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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
Roosevelt 10 Address Joint
Session Of Congress
on Thursday
NEUTRALITY WILL BE
EXCLUSIVE subject
Chief Executive Appeals 10
BeIligerenfs on
Air Bombing

WASHINGTON, Sept 19.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has made tentative
arrangements to address joint ses-
sion of the House and Senate on
neutrality about IL a. m. Up. S. To
Thursday, Stephen Early said today.
The President will begin drafting
his message today. The message is
expected to deal almost exclusively
with revision of the Neutrality Law.
Early said the message will be
brief.
Asked if brevity is due to the fact
the whole neutrality subject has
been pretty well gone into hereto
fore, Secretary Early asserted that
Congress already has considerable
information on the subject.
In response to a Polish appeal,
European belligerents to renew their
European belligerent to renew their
pledge against bombing civilians
from the air.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
Starts Suit
0nLegaIity
Alaska Toll
Test Case on Richardson
Highway Freight Levy
Filed in Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 49,
A suit to test the legality of tolls m
freight over the Richardson High
way, Valdez to Fairbanks, has been
filed in the District Court by Clyde
Gordon, trucker, against Frank
Nash, superintendent of the Alaska
Road Commission; Lloyd Hansen
and Charles Simmons, toll collec-
tors at Big Delta.
Gordon asks for a restraining or
der to be issued for bidding toll col
lections.
Gordon also asks $500 for attorney
fees.
Clyde r. Ellis of Anchorage and
J. C. Winters of Fairbanks are Cor
dons attorneys.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
Chancellor Declares Reich
Will Never Accept
UIfimdtums
SAYS PRESENT CONFLICT
IS TO ESTABLISH PEACE
Russia, Germany 10 Settle
Polish Question, Re-
move tension

DANZIG, Sept. 49, Chancellor
Adolf Hitler emphasized today: 1--WE
have no war intentions against
either England or France. Germany
seeks only to achieve lasting peace"
Further, Hitler said: Russia and
Germany will settle this Polish
situation and this will result in the
removal of tension"
Hitler expressed, however, determ-
ination to continue the war as. long
as he is forced to, saying the word
surrender" will not be uttered nor
at the end of the sixth or the sew
enth year"
He shouted: THE generation of
today is not the generation of Beth
man Hollweg."
No Dictati0ns
Earlier, Chancellor Hitler a d.:
Germany today is no longer a
country to which ultimatums can be
dictated.
1--WE will give bomb against bomb
not only one bomb, but five hun
bred bombs!"
Reviewing the events leading up to
Germany's invasion of Poland, Hit
Ter in an international broadcast
(heard in the United States) well
coined Danzig again into the Reich
and said that the state of affairs in
September had become impossible
after he had believed in August it
was possible to come to an under
standing.
England Blamed
The Chancellor said he has Suf-
fered much from Poland in the past
six years, but he did not send them
an ultimatum.
Citing attempts of Premier Mus
solini to bring about peaceful set
Element of the dispute, Hitler said
England interviewed and prevented.
Then Hitler shouted: England
sent an ultimatum to Germany, but
the day is past when anyone can
send an ultimatum to the Reich"
Hitler said he had earlier at
tempted ito find a reasonable solu-
ton to the problem" but indicated
that such had become impossible
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
new POLAND
LOOMS With
TIED HANDS
Germany and Russia Are
10 Make Map Changes
Poles 10 Agree

CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. 49,.
Reports coming across the Pol
ish border today said new pro-
German-pro Russian regime is
about to be established in Poland
replacing the Government of Pres
ident Moscicki and other Polish
leaders, now refugees in Rumania
Informed persons forecast the
new Polish Government will imme-
diately sign a pact of peace with
Germany and Russia and accept
the redrawing of Poland's Dor
ders.
The new state, news sources said
will be a buffer between the two
great powers.
Maps, mailed from Germany.
showing the expected partition of
the new spheres of influence, have
been distributed here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
CALIFORNIA
HEAT WAVE
HITS HARD
Top Temperature Reaches
1O3 Degrees in Los
Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 49,
Desert heat swept westward to
Southern California yesterday, CIV
ing Los Angeles the hottest day in
% years.
The top temperature reading was
103 degrees.
The temperature reached LOG de-
grees at Long Beach.
One death from the heat occurred
here and one death is reported at
San Francisco where SO degrees was
top.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
HELPING THE BRITISH

The United States has had to
take over British and French inter-
ests in Germany while those two
nations fought the war. 1t meant
not only taking charge Of the en-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
ON ALASKA TOUR

Notwithstanding the Iateness of
the season, there are Is round
trippers aboard the North Coast
making the Southeast Alaska voy-
age.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
ACT OF AGGRESSION

LONDON, Sept. 19.-Britain de-
clared last night that Russia's IN
vasion of Poland was an act OF ag-
erosion.
At the same time Great Britain
reaffirmed her intention to stand
by her pledge to protect Poland's
independence.
An official statement by the gov
eminent said that the invasion could
not be justified by Soviet claims
of protecting the Russians OF Po-
land.
Said the British government:
1.-THE full implication of these events
is not yet apparent but His Ma
jesty's Government takes the OPP
portunity of stating that nothing
that has occurred can make any
difference to the determination to
fulfill the obligations to Poland.
The War Office also announced
that Great Britain's former King,
the Duke of Windsor, will leave i'm
mediately for the Western front as
a Major General in the expedition
airy forces.
The Duke returned to England af-
ter three years of exile to serve his
country.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
Naval Power Is Pifted
Against 6ermdny's
Undersea Craft
TWO TRAWLERS ARE SUNK
BY TORpED0ES OFF COAST
Admiralty Admits 579Per-
sons Are Missing from
Courageous Disaster

BULLETIN - LONDON, Sept.
19.-The British Admiralty an
nounces that approximately 68l
survivors are accounted for Of
the 1860 aboard the aircraft car
rier Courageous sunk by an en-
envy submarine. That leaves
$40 still missing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
BOUND FOR sITKA

Charles Whittemore and Mrs.
Whittemore are passengers aboard
the North Coast for Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19
NOW WHAT?

At one point last time this coun-
try was almost at the point of a
diplomatic break with England over
diversion of our ships. We would
ship supplies TO Scandinavian coun-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-19

WAR WILL
CONTINUE
French Government Makes
Announcement : In
vasion Says Britain

PARIS, Sept. f9 = The French
Government has made known its
determination to prosecute the Eu-
ropean war Notwithstanding Rus
sia's invasion of Poland, according
GA mi-official statement made
on the eve of the French Cabinet
meeting tomorrow:
The statement said further that
France will continue to carry out
her war policy in cooperation with
Great Britain.
Lines Strengthened
France and Great Britain today
strengthened their war lines on the
Western front in anticipation of a
major battle soon.
1t is also learned that German
reinforcements are being rushed to
the Western front from Poland.
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CONTINUED on Page TWO
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Continued on Page Three
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
San Diego Meeting Boosts Hopes for
Airline to Valley in Near Future

Confidence that Imperial valley
will have regular airline service IN
the not distant future was express
ed Saturday by valley citizens who
attended a conference in San Di-
ego Friday with two executives OF
American airlines.
According to Robert Hays of the
FL Centre chamber of commerce, G.
R. Smith, airlines president, said
Il am confident our application
will be accepted by the federal gov
ernment for a line connecting San
Diego and Oklahoma City, with a
stop in Imperial Valley"
A hearing on American Airline
application was slated for Decem-
Der. AS explained by Hays, the air.
line is the only one with an appli-
cation, while other lines have filed
protests complaining that the pro-
posed route would offer competi-
ton.
Supervisor B. M. Graham, who al
so attended, corroborated Hays
statements. He said, at a meeting
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Teacher institute
In Varied Program

More than $50 Imperial county
school teachers met at an institute
session in Ell Centro Saturday NOR
ming to hear a state school official
discuss the Ham-And-Eggs PROPOSE
ton, view motion picture of I'M
perial Valley, and hear a talk on
The Spirit of '76."
F.. l.. Thurston, executive secre-
tary of the southern branch of the
California Teachers association, dis
cussed m-And-Eggs and how the
proposition would affect teachers
and schools. Paul Jenkins, Post
Press publisher, showed his coloreo
motion picture, Life in Imperial
Valley, and Henry Harris, auto
court owner, told the story behind
the painting, The Spirit of 76."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

economic SGGlludIUo, CllC oihoCo
States must be linked economically
with the rest of the world. :.
1--WE are not economically self
sufficient.
"Our foreign trade cannot be
turned off and on like a spigot,
(as some isolationiStS would indi-
cate) =.
Natural resources! That is what
the current dog-fight abroad is
about. :"
Looking as though he would have
been more at home on the bridge
of a ship and rolling off his tongue
the names of far distant ports as
though mentioning old friends, R.
o. Vernon of the American Presi-
dent Lines mentioned these prod
ucts as necessary imports to the
United States:
Rubber manganese, tin, haroS
woods, hemp, jute, coffee, choco-
late, olive oil, medicines, vegetable
oils, fertilizers, wood pulp.
Some of the very newspapers
who cry Buy American! are print
ed on imported paper" he said.
Driving home his point of inter-
dependence among nations, Vernon
declared that the conflict abroad
is basically one over raw materials.
Every nation nowadays wants to
manufacture and control the sour
ceS of raw materials.
Il am not attempting to give the
right or the wrong, but merely to
show the why" he said.
Vernon pointed to Japan as an
example of the desperate need to
expand A tiny nation, without
natural resources but with a tre-
mendous population presented a
problem that made understandable
the assertion that Japan Woulo
commit national suicide before CIV
ing up its stake in China.
Vernon defended federal subsidies
for the merchant marine in this
manner
"Coastwise shipping where AM
erican ships compete among them
selves, has no need for help. But
American ships competing with for
eign vessels, constructed and op-
Grated under lower living standards
than in the United States, do need
help. Just as we need tariff walls
on farm produce and manufacture
goods.
why not let our merchant
marine die out from competition
with lower standard nations? We
neeo these commercial ships not
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
False Reports Of Winnie Ruth Judd
Presence Here Keep Officers Busy

The hunt for Winnie Ruth Judd,
missing Arizona trunk murderess,
shifted to Imperial county in the
last "a hours when officers ran
down three false clues.
Yuma officers sped into Imperial
county late Friday after a Phoenix
couple, who declared they knew
Winnie Ruth Judd personally, said
they saw her walking along the
highway four miles west of Winter
haven.
A swift and thorough search fail
ed to reveal a hitchhiker of any
description anywhere in that vicin-
ity, they said.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware stopped
an automobile in Ell Centre Friday
night to question q blonde woman
said to resemble the murderess. AS
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29


predicted that within a week the
House will have acted, making 1t
possible for the Allies to buy Amer
ican airplaneS, munitions and other
military requirements to be carried
to Europe in their own ships.
The British and French planned
to run ships carrying contraband
from America through seas con-
cealing German submarines and on
which the formidable German
pocket battlesnips, Deutschland and
Admiral Scheer were loose. 1t was
expected that French and British
warships would convoy the vessels.
In Berlin official comment await
ed final action by the House but
there was no concealing German
disappointment. In some quarters
it was suggested that Germany's
cue was to strike knockout blow
Immediately against Britain which
would nullify the benefits the Allies
expect to gain. 1t was argued that
major damage to the British fleet
and merchant marine before the
American cash and carry policy
could become effective would make
it difficult for the Allies to trans
port American supplies.
The British, anxious because OF
the confirmation that the Deutsch-
land and Admiral Scheer are on
the loose and already have inflict-
ed damage to British commerce
sent destroyers and squadrons OF
Royal air force planes to search
the North sea for these swift, heavi-
iy armed raiders. In Paris the
French announced officially that
they had sunk German submar-
inc Friday morning. In Berlin the
Germans for the first time admit
ted that they had lost three SUBJ
marines since the outbreak of hos
tilities. The Allies claim to have
sunk or captured 20.
Southeastern Scotland had a one
! hour air raid alarm this morning
when lone German plane made
reconnaissance flight over thu
Firth of Forth, on which are To-
Gated the important Rosyth nava
base and the great industrial ano
commercial city of Edinburgh. Tht
air ministry announced that tn
plane had been forced down, TIVE
members of its crew killed, on,
wounded, and the uninjured pilo
taken prisoner.
Increased activity marked opera
tionS on the Western Front. Th
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
House Approval Of
Neutrality Action
Expected in Week
Senate Adopts Program
Proposed by Roosevelt
By Vote of 63 to 30

WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
(UP)-President Roosevelt's
neutrality bill went to the
House today with a thump-
ing 2-to-1 senate endorse
ment. Indications were that the
House would concur by narrow
margin within a week.
Debate begins Tuesday, and lead
ers hoped the special session called
by Mr.. Roosevelt for the sole pur-
pose of repeating the arms embargo
and otherwise revising the neutrali-
ty act, would be able to adjourn
by Nov. 3.
The senate's SO to 80 vote passing
the bill represented a major New
Deal victory. 1t was in sharp con-
trast to last summers IL to II vote
in the senate foreign relations COM
mittee to defer consideration OF
neutrality changes until the Janu-
airy session. Mr.. Roosevelt protested
the delay then, and said the SEN
ate's action represented gamble
that there would be no war. War
broke out and the special session
was called.
Repeal of the embargo on ship
mentS of arms, ammunition and
implements of war to belligerentS
is the heart of the administra-
tions neutrality program, and on
this issue alone, the senate upheld
the chief executive by vote Of
60 to 33. 1t defeated an amend
ment by Sen. Bennett Champ Clark.
D., Mo-, to retain the embargo. The
three senators who voted both to
retain the embargo and to pass the
bill repeating it were Gillette, D.,
Ia, johnson, D., Colo, and Reed,
r., KanS.
The senate vote, at $40 pm,
Est, last night, climaxed four
Continued on Page 8. Col. %
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soon as he started to question the
woman and her male companion
the woman laughed and said, 81
hope you don't think I'm Winnie
Ruth judd" The sheriff said he
did not.
A Brawley resident telephoned
Ware early Saturday that blonde
woman standing on a street corner
might be the missing Tiger Wo-
man" This, too was a false clue
ut is a fine thing for civilians
to assist officers in this manner,
Ware said. ANY one of the blondes
might have been Winnie Ruth judo
and we are glad to make the nec-
essary investigation to determine
whether the suspect is the hunted
woman or not"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

Frozen
Tuesday to Bring
Answerin Fight
AGAINST Disease
By JAMES DOWNING

PRYOR, Okla, Oct. %.
(UP)-A soft, musical hum
came from a room in tiny
Harrington hospital today
where a gaunt farm woman lay in
merciful coma. Medical science
was fighting the quick fight against
the slow and painful death.
The woman was Mrs. Homer
Stout, 46, farm wife, mother of
four. Until last Monday, the medical
profession placed the deadline on
her life expectancy at Nov. II, and
believed she would never reach it.
But the same day, DR.. v. D.
Harrington, county practitioner and
surgeon, looked down into her hol-
low eyes and saw a glimmer of
hope He decided to make the quick
fight. 1t will be waged until Tues
day, and then she will awaken,
the hum will have stopped and
medical science will have its strong
est testimony on the value of its
newest weapon against cancer-re-
frigeration therapy.
DR.. Harrington studied the new
therapy under its originator, DR..
Temple Fay, in Philadelphia and
came back to his little hospital to
construct an implement for its use,
He employed the unit of an electri-
cal refrigerator, and attached 20
yards of brine filled rubber hose.
He finished the device Monday,
and telephoned Homer Stout at
his locust grove farm to bring
his wife.
He told her there was only hope,
and she replied she was unafraid
There is nothing for me to lose .
She was lifted upon a raised bed.
The condenser hose was wrapped
Snugly around her body, and it
quickly frosted over when the COM
pressor began to hum. Slowly her
temperature dropped, and her teeth
released their hold on her lower
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

ed how widely the school had
drawn. Women were present from
all corners of the county.
The first cay or the school at
tendance fell short of 1000 by a
small margin and the next day was
passed we'll beyond. The third and
last day was the largest, with the
huge theater virtually filled. There
were only few rows in the bal
cony unoccupied.
Distribution of gifts climaxed the
final session, with Mrs. A. M,
Blackburn receiving the beautiful
Electric Speed range. Among the
others who received awards were:
Continued on Page 8, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

sheriff said, Il WanC 10 queSIloll
him as to why he came
The sheriff understood that a Los
Angeles newspaper had hired Dr.
Judd for S1O0 to leave his Santa
Monica. Calf, home, fly to Phoenix
and act as lure" for the crazed
Winnie Ruth.
That's a good idea, only it goes
too far, by about 500 miles," the
sheriff added "Where DR.. judd
belongs is home, because I am con-
vinced that his wife is in the vicin-
ity of Los Angeles. There is abb
solutely no reason for him to ap-
pear in Phoenix"
Four days thus had passed since
Winnie Ruth walked from the state
hospital for the insane without a
single clue as to her whereabouts
developing. The governors office was
investigating the peculiar circum-
stances which made it possible Tor
her to stroll unnoticed from her
bedroom in the middle of the night,
while the pile of kilograms on the
sheriff's desk reporting the sight
ing of the blonde killer grew taller
In San Francisco, Governor Rob
ert Jones of Arizona, attending a
governors conference, said today
there was little doubt in his mino
that DR.. William j. Judd had gone
to Arizona to meet his fugitive wife
Informed Judd had left the U. S
veterans hospital at Sawtelle, Cal
Jones said he believed Mrs. JUDI
was hiding somewhere near Pnoe-
nix and that Judd would meet he
there
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

U. S. Commissioner James j.
McCabe said the warrant charged
that Demers did unlawfully and
wilfully injure and commit an act of
depreciation against certain proper
ty of the United States to wit, the
yro-mechanism of a torpedo"
Demers pleaded not guilty when
arraigned and was released on $4,000
bail for hearing Monday at 2 p. m.
U. S. District Attorney ]. Howard
McGrath and Commander j. r.
Palmer, commandant of the torpe-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

LYNN, Mass. Oct. %. CUP)-
Henry Lewis, a boy of nine wearing
long pantaloons and calfskin boots.
was the Lynn Five Cents Savings
banks first customer when it OPEN
ed for business Oct. 27, 1855. He
deposited his savings, $3.10.
Every Oct. 27 thereafter for "a
years he returned with another
$3.1O. His annual appearance be-
came one Of the banks happiest
traditions.
Yesterday bank officials waited
for hours to greet him. AT 2 pm,
an hour before closing time, he
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

freighter, City of Flint.
His report implied that not until
Russia had judged the dispute in
Germany's favor and permitted the
German prize crew, with the Amer
lean crew of Al men presumably
prisoners aboard. to sail the govern
ment owned ship out of the Arctic
port of Murmansk, was he given
any information or permitted to
present a formal demand for the
ships return.
New mystery was added to that
already surrounding the fate OF
the vessel when the German for
cign office at Berlin informed the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Tradition Of "a Years Ruptured by
Calendar Mistake, So Bank Mourns
BY LOGAN JENKINS

hadn't arrived. Lewis is SO now
white haired but stout. The bank
ers feared he might be i'll. They
sent an automobile to his home.
Lewis wasn't home. The bank
waited for him. 1t stayed open
until pm, with a teller ready
to handle MS $3.10 deposit. When
he hadn't appeared at 5 o'clock
the bank was closed.
Soon, Lewis returned home in a
rainstorm. Reminded of the date
he said, Darn it, I slipped day
1 figured Saturday was the 9th
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
CI0 Communist
Guilty in Strike

MONTEzUMA, Ia, Oct. %. (UP)
William Sentner, st. Louis, Mo-,
Communist and a vice president OF
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations, was fined $2,500 today on
charges of criminal syndicalism
growing out of the Maytag Washing
Machine company strike at Newton
last year.
Iowa doesn't believe in the Com
munist party or the CI.O.," Judge
w. S. Cooper said before pro-
nouncing sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

United States embassy there that
according to latest advices from
Murmansk, the steamer was still in
the Russian port. The German
statement might have been issued,
it was felt, in an attempt to decoy
British warships blockading the
seapaths the City of Flint would
have to travel to reach a German
port.
The 5000 ton freighter was be-
lieved to be at sea, bound for some
German port, belief that caused
further anxiety here for the Amer
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

Without question, the school was
by far the best in attendance, the
best in quality and the best in
management ever before conducted
within Imperial county. 1t ranked
with schools produced in metropol-
itan centers far outnumbering any
Imperial Valley community.
A figure who drew praise from
all sides was Miss Kay Gilbert, at
tractive mistress of ceremonies,
who for two hours each day, Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday, gave
housewives who packed the United
Artists theater in FL Centre the
newest fashions in the art OF cook
cry. -,
A study of entrance tickets show
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

do station, declined to disclose the
exact nature of the sabotage.
Tt is understood. however, that
acid had been mixed with lubricat-
ing oil In the torpedo's propelling
mechanism to make 1t dud"
At least four G-men are UNDER
stood to be making further investi~
CATION of the situation at the tor
pedo station.
The station has been working at
wartime speed since the last con-
gress authorized an increase.