The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1941, Page 1

MOSCOW | THE DAILY A VOL. LVIL, NO. 8767. “ALL THE NEWS. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941. THRU ,ASK ALL THE TIME” T T A T MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T IS BLOCKED JAPAN PLANS REQUISITIONING SHIP WARLIKEACT JAPAN TO BLOCKADE VLADIVOSTOK, REPORT: BEINGTAKEN BY JAPANESE Commandeering of Ves-f sels Is Announced in | Manila Ship Circles | ONE CARGO NOTTO | BE DELIVERED, U. 5. Report Prevails that All Nippon Ships Ordered | Back, Home Ports 1 MANILA, July 3—The Taba- calera Company of Manila was today notified that the Japa- nese merchantman Kyusyu Maru, carrying a cargo from the Philippines to the United States, had been requisitioned by the Japanese Government. The cargo, already taken aboard, will be discharged here. Manila shipping gquarters ex- | pressed the opinion the Japa- | nese Government might be pre- paring to requisition all Jap- anese ships operating between the Philippines, Japan and the | United States. | One report, generally circu- | Jated in reliable Manila ship- | ping circles this afternoon, is | that the Japanese Government | has ordered all Japanese ships | in the waters of the Philip- | (Continued on Page Seven® @’/‘GO'VQ | ‘WASHINGTON.—The British are| £n extremely patient people. But ifl they were not, they, would do a lot of complaining over the manner in which State Department red Lapei snarls the Lease-Lend program. For after their purchases are all approved and officially stamped by General R. L. Maxwell, who is in charge of export licenses for the President, the matter still has to go to the State Deparment Division of Munitions Controls. This is under Joseph Green, ex- Princeton professor, who became famous several years ago for put- ting all sorts of obstacles in the path of arms to Loyalist Spain, while simultaneously letting arms be shipped to Germany despite the treaty of 1920 prohibiting this. (This he did, however, with the complete approval of Secretary Hull) Green's office now has been shorn of any real authority, but since it was created by Congress it cannot be ignored. But it is one of the most red-tape snarled bureaus in the State Department, so much so that it sometimes takes a week for a British shipment to get Green’s OK, even though it already has been approved by General Maxwell, his superior. Green has no authority to stop a shipment. In fact he has no au- thority to do much of anything. But despite this fact it takes about a week for shipments to clear through his office. BRITISH PROTEST ‘The situation became so bad last year “that the British finally pre- pared a memorandum on the sub- ject and sent it to Philip Young, consgientious, hard-working son of Owen D. Young of General Electric, —_— “(Continued on Page Four) HITLER SHOWS HAND ON JAPAN CHUNGKING, China, July 3.—It is rumored here that Hitler's price for recognition of the Japanese- sponosered Nanking Government, is from the United States reaching E 5, Russia, It is predicted here the blockade will be started within a few days. | Chinese advices received here con- |a blockade of the Siberian port of vey the information that Japan is | Vladivostok and prevent supplies | already transferring troops Man- i churiaward. CALL IT BY NAME_pritain calls this big gun—s late addition to the stock of British world’s largest calibre—“Boche armaments and said to be the Buster,” with a certain ides in mind. This is one of first action photos. Legislation Infroduced Senator McNary Proposes Two Moves, One Aim- ed Against Japan | New Fish SAYS U. §. 10 OCCUPY ICELAND ‘Senalor Wheeler Declares Administration Now Planning Move WASHINGTON, July 3—Senator |ed.” | |chance that if the Soviet Union col- WASHINGTON, July 3.—United' States Senator Charles L. McNary, Burton K. Wheeler, long an oppon- Republican of Oregon, intends to)ent of the Administration’s .foreign introduce today a bill making it un- lawful to catch or attempt to catch salmon in the waters of Alaska ex- cept under license from the Fish and Wildlife service. The bill will also prohibit the im- port into the United States of any salmon caught outside American waters except under a Government license. This latter is a slap at Jap- anese caught salmon. —— Miss J. Ringstad Is Transferred fo Juneau from East Starting today in the employ of the Social Security Office is Jean- ette Ringstad, who has been trans- ferred from the Social Security headquarters in Baltimore, Mary- land, Miss Ringstad, a native of the state of Washington, who has been in Baltimore for the last year and a half, arrived on the Mount Mc- Kinley Tuesday. —————— It takes seven five-cent pieces to buy a pound of nickel, policy, said he had information that the Administration will soon send American Navy and Army forces to occupy Iceland. Senator Wheeler didn’t disclose the source of his information, but he declared: “I am reliably in- formed that we are about to take over Iceland, and send troop ships there. It'is my information that the men will embark July 23 or July 247 Iceland was taken over by, Brit- ish forces after Germany had taken control of Denmark. Senator Wheeler said it fs his understanding that American forc- es will relieve the British now on the island. He said he was advised that the Administration wanted ‘o hold Iceland so American merchant ships. could carry goods to that point and transfer them to Brit- ish vessels. : SHOTDOWN Air Ministry announced this after- noon that 11 German fighter planes were downed today in RAF sweeps on northern France and seven Brit- ish planes have failed to return, LONDON, July 3. —The British WATCHFUL EYE KEPT {Under Secrefary of Stal'ei | Hopes Peace Will Not Be Disturbed on Pacific WASHINGTON, July 3.—Under<| Secretary of State Sumner Welles today said the United States Gov- |ernment naturally hopes the attitude A New Declaration of Independence | |taken by the Japanese Government in the present war will be of such character as to maintain peace on | the Pacifie, but all actions are be- ing closely watched. Welles made his statement in an« swer to a question at the gonfer= ence with newsmen. The qm'sv.um| was whether the United States had | any official information concermngl the policy adopted by Japan, follow: ing the official report from Tok; yesterday that the Japanese Gox ernment has chosen a policy of cop- ing with the crisis arising from the Russo-German war. .#The. fficial report from . Tokyo was that Foreign Minister ‘Matsuoka / told the nation “a super emergency of a very grave nature is developing before our eyes, throughout the world, and particularly in East Asia, with direct concern to our country, and our policy has been determin- Matsuoka also inferred the course would be kept a secret until dis- closed by action, and included, | among speculative prospects, the lapses, Japan might decide to at- tempt to take Siberia, long consider- ed by some Japanese as a threat to the peace and security of the Japan- ese. Empire. ———.—a———— BRITISH LOOMING London Mafine Hints al? Move on Continent-RAF | Attacks Forerunner LONDON, July 3—The magazine, Aeroplane, in the issue today, plain-| Iy hinted that the daylight raids' and nightly sweeps and poundings of the German occupied French coast, may be a prelude to the in- vasion of the continent and before August 1. The magazine sald the Germans have been persuaded that “no com- bined offensive of British arms will be undertaken for several months ‘but the Royal Air Force has been so busy for nearly three weeks, that doubts are cast on that as- sumption and before this month is out developments may be expected. This will hearten all people over |whose lands the struggle must be renewed.” KVICHAK S RAISED NOW PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July 3— Raised from a depth of 90 feet, by the Armour Salvage Company, the United States Army transport Kvi- ,ch-.k, which grounded on Sisters Island last January 28, is expected to be towed to the drydock here within the next ten days. Repalrs to the vessel are expected to cost'at least $250,000. e 1 BUY DEFENSE BONDS Is Maki By JACK STINNETT WABHINGTON, July 3— There is an odd kind of censorship going on which, probably because of the low of big news, rarely is men- tioned. Manufacturers who hold defense cofitracts, it.seems, have to submit to the Office of Production Man- agement, Army or Navy, all adver- tising which mentions in any way 'that they may not be able to de- |liver this or that because their na- tional defense commitments or pri- orities have taken this or that off the market, For obvious reasons, I can't nam nameés—but this came directly from a manufacturer. About two months ago, he wanted to explain in a national advertising campaign that for a few months it might be hard! to get his particular patented ar- ticle, but that if customers would“ | just bear with him for a short time| | he would be back in the production | groove. For two months. OPM and the |Army mulled over this ad—or- dered a dozen changes until” it hardly said anything—and finally agreed to okay it subject to last- minute revisions. The harassed manufacturer tried to explain that national advertising campaigns were planned weeks or months in ad- vance—that magazines had to lock their ad forms a long time ahead) that natiopal advertising Lo news- ‘ papers can not be sold and planned | on‘24-hour notice. OPM, which had | the last word, was.adamant, | “But I tell you it can’'t be | handled that way,” said the man- | ufacturer. “If you -won't agree to! im, pmluan. suggest vmmm."J ' 0dd Kind of Censorship INVASION Now Going On; Somebody ng Bad Blunders ! that he just drop the whole thing What he got was a suggestion altogether and carry on with his usual advertising. If you hear about a New Jersey producer jumping into one of his own acid vats, don’t be surprised. he sald to me! ARMY PURGE REQUESTED BY MARSHALL Chief of Staff Wants De- . fense Army Longer Than One Year WASHINGTON, July 3 — Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, today urged that draftees,| A REVERSAL OF FORM Acids bring up another choice priorities yarn that is floating around the capital. reserve officers and National | Guardsmen be kept in Federal ser- vice longer than one year and | asked the removal of the restric-| In the early days of national de- tions that confine United States fense (before OPM) & big chemical| armed forces to the Western Hem- company that turns out a product | Which is 95 percent a chemical that| lis important to one vital defense| of War Henry Stimson, Gen. Mar- product sent a representative to Washington to offer to curtail the manufacture of this nationally-ad- vertised item until it was deter- mined how much of it would be necessary for defense. The representative was given a run-around and sent home with the assurance that the government could do without him and his com-| pany very nicely, thank you. That was about a year ago. To-| day, the same company, with a government contract and under government orders, is buying back its product from wholesalers and retailers—in many cases at a pre- mium—and going through the ex- pensive process of taking out of it the five percent extraneous chemicals, trying to avoid a na- i tional shortage of that vital 95 percent. | CAUSING THE THUNDER | Couple a big number of suchY stories with the testimony before :Eanuum_n;'m.# 78!7 ;fll-' ) Y | been south for several weeks, is re- | isphere. In a biénnial report to Secretary shall said the events “of the past few days are even more forcible indications of the suddenness which' armed conflict can spread to areas| hitherto considered free from at- tack. Legal reserictions for the use of our armed forces should be re- moved without delay.” The Army Chief of Staff also strongly urged immediate congres-| ional action on legislation already before Congress designed to vitalize Army leadership. He said the pur- pose of the action is the removal from active duty of “a few offi- cers who slow down the develop- ment of our emergency army through lack of qualitfes of vigor and- intelligent, aggressive leader- ship.” - e MRS. DAVIS RETURNING Mrs. Trevor M. Davis, who has turning to her Juneau home to- night aboard the Prince Rupert. - e —— RED ARMY CHECKING NAZI RUSH { Russian Ters Reported Locked with Germans in Vast New Battle NAZI HIGH COMMAND SAYS NO RESISTANCE General snaim of Reich Soldiers” Drive Said fo Be Slowing Up (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Adolf Hitler’s unscrupulous com- mand today declared that resis- tance of the Red Army appeared smashed ' along the entire 2000~ mile front from the Arctic to the Black Sea with “unimaginable chaos” broken over the Soviet armies, ‘While the Nazi command ple- tured & decisive turn in the 12-day struggle, a Soviet communique as- |serted the main German thrust to Moscow is blocked by Russian troops locked with the Germans in a vast new battle on the road to Moscow. Hitler Claims Collapse German headquarters, announc- ing that Nazi and Rumanian troops crossed the Prut River toward the Dniester yesterday, said: “The united armies on the entire front between the Black Sea and the Arctic have started to attack. Tt now appears the resistance of the Soviet armies is broken. Backward movements of the enemy become more apparent on the entire front.” The Prut River forms the boun- dary between Rumania and Rus- sian-held Bessarabia. Amid these assertions from Hit- ler’'s headquarters, the Russian command declared a vanguard of Moscow-bound Nazi forces have been hurled back in repeated at- tempts to cross the Berezina River whose waters were reddened by the blood of Napoleon's troops in their bitter retreat from Moscow in 1812, The Red Army also reported it has halted and inflicted a heavy defeat on & German mechanized (Continued on Page Eight) Stalin Calls For Guerilla Type_\!arlare Russian Dictator Warns People - Asks for De- struction of Food MOSCOW, July 3—Russian dic- tator Josef Stalin, speaking public- ly for the first time in two years, today warned the people of the So- viet nation in a radio talk that they are gravely menaced. Stalin demanded a vast scorched earth and a guerilla system to help defeat the Germans. Stalin admit- ted the loss of Lithuania and part of Latvia, and said that German armies are inside White Russia and the Ukraine. Suggesting behind-the-lines sa- botage, the Russian leader asked for the destruction of foodstuffs and equipment likely to fall into the hands of the Nazs, the remov- al of cattle and available transpor- tation to the rearward and tlie set- ting of forest fires. Stalin stressed the belief of an BUY DEFENSE STAMPS eventual Russian victory.