The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1941, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1941. REDS CHECK DR PRICE TEN CENTS VE T0 MOSCOW VOL. LVIL, NO. 8765. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | g . of the Nazis brought by their con- URGES NAVY FIGHT NALIS ON ATLANTIC Secretary F. Knox Makes| Strong Address for Com- batting German Menace WASHINGTON, July 1.—Secre- | tary of Navy Frank Knox's call for | the immediate use of the United | States Navy to “clear the Atlantic of the German menace,” led the Capital City to wonder today wheth- er he was hinting at an important change in the Administration’s pol- icy regarding Nazi sea acivities. The direct language the Navy Secretary used in a speech in Bos- ton last night gave rise to the belief in some quarters there is to be a definite revision of the contemplat- ed existing naval strategy. The Navy Secretary addressed the | annual conference of Governors and urged that the naval forces be used to deal Hitler a “smashing blow even though it involved the risk and dan- ger of a sacrifice in the extreme, and if need be, American blood.” The address, it is agreed here, went farther than any other Cabinet officer has gone in any previous public pronouncement. WASHINGTON — The new lend- Jease appropriation that has been tentatively agreed on by inner ad- visers is $5,000,000,000. With the 7 billion voted by Con- | gress several months ago, this would make a total of 12 billion for aid to | the democracies. Yet this stupend- ous sum is still considerably short of what was originally proposed, also of what probably will be ultimately required. It's a White House secret, but the i first lend-lease program submitted added up to $19,000,000,000. This was slashed to 9 billion by the Army and Navy and then still further cut to 7 billion by the Budget Bureau. The last figure was approved by the President and sent to Congress. One reason for the new appro- priation is that many of the original price estimates have been found to be far too low, particularly in the case of planes, ships and guns. Ris- ing costs, due to changes in con- struction, more expensive new mod- els, and increased production charges, made it impossible to con- tract for these items at the original estimates and more money is needed to fulfill the program. Another reason for the lend-lease boost is heavy outlays for repairs on battle-damaged British warships, of which a number are now in U. 8. yards. This type of aid is running into big money. Most important, however, is the urgent needs for expansion of the whole aid-democracies program. Britain, China and the other Axis! foes require increased assistance to meet the greatly enlarged resources quest of Europe. Britain today must stand off not | only the industrial power of Ger- | many, but also that of France, Bel- | gium, Holland, Rumania, Hungary, and other Nazi victims. So if Britain is to continue fighting she must secure much more help from the United States. Without such aid | she will quickly be overwhelmed by sheer weight of material. RED TAPE-ITIS While most of the $7,000,000,000 lend-lease money has been allocat- ed, some $500,000,000 earmarked for | new armament plants is still lying | around idle. And close to 4 billion | of other defense appropriations for new plants also is twiddling its| thumbs while Army-supply brass- | hats and OPM chiefs, enmeshed in coils of red tape, are stalling around. It takes. from eight to .15 months to erect these plants so this delay. in getting construction started ‘meahs’ & serious crimp in the de- — s Parachute P — A row of huge anti-spy posters decorates one of the most important ‘horoughfares of Tokyo as anti-spy week was instituted throughout Japan. Most obvious of the posters shows a girl with her hand over her mouth, a warning to those with a propensity for chattering. Infernational Sifuafion | Has Humorous Side; This Revealed in Recent Junket Champion Typist Margaret Hamma First woman to win the title in 25 years, Margaret Hamma, of Brook- lyn, N. Y., was crowned world’s champion amateur and professional typist after typing 149 words per 'minste, a new record, in the inter- {nati¢ nal typing contest in Chicago. Sy used an all-electric machine. | - Troops in Russ Base STOCKHOLM. July 1.— German parachute troc™ are reported in dispatches reaching here to have landed at the Russian Naval base of Baltiski, Estonia. All the parachutists were captured quickly, dispatches claim. Baltiski is opposite Hango on the! Finnish shore and guards the south side of the entrance to the Culf of Finland and the sea approach to Leningrad. Japs Warn Against Spies | | | | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 1-If any proof is needed that there is hu- mor yet in the international situa- tion, it may be found in the off- the-record stories from that jun- ket which the Latin-American Ad- mirals recently were accorded in a| RUSSIANS | ORDERING | Secretary of State Sumuer We disclosed today that Russia has madi | Welles said Russian Ambassa vasion. | since Russia is a belligerent. \Five Bodies Recoversd-in- Nation from Present German Invasion :the United States, nsky conferred with him yi afternoon and placed ord “materials for Russia to defen herself against the German The Russian requests, Welles said, | has been forwarded to other Govs ernmental Deparéments _interested. Welles declined to give detail concerning materials wanted, plaining that this is not possibl RS RTY 35 PERISH IN FIRE ABOARD PICNIC YACHT dicating All on Craft ” Have Mef Death | These two daring Frenchmen, HARPSWELL, Maine, July 1.-— Discovery of five bodies, one of | them badly burned, led searchers to believe all 35 members of a gay | picnic party that set out Sunday in | the 44-foot cabin cruiser Don, might have perished after fire swept the craft. Wt ” The tragedy, the worst in the t-to-coast su e 3 SRR ol Pt memory of the residents of this States defenses. rocky coast, apparently occurred in Here are some of the first-hand|the fog-enshrouded waters of lower | varns' which leaked out after the Casco Bay, while the party of Fum- Admirals returned to Washington|ford, Maine, residents, were return- and bid adios: The two chartered: airlines and the two transport planes (which carried the party's luggage) were| flying in formation over the Grand, Canyon. As one member of the group expressed it, there is nothing | so staggering as the “perpendicular | beauty” of the Canyon with only multi-colored cathedral spires and turreted castles of mile-high rock to mark its dizzy descents. Among others gazing down into the canyon’s awesome depths was Vice-Admiral Gustavo Shroder, »f Uruguay (the same who was| .n command of Montevideo Har- sor when the crippled Graf Spee imped in and who notified the Nazi commander that he had bet- er be off pronto or else the Uru- juayan navy would have itself a fine new German battleship). When the Vice-Admiral coughed ind hemmed and hawed, an Am- crican officer stepped to his side and drawing his conclusion from the terrific bumpiness of the air over the canyon, asked the Ad- miral if he were ill. “Not at all” Admiral Shroder replied, still staring down. “I was just thinking what inconvenient ountry to be in with only a bi- 2ycle.” TOO MUCH FORMALITY? One night about halfway through the 24-day junket, the American officers held a conference to dis- cuss how things were going. One of the chief officers presided. He had spent many year§'in Peru and had traveled extensively eleswhere in South Americagpo it was witn |chandise maghines: vending ing from Monhegan Island, 40 miles from here, and out in the open At- lantic Ocean. Carlton Smith, one of the many searchers, said undoubtedly an ex- plosion occurred aboard the heavily- loaded Don. He spoke after bring- | ling ashore the body identified as| that of Miss Elizabeth Howard, bank employee. She had been burned badly on the legs and one hip. The first five bodies found are those of women. i SLOT MACHINES WILL BE TAXED; OTHER PROPOSALS House Ways and Means Committee Lining Up Defens_@venue WASHINGTON, July 1.— The House Ways and Means Committee has voted tentatively to recommend excise taxes on slot machines, of- fice and store machines and opti- cal instruments, other than eye glasses to help raise $3,500,000,000 ad- ditional revenue to help finance the defense program, Representative Jere Cooper of Tennessee announced the committee has agreed to an annual tax of $25 for use of coin operated devices that pay cash or tokens redeemable in cash, and a tax of $5 each on mer- such commodities as cigarettes. Bringing to a successful close the Constantin Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka vlane (background) in occupied France and flew to England Protecting the East Flank Flee France in Nazi Plane to Aid Britain unidentified by the British Information Bureau, seized a German training to join the Free French lotces there. U.S.BILLIS ~ APPROVED " FOR YEAR Congress Passes All Neces- sary Appropriations To- faling 40 Billion Dollars 'with all billion dollars in gash expenditures |or contract authorizations approved | since the session began in Janu- Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact, Smetanin (center), Soviet ambassador to Japan, chats with | bills passed today with some 40| BITTER FIGHTS STOP GERMAN PANZER DRIVE |Nazis Claim_EO;OOO Rus- sians Caught in Trap near Minsk 'HITLER'S COMMAND REPEATS REPORTS ‘Hundred Soviet Tanks De- siroyed by Alpiners with Grenades (By Associated Press) In bitter all night fighting, Rus- sia’s Red Army troops are reported to have checked the fierce advance \of German invasion forces at Minsk (and Brobuisk, and Luck, “the two main areas on the 2.000-mile battle {front where the Nazis are striking to smash through to Moscow and the Ukraine. By contrast to the Soviet claims, | the Germans asserted two Nazi tank | columns “are now far east of ‘Minsk, | the capital of White Russia." Reit- erating yesterday's reports of ad- vances, the invaders said their troops are in sight of Smolensk, 250 miles from Moscow and 200 miles from the original Russian frontier. The German Command said Nazi and Slovak troops “are carrying for- |ward the ‘pursuit, of ‘the enemy on |both sides of Lwow,” gatéway to | the Ukraine. The communique said, | “Soviet armies, surrounded between | Bailystok and Minsk, vainly made | desperate attempts through the en- | | | WASHINGTON, July 1—Congress tire day to break out of the vise.” | reached the end of the fiscal year |Approximately 400,000 Russians are necessary appropriation | reported caught in the Nazi trap. “Unusually Bloody Losses” A German war bulletin declared the Russians, charging in forma- tions eight to twelve ranks deep and | supported by heavy tanks, “collapsed (left) and War Minister Hideki Toja. They are shown in Tokyo foilowing luncheon Smetanin gave in Matsuoka’s honor. LOCAL BOARD ANNOUNCES * DRAFT SERIAL NUMBERS ary. % | During yesterday and last ntght!m"::;z:mm'wl lu. said |it passed bills authorizing an out-| Riga, capital of Sovietized Latvia, lay of $4500,000,000, including $1-|has fallen into Nazi hands. France's 340,000,000 for the Agriculture De-‘o“_,u" role in the ten-day strug- ‘partment and Farm Benefit Pro-|gle moved nearer to actual fighting i gram, $1,195,000,000 for the Labor today with the statement from the | Department and the Federal Secur- ity Administration, $910,000,000 for relief, $1,030,000,000 for deficiencies, $54,000,000 for the District of Co- lumbia and $24,500,000 for ‘expenses Congress. E e | for OF JUNEAU | REG'““““éluriulemd While young men who have reach- ed the age of 21 since the original draft registration’ date were signing up teday throughout the Territory and Nation, serial numbers of those who registered last January were announced by the Juneau Local| Board. } The Juneau Board's jurisdiction includes Juneau, Angoon, Baranof, Cape Decision, Cape St. Elias Light, | Chatham, Douglas, Dundas, Punter, Gustavus, Hawk Inlet, Hoonah,| Kimshan Cove, Port Alexander, Port | Herbert, Point Retreat, Sumdum, Security, Taku Harbor, Tyee, Thane, Tenakee Springs, Windham and Yakutat. The serial numbers assigned this week in random order will be the basis for a Territorial drawing to determine each registrant’s order number, which will indicate the or-| der in which men will be called up for selective service. | Serial numbers assigned by the Juneau Board, totaling 1413, are as| follows: 1 Eakin, Eugene Earl; 2 Kimball, | Orrin Hubbard; 3 Kimrey, Gerald | John; 4 Groves, Donald Chester; 5| Kain, Waldon James; 6 Lowe, Ken- | neth “Membrance; 7 Shanks, Jesse Ray; 8 Mansfield, Ray Rex; 9 Matt- | con, Eric Martin; 10 Judson, Arthur | Benjamin; 11 Jacejko, Mike; 12 Hogins, Rutherford Benjamin; 35| Hulse, Virgil Alove. M E " F ' R E 2 8 36 Greenewald, Robert Nick Jr.;| 37 Kasko, Otto; 38 Kauzlarich, Bill; | 39 Hulkko, Bernard Eino; 40 Kauz larich, Stepher: Joseph; 41 Brillhart,! John Harold; 42 Kasko, Dave; 43! Cook, Trueman Emmett; 44 Karki, S(:’lomon Henry; 45 Martin, Puuli ployees Dis(harge Obert. | 46 Kyndson, John water; 41, from Mare Island Knight, Oscar Charles; 48 Martin, Ozro O.; 49 Maynard Russelll gAN PRANCISCO, Cal, July 1— George; 50 Ludwig, Burton Alvin. 'myenty-eight skilled Civil Service 51 Lane, Allen Bernard; 52 Kirsch-| o kers, whom naval spokesmen ner, Richard Hill; 53 Slagle, Richard | gaiq “could not be trusted to work Albert; 54 -Maki, Ell Adolph; 50 ground military secrets,” were dis- Copstead, Roald Christopher; 56 charged from the Mare Island Navy Cook, Russell Anthony; 57 Langdon, yard today. Daniel Clifford; 58 Langfelt, Hel- mut Heinrich; 59 Maki, Russell mandant of the Twelfth Naval Dis- Mertz; 60 Mallach, Lawrence Wal- trict, said the dismissals were rec- ton; 61 Grefnes,r Martin William; ommended by Naval Intelligence of- 62 Gregerson, Elmer Raymond; 63 ficers after a thorough investigation Gremier, Sylvan Joseph; 64 Grier, which was “purely precautionary.” John Joseph; 65 Griffith, Walter! The men discharged were not David; 66 Hansen, Dannie Jimmie; placklisted for private employment. | 67 Brommels, Walter Carl; 68 Gub- | Names were not given out. ser, Archie Harlan; 69 Wheat, Orville | . T Martmson, waurice Erert: 13 FOOD AND DRUG INSPECTOR HERE Lucha, Percy Orval. ! 73 Hudson, James Kenneth; 74/ In Alaska cn his annual mission of Ebing, Charles Lemual; 75 Ecklund, | Paul Frederigk; 76 Eckrem, Knute! Peder; 77 Mitchell, Robert William; "Untrustworthy” Em-| Rear Admiral Greenslade, Com- | some testiness that he answered the Navy medical officer who com- plained that the Latin-Americans were being subjected to too much stiffness and formality. Rock is now being placed on the’ “The trouble with you,” said|Annette Island Army airbase, ac- the presiding officer, “Is that youjcording to Assistant Regional For- don’t know Latin-Americans. I'miester Wellman Holbrook, who re- giving them what they like.” turned by plane last night from Ket- It was four days before anyone|chiken and visiting the island. HOLBROOK RETURNS FROM ANNETTE IS. | Smith, Eanner August; 13 Rustad,|7g Mize, Ralph Wootten; 79 Johnson Norman Bodom; 14 Ryan, Patrick; | gjjiy pete; 80 Austerman, Theodore; | 15 Jeffrey, John William; 16 Mercer, | g1 plorendo, Tony Bambao; 82 John- | Edwin David; 17 Jack, Albert; 18| ¢on, Henry Rudolph; 83 Aubert.! Aase, Olaf Herman; 19, Akagi, Wil- | james Leslie; 84 Aubuchon, Pelix liam; 20 Johnson, Arvid Raymond: |ygaljee; 85 Melseth, Peter Bastian;| 21 Shannon, Delmon Alexander. 186 Johnson, Harley Kenneth; 87 22 Alexander, William Thomas; | gickman, John Wesley; 88 Aker-| 23 Knudson, Sam; 24 Kobbevik,|yick Robert Marius; 89 Shirley,| inspecting the canned salmon pack, Henry Risley of the Food and Drug Administration, Seattle, is a through passenger to the Westward on the steamer Mt. McKinley. Last year Risley worked in Southeast Alaska. e — 25 ROUND TRIPPERS ARE ABOARD NORTHLAND According to dispatches the Rus- sians are forming patrols of boys and girls to spot the parachutists. had the heart to tell the presiding officer ‘that he had been talking to a half-Puerto Rican, who had been born, reared and had worked for v A S CARLSONS ON LOUISE C: Carlson, wife and son, who have been south for several weeks _wontmm on n!o Five) are passengers aboard the Princes Louise for Juneau. Kjartan Amold; 28 Mublun, David | opmos; 90 Johansen, Hans Ingwald. | Anten: 26 Mack, Niilo; 27 LaCoyr- sieré, Edward Joseph; 28 Eakin, Rob- ert Moran; 29'Martin, Albert Mike; 30 Slaby, Joseph James; 31 Crupe, Delbes Hudson, Gerald Wil- | rg’l\ay; 32 liam;- 'M’l. Joseph Peter; 34 91 Jensen, Harry Alvin; 92 Jensen, Alf Rpder; 93 Simmons, Sheldon Bruce; 94 Aligaya, Edwardo Emil- liam; 95 Mahlum, Edwin Palmer; P it S NN, (Continued to Page Two) { There are 25 round trip pas- {wngrrs aboard the Northland on |the present voyage to Southeast ‘\Alaskx ports. The majority of the | tourists are from Pacific coast points. | Vichy government that it has no ob- jection to French volunteers fight- ing alongside their former enemies, | the Germans. ‘ Only yesterday France broke off diplomatic relations with Russia. | The' Rome radio said Hitler and { Mussolini decided on war against | Moscow and the total destruction of | the Red Army in the latest Brennes | Pass meeting on June 2, almost a | month ago. | Hand Grenades vs. Tanks ! A Berlin radio broadcast said Ger- vman and Bavarian Alpine troops, in' | violent action near Lwow, destroyed over a hundred Soviet tanks with |hand grenades. A Moscow communique said the |Red Army has stemmed the- Nazi onslaught toward the Ukraine, cofinter attacking and destroying |German tanks on the front as far |north as the Arctic. The com- { munique said “Fierce clashes with munique: said, “Fierce clashes with the enemy suffering considerable losses” in the Thistuin and Mur- mansk areas. LODESTAR GOES THROUGH AFTER INTERIOR TRIP Southhound, a PAA Lodestar pass- ed through Juneau from Fairbanks to Seattle today with one passen- |ger for Juneau, five through pas- |sengers and stopped here to pick (up one passenger frois Juneau to Seattle. Only passenger arriving here from the Interior was J. F. Jacobsen; through passengers were Archie Mc- Cormick, Charles Clement, Mrs. | Florence Stewart, Everett Pitts and |Hyman Goldberg. Clyde L. Brown- ing boarded the ship here for Se- |attle. One Electra landed here this morning with three passengers scheduled to arrive yesterday and winged back to Fairbanks with Mrs. |John O’Shea, infant O'Shea, Jessie sBailey, James C. Rettie and Ed. p ————————— wvnl_n‘m;n)