astrid lost their lives. He had the friendship both of the Queen Mother Elizabeth and of King Albert, with whom he almost ranked in greatness in the eyes of Belgians. A lawyer by profession, Max was | born in December 31, 1869 and was graduated as Doctor of Law at Brus- sels University at the age of 25. | On October 3, 1903, he was elected | member of the Brussels city coun- | cil, after nine years as provincial councillor for Brabant. He soon forged ahead to a position of lead- | ership in both the municipal and national Liberal groups, eventually | sharing with his old friend Paul OF FLINT IS THREATENED Why Allies Fear Attack RELEASED SHIP NOW AT BERGEN American Craft Goes from One Norway Port fo Another CAPTAIN TELLS OF EVENTS AT SEIZURE Prize Crew—WeII Armed, Able to Fight Any Resistance BERGEN, Norway, Oct. 6. — The seized American City of Flint, re- Jeased by the Norwegians from the German prize crew last Friday night when the vessel was anchored in Haugseund Harbor, is now here where further movements and car- go disposal are held in abeyance. Capt. Joseph Gainard, describ- ing the seizure of the freighter, said the German captor threatened to sink the ship if the men gave them any trouble. “The German Lieutenant sald the selzure was & War measure whether any of us liked it or not and he must carry out his orders,” Capt. Gainard said. Prize Crew Armed The German prize crew Wwas armed with pistols, hand grenades, bayonets, machine guns and other weapons. Skipper Gainard recounted his experiences in a broadcast over an NBC network after being captured on October 9 by a crew of the Ger- man pocket battleship Deutchsland. Capt. Gainard said the City of Flint proceeded on various courses until October 18 when the Germans painted out all trace of American ownership and the colors of Den- mark were shown on canvas and stretched amidships, but the Dan- ish flag was never flown. Capt. Gainard praised the stan- dard of conduct of his American crew, U. S. MINISTER TO NORWAY IS ON SCENE BERGEN, Nov. 6—United States Minister to Norway, Mrs. Borden Harriman, has arrived here from Oslo and hastened to confer with the American Consul, Maurice Dun- lap, and Capt. Gainard. Mrs. Harriman later prepared to board the City of Flint and talk with members of the crew. A German naval attache in Oslo is also on his way here in con« nection with the case. It is reported in Norwegian cir« cles, that regardless of the dispo« sition of the ship, the Nazis will insist on release of the German prize crew, still interned aboard a Norwegian warship. CAPTAIN'S WIFE CHEERED MELLROSE, Mass., Nov. 6.—The wife of the captain of the freight« er City of Flint, Mrs, Joseph Gain- ard, is cheered by a two-word cablegram from her husband at Bergren, Norway. The message from Capt. Gainard said: “Feeling fine.” - eee MORATORIUM ON SOLDIERS’ DEBTS EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 6.— An order in council passed by the Alberta governinent pronounces a moratorium on soldiers’ debts and tax exemption on the property of men in active service. The Provin- cial Legislature may meet in Janu- ary to pass an act to make valid the moratoriwm order. The Public Administrator will be empowered to represent the soldiers on estate matters and no debt action will be valid until two years after the men have been demobilized. —————-- — MAN, GIRL FOUND DEAD, APARTMENT ODESSA, Texas., Nov. 6.—Cedric MecCown, 26, and his fiancee, Veleta Donaho, 19, were found dead this morning in her apartment from as- phyxiation. A gas stove was found burning full blast in the apartment with doors and windows closed.