The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-26
JUNEAU WAITS FOR WAR NEWS
 DURING NIGHT
Empire Newsroom, N.B.C. on 24-Hour Schedule as
 War Break Expected

(Continued from Page One) virtually it's entire communications system cut off from the outside world-was operating on full-time war basis. Credibility was lent to this belief when it was reported later confirmed that German bombing plane had been shot down by Polish anti-aircraft batteries in restricted territory.
 Telephone Calls
 During the afternoon the news room of The Empire was deluged with telephone calls and personal calls from anxious Juneau men and women, eager to hear the latest re- ports, hoping against fast-failing hope that, by some eleventh hour miracle another world debacle would be averted and that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would not ride again, leaving the familiar trail of waste, famine, starvation and death in their wake.
 All through the night and into the long cold hours of this morning The Empire night editor stayed at his desk, answering frantic tele- phone calls, sitting out and re-writ- ing Associated Press dispatches which hit his desk regularly at ten minute intervals. Aboard the Coast Guard cutter Haida an Empire re- porter on the night staff kept watch phoning his night editor every few minutes as he got reports direct from London, Paris, Warsaw and Tokyo.
 24-Hour Operations
 The far-flung facilities of Nation al Broadcasting Companys network all over Europe and the United States and Canada were kept open on 24-hour operating basis a measure unprecedented in the annals of radio broadcasting, and it was thus possible for The Empire to maintain direct contact with Lon don and other foreign capitals throughout the night.
 In the early evening it was an- nounced that London had received word it's Ambassador, Sir Neville Henderson, had left Berlin and was flying directly to London to report to Prime Minister Chamberlain on the results of his conference with Reichfuehrer Hitler to attempt a reconciliation of the Chancellor S views at least to point where he would be willing to sit down at a conference table with President Mosecki of Poland and, possibly Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, in an effort to arbitrate the differences surround ing Germany'S demands for capitu- lation of Danzig to the German Reich. Sir Neville Henderson was re- ported to be carrying with him a counter proposal from Hitler, the basis of which was not made known, and he arrived in London at 2 o'clock am. today, Juneau time.
 France Goes Ahead
 Meanwhile, during the late after noon and evening, France was push ing ahead her mobilization and sent repeated warnings to Herr Hitler that the French nation will bring her entire armed forces to bear to defend Poland against any viola tion. While the French were admon- ishing the German leader, the Brit ish navy quietly was drawing closer to Germany's Baltic Coast ready to lay blockade against German ship ping. British planes, navy and mili- tary, were ready to take off from aircrafe carriers and army bases to Lombard Germany's ports and coast al cities.
 And all the time, behind the scenes, ministers were scurryine back and forth across the Continent reporting to various governmental, department heads, and, from Rome Il Duce was talking by telephone with Herr Hitler in Berlin, con. versations the purport of which ever now have not been made known.
 Roosevelt Message
 Early in the evening it was an nounced from Washington tha President Roosevelt had sent a las desperate m essage to Chancello Hitler warning him of the havo, that would lay waste all of civilize Europe should he remain adaman in his designs upon Danzig. During the evening on the Haida, The Elm