The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8269. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO NDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1939. MEMBER ;_\ SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINNISH-RUSSIAN DISPUTE FLARES NOW WARFARE AT . TrolleyIs First Aid Smtion SEA SENDING SHIPS DOWN Heavy Losses Are Report- ed by British Admiral- ty Over Sunday CHARTERED LINER OF POLAND VICTIM NOW Armed Mér(hant Cruiser, Destroyed-Many Lives Lost BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 27. — The Admiralty discloses that the merchant cruiser Raw- alpindi was attacked by the Ger- man pocket battleship Deutsch- land, and also by another raid- er, and sunk with the loss of 280 Tives. The Admiralty announcement said search ror the two Nazi warships is “continuing during tempestuous weather, both day and night.” LONDON, Nov. 27.—Allied mer- chant and war fleets suffered new blows over the week-end in the sink- ing of the luxury liner Pilsudski, over 16,000 tons, and the British armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, more than 14,000 tons, with a re- ported combined loss of 287 men. The British Admiralty announces that all but 17 officers and crew of the Rawalpindi-are victims.of the disaster and seven persons are still from the Pilsudski under to the British. The liner s built two years ago. Other Sinkings The British steamer previously reported sunk by a mine has been identified as the 1500 ton Hookwood. The British steamer Stangate has been damaged in a collision and in an attempt to beach her of the pilot of the boat ran aground near S port. Twenty men aboard drowned. The British trawler William Hum- phries is reported to have been shell- ed by a submarine and 16 men who took to the lifeboats are missing Order To Seize sea warfare intensification, were The 1Cum.1nu9dron Page Six) Tells Vihy Brifain Is Wagyg War Chamberlain Issues State-| ment to Empire-Also Fire drove residents from a Brooklyn ienement in early morning street car was commandeered as a first aid sta hours, and At top, a girl is questioned after receiving -old woman from the improvised hospital. remove a 74-yea man was killed in the fire, PARLIAMENT OF FRANCE CALLED; MEETS THURSDAY Important Business Will Come Before Spec- ial Session PARIS, Nov. 2T The French Parliament has been called to meet Thursday to approve laws promul- gated under the decree of power by Premier Daladier, and also to ex- tend this rule which expires that ay. Parliament will also be asked to vote on the Civil Budget. - e U. S. Exporis On Increase ADMIRAL WHO SPEED-LINED UNITED STATES NAVY NOW WATCHESPOWERGAINMORE |instead of SHIP SUNK IN THAMES LJ Holland Intensifies Her War M | B DURING DAY | | | | | Elderly Woman Passenger, an American, Four of Crew, Are Killed LONDON. 27.—Four sea- men and an elderly woman, a passenger, identified as Mrs. Stefen, an American, were killed in the sirking of the 8,800 ton Holland-American freighter Sparrndam by a mine in the Thames Estuary Previcus reports said the crew and about 40 and an elderly woman passenger were rescued by a pilot cutter. > (| ALASKA UNION DELEGATES AR HOLDING MEET Cannery Emiployees Dis- cussing Plans for Negotiations PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1 of unions interested in the / a salmon packing industr; are meeting to outline plans for negotiations with employers next spring Approximately 30 us undons are meeting expected to tomorrow. The meeting is under the aus- |pices of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, A. E. Harding, Secretary of the | Federation, Washington ,District The | Council, said uniform wage: anteed seasonal work uniform pick- eting clauses and wage scales are to be considered - CAPTAIN IS LAST st aid. Lower, police One fire- delegates of attending the last through By PRESTON GROVFR WASHINGTON, Nov mathematical genius who ira miles to the speed of every mod- ern warship afloat watches today from a bed in Naval Hospital here while younger comrades, using his plans, ma to add another | billion dollars worth of might to the | United States navy. The famous ship designer, whose s have become the “bible” of architects in every country, T0 LEAVE VESSEL that have come out of Annapolis. Masier of P”sudski Dies He is the admiral who “took the bone out of the teeth of high Soon After Taken from Life Raft ded ex- aylor to de- the water majestically speed fighting vessels,” as navy people phrase it. Generation of navy men knew | that the huge boiling wave of rothy water which plowed ahead “f‘ 1:‘1 sigaiies s oty one. cut.| LONDON, Nov. 27.—The death of s st i the master of the Polish liner Pil- ting down the speed of the ship oot i sl aBkin n Atk fuel. dor that: 1t TUCeKy Japte SISHEER ss0on after e ¥ o .. (his ship was torpedoed is reported. could not stay at sea so Jong. It was | . 2 i According to survivors of the Pil- beautiful to see an old style ship {2 oSO Sloutng ih wnvsk ith “a bous fn| 0Kl SR/ CADEs Qianuick was DO e e he navy it was | ScVerely injured in one of the two pos \‘1“,'\5,1.' i “ | explosions that sent his ship to the s { bottom off the English coast. % ':‘ Ehx b w‘m(:h‘ o | Despite his injuries, the Polish i Gt s e shipmaster refused to leave the ship de 1 e le wivc in a lifeboat, but remained aboard RsE IDI 8 HOSANDIE: until the last minute, then dived |into the sea. a gun crew of bant. The Dutc highly efficient. Holland intensifies her defense measures following two German border incidents which put the Dutch- | German relations at the straining point. Here's INACTION ON THE WESTERN . FRONT MAY REFLECT THERE IS CONTROVERSY,NAZILAND UP AT CONFERENCE By MORGAN M. BEATTY national circles that the German inte moderate and extremist wings g with the moderates on top—up to now. Warm Springsfo Talk ve nowing out to the bitter ena with . D. R. gium or Holland. They not only T fear the impact of such a maneuver WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov, 27./0n world public opinion, but also on his arrival here for a conference N0t change friends in the middle that efforts will be made o whittle|1and about with the strongest mili- | down substantially the Govern-|tary trap ever devised by man. | ment’s expenditures but he added:| These moderates are also advis- Smith carried a brief case con-|the Maginot Line in 1939 or 1940 ury and Justice Departments and|could flank the Allles in 1914. | the: Pandids Ganal | Theyre telling him the net re- 3 1 A {sult would be to achieve nothing |closer to the British Isles, at the i SMOK'NG MOTHER lives, Meanwhile, the German army’s fighting front would be doubled in | |length to nearly 400 miles, from tr Mothers should not smoke, says Dr.land half of it would be unfortified. Joseph Brenneman, head of Chicago! | | Children’s Hospital. “It gives them| Byt what's more interesting is the | they may set the baby's clothes on |trong position in Nazi inner circles. fire,”” he said. |Here's the way the story goes: | = ‘ When Hitler and his army com- | - OUT ON VISIT high command has definitely split Budget Director Smith at The moderates are supposed to against invasion of neutral Bel- Budget Director Harold Smith, up- | they are wondering if Russia might with President Roosevelt, asserted|Of the melee—and hem the father- 1t will be a whale of a job.” ing Hitler he can't expect to flank taining the budgets for the Treas- | 8Ny more than the German army | : {more than submarine and air bases WARNING IS GIVEN expense of many thousands of WINNIPEG, Canada, Nov. 27. —|Swiss border to Ostend, Belgium, halitosis, makes them nervous and|reason given for the moderat: mand were discussing Poland in Congress. Treasury fo casures in Crisis the Dutch army in action at B h army is small but well equ’j MRS. ROOSEVELT " MAY TESTIFY AT DIES HEARINGS American Youlh Congress | Said fo Be Instrument ‘ of Communism \ et | WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — Mrs. | Franklin D. Roosevelt said she is willing to be a witness beforé the Dies Committee if any information she might give is helpful, She made the remark at a press conference |and about the same time, Major | Hampen Wilson, investigator of the| House Committee on UnAmerican- ism, testified that the American Student Union is an instrument in spreading Communism among stu- dents. Mrs. Roosevelt, who has address- ed the American Youth Congress and said repeatedly she did not be- lieve the American Youth was Com- munist controlled, replied to the suggestion of Alfred Lilienthal, of New York, that she and he appear as opposing witnesses on the sub- ject. Lilienthal led the group that split off the American Youth Congress’s Student Union, vne of several or- ganizations making up the Youth >-eo Now Borrow | Half Billion — RN SHOOTING REPORTED ON BORDER Four Red Soldiers Killed, Nine Wounded s (laim Made ULTIMATUM-LIKE NOTE SENT ACROSS BOUNDARY Withdrawam Frontier Garrisons Demanded —Refusal Cerfain (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Russian and Finnish dis- pute flares teday into grave proportions as trocops of the Russian army ctaged a mass meeting and called for “strict- est measures” and warned Fin- land that “10 days was enough to conguer Poland.” These demonstrations fol- lowed upon a “border inci- dent” Sunday. The Russians charge the Finns killed four and wounded nine Red soldiers. ULTIMATUM Moscow has sent an ulti- matum-like note to Finland demanding the withdrawal from the Finnish border of all Finnish garrisons. Finland has denied any shoot- ing on the Finnish side and appeared ready to refuse any Russian demands. It is said the demands, un- official, require the withdrawal of troops from the border with- out delay but no time limit is given and the demand, ac- cording to unofficial advices is only a “friendly proposal.” BERLIN, Nov., 27.—A Nazi For- eign Office spokesman described the current Soviet-Finnish dispute as strictly a matter between these two nations. The Nazi official de- nied reports from abroad that Ger- many was cooperating with Rus- sia’'s pressure on Finland by seiz- ing Finnish merchant ships and mining channels in the Baltic. He claimed that the Baltic operations were aimed solely at Britain’s trade with the Nordic countries. EXPORTSTO GERMANY T0 BE SEIZED Brifish Order in Council Is Signed by King-Neu- frals Profest LONDON, Nov. 27—King George United States | 1 LONDON, Nov, 21—prime Minis-| Wide Range Dul’il‘lg Octo- ber from Imports Also CHANGED WORLD'’S NAVIES | A % It took years of painstaking sx-l _Two seamen pulled him aboard a; Miss Irene Lmdhq!m. member Of:Augus!, it was generally agreed | 2 e has signed an order In Council pro~ ‘pcrimomat’mn in a cramped testing life raft and held him there unul‘thc_stafl of the Whitehorse Inn, at|that a blitzkrieg should be feasi-| WwASHINGTON, Nov. 27—Secre- viding for the seizure on the seas of | they were picked up by a destroyer.| Whitehorse, for the past year, is ple and—barring rain—successful. | 3 SR all German exports regardless of {pool in Washington. The plan he| 4 i xh 5 " tary of Treasury Morgenthau said evoled was called the “bulbous bow.” Capt. Stanwick died shortly after!aboard the Prineess Norah for a visit| But the moderates advised against ¢y, Treasury will borrow half a bil- whether carried in neutral ships. ter Chamberlain has defined Great | Britain’s peace aim as the estab- Jishment of a new Europe but he! declared, in a chill voice, the chal-| Shown in Report lenge of the British Empire had in; the first world war was the aim| ywASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Exports to defeat “that aggressive bullying of American merchandise exceeded mentality which seeks to dominate |imports in October by the largest the other people by force.” | margin in years, the Department The declaration was made in a speech to the British Empire and also to the United States. Naval Superiority The Prime Minister acknow- ledged the continuing losses at sea but declared they had not affected “our overwhelming naval superior- ity.” Chamberlain expressed complete confidence in an ultimate victory and accused the Germans of ignor; ing consideration of humanity, par- ticularly in laying a “new kind of mine indiscriminately. It matters nothing to Germany that she is daily blowing up neutral ships, thereby drowning or mutilating citizens of countries with which we are not at war. British Purposes “our desire, when we have achieved our war aims, will be to establish a new Europe with a new spirit in which nations which in- habit it will approach their diffi- culties with good will. mutual toler- ance and in such, fear of aggres sion in Europe will have ceased to exist.” jof Commerce reports | Exports totalled October and imports $2: This is the wides month since January The full effect of the w rope however, is not shown report saj Much of the exports have gone to Latin-American countries which {have been cut off to some extent | from European sources D .Call Census If You Haven't Been (ounlfiei Enumeration for the 1940 census is just about completed in Juneau. | Alaska Supervisor J. P. Anderson anncunced today. He urged that pread of any 1938 ar in Eu- the | { | !a bigger wave ahead than would a he had been helped aboard the res- with relatives and friends in Van- ¢ They said it would draw the Brit- 11t. To the inexpert eye it looked as if putting a ship bulge on the lower | part of a ship's bow would raise even | cue craft. knife edge. Taylor proved it would not. Every modern destroyer, battle- |ship and cruiser now has the “bul- | permits the four heavy turrets, tWo gtates Senator Lewis B. Schwel- | fire power, accuracy, and stability pederal Government in the near | | | {anyone not yet interviewed by an | Enumerator get in touch with Bu- !reau of Census headquarters in the ' Federal Building, in order that ;m!- 44 Jone be missed. blous bow” design he worked out. Speed-lining of ships was notl‘ his only contribution to naval d(’-l gning. He put the U. S. navy in. the lead of other navies for a time | by center-lining the firing turrets. | Old line battleships balanced their| gun turrets on opposite sides of the | ships. Taylor designed the system which! SEATTLE, Nov. 27. — United aft and two forward, to ride the janpach predicts that ‘Alaska will center-line of the ship. It increased |yecejve more attention from the of the ship. Equally important, it pitire than at any time in the put the turrets farther into the core history of the Northland. of (hg ship, adding strength and ef- Returning from a vacation trip hc_u'ncy, Every world navy 10]]0wod:w Southeast Alaska, Senator suit. | Schwellenbach said that for the > i first time the importance of Al- "BRAING SAILOR 'aska in the scheme of National De- Ta)‘lur_ was not much of a fense has been appreciated nation- gotng sn_\lor, 'for thie DAY ‘fmuld N ally by developments at Kodiak and Wasw his designing abilities b;‘fsm.df Sitka and this is the beginning of ing him to sea. He was a “brains AAfI0F fxoea: the tipe- he “entered, % SOmpiEhengive program. for Y0 | tection for Alaska and the Pacific | Northwest. sea- (;Jox‘x’i.inued ;m 7p’a;ge Sl;() U.5. SENATOR PREDICTS couver, MORE ALASKA ATTENTION FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE Senator Schwellenbach said pro- tests of Territorial the three percent justified. Senator Schwellenbach the Bureau of Fisheries for neglect of that industry. The Washington State Senator admitted the residents of the Ter- ritory are disappointed because the new Governor is not a native, but he believes the majority approve the selection of Dr. Ernest Gruen- ing who has shown more enthusi- astic interest in Alaska than any- one connected with the Adminis- tration in Washington. miners against tax on gold is | blames sh into war. They reminded the | Fuehrer that even his No. 2 man— |'Hermann Goering—did not want to fight the British. Incidentally, Goering told a fa-| mous Ameérican shortly before the war started that the German blun- der in 1914 was to put the British | !vmxnrv in a position to oppose the Reich, “That,” said Goering, “can’t| happen again.” But the Nazis apparently were| convinced that the British would not fight in 1939. So, the story goes, | ‘mey blithely promised the mod-| erate army chieftains that they | | wouldn't have to fight on the West~ ern Front. And on that basis, Ger- many invaded Poland. Now the Nazis seem to be on the| spot. They apparently have agrced not to fight on the westwall. And | Herr Hitler, apparently, is keeping his faith with the moderates — so far. That leaves the old-line military caste on top of the heap, despite the mysterious death in Poland of their former commander-in~chief, Colonel-General Werner von Fritsch, ‘The general had been demoted to (Cm; j;meé onrl’agi; Four) 11 lion dollars tomorrow, the first ma- Jor financing in the year, necessary because of the deficit which amounts to more than $1,600,000,000 so far this year. Secretary Morgenthau said the Treasury will sell half a billion two percent Treasury bonds maturing in 1948 to 1950. - —oe v S ey Stock QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6 American Can 11%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem Steel 82%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 54, International Harvester 58, Kennecott 39%, New York Cen- tral 177%, Northern Pacific 9%, United States Steel 67%, Pound $3.89%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 148.59, The order is expected to be ef- fective within a few days and will give Great Britain an opportunity to give further explanations to neu- tral nations who have protested to the planned move, TROBERG IS ON WAY SOUTH FOR VACATION Walter E. Troberg, of Dawson, Y. T, passed through Juneau on board the Princess Norah for Se- attle where he will join Mrs. Tro- berg and son. They will travel to California and visit Mrs. Troberg’s brother Edwin Gault at Los Molinos. Mr. Troberg will return to Daw=- |son in April where he is employed at Middle Dominion. rails 32.86, utilities 25.40. l Gaips were slight and irregular. {