The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1941, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8758. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 194l1. AXIS DECLARES WAR ON R MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOIA JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON MAKING WAR MOVE ROBIN MOOR SURVIVORS | SITUATION IS SERIOUS FOR NIPPON Premier Koyone Has Con- ference with Emperor Over New Conflict OFFICIALS, MILITARY HEADS PLAN CAMPAIGN | Country Appears Calm in Face of Two Previous Binding Pacis TOKYO, June 23—Japanese Pre- mier Konoye conferred today with Emperor Hirohito but it is not dis- closed immediately whether the current international situation was g among the subjects discussed. i Indications are that Japanese Government leaders and military heads are discussing the situation in small groups preparatory to a! regular Japanese Cabinet session tomorrow. J 2 The Railway Ministfy” announced this afternoon, ‘however, the sus-l pension of the sale of passenger| tickets to Russia or other points in Europe via Vladivostqk or Man- churia. Japan is outwardly calm, consid- ering the outbreak of war by Ger-! many and Italy on Russia, | Japan is a member of the Axis TR, i (Continued on Page Eight) | Coast Guardsmen stand guard atop the gang plank of the Danish freighter Rita “Maersk at Boston, Mass., after the United States U. 5. TAKES SHIP B Government put the ship, one of a fleet of 84 foreign vessels, on the active service list. Member of the crew is on deck. ARMY, NAVY UNIFORMS MAY AGAIN BE SEEN IN NATIONAL i Fights for Son CAPITAL By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 23 — An- swering the mail orders: D. L, Richmond, Va—The rea- ‘Sunken Crmwith “Men JAPAN NOW - WATCHED BY - OBSERVERS Nippon Might Attempt fo | Seize Eastern Siberia | While War Rages SHANGHAI, June 23— Far Eastern observers are keenly watchihg Japinese signs that the Nippons migint try to seize Eastern Siberia while Russia is battling for her life against Ger- many in the west. Dispatches from Tokyo, thus far, indicate cxtreme caution on the part of the triparyite pact partner, who also has a neatrals ity agreement with Russia. - The conquest of Eastern Si- beria is pointed to as a long ambition of Japan, which has powerful army garrisons near the borders. But against this military ferce, are Russian air bases in the East which con- stitute a threat against Japan proper. Eastern Siberia has natural riches wanted by Japan. NAVYNOT T0 RAISE | SUBMARINE Still at Stations of Duty” fo Lay on Ocean’s Bed PORTSMOUTH, N. H,, June 23— | The Navy today honored as “men 'still at their stations of duty” the |33 members of the sunken pressure- i crushed submarine 09 after aban- | doning efforts to recover the bodies Two reporters (extreme right and left) interviewed three survivors of Moor after their arrival at Recife, Brazil. The survivors are (L to r.) John J, Bannigan, Karl Nilson and Virgil Sandlerlin. This picture was transmitted by radio from Buenos Aires to New York. Reports on Robin Moor NTERVIEWED NAZIBLIT 'ROLLS OVER RUSSBORDER Italy Follows German Ex- ample-Finland Claims State of Neutrality TROOPS ALREADY TEN MILES INTO SOVIET \Revolution in Lithuania Gives All-Out Help fo Invaders (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany declared war on Russia early Sunday morning. The declaration was made by | Foreign Minister von Ribben< | teop. Immediately afterwards, Hitler ordered the march of the Nazis into Russia, declaring that Ger- many had had enough of Rus- sia’s violations of the frontier of the Reich and commended. the fate of Germany to the army, Late Inst night, Italy declared war on Russia. Finland has not declared war on Russia as was earlier report- ed, but has claimed neutrality in the Russo-Nazi struggle. Today the new phases of the big European conflict are grad- ually being unfolded. A Lithunanian uprising and the formation of a new govern- ment allled to Germany threat- ened to undermine the Baltic bulwark Russia has raised against the Reich during the two years of their watchful co- operation under a nonagression treaty. Lithunania's declaration of in- dependence eame as German 1and forces got at least ten miles the sunken merchant ship Robin | BRITISH BOMBING GERMANY RAF Makes Offensive Sweep During Daylight | -Night Raids Made | | ‘LONDON, June 23—Making an| offensive sweep of German-occu-! piled Northern France, the seventh successive day raid, the Royal Air| Forces report the destruction of seven more German fighter planes, bringing to a total, during the past| fom three days, 64 that have been shot down. The British admit the loss of two fighter planes today. The raid today followed up the 12th straight night asssult on Ger- | in which bombers | inside Russian territory and the Nazi air force pounded Russian bases and communications with a tide of destruction. NAZIS “ON SCHEDULE” son Army and Navy officers ! many, proper ‘The German High Command On or salvage the craft in the murky WASHINGTON—When the auto makers (with the exception of Gen- eral Motors) thumbed their noses at Price Administrator Leon Henderson and boosted prices, they fanned up more trouble for themselves than they ever imagined. Possibly they started what Britain long ago in- stituted — the curtailment of auto production. . [ For War Department chiefs im- mediately advised the White House that if the auto moguls were un- willing to cooperate with the Goy- ernment in the control of prices, then it was time the Government stepped in to curtail production, ' which should have been done long 2go. Army and Navy heads long have been sour about the fact that the OPM ordered only a 20 per cent re- duction of auto output. They wanted ! a reduction of at least 50 per cent. Recent admissions that a serlous steel storage is in the offing have | added point to this demand, Next to defcrse, the auto industry is the | chief consumer of steel; also of al- ! loys, which are of supreme import- ance in making tanks, planes and |’ other arms. A confidential Army memorandum to the President reported nearly 200 specific instances in which com- panies could not promise to deliver urgent defense orders in less than eight to fifteen months, because of heavy auto industry commitments. | This memorandum flatly asserted | that the only way to obtain the huge amounts of steel required for pipe- line, freight car and ship construc- tion is to cut down the amount go- ing into automobiles. Otherwise, it was declared impossible to meet the production §chedules set by the President. NOTE: Ambassador Winant ex- John Haven Emerson, “poor” in- ventor of Iron Lungs, leaves court in Boston where he testified in suit ‘whereby Mrs. David Garrett Forbes, wealthy socialite, asked custody of their 6-year-old son. The boy was awarded to the father when the Emersons were divorced. Both have juty in Washington do not wear uniforms is purely psychological.| The story is that after the World War, the armament-reduction bloz in Congress madé a telling point in| debate with the charge that al-! most every other person you saw around Washington hdd on either in Army or Navy uniform. A few days later the Army and Navy were both in mufti. Now, according to the grapevine, an order may come through any minute for Army and Navy men on duty here to get back into uniform — and the reason,| again,” is psychological. With thou- | | sands of smartly attired officers| |and miles of gold braid around,! Washington won't look so much | like a city that is just ankling along ‘a peaceful road—an appear-f‘ ance that is hardly compatible withi the defense program. | K. R, Lebanon, Pa, — A - joint Army-Navy commission already has | done what you suggest and made a| private report to several agencies on the hot spots where new strikes in defense industries may break out in the next few months. The| National Defense Mediation Board| is even working on several of! these—a few of which, if they came| off, might be more serious to the industrial defense effort than any we have had so far, ‘T. L. M, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. —According to talk here, it seems pretty definite that the Army is j0ing to ask that the National Guard continue in service for the! duration. It's a matter of legis- ‘ation and Congress will have to act before the one-year training seriod of the Guard can bhe ex- cended. The argument is that if the original training period were | idhered to, the Army would be demobilizing more- than half its, infantry divisions in the face of he “unlimited emergency”—and, depths 440 feet below the surface. The decision to allow the offi-| cers and men to lay buried on the | ocean floor came only after two, courageous Navy divers descended ! to the sides of the sunken craft, a diving feat unparalleled in his- tory. It was then determined that further efforts to recover thef bodies or salvage the craft would | jeopardize the lives of the divers. Nationals of ltaly Kept Here Departure from United States Halfed Similar to Move on Germans WASHINGTON June 23 — The Federal Government today acted to, halt the departure of Italian na-| tionals. The action duplicated steps taken June 18 against the Germans in the United States. The Department of Justice an- nounces instructions have been is- sued to the Immigration Border Patrol officers to take all neces- sary steps to prevent any Italian; nationals leaving the country pend-| ing further instructions. —————— WINDOW FIRE | Juneau firemen were called to the home of Roy Eaton on Gas-|Bl Paul Block Bringing with him to Washington detailed eyewitness accounts of the torpedoing of the American ship Kobin Moor in the South Atlantic, Philip Williams (left), Third Secretary of the United States Embassy at Rio de Janeiro, is greeted at the State Department by Michael J. MeDermott, Chief of the Divjsion of Current Information. Williams, who made the trip by air, turns the official pouch over to McDermott. NEW TAX PLAN GETTING ACTION passes Away WASHINGTON, June 23 — The| House Ways and Means Commit- tee today voted tentatively in fa- NEW. YORK, June 23 — Paullyor of higher estate and gift taxes lock, 163, newspaper publisher and| jesigned to produce about $113,- tineau Avenue late Saturday after- President of the Paul Block Assn- 000,000 in additional revenue. | pounded the big naval base at Wil-| { helmshaven and other targets in | the northwest. — e | announced today that the Nazi Army is proceeding “on sched- ule successfully” from Kaunas, Lithuania’s capital city. The lit- tle republic, fronting on Ges-, many and Russia, was absorbed by Russia last June. Apparently already in the hands of the coup government, the Kaunas radio announced, FRENCH - FORCES | =t LOSING - ’Damascusfa_ll_s fo British'AIIA(K 0" | Who Press Moforized | Unifs Across Desert R u SS ' A |S " (Continued on Page Five) | VICHY, June 23—Thé French (o“DE "ED | reached the outskirts of the impor- | tant French Garrison town of Pal- harrassed and slowed the progress| WASHINGTON, June 23— The of the British considerably, official United St tes today condemned In celebration of the longest rhys'; The statement was made by Un- of the year, the Ray Wards yester- der Secretary of State Sumner | government admits Damascus has been occupied by the British and Free French forces and that Brit- ish motorized columns have pushed MR United States Official Talks myra in the heart of the Syrian| (Quf-Assistance May desert. | The Vichy forces contacted the| Be Given British units as they neared Pal-| French reports indicate. |Germany’s “treacherous attack” on s A g LN Russia and declared that “any ral- | *|lying forces opposing Hitlerism” will | WARDS HOSTS AT PICNIC | rebound to the benefit of the Amer- day were hosts to an all-day picnic| Welles after he conferred with Pres- | party at their cabin at Lena Cove. A ident Roosevelt and left open the | picnic supper was served to 26 peo- |question of whether aid will be ex- ple, “including chuldren and dogs.” tended to Russia. 150 miles across the desert and {myra and French airmen h§ve| |ican defense and security.” e i Welles said no communication has pressed astonishment to Roosevelt since remarried. at the high' level of production the ————— ., | The young eel is ribbon-like and been received from the Soviet Gov- |so transparent. that prini may be ernment yet, consequently the ques- tion has not been decided, noon to extinguish a fire on a ciates, National advertising repre-|" | window sill staried by a flying sentatives, died late yesterday nuerl —_———a——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS just when they are beginning to . (Gmmuwnm ] 177 BUY DEFENSE BONDS (Coutinued un Page Six) spark. No damage was done, Jan iliness of several months, " read through its body.