The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1941. 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8759. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN RED ARMY CLAIMS NAZIS THRUST BACK BLOWS ARE EXCHANGED, AIR RAIDS| British Bombers Kill, In-! jure Civilians in North- western Germany APARTMENT HOUSES ARE BADLY DAMAGED | Luftwaffe Offensive Siag-; ed’ with Attacks on S. E. England 4 Airmen’s Choice BERLIN, June 24—British bomb- | § ers killed and injured “several clvll-; ians” when a small number of ex- plosives and fire bombs were drop- | ped on northwest Germany last night according to a war bulletin is- | sued this morning by the German High Command. The war bulletin stated further that several apartment. houses were hit and badly damaged during the ties. In an offensive, a Naai luftwaffe sank a British patrol boat, dam- aged two merchantmen in the wat-.‘ ers around England while long range | naval batteries in occupled France ! shelled enemy ships on the English Channel and attempted to shell thom are signalmen, aerial photog-, | across the channel but appearance of | raphers, master mechanics and gun- | British raiders stopped the artillery | so that the gun fire could not be (Continued on Page Five) Clhe N Robert S.Alles 60 | WASHINGTON—It begins to look | as if gasless Sundays might not be | 50 necessary after all — if certain | bare-knuckle reforms in the oil in- dustry are put through by new Na- | tional Oil Administrator Ickes. For instance, the tanker system. When an oil tanker comes from | the Gulf of Mexico up the East Coast, it may stop at Charleston to discharge part of its ofl, then at Norfolk, then at Baltimore, It dis- charges a certain amount at each port where its company distributes or refines oil. Simultaneously, a tanker belong- ing to another company will stop off at exactly the same ports. Thus the tankers of three or even four dif- ferent companies may be feeding the same cities at the same time. If, on the other hand, one com- pany served one section of the coun- try, or if one tanker delivered oil to all the companies in each port in- stead of only to its own, distribu- tion would be measurably speeded. Also, there are four different types of high octane gasoline being re- fined in the United States. All these varieties are not particularly neces- sary, one type being sufficient dur- | ing the emergency. Concentration on only one type of high octane gas also wpuld considerably increase gasoline output and distribution. There is plenty of oil in the U. S. A; it is only a mather of refining and distribution. NOTE: The anti-trust laws have | prevented the oil companies from | cutting competition of this kind, | but the government oil adminis- | trator should be able te do what the oil compaies can’t. NO LAGUARDIA, HE Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Grover B. Hill went to Wichita Falls, Texas, when Mayor LaGuardia of New York was scheduled to speak| there. Hill is an ox-like man, with e erey st Nete oo S MAD SLAYER |seeking a mad slayer in the north-| jbrother-in-law and neighbor, Robert 1 raid, but does not state the locnn-; Janice Robinson does things ina big way. Posing prettily at Tahiti Reach, Miami, she wears on her bathing suit the insignia of eight different ratings of the nearby Opa; | Locka Naval Air Station. Among «ery experts. RAPES, KILLS | IN SEATTLE Thought fo Be No Connec-| tion with ManicWho Ran Amuck Yesterday SEATTLE, June 24.—Authorities| ern suburban district here were| given a new mystery today when the body of Mrs. Blanche Link, 33 year old widow, was found raped and| kicked to death in a vacant lot in the district where yesterday’s gunman- | abductor disappeared. Mrs. Link’s body was found in! the underbrush a block from her Winchester Heights home by her Young. Her friends sought her after her son, Howard, age nine years, became alarmed during the night! when she failed to return home. The murdered woman started| home about 11 o'clock last night| from an uptown hotel where she) was a switchboard operator. Under-l sheriff Bodia said he did not be- lieve her assailant was the aged apparent maniac who committed yesterday’s unprovoked attacks in! which Edward LaFountaine, 58 year old insurance slesman, was shot to death and Mrs. LaFountaine was shot seriously through the neck. An- other motorist, R. F. Bull, 43-year- old plumbing salesman, was critical- ly shot and bludgeoned. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, June 24 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 85, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 38%, International Harves- gr 49%, Kennecott 37%, New York ‘entral 12%, Northern Pacific 6%, | United States Steel 56%, Poundito take tests before CAA inspector|Joseph, Missouri, entered his 11th| Adults were immediately sum- $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | “our artillery is already in action| i against the Vichy positions at Dan-| isays the British forces have cap-| & (4 EDEN GIVES WELCOME T0 ~ ALLY RUSSIA ' Asks British People fo For- | get Communism in Nazi Struggle | LONDON, June 24.—British For=- |eign Secretary Anthony Eden today irm'm‘.«lly welcomed Russia as an i Germany.” In a speech to the House of Corn«‘ (mons, Eden urged the British na-! tion to forego political considerations | {facing the situation raised by Ger-| many’s drive on Russia. | Communism is not the issue, he i said, adding: “We always hated |greed.” He went on: “What counts is the Russians fighting a man who |seeks to dominate the world. That also is our sole task.” | | Eden reiterated Britain's pledge tof the redemption of Poland and also announced that Russia has ac- cepted the offer of British military |and economic missions “in the co- fordinate, common task of defeating ithe enemy.” British On Drive Along Syrian Coast Push BeinMde Againsl‘ Beirut - Oafana Re- ported Capfured CAIRO, June 24¢—The British re- port an. “important advance” and| their columns are driving on Beirut! along the Mediterranean coast of Syria. The British report adds that our,” south of Beirut. The communique this afternoon tured Oatana, of Damascus. - "ON T0 MOSCOW" CRY FLAGANISTS IN MADRID PARADE Demonstration Is Held in Spain-Must Exterm- inate Russia MADRID, June 24— Uniformed Falangists paraded the streets of| Madrid this afternoon and staged al demonstration in front of the Ger- man Embassy. Cries of “On To Mosco were heard as Spanish Forelgn Minister Suner, addressing the demonstrat- ors, declared Russia must be ‘“ex- terminated.” The speech and demonstration came as Government leaders sought to decide Spain’s course in the Axis struggle against Russia. 15 miles southwest Embassies were protected against incidents as heavy pelice guards were thrown about the twoiplaces. —————— HERE FOR CAA TESTS A Navy Vought-Sikorsky observa- tion plane flew over Juneau for nearly an hour this afternoon as Navy pilot deGanahl took CAA tests in order to retain his civilian pilot's ratings. The ship arrived from Sitka Eugene Gull. ———e———— The following dre -today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 123.24, rafls 28.26, utilities 17.70. order now than at any time in the past 16 years. (4 WERFUL GERMANBLITZ IS FOR NAZISPUSH R ally in “our common task to defeat \ {FCC has another feather The United States and British|. 4 | A ROUND DOZEN FOR ARM Y_Twelve ayrses who'll be nd- lieutenants by Lieut. Daniel Munster a South are sworn in as seco) front: Elizabeth Wright, Ida Neveras, Rear: Emil 4 4 L4 L4 4 assigned to army posts in the t Philadelphia. Left to right, Louise Cohalan, Anne Laessig, Ruth Jones, Fern Nunemaker, Anna Mary Linn, Virginia Wood, G. C_{I‘QEGI Helen Farrell. IELEGAL SHORT WAVE BROADCASTER TRACED BY FCC IN AIRPLANE | | By JACK STINNETT ‘ WASHINGTON, June 24 — The, in its hat. At Haydenville, Mass,, the FCC's ether spies—searching fori an alleged illegal short-wave radio| broadcaster, who announced him-| self as “Fritz’ and taunted thd Government with urgings to “come and get me,” was tracked down by airplane. The plane, equipped with, special direction-finding equipment, | and working in conjunction with similarly equipped automobiles, made the' trace-down ‘in short or- der. Amateur operators in the vi- cinity got the thrill of being in on the sleuthing. They kept “Pritz” on the air in two-way conversations for long periods while the FCC agents made their calculations and stalked “Fritz” through his footprints on the ether waves. It is the second ‘time in recent months—but the first by airplane —that FCC officials have picked up alleged illegal - short - wave broadcasters who signed on and off as “Fritz” The other was in Illinois. No better example of the state of mind recent gigantic appropriations have gotten some congressmen into may be found than the case of ' Sen. Hiram Johnson of California. Discussing a proposed bill which would appropriate $1,500,000 for Secretary of the Navy Knox to use in hiring about 300 in- vestigators of sabotage in na- val shore establishments, the Senator said: “It gives to him the right to pay them out of | a fund of one and half billion dollars—excuse me for saying ‘billion.’ 'm so used to it now that I constantly make that mistake.” The other Senators guffawed. Rep. Stephen Bolles, onetime editor of the Janesville (Wis.)| Daily Gazette, has an_explanatior | for successful dairy farming that probably has some of the Depart- | ment of Agriculture scientific ex-| | perts reeling. Addressing his col-| | leagues the other day, Mr. Bolles; said: “I have asked for this one-| half minute to announce to the House of Representatives that out of the 2,400,000 cows in the state: of Wisconsin there was pulled 13, billion pounds of milk in 1940, the largest production of milk in} any state in the history of the| world; and the amount of pound- age for each dairy farm was 323, |an increase of 65 pounds to the | farm in one year. This is attrib- |uted to the fact that Wisconsin, | outstanding among all the states,| has green grass, plenty of rain, running streams—and many cows.” FM (frequency modulation, some- | times called “staticless” radio) may get its biggest boost from non-com- mercial educational broadeasting and if it does, Edwin H. Armstrong, the man who invented it, may be-! come the nation’s champion dollar- a-year man. | According to the Federal Com-| munications Commission, Arm- (Continued un Page SIx) NETCHIKAN-COWBOY' STRUNG UP IN GAME STILL UNCONSCIOUS KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Alaska, June 24—Eddie - Akins, ll-yeu-nld‘ son of Walter Akins, native of St.| | day of unconsciousness today as a| result of . an accidental hanging young friends: A noose was tied around young Aking’ neck and the board on which | he was standing broke and the lad| was left suspended in the air. moned, but. Eddie had lost consci-| ousness which he. has not re- More new freight cars are on!while playing cowboy with some | gained. hysicians hold some hope of recovery. b2 French Coast Gets Bombing From British Heavy ExpTos_ions Heard from Across English Channel in London LONDON, June 24.—Heavy explo- sions rolling across the misty Eng- lish Channel suggested. this morn- ing that the RAF is blasting the Nazi cccupied French Ceast again after attacking industrial targets in west- |ern Germany for the 13th consecu- tive night. Sounds were first heard shortly after 7 a.m,, hours earlier than the British usually launch daylight ral- lies across the Channel. RAF attacks in western Germany last night were not so heavy as some recently, authoritative sources said, | but there is nothing to indicate| whether this is due to unexpectedly strong German opposition or wheth- er the naval bases at Wilhelmshav- en, Kiel, Emden, the industrial cen- ter of Hanover, and other places in Nazi occupied Territory, are the targets of night raiders. PRI v ARG American Observer Is Killed {First Lieutenant Dies in| Training Flight Acci- dent in England LONDON, June 24—First Lieu- tenant Follett Bradley, Jr., of the United States Army Air Corps, was| killed two days ago in a training flight accident in northern England.| Bragley was here as a military ob- server. His father is Brig. Gen. Brad- ley, stationed in Puerto Rico. ——e——— FLIES TO SITKA | Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman flew today to Sitka, where the Forest Service is about to open a’ new office. ——————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS & ALONG 2,000 MILE FRONT 'German High Command Asserls Successes But No Defails Given RUSSIAN SUB, NAZI U-BOAT IN SEA FIGHT Massive Curtain of Fire Re-| ported Sent Against Weak Soviet Force BERLIN, June 24. — Germany's powerful blitz into Russia, led by panzer columns and supported by smashing luftwaffe assaults, is fol- lowing its “planned course with great success.” A strong line of Sov- iet bunkers in the middle of the 2,000-mile front has been shattered, Germany reported in a communique issued from “the Fuehrer's head- quarters.” ¢ ‘Theé dispatehes réceived here mere~ Iy. report -successes. without detatls, but* DNB, official German news Lcency, told of the break through. [ Nazi newsmen at the front pictured the ranks of the Red Army in hope- less confusion. The dateline of the communique indicated that Hitler is with his troops as he was at the beginning of the Polish invasion and the Western Balkan campaigns. Success At Sea By the sea the Germans claimed success, too, in the sinking of a Rus- sian submarine by a Nazi U-boat in the Baltic off the Soviet stronghold of Windau on the Latvian Coast. The Red Air Force is reported to have made an attempt to strike back on the invaders, DNB said, by send- ing a weak force against East Prus- sia only to be driven off by a mas- sive curtain of fire thrown up by lanti-aircraft- batteries. So hot was this barrage that Soviet alrmen are said to have jettisoned their bombs in open fields and turned tail. SAILOR SAYS HE MURDERED MISSING MAN Youth Sfeflar of Son Driving Home to Molher’_s Eedside GRAND COULEE, Wash., June 24—The body of Douglas Smith, missing for 12 days, was found near Arlington, Ore, last night, almost at the same hour as the arrest near Nespelem of James Harvey | Thomas, 19-year-old sailor who was accused of forging Smith's name. The two developments brought to a sudden climax a widespread man- hunt that had moved into parts of Washingfon, Oregon and Idaho since the mysterious disappearance of the Seattle motorist on June 11. Smith's body, shot through the head, was found by a motorist be- side the highway near Arlington. After identification, Oregon State Patrolmen estimated the body had been there for 11 days. Thomas, absent without leave from the San Diego Naval Hospi- tal, admitted his identity to Wash- ington State Patrol Sergeant War- dall who said Thomas said he had hitched a ride with Smith and had taken Smith's car after “knock- ing him in the ditch” near Arling- ton. Smith, 26, left Wallace, Idaho, on June 11, going to the bedside cf his sick; mother in Aberdeen, Wash. 'He was traced to Walla Walla (Continued on Page Eight) GING ON & RUSSIANS BATTLING FIERCELY Fighting Mechanized Col- umns on Far-flung Bal- fic, Black Sea Fronts ' CAPTURE OF GERMAN FORCE IS CLAIMED Official Stafement Admits Loss of Three Towns Along Border Area MOSCOW, June 24.—Russia’s huge Red army, battling furiously against German mechanized columns on the far flung Baltic to Black Sea tront, clalmed today to have thrust two invading German forces back across the Soviet frontier. Pravda, Communis! party organ, said: “The thing is now to smash the vile Fascist beast which dared to lift its blood-stairicd paw against our free life.” In the first !'WA of tighting against its first powerful op- ponent, the Red Army claimed the capture of 5,000 German prisoners, the destruction of 300 German tanks and the shooting down of 127 Nazi warplanes. Three Towns Lost The Soviet Command acknowl- edges the loss of the three frontier towns of Bresf, Litovsk and Kolno Lomza, as well as other penetra- tions into Sovietized Lithuania and Eastern Poland. y In Ankara, Turkey, reports receiv- ed from foreign military attaches said German panzer columns drove 120 miles into the Russian Ukraine during the first two days of- fight- ing, while German and Rumanian forces, slashing through Russian Bessarabia toward Odessa, have pen- etrated 80 miles into Soviet terri- tory. ¥ Watch “Panic Mongers” Inside Russia, measures have been taken to frustrate fifth columnists and “panic mongers.” Pravda print- ed a severe warning serving notice that “each and every one attempt- ing in these tense and hard times to violate discipline and spread panic is regarded as an enemy to the Sov- fet State and will be treated merci- essly to the full extent of wartime aw.” | | JUNEAU STORES WILL CLOSE FOR DERBY THURSDAY Merchants A—gree fo Half Holiday-Association Praises Races Juneau stores and business hous- es will close at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon to take a half holiday for “Derby Day” under terms of a proclamation by Mayor Harry I. Lucas. The Rotary-Empire Soap Box Derby will be run Thursday afternoon. Members of the Merchants’ Cred- it Association at a meeting last night gave their hearty approval to the request of the Mayor and agreed to close their stores for “ali out” support of and participation in the Derby. The Association also expressed its praise of the Rotary Club for its efforts in promoting, so successfully, the forthcoming races. ———. s — FLIES TO ('OAST Pilot Alex Holden made one trip to the Coast today as he carried A. VanMavern, D. Moesler, B. P. Heint- zleman and Ben Bilbo to Sitka. Two trips to the Polaris-Tuku mipe and a later trip to the Coast are sched- uled today. b ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS