The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. LV., NO. 8262. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939. CANADIAN GUNFIRE STOPS U. Smouldering BLACK SHIRTS BEING FOUGHT IN2 REGIONS Czechoslovakians Make, Protest on Protector- - ate Government 2,000 STUDENTS ARE REPORTED 'TAKEN IN' Prague Academies, Uni- versities Ordered Clos- ed for Three Years (By Associated Press) The Bohemia and Moravia pro- tectorate territory that Germany took in dismemberment of Czecho- | slovakia continues to test the au- thority of the Germans. Hitler’s Black Shirt Elite Guards today occupied the Czech high schools and Technical Institute undi took away some 1,200 students. | There is no immediate explana-| tion but 2,000 students demonstrated Wednesday against th'e government | A ryjing by Dean Germany had set up in the protec-| ¢ the knee” drew e drum majorettes. e wisa Crabtree, head majoretie, Raid Alarms i | \ | 1 Margaret Mack that girls’ skirts must “hit the middle loud protests from the University of Nevada’s corps of If the decree is enforced, such a treat for the eyes as would become only & memory. [ NINE SHOT TO DEATH “ BERLIN, Nov. 17.—~A DNB of- ficial German News Agency dis-| patch from Prague says nine per-. sons were shot to death late to- day and a large number arrested ALLIES ARE in connection with student dis-i turbances there. | | re oun e The dispatch also said that ' Prague academies and universities | have been ordered closed for three | | - Jouinrrance The DNB says these extraordin- | Eenes” assaulted Giermans, Supreme War Council German Bombers Confinue Makes Announcement to Make Flights Over After London Meet | Two Areas Dr. Eduard Benes was the last President of independent Czecho- | lovakia. | No indication is given in the| DNB dispatch as to whether the nine were executed or killed fxghl.-; LONDON, Nov. 17—Supreme Al- o | lied War Council has met here and | announces that a “complete agree- ! ment” on methods of using French | German airplane squadron contin- | and British forces in effective con- | ued flights over Southeastern iduct of operations has been | France. ! | One German bomber flew over the (By Associated Press) A joint statement signed by Prime | Minister Chamberlain and Premier | Daladier said plans have been com- !p]cLed for common action in the | field, air, munitions, raw materials, oil, food, shipping, and economic warfare, Three Affiliates, General Mofors, Also Found Guilty of Violation (CAPONE RESTING ! EASILY, HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 17.—Al | capone is reported today to be SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 17— resting easily at the hospital where Federal Judge Walter Lindsley has|he was taken yesterday. He is imposed fine of $5,000 each on the | undergoing treatment for a men- General Motors Corporation and | tal ailment. Capone is expected to three affiliates, convicted last night|remain in the hospital for several by a jury of violating the Sher-|weeks. man Anti-Trust law. | The former gang overlord was Prior to imposing the fines, the bought to the hospital yesterday maximum provided by law, Judge |following his release from Federal Lindsley overruled motions for a|custody at Lewisburg, Pa. He had new trial and arrest of 1udgment_[scrved seven years at Alcatraz, The three affiliates convicted | with the General Motors Corpora- tion, are the General Motors Sales Corporation, General Motors Ac- ceptance Corporation and General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana. Judge Lindsley ordered the Gen- eral Motors Corporation and Gen- eral Motors Acceptance Corporation to each pay half of the costs of the prosecution. T0 FILL IN BLANK HONOLULU, T. H, Nov. 17—To fill in a scientific “blank” on the map of Polynesia, Dr. Truman G. Tuncker, De Pauw University botan- ist, is off to the island of Niue. The little known isiand dis 300 miles south of Samoa and has a popula- tion of 4,000. GOING STRAIGHT WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Attor- ney General Murphy said today that Al Capone and his family had given the Justice Department as- surances that the former gang leader was going straight and not going to get mixed up in illegal activities. He added Federal agents will keep Capone under survillance. PR g LIVENGOOD WOMAN IS ON WAY SOUTH, TRIP Mrs. Grace Lowe, woman placer mine operator from Livengood, vis- ited briefly in Juneau today on her way south, arriving by PAA plane from Fairbanks and going out on the Motorship Northland. - ON HOONAH TRIP Johnny Amundsen flew to Hoonah today with Dr. T. J. Pyle in the AAT Lockheed and returned with Pyle and Mrs. Roy Bean. Shetland Islands north of Scotland, but dropped no bombs. e e - GENERAL ELEC. HEADS RETIRE | Young and Swope fo Give Way fo Younger Men in Big Company NEW YORK, Nov. 17—Two of the nation's outstanding industrialists, Owen Young and Gerard Swope, announced their retiremnt today from active management of General | Electric. Young was chairman of the Board of Directors. He was sixty-five. Swope was President of the com- pany. He is sixty-seven. Both have passed the company’s retirement age. Succeeding veterans are Philip D. Reed, Chairman, and C. E. Wil- son, 53, President. Both of them have been assistants and will take their new offices January 1. On that date, Young and Swope will proceed as honorary presidents. The new chiefs look younger than their years, Reed actually apparing to be in his middle thirtt ITINERANT PASTOR | FORT DAVIS, Tex., Nov. 17.—The Rev. Dewey Hobson Joiner travels almost 1,000 miles a month filling pulpits for Sunday services in four large Texas counties. | | | | | | | Revolt Breaks FDR'S NAME ENTERS WAR TALK AGAIN Would Like Roosevelt's Aid in Parley 'HITLER AND STAFF ' HAVE DISAGREEMENT Adtivity on Front Is Minor Though War Planes i Are Busy (By Associated Press) Europe's conflict continued today ‘m be fought mainly on the verbal | front as British military authorities | offered the “conviction” that disa- greement between Hitler and his ‘Geneml Staff has caused “indecis- ive” tactics by the Nazis on the i\Va ern Front. | German authorities have already hinted their tactics would be chang- ed from the defensive to the offens- ive, but at the same time weighed |anew how the German government | would feel toward a mediation offer | by President Roosevelt. | Informal Peace Talk | The President’s name was inject- |ed into an informal peace talk Oc- sixth when German authori- aid Hitler would accept an ar- if it were proposed by the American executive with a view to-! |wards a general settlement of the | European situation, That talk ran its course in a week | when Washington made it clear no formal invitation to offer mediation had been received, and even if it} |should be received, chances are no| action would be taken unless the | United States were assured in ad- vance that Great Britain and France will listen Again Comes Up Berlin introduced President Roos- | ‘nvvlt's name again today in saying | | Germany will not be interested in | | any general mediation offer, but will | | likely respond if Roosevelt asks bel- | tober | | A\f alarms were sound‘ed car]y‘llgf’rems to outline their war aims |Office spokesman asserted today Oct. 1, to do teday at Lyons and Marseilles as a as a move toward finding a commonilhm relations between Japan and | basis for mediation, | On the actual battle front today, ‘both Frengh and German c | muniques recorded minor act on the Western Front, but ity war- | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ). SHIP into Flame Nazi Plane Shot Down Over Scotland 1. 1. N. Radiophoto plane shown in this radiophoto, flashed from London to Edinburgh, Scotland. Two gunners were found dead The pilot, uninjured, after being’ forced down, pe, but crashed into a stone wall. A secon was driven off, Four British planes shot down the big German war; New York, after a thrilling battle over Humbie, near in their seats. A third man suffered two bullet wounds. taxied across the field in an attempt to take off again and esca ulane, of the reconnajssance type, NORTH COAST HALTED;SHOT ACROSSBOW Capt. Borkland Reports In- cident Which Occurs at Prince Rupert ' STEAMER IN DANGEROUS WATERS AT NIGHT TIME Master Failed fo Stop Quick Enough on Order So Canadian Shoofs SEATTLE, Nov. 17. — Capt. | Andrew J. Borkland, master of the North Coast, of the North- land Transportation Company, arriving in Seattle yesterday 0 SUCCESSOR RADIO INDUSTRY GRAPPLES M 10 BUTLER S WITHHOTPOTATO; QUESTION | Congress Meets Be- By PRE: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The ’ 0;1 GROVER ‘ # . fore Nominating radio industry is confronted with a| tough public relations problem since | HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov, 17. —/ it adopted the code under which it | President Roosevelt told newsmen Tefuss’ (o Wall HHIS m_r fie hroags today he will wait until Congress casting of controversial speeches. 5, unless soms 'Russo, Japan Relafions in convenes in Janua John L. Lewis and his Congress of Industrial Organizations and the | emergency arises, before he will fin ood A((or group interested in Father Cough- | the vacancy in the Supreme Court| lin’s broadcasts are piling up com- | caused by the death yesterday | plaints. Particularly has the CIO | 5 2 | e charged the National Association of | MOrning of Associate Justice Plerce Broadcasters, sponsor of the new Butler. i code, with an attempt to destroy| The President admitted he has| freedom of ‘speech. | given no thought to Butler's suc- For the broadcasters, it is a thorny Foreign Office Spokesman at Tokyo Discusses Situation ’(';L\r They announced that their “*¥°" purpose was to protect freedom of | S o e i ymre [speech, mot to destroy it. They| FUNERAL SERVICES TOKYO, Nov. 11.—The Foreign proposed in their code, vrrr-cu\'(-} WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Funer- b otngs: . |81 services iwere neld today foe | 1. Sell no more time for dis- i e b Russia have changed to a point| cussion of controversial issues | Supreme Court Justice Butler who died yesterday after prolonged ill- | ness. Services for the jurist were |held at Saint Mathews Catholic | Church, where the situation is more favor-| able “than ever before” regarding outstanding differences (except to politicians in politi- cal campaigns). 2. Organize “forums” where ~ INDICATED NOW. 0“ SPEE(HI FREE! pAID I:OR;Presidenl I;o> Waif Until The Spokesman said the change| time would be given free to all FIRST OF YEAR planes were busy. S 'is due to the September 6th truce |which ended fighting on the border between Outer Mongolia and Man- choukuo demarcation of frontiers on | the Asiatic mainland and settlement DR. GRUENING NEXT TWo Weks MUST FIGHT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Aides |of Dr. Ernest Gruening said he | will leave for Alaska next week or week after to take the recess appointment as Governor of Al- | aska. Interior Department officials said they knew of no persons under con- sideration as a possible success to Dr. Gruening as Director, Di- vision of Territories and Island Possessions. NEW GOVERNOR IS SAILING DEC. 2 FROM SEATILE Dr. Gruening Names Dafe of Deparfure in Wire fo Gov. Troy Governor-Designate Dr. Ernest C. Gruening will sail from Seattle on December 2 for Juneau, accord- ing to a telegram received today by Gov. John W. Troy. Jacobs Will Not Release Either Garcia or Arm- strong from Bout NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Mike Ja- cobs has notified all parties con- cerned that he has refused to realese Ceferino Garcia and Henry Arm- strong for their proposed middle- weight fight in Los Angeles in Feb- ruary, Garcia is recognized as mid- dleweight champion in New York. Jacobs has exclusive rights to both fighters, 6 KILLED IN CRASH, PERU. pointment as Governor of Alaska| LIMA, Peru, Nov. 17—8ix per- yesterday from President Roosevelt. sons, five Peruian army fliers and The Alaska Steamship Company an Italian civilian mechanic, were vessel Yukon is leaving Seattle De- killed when an army plane crashed cember 2, and it is believed the new early today near Mala, 15 miles Governor will come on that ship, south -of here. An inquiry is to be though Dr. Gruening”s brief message made as to the probable cause for did not say so. the crash. "IN FEBRUARY The Associate Justices who sat sides to argue questions of pub- | with Butler on the Supreme Court lic interest. The station owners reserved to themselves the |bench attended the funeral in a right to determine what are \body. Representatives of the Am-| “questions of public interest.” |erican Bar Association and a num- of Washington officials also } Their position is that if they sell | ber |radio time for controversial dis- | were present. The body of the Jus-| | cussions, the people with money will | tice will be taken to Minnesota for | {hog the time, to the disadvantage, burial. |of people with a good case but no Butler was born in a log cabin near Northfield, Minnesota, on St. | money. | | Patrick’s Day in 1876. Burial will | C10 BROADCAST ENDED be on Monday from Saint Luke’s | 5 Here is a typical reaction. Smtlun!cnurm W ?"' iging 2% ! |WJW of Akron, operated by Miss| | Edythe Fern Melrose, has been sell- | ing time regularly for CIO broad-| casts. Under terms of the code, she {has told CIO that she won't any| | more. | | DEWEY TESTIFIES, “'Taint fair,” says CIO, and an- Bu“D‘ lEADER (ASE nounces plans to take the case to NEW YORK, Nov. 17—District the Federal Communications Com- { Attorney Dvwevastlfi.ed !,;xlay that mission. The protest of the labor | SO0 RCT T eader Fritz |group is that air time is sold to : : | Akron’s tire manufacturers and utn-'g::l‘l‘ “',“_‘)“(.’""“E’r“”“r;';c::)‘r"“‘é:'} er industrialists over the country to 1.4 1o Cunsidir(‘g the Bund fl“ build up public good will for thelri, . 00¢ otne civil libertties of the products and for industry. The la-| "~ * e 5 bor group, however, must wait untilj“";;"l“"” )'l ke PR radio awards it some free time on| ;"’L‘;" L‘l‘".“‘) i ROM (8 ‘”’I ';‘t* !a “forum” where the industrialists :r’:('; Ior‘“‘m}‘;”“;éu;"'l‘,yol;"’l;‘i""sur‘:" share alike the right to hit back. 4 | ¢ s e b Akwn‘.sb“v‘v Sw! The Prosecutor defended the s says she is already giving way ten lure of the Bund’s records as a legi- free periods of 15 minutes each | timate search for evidence. daily to such organizations as the| The District Attorney was called | | American Legion, community chest, |35 & defense witness in the trial | ministerial association, WPA and |Of Kuhn on charges of stealing Bund | | Federal Housing, and naturally will|money. Attorney Sabbatino ques- [not have an unlimited amount of | tioned Dewey in an attempt to prove time to give away to “forums” on |that the city administration' was at- CIO issues. tacking Kuhn for political reasons. : The state completed presentation (of it case yesterday. It accused |~ The case of Pather Coughlin has|the German American Bund leader| not become nearly so heated out in|Of theft of Bund funds. Before the the open but is seething underneath, | State completed its pn-svnjtaliun it a major error Time on the air of more than 40 Was forced to admit stations is bought for Pather Cough- |in prosecution testimony—a prose- | ;(’ASE OF FATHER COUGHLIN from the Southeast Alaska trip, reported that a Canadian Naval vessel had fired a shot across the bow of the steamer at Prince Rupert. Capt. Borkland said the ship carried 76 passengers and crew of 75. INCIDENT AT NIGHT The incident occurred last Sunday night when the officer of the Canadian vessel prob- ably thought that Capt. Bork- land did not stop his steamer quickly enough when ordered to do so. Capt. Borkland said he thought it necessary to keep the steamer moving to safe- guard against grounding in dan- gerous waters but stopped his engines immediately at the shot across his bow. Capt. Borkland said he had reported ahead, upon his de- parture from Juneau, Alaska, that the North Coast was going to stop at Prince Rupert. RIGHT AND WRONG The Canadian officer at the Esquimalt Naval Base said the officer of the examination serv- ice ship was within his rights as regards firing a shot across the bow of any vessel failing to stop at the command but added it was an error of judg- ment if the officer tried to stop the American ship in danger- ous waters. Brili—si;* Recruit Women | Forty Thousand Are to Be Enlisted in Home Auxiliary LONDON, Nov. 17.—The British ‘War Office today called for 20,000 men for home defense battalions and at the same time a recruiting campaign opened to increase from 20,000 to 40,000 the strength of the ‘Womens' Auxiliary to the Territor= ial Services, The womern serve as clerks, cooks, chauffeurs, etc. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 17. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 7%, American Can 113%, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 30%, Commonwealth and Southern 1'%, General Motors 54, Interna- tional Harvester 63, Kennecott 40%, New York Central 20, Northern Pa- cific 10%, United States Steel 70%, Pound $3.89. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, lin's weekly speeches. Aircaste cution accountant said his mistake ‘I’ sy |reduced from $5840 to $1.891 the L (Co’nrunuea on Page Six) § amount Kuhn is accused of taking. Jones averages: industrials 151, down .15; rails 3380, down .09; utilities 26, up .07.