The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVI, NO. 8523. Germ POLICE STEP OUT OF HUNT FOR SNATCHER Wealthy Family Ready fo| Pay $100,000 for Re- | furn of Little Son | HILLSBOROUGH, .Cal., Sept. 21| =5 have withdrawn from the kidnaping case in which three-year- | cld Marc de Tristan, son of the| Ccmtesse Marc de Tristan, socially prcminent in’ San Francisco, was snatched yesterday afternoon from | a nurse, by two men and rushed off | in a black sedan. Parents of the child are reported prepared to pay the $100,000 ran-‘. som demanded. | Sheriff James McGrath declared today: “We are abiding absolutely | by our promise to the fam'ly and| | (Continued on Pige Two) WASHINGTON. — The President| and mop-browed John L. Lew have patched up their differences. The CIO chief will make a state-| SPAIN'S ment, probably today when he ad- dresses the convention of the Unit- ed Federal Workers in Washington, endorsing Roosevelt and urging la- | por to support him at the polls. The peace—or truce—was reached | at a recent secret White House conference, which required a month | of maneuvering by mutual friends to arrange. Lewis was willing, in| fact very eager to be invited to call, but Roosevelt definitely was not. | He knew he had the top CIO| chiefs and practically every CIO union behind him, so he saw -no| reason to go out of his way to honey up Lewis. He told the self-appointed | intermediaries that Lewis could get’ a White House appointment any time he wanted it, but he would | have to do the asking. | But that was exactly what Lewis did not want to do. In the past, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNE EAU, ALASKA.- SATUI'DAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 4 an Crowning of “Miss America” by the 1939 DESTINY IS FIXED, German For—eEn Minister, ltalian Premier, Con- clude Conferences ROME, Sept. 21.—German Foreign Cente «Miss America,” past and present, smile the crowning of the 1840 choice, winner, Patricia Donnelly of Detroit. The queens | SOVIET FLEET axe ahown at_Atlantic City, N. J., where the contest was held. & [ | | | \ | | | \ for you in this picture taken Frances Burke of Philadel- TiaiilaAna Fire Hit Half Block of Business Sec- | tion Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze TIAJUANA, Lower California, Sept. 21.—-A half block of this sleepy resort’s business center was levelled by an early morning fire today. Included in the destroyed build- ings in the business section was TROUBLE LOOMING IN ORIENT Entry of Ja;a_nese Trddfié: Into French Indo-China | May Start Conflict BULLETIN— VICHY, France, Set. 21.—The French Govern- | ment anncunces that negotia- ticns at Hanoi on the Japanese demands for military rights in French Indo-China, have enter- ed a difficult period “from which anything can be expect- ed.” Settling Senate HONGKONG, Sept. 21.—The Chi- ‘nese newspapers here print reports, | but unconfirmed elsewhere, declar- | | ing that an understanding has been | reached for the Chinese and French | military to collaborate in the event i Japan invades French Indo-China. | It has been announced that all | Japanese nationals, civilians and of- | | fictals, are to be evacuated from | man; Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, N. C.; | Hanoi, to permit for entry of Jap- | anese troops. that opposition to entry is to be| '{ resisted. | JAPAN WILL ACT ‘ TOKYO, Sept. 21.—It is said here that Japan is ready to act and seize the entire French colony should re. quest. for passage of an unlimited inumber of troops be denied. The passage Is wanted for ‘troops: attack on South China. e differences on the draft bill passed by the two branches. Mo.; Rep. W. G. Andrews, N. Y.; Rep. H. W. Harter, May, Ky., House military affairs chairman; Sen. Morris Sheppar: Sen. W. R. Austin, Vt.; Sen. Chandler Gurney, S. D._ The evacuation hints | = 3 \ Answering the Roll Call }for new - INMANEUVERS, - NORTH PACIFIC | Significant MovementsRe- | 1 ported from Moscow- Aimed at America MOSCOW, Sept. 21.—Soviet Naval authorities reveal that the Russian | Pacific fleet is engaged in war games ' |in the Pacific, presumably some- | | where off the coast of Siberia. | The naval maneuvers are being ‘camed out simultaneously with land ; | maneuvers of the Soviet Army near | | the Siberian coast. | | The naval war games include ' National Guardsmen of the 71st Regiment leave their dressing rooms to .House Differences on Draft Left to right, around tne table: Rep. Dewey Short, Ohio; Rep. R. A. Thomason, Tex.; Rep. Andrew d, Tex., Senate military affairs chair- - FORSPEECH Minister von Ribbentrop has com- |¢ne Federal Postal Telegraph struc- | sham battles, night mine laying prac- when leaving a White House con-| pleted conferences with Premier ference, he has never failed tostress | Mussolini and is returning home to- ture. i |tice and battery practice against kThe cause of the blaze is not | supposed enemy squadrons advanc- nown. {ing on the main western Soviet Phonephoto Members of the Senate and House joint committee ‘are shown as they met in Washington to iron out Sherman Minton, Ind.; and Sem. WILLKIE IS IN 'FRICO Says He Won't Pull Punch- es-Declares "I Don't Fight that Way" SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 21. | —Wendell Willkie, who “rode the {Tods” to this city 30 years ago as| |a young harvest hand, returned to- | day to climax the campaign in Cali- | i fornia with a speech tonight on| | foreign affairs following a dozen | | impromptu talks in the Bay area. | Wearing a white carnation in his | buttonhole, Willkie arrived last |night after recelving cheers and some heckling at talks in the Sac- ramento and San Joaquin valleys | where he worked at the age of 18. In his final speech before a train- |side audience at Sacramento, Will-| |kie said friends had been telling| | him, “Wendell, you should pull your punches, I don’t know how to into federal service. Guardsmen are to receive one year of training | [-n‘wer roll call in their New York headquarters as they prepare to go | with the army. call. So he firmly insisted on this}equlpped with anti-aircraft batter- face-saver. Roosevelt was equally| firm in refusing to grant it. Kindly, astute Bishop Sheil of Chicago, intimate aide of the late Cardinal Mundelein and a warm friend of both men, finally proposed 1 ) l' on newsmen that he was invited t0 morrow on his armored train | a compromise: Roosevelt would ex-| tend the invitation, but Lewis would come informally to the residence part of the White House, not to the executive offices. Thus the meeting would not be covered by newsmen. This was acceptable and General “Pa” Watson, White House secretary, telephone Lewis to call on the President at 6 p.m. The talk took place in the Oval Room, the President’s study, on the second floor of the White House. STRAIGHT TALK Both men were friendly, but frank. Addressing Lewis as “John,” Roo- sevelt said he was willing to let by- gones be by-gones, but that hence- forth Lewis should come to him per- | sonally whenever he had some com- plaint to make. Lewis could always get an appointment and there was no need for rhetorical fireworks. “You and I know, John,” the Pres- ident said, “that in our hearts we both are working for the same thing —the greatest good for the largest, number. We don't have to shout at| one another. When you have some- thing on your mind, you come di- rect to me about it. The door is al- ways open.” Lewis agreed there was no reason why they couldn't “get together,” and Roosevelt could make a start by doing something about firms who are hostile to labor getting de- fense contractd. “You e¢an make these big corporations comply with —— il ey (Continued on Page Four) | ies. . Today he and the Premier are | sightseeing. The two statesmen are believed to have decided on how Spain should fit into the picture for prosecuting the war against Great Britain. Firemen Ask Shorter Hours DES MOINES, Sept. 21. — Fire fighters want shorter hours. The International Association of Fire Fighters ended their conven- tion with endorsement of a resolu- tion demanding an eight-hour day. New York local president John Pulhm introduced the measure. He said firemen now average nearly 12 hours a day for a 68-hour week, | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session of the |New York Stock Exchange is 4%, | | American Can 98, Anaconda 22'%, |Bethlenem Steel 80%, Common- |wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 48%, | Kennecott 29%, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 7%, United | | States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ELECTRA DUE Soldiers of the army garrison were called out to aid the fire fighters. SRR L OBJECTS T0 HOMEGUARD WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Sen- ator Edwin C. Johnson, of Colorado, said today that the plan approved by the War Department to set up “home guard” units in states ffom which the National Guard had been called to duty might permit gov- ernors to use such organization as a “political football or to form vig- flante groups.” He voiced his objections after tes- tifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee which subse- quently reconsidered its previous ac- tion approving the measure. —ellp | FROM INSIDE A PAA Eiectra 1s due in this after- noon with five passengers aboard, Capt Al Monsen and First Officer Jim Stewart piloting. Coming in are Mrs. A. Lappi, R. Brown, Mrs. M. Speljack, Buddy Speljack and B. F. Speljack. | e | The “simple, unspoiled savage tribe” in almost any region has Jones averages: Industrials, 132.45; rails, 28.45; utilities, 21.95, *Jscholar can ever record. more traditions and taboos than a |naval base. The Red Fleet war games are be- lieved to be far different from the 1 B Ih Sidé e > DASSENGER ON | Pacific maneuvers of the American | | fleet near the Hawaiian Islands. | 0 ' D ra ' ‘ i n ‘ O ' MISSING PLANE Rep’ esenfed three Aboard Army Air- | Some naval observers and military :experv.s regarded as significant the‘ | craft Unreported Since Early Friday Night |GENERAL IS short lapse of time between the pub- | lication of accusations aimed at Am- | erica in the official Soviet fleet | publication and the start of the war games. The official naval pubuca-l tion of the Red Fleet has accused | the United States of spreading the |President I(U\Bpoint Com Monroe Doctrine to the whole world. | Verde Islands, Portuguese and Span- ish bases off the West Coast of North Africa. “Occupation,” Red Fleet said, “by a strong European power, would be a serious menace to the United | States, particularly to Latin Am- erica, hence the United States is The United States, Red Fleet as- | H _Mili serted, is planning to occupy the mI"ee' Non Mlh'ary | SR R Azores, Madeira, Canary and Caj "AYETTE , N. C., Sept. 21.— ., . Inferests An airplane in which Brig. General Francis Honeycutt, Commander of WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Presi- | nearby Fort Bragg, was a passenger dent Roosevelt is expected to soon has been missing since 7:45 P. M. name a Civilian Advisory Committee last night, when it was reported over of six members to.represent the Savannah enroute to Jacksonville. views of non-military interests in| - Others on the plane were Capt. ‘iorgamzing and administering the George Kehoe, pilot, and Corporal | draft. Robert Schnitz. | fight that way. If any timid pussy- | footers want to pursue that policy | I don't want them to talk to me. i “In my solemn judgment, if this administration is not removed from | power, then this country is on the |road to bankruptcy. That road leads to loss of liberty.” i sk llaliansin . DesertFight 4 ROME, Sept. 21.—An Italian com- | munique says that Italian soldiers in ‘(lm Egyptian campaign have cap- tured a British armored car patrol | in the desert near Sollum, The state- | ment, declared that the problem of thirst in Sahara desert warfare wouldn't defeat the Italian march | on Egypt. | | Marco Franzetti, Italian corres- | pnndel}t for La Tribuna, said the | | Italians fully met that difficulty and j 'trucks were hauling enough water | }preparing to take them over herself.” e Mary Miles Minter Again_lllimelighl HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 21.—A one-time top flight actress of the silent screen, Mary Miles Minter, has appeared in court to contest the will of her late sister, Mrs, Margaret Fill- more. The will left $1 each to Miss Min- ter and her mother and the re- mainder of the estate to a former maid. The ex-actress charged that her sister was mentally unbalanced at the time she made the will. Miss Minter and Mrs. Pillmore engaged in several law suits, Meantime, the Senate passed late | A squadron of five planes began a yesterday the $338,000000 ° Army | search at dawn today. Housing Bill for barracks and other > facilities in preparation for the first | P iizr’::’:?'mt of 75,000 conscrips in No- | u. S. Des"oye“ Canada Is fo Have ‘ Given fo England . V.. Destroyers Being Renamed | LONDON, Sept. 21. — The first | OTTAWA, Sept. 21.—Nava] De- flotilla of destroyers purchased from |fense. Minjister MacDonald an-the United States have been re- nourices that six of the over-age named. The flotilla leader is now United States destroyers that have | known as the “Churchill.” Others arrived in Canadian waters will be }nre named after towns and villages commissioned in the Royal Canad- |in Great Britain and the United ian Navy and wilt be maintained by | States wherein each name com- Canadian crews, | mences with the letter “C.” to supply each man of the desert | | forces with three and a quarter igallons of water daily. The corres- pondent said that the spirit of the | Italian troops was excellent. i 'Nazi Sympathizer | Gefs Year in Jail WINNIPEG, Sept. 21. — Fritz Bringman, aged 67 years, formerly | head of the German-Canadian League, a western organization, | chiefly active in Manitoba, has been sentenced to a year in the provincial | !penn.enuary. A close investigation shows he had been active in promot- | 'NAZI BOMBERS BEATEN BACK AT LONDON rs Shelled _B?ye ériiisiz_ Flee (4 t BIGMASS ASSAULT FAILURE Anii-Aircrafimund Gun Fire Breaks Up Al- tempted Attack (By Associated Press) Nazi raiders, opening the third week of mass attacks on the British Isles, especially on the London area, swarmed across the English Channel early this forenoon in the mist and rain but their coming was heard and the raiders had little success as the anti-aircraft guns opened fire and the planes returned to the Kentish coast. Ground guns turned other sections of the invaders back. London had only one air alarm this morning. Supply Ships Smashed The British Air Ministry an- nounced that British bombers smashed two Nazi supply ships in night long raids en the French and Belgian coast channel ports and also successfully attacked Dorts- mund and Ems Canal, inside Ger- many, and also heavily bombed many distribution centers in the Reichland and Belgium. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Econom- ic Warfare in a speech this after- noon in London declared that RAF bombers visited and shelled “ninety percent of Germany’s synthetic olk - ot o, 80.ooent o bes gl These targets have been heavily hit. Further, said Dalton, “Even though production still continues it is at a reduced rate.” German Report The German High Command re- ports that severe damage to “‘war essential” objectives, especialy the center of London and west of the big bend in the Thames River, has been done during the past 24 hours. The report declares that the big Royal Albert docks have been fre- quently hit and new fires have been added to the smouldering blazes. The High Command also claims that three submarines recently sank 78,000 tons of shipping in the Eng- lish Channel. The Berlin newspapers continue thunderous abuse of Great Britain for attacking “defenseless German localities.” The Boersen Zeitung, quoting from the old testament, says “we learn that more than once, on command of God, it is necessary to eradicate the whole generation and may it not be necessary now to bring about cleansing of the peo- | ples?” REDUCTION INRATIONS LONDON, Sept. 21.—The Germans are reducing the standard of living in’ occupied countries so that they may maintain their own. Notice of reduction in rations has been given in Holland. A reduction in rations becomes operative in France next month and in Belgium food regulations have been tightened up. Blias 37, 4 AEIR raid | COAST GUARDER HERE FOR INSPECTION Lieut. Commander Frank Tomkiel, Chief of Staff from Coast Guard headquarters, at Ketchikan, arrived on the steamer Denali this morning. Tomkiel, stopping at the Baranof Hotel while here, will examine the cutter Haida's engines. Presid&l’s Sonp— Wants fo Join Air Corps HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 21.— | Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said Elliott Roosevelt has applied in Washington for a commission in the Army Air Corps. The application is entirely of his own initiative. He has taken a civilian pilot training ing Nazi plans to the detriment of Canada. L course. Young Roosevelt will be 30 years old next Monday.