The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1941, Page 1

" French' sent some minor diplomats THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, 'FHURSD’\\ JUNE 26, 1941. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8761. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE "PRICE TEN CENT3 APAN MAY MOVE AGAINST U. 5. RUSSIANS HALT GIANT PANZER THRUSI BLITZ UNIT | MADEREADY BY ITALIANS German fis;atches still Claim Generalized "Successes”’ 300,000 POLES MAY BE FREED BY RUSSIA Soviet Claims Invaders” Drive Through Ukraine | Stopped at Prut | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Wi Germany still making only ! 8 generalized claims of success in of- ficial reports of the epic struggle with Russia, Rome dispatches today ' announced that Italy will give ac- tive help to the Nazis against the Red Army. RBerlin appeared to be prnaslngg Finland toward active participation, and welcomed as “a significant and friendly act,” Swedish permission to permit the passage of 4 German di-, intc Finland. Against the German Command’s announcement that *successes of | great dimensions” are starting to ap- | pear, is the Russian Command’s flat declaration that the panzer thrust 100 miles into Sovietized Lithuania | d Poland has been checked andj " (Continued on Page Eight) | Oregon,” is pictured as she gave — FINNS MAY GOTOWAR | IS REPORT Berlin Declares Dedlara- | tion About fo Be Made- Ryti Gives No Clue (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Continued German pressure on Finland to send her men in battle| against Russia is indicated today,| according to persistent reports from Berlin. | Unofficial Berlin advices state! Finland is about to declare war in a broadeast [ on Rus President Ryti, tonight to the Finnish Nation, made a long talk but no indication | was given as to a possible wa declarstion. The Finnish port of Turku \v:,e.' | heavily bombed again by Russian war planes and much damage 1s reported to have been done. ICE AGAIN ~ APPEARSIN ~ BERINGSEA Attractive Beverly Gross of Port- vision across Sweden from Norway? land, Ore., holder of the title “Miss instructions to a bevy of young ladies in the points of a new game | called archery golf. The counting | is the same as in regular golf and the game is played on a regulation golf course, hazards and all. The “hole” is a ball of yarn on each green and has to be hit squarely. Transportation fo Far North Points May Be Slowed | WASHINGTON—In the summer| of 1939, shortly before. the war started, Germany was trying to! woo Russia one way while France and Britain were trying to woo her the other. Russia, everyone knew, could tip the balance for peace or war. So the British had a military- trade ~mission in Moscow, the there—and the Germans sent a group of their most important statesmen, including Foreign Min- ister Von Ribbentrop. It never leaked out, but during that summer, President Lebrun of| France proposed to Premier Dala-! dier that Edouard Herriot, the Mayor of Lyons, go to Moscow as special envoy. Herriot had been Premier of France, was one of the outstanding figures' of the nation, and long a great friend of Russia. Lebrun argued that if anyone could woo Russia to the ‘French side, Herriot could do it. But Daladier refused. He did not want to focus too much public at- tention upon a political rival. Her- Big Crowd 'Rain Fails o Dampen En- !Iisrlllils::eOCIassl;Lers ‘SEA BAT"'E ‘ ‘ Down as Result KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 26— Ice conditions have reappeared off the Yukon Flats south of Nome,! the Coast Guard Headquarters here | reports. ! Tae reappearance of the ice field ' | this summer is said to be unusual. ' | pertation to Nome and other Ber- ing Sea points, according to of- e D | Unless the sea condition in Ber- |ing Sea clears it will slow trans. ficials of the Coast Guard. MBS S | Off to a flying start, with the| cooperation of everybody but th weather man, Juneau's first Soap i | Box Derby began on schedule thisi afterncon on the half-mile Derby‘ {German Pocket Batleship | Returning fo Aflantic course on 12th Street. | for Sea Raids The more than 60 entrants in (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Set aside in importance by the | Russian-German conflict in Eu-' | | rope, the African-Asia Minor War was marked today by reports of naval and aerial operations costing {the Germans their auxiliary cruis- {er Penguin in a battle with the British cruiser Cornwall in the’ Indian Ocean. i riot, he feared, might crowd him for the limelight. The events which followed are well known, Germany brought Rus- sia into an alliance. And (although Russia has come to regret that al-i According to miscellaneous Ger- man claims, the battle cost the| British one heavy cruiser, a light! cruiser and a tanker, Nazi reports claimed the destructipn of over 150,000 tons of British shipping by | liance), it was this deal bev.ween‘,_he race found hundreds of spec- the German 5 - pocket battleship Ad- esd“’::e "‘23“!:;:"0;"';‘01;7:‘" ;':’ifig“;“e‘utors ignoring drizzling weather mirgl Scheer, now returning to the | e I':yc:ue;; n:; mhen:vt :ue; heat ur:f Attlamidcl for a raiding cruise. The ; 1 boy- ent lown e astounding figure is said to in- mfi:h::suoz‘:fi“mtmfil;;amm‘:: starting ramp in competition. (clude an entire convoy of 86,000 ooild ibave Aelaad the Russo-Ger-‘ The event, staged by the Juneau tons. man alliance one mornth—by which Rotary Club and Daily Alaska Em-! Three submarines are repuned! time the rainy season would have pire, promised to be the most ex- to have sunk 40,000 tons of ship-| started in Poland. No one will ever citing and memorable in Juneau’s ping in recent operations, and !our= know—because personal jealousies Nistory. are said to have sunk the 1,500~ and politics counted in France! Boys in the race today are com- ton British merchant vessel Air more than public security. ! peting for a large array of prizes, last night off Great Yarmouth. French lessen for the ‘U.S:A.: No including the major award of a' The Germans, said the Penguin President of the United 'States, free' trip for boy and car to com- damaged the 10,000-ton Cornwail o0 Page Four) 1™ Continued on Page Eight) (Continued to Page Two) e The 1916 model submarine 09, with 33 U. 8. Naval officers | U.S.Submarine Down;‘3‘3 Abard Dea;lell on Ocean’s Bed and men aboard, made a test dive off the New Hampshire coast and failed to come to the surface. A veritable fleet of Navy air and surface craft started a search. Oil seepage was found and two Navy divers descended and located the submersible, 440 feet below the surface of the water. They reported indications were that none aboard the sub were alive. As water at a depth of 370 feet is crushing, efforts at removing the bodies or salvagzing the craft have been abaridoned as lives of divers would be im- periled. The craft is to be left on the ocean’s bed and those aboard arc honored as “men still at their stations of duty.” Phonephoto above shows (Upper row, left to right): Licutenant Howard J. Abbott, Commander of the lost submarine, ‘whose home is ip Osceola, Towa; Ensign Mark P. Wangeness, U. 8. N, R., of San Diego, Cal.; Rear Admiral J. D. Wainwright, Commandant of the Portsmouth, N. H,, Navy Yard and in PLAN "LOUD" FOURTH Fairfax, Marin County, Cal, is planning a Fourth of July celebration that will be heard 75 miles away, according to John Barton O'Brien, chairman of the celebration. The opening salvo of a pyrotechnic dis- play, scheduled for 8:30 p. m. July 4, will consist of an explosion at great altitude and of such force that it will be heard 75 mil s distant, while from the shell will come vivid flashes and “lerrific reports” followed by a concerted pyrotechnic display, sponsored by the Shell 0il Company. Feature of the celebration will be the lighing of an enormeus. tarch held aloft by a figure for! which Miss Zoe Delt Lantis of Hollywood was the model (above). charge of the rescue work. (Bottom): The submarine 0-9 and sister ships at the Portsmouth YNavy Yard. (The O-9 is in the rear.) MEN OVER 30 ARE NOT \ i | \ | Hendersen fo . Put Stop fo ~ Price Raise Tire Industfl) Come Up | for Conference Be- cause of Refusal WASHINGTON, June 26. — Leon Henderson, Price Administrator, to- day said a conference with the tire industry will be held within the next few days to smooth out certain de- tails of a proposed schedule for the prompt sweeping government action to fix mandatory price levels. The action appeared imminent and was hastened by two refusals of industry to curb price increases. Henderson announced the Chrysler Corporation refused to rescind re- cent price increases for its new models. p And last night several New York furniture manufacturers announced price boosts of about five per cent despite the administrator’s request that such increases be first sub- ! mitted to his office. —ee - ) , The highest-temperature ever recorded by the U. S. Weather , Bureau at New Orleans is' 102 I degrees—surpassed every year in many American cities far- l ther north. " DEFERRED FROM ARMY TRAINING; BILL IS UP ( | By JACK STINNETT | { WASHINGTON, June 26 — An- | swering the mail ordersi | M™rs. 0. L. M., Watertown, Conn. | —There isn't any ruling of selec- tive service officials or the Army STAND OF NIPPONS REVEALED ltalian Admiral Declares Nation Will Join Axis fo Fighfl?ussia | SIBERIAN BASES MAY BE OCCUPIED Three Moves—io Be Taken, One Directed Against American Activities ROME, June 26— Admiral Dunci, of the Italian Navy to- day said Japan will probably. join the Axis in the war against Russia and will cccupy certain bases in Siberia as a move against the United States. Admiral Dunel said Japan may occupy all of Sakhalin Is« land, the Soviet base at Petro- paviesk, also Siberian hases which “may be used against | Japan if the Nippon Nation | does enter the war with Ger- many and Italy against Russia. These ocoupations will also prevent commercial aid to the United States, says Admiral Dunci and thus will require and Dunci and thus will require and force “Japan to further reex- amine her defense problem to- ward the west and north.” Admiral Dunci makes the statement in the Il Gironale di Italia, the newspaper edited by Gayda, the: official mouthpiece of Premier Mnssolini. The Admiral further said | that “Japan’s complete occupa- | tion of Sakhalin Island and \ the base at Petropaviosk will | complete Japanese security to- ward the north and occupation of Siberian bases against pos- | sible war initiative of the | United States.” NEWSPAPER OF TOKYO GIVES TIP [to defer men over 30 from train- ing. There is a Senate bill, which has been favorably reported by the military affairs committee, to de- fer men 27 or over. Administration leaders in Congress want to change this bill to allow the President, by executive order, to establish the draft ages, and the talk is that the Army wants to draw all fits trainees from the 21-24 age group. The measure will be acted on soon, but ungil that time selective serv- ice boards will continue to act un- der the original law. R. K., Bonham, Tex. — Andrew | Jackson Houston, 87 on June 21, appointed Senator from your state to serve until another is elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sen., Morris Sheppard, is| {not only the oldest member of| | the upper house but oldest per- son ever to be inducted into the| Senate. “Grand Old Man" of the| House is Rep. Edward T. Taylor, of Glenwood Springs, Colo, who is 83. With completion of his pres- ent term, Congressman Taylor will have served in the House for 34 consécutive years. The oldest elected member of the Senate is | Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia, who will be 84 next January. Both Taylor and Glass have “seniors” in the respective bodies. Rep. Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois has served two years longer than Tay-' { Smith of South Carolina, who has | L AN | (Continued un Page SiX) lor, Sen.. Ellison D. “Cotton Ed" Says U. S.m fo Russia Means Japan Will Not Take Situation Lightly TOKYO, ‘June 26—Since the aid of the United States to Rus- | sia will be directed against the Axis, Japan cannot take it light- ly, the infiuential Tekyo news- | paper Asahi says today. | “Such help however will be largely abstract,” says the Asahi, “because of the gecgraphical and | other factors.” ‘The Asahi concludes the ar- ticle by saying: * “Great Britain, Russia and the United States now have a com- mon enemy, so cooperation may be expected.” FRENCH ADMIT * BRITISH UNITS GOING FORWARD VICHY, June 26.- The French Government today acknowledges «British forces ir Syria have driven to about 50 miles north of Damas- !cus to Nebek, roughly haliway to the important railroad descrt and Ib\u route junction at Homs.