The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1941, Page 1

A a4 Wi THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI VOL. LVIL, NO. 8768. — NAZIS CAUGHT MILLIONS CELEBRATE GREATDAY Observance Varies in 48 States, Territories - Gi- gantic Chorus Heard (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Against a sobering background of | abroad and stern prepara- for defense at home, United States celebrated Fourth in the traditional enthu- iastic manner that varied aswide- s the terrain of the 48 states and territories. For some states, Independence Day went to beach- es or mountains, on excursions or picnics in public parks. Many towns in the rural commu- nities had reunions, barbecues and strife tions celebrants of of Americans were, they paused1 yesterday to hear the Independence address by President Roose- velt, which was broadcast from his home in Hyde Park. At the conclusion of the Presi- dent's speech, listeners were invit- ed to join with Chief Justice Stone in repeating in unison the Oath of Allegiance to the Flag, then in all quarters of the country at the same moment, millions of voices joined in a gigantic chorus insing- ine the National Anthem. Emphasizing the current cooper- ation between Great Britain and this Nation, the Stars and Stripes flew besides the Union Jack dom. Wendell L. Willkie declared in a speech that “we will be sure to! ARMY GENERAL STAFF WANTS LAND FORCES PRESENT SIZE know how great a force the Unit- ed States Navy is when we start to insure delivery “of supplies Lo Great Britain. | The Department of Commerce| estimated yesterday that small boys, | and also some adults, would light| fuses on at least $3,500,000 worth“ of fireworks. WASHINGTON.—General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, spends most of his time looking forward to a bigger and more improved U. 8. Army. But when he looks back- ward over 60 years, one of his sharp- est recollections has to do with the S.S. Tenadores, sailing from Hobok- en June 14, 1917, loaded with the first troops of the AEF. Marshall was a Captain then, age 36, and his chief responsibility was to keep -the soldiers from handling their guns. New recruits, they were so raw and so seasick they couldn't be trusted with weapons. Teday, the terrible confusion of those days seems like a nightmare. Marshall wants no more confusion. Since his appointment as Chief of Staff two years ago, he has brought an unsurpassed skill to the job of nreventing such chaos from happen- ing again. The President knew Marshall’s mettle when, in making the selec- tion, he passed over 34 other officers| who were senior in rank. At that| time, the Army numbered 169,000. Today is numbers 1,400,000 and is going higher. With this tremendous expansion, there has been some dis- erder and irregularity, but Marshall has kept it at a minimum. However, it is part of )lu.shnll's! genius that when there is disorder and irregularity, Marshall airs it;| The exact opposite of certein brass hats in the Navy, General Marshall never has been known to smother| news of a mistake. In fact he will sit down with newspapermen and be more critical of the Army than any| of them. % MARSHALL AND CONGRESS | For instance, one of the Army's severest critics is: Congressman Al- bert J. Engle, of Michigan. Engel is the man who accused the War —_—— " (Continued on Fage Foun) the| the rodeos but wherever the mimonsé g in| many sections of the-United King-} “ALL THE. NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941. auacor s in ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 11 D PRICE TEN CENTS | | Brenda Marshall to Wed Actor_ Brenda Marshall; William Holden, inset Latest Hollywood couple to announce their engagement and forth- coming. wedding; Brenda Marshall, screen -player, and William Holden, stage and screen leading man, plan to be martied within p few weeks, Miss Marshall disclosed the engagement shortly aftcr the entry of her final divorce decree. from Rickiard H, Gaines ot tlie. New York stage, whom she married in 1936. She received custody | of their three-year-cld daughter. TWICE |size of the United States Army, | perhaps double its present strength, |is believed indicated in the Gen- jeral Staff’s controversial request for power to hold the National {Guardsmen and those in the se- |lective service and use them be- “yond the confines of the Western | Hemisphere, if necessary. | The Army's future size is mo- | mentarily obscured in the rush f highly critical congressional reac- | WASHINGTON, July 5 — Plansi tion on the High Command’s re- for a substantial increase in theiquest but a well informed official pointed out the two subjects, Na- AMERICANS - WARNEDBY 'Says People Must.Be Will- ing fo Pledge Lives for Sake of Liberty HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 5.— President Roosevelt warned the American people they must be | willing to pledge their lives “if necessary” for preservation of their cherished liberty. Speaking over the radio, all systems on national hookup, yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock from his library here, President Roosevelt said the fundamental principals wh'ich Americans fought. for in 1776 are being struck down by tyranny abroad and this now threatens this side of the Atlantic. The President declared: “I fell . the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive on a happy, prosperous oasis of liberty in the midst of a desert of dictatorships.” MORE ADVICE ON DEFENSE | laska Traveller Says Ter-yY ritory Cannot Be Prac- | | fically Invaded SAN FRANCISCO,July 5. — The PRESIDENT| ' BYHUBBARD Biggest Barrage Balloon Demonstrated at Akron, O. | Air view of the new Goodyear Strato-Sentinel Latest.and higgest harrage balloon designed and built by the Goodyear company at Akron, O,, Is deme onstrated above for the first time with U. 8, government approval. The balloon, called the Strato- Sentinel, has a capacity of 68,000 feet of helium and a ceiling of 15,000 feet. A number of barrage balloons have been delivered to the U. 8. armv and more are being constructed, AFL Lends $50,00 _r Defese; VL Amvosfo—fi. BY JAPANESE { Attempt May—Be Made fo Rev. B. R. Hubbard says Alaska could not be invaded in any prac- | tical way. “The fellow who is there now,” he | | said, “can hold it with the use of a |little intelligence. There's a very | {logical path which the Japanese might follow. First they might seize Vladivostok, terminus to Alaska, but that's as| | far from the Territory as it is from tional Guardsmen and selectees, are | Seattle to Panama. Then it could very closely linked. seize the Russian port of Sakhalin The Army’s present strength, it | Island, then Kamchatka with its | is noted, is about 1,400,000. It is indicated that recruited trainees will reach 900,000. It is indicated that the High Command wants land forces close to 2,800,000 and this is the goal| and deemed necessary because of world conditions, Dive Bombers ‘Deliveredio | Arle U.S. New Planes, Counterparts of Famed Stukas, to Be Used, Fall Maneuvers WASHINGTON, July 5—The Army Air Force has started to * receive regular ' deliveries of dive bombers and it is learned that plans have been complet- ed for organizing by November, at least six squadrons of these American counterparts of Ger- many’s- famed Stukas. Authoritative indications are that approximately 100 dive bombers will be available for use in the fall maneuvers of the American troops which will receive the first large scale training coordinated with the air and ground forces. In addition to these new Army planes, the Navy will par- ticipate in maneuvers with the dive bombers but the Army has net indicated the number of Navy planes to be involved. ———eo—— There are approximately 155, 000 practicing physicians in the United States. BREMEN IS AIR RAIDED IN DAYLIGHT British Bombers Score Di- rect Hifs on Factories— Attack All Night LONDON, July 5 — Big British bombers, diving 50 feet over the roof tops of Bremen in broad day- light, scored direct hits on large factories in' the waterfront area of the German port and shipbuilding city. The Air Ministry reports that the Royal Air Force gave Bremen, only rich fisheries. Having done so, it ;mlght go to Alaska, but it wouldn’t | do much good.” | He expressed the belief that a few | well placed airfields, submarine and Inaval bases would easily block war- | like moves. He urged immediate establishment of new airfields at lAnla.kchn.k and Pilgrim Springs. | He said some fields have been es- tablished, but not in the best loca- {tions.” “Politiciahs and real estate dealers are responsible” for the air- fields located for reasons of con-| venience rather than of strategy. The Catholic priest is leaving for :Junenu Monday and will proceed to the Interior. | Seeks fo Sllr_render 'Supreme Commander of Italian Forces in Ethiopia Wants to Give Up Now NAIROBI, July 5—General Ga- zerra, Supreme Commander of the remaining Italian forces in Ethio- pia, is sending envoys to the Brit- ish to arrange for surrender of all a short breathing spell after an ytg)jan troops in the Province of all-night attack. CLAMS000 " o LONDON July 5.—~A Reuters dis- patch said the DNB at Berlin claims 5,000 Russian planes have been de- stroyed 'so far in the war. BUY DEVENSK BONDS | Galla Sidamo. This is according to a British announcement. Atfack Lille In Broad Day ‘LONDON July 5.—Daylight bomb- ers struck the French factory city of Lille this aftetnoon and scored direct hits on the important steel engineer- :r.t‘m authoritative sources as- the nearest raliroad |- Bottle Up Siberian Port | ~Extend 3-Mile Zone | TOKYO, July 5 — The Japanese | Government is giving serious con-| sideration to the possibility the United States may send aid to Rus-‘ sia via Vladivostok. The official spokesman indicated {this at a conference with corres- | (pondents when the Vladivostok sit- {uation was discussed. | Koh 1Ishii, Japanese Cabinet spokesman, said the Japanese Gov- iemment is discussing the question| |of extension of the limits' of Ja-| pan’s territorial waters beyond the three- ! | é * Phonephoto Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (right) accepts a check for $60,000 from George Meany, of the American Federation of Labor, !g: :he 'purchase of U.gS. defense bonds, AFL members throughout the { internationally recognized IN DEATH TRAP SOVIETRIVER STOPS HITLER INMASSACRE ' Germans Die in Hail of Ar- fillery and Machine Gun Fire RED ARMY REPORTS TREMENDOUS BATTLE Invading Troops Being Beaten on Scene of Napoleonic Defeat (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A watery death trap for thou- sands of Nazi invaders was re- ported in Russian dispatches today, as the Red Army claimed a massacre of Hitler’s forces on the Berezina River, point of deepest German penetration into Russia. Moscow reported the deaths of thousands of Germans there, all adding to the 750,000 German losses which is estimated as the price of the two-week-old in- vasion. Red Army officials said their stand sfong the Berezina and Druja waterways has rolled back terrific German assaults. The Germans are caught in a de- structive hail of artillery and that said Hitler’s legions have driven across the Berezina River and reached the shore of the Dneipr River 110 miles east of Minsk in the region of Russia’s strongest defenses, the Russian report sheds new light on the constantly reversing reports of fighting on 2,000-mile front. Nazi picture in broad outline t detail the mas- sive y folded back inté its own territory on the entire front from Finland to Bess- arabis. BATTLEFIELD LFTTERED A vast slaughtering of German troops along the bloody Berezina River 400 miles west of Moscow, was reported by Russia’s Command yes- terday as “thousands of dead Ger- man soldiers, blazing tanks and en- emy aircraft” littered the battlefield. The Red Army declared the three main German offensives against Russia have been checked by defen- sive blitzkriegs, with 160 Nazi tanks eduntry contributed the money. mile zone. At a with! newsmen, it was indicated the Jap- r es an da :nnese Government might take some| acticn to close two narrow straits, | between the Japanese islands thac recent conference ships on the Pacific normally take| . | . Is s'allln o n B u I ldl n |to reach Vladivostok, These revela- | tions concerned and centered on; |Eoya Strait between Hokkaido and| Sakhalin, only 25 miles wide, and| N I | n'erna'lona I wa the still narrower Tsugaru Strait| | between Hokkaido and Hondo. | —_— 1 -\ WASHINGTON, July 5—Alaska’ Delegate Anthony J. Dimond de-| SE(O“D GERMA“ friendly act” as Japan regards the| clares that the Canadian National |sending of United States planes to. Government is “stalling, delaying I“ (o“sulATE the British at Singapore, Batavia and procrastinating” in negotia- and Chungking. tions to bring about the construc- pu[ls su'(IDE\ tion_of the International Highway. e — “The Canadians are stalling| | E N T | al hing to- e o ! g 0 Temears et New York Nazi Hangs Self pR E S I D way started,” said Delegate D\-‘ by Sash Cord Wife 1 mond, and continuing: “I have no sible stationing of United States | planes at Vladivostok as an “un-| Koh Ishii said Japan regards pos-| — destroyed in the Minsk area on ‘the central front. Berlin radio reports rald Soviet troops have failed in thelr attempt to smash through a Nazi encircle- ment which has already netted 20,000 Russian prisoners for the invaders. Countering official German re- ports that the backbone of the Red Army is broken, a Soviet communj- que declared also that Nazi in- vasion forces suffered heavy defeats in the Brobruisk sector, 100 miles (Continued to Page Two) JAPAN MAY MOVE SOUTH T0 SAIGON cfficial information upon which to base this belief but I know it is true, “Canada just will not say we won't cooperate but just keeps post- Finds Body MONT VERNON, N. Y., July 5.— | Julius Otto, 54, attached to the Ger- - CONFERRING poning. The Canadian Alaska High-| man Consulate in New York before - WITH HEADS way Commission came here for a|they were closed last week by orde: conference but it is easy to see the | of the U. 8. Govemnment, today members had no authority to com- | hanged himself by a sash cord in mit its Government to anything.| the bathroom of his home. His wife The fact the Canadians have done discovered the body. nething, ‘is- proof my statement ls} In Washington, last Tuesday, true. Congress would agree to the iHelnrlch Nositz, administrative clerk nroposal to construct the highway | for the German Embassy, committed Undersecretary of State Sumner in a minute if Canada would co-|suicide by shooting himself. Bad Welles, Secretary of War Henry L., operate.” health was blamed for the clerk’s Stimson and George Marshall, Chief | - SR IR S B NR suicide. (of the Army Staff, and ethers. —— oo ——— | Before the conference the Presi- French Indo-China and Argen-| puring the depression years of dent issued a proclamation adding | tind have joined the list of na-|1931-33 ten out of every 100 auto- certain vegetable products nud} tions utflizing pure nickel coins, mobiles in the United States were chemicals to the long list of articles | but in certain European. countries|forced off the highways because NOW under export licensé control, nickel coinage has been discontin-|their owners could not afford to| R s A ued. run them. ) BUY DEFENSE BONDS WASHINGTON, July 5. — Presi-| dent Roosevelt met with high de- fense and foreign policy advisers to- day for the first time in two weeks as he returned here from a ten-day stay at Hyde Park. He called in |Army, Navy?eparing for Adion, Report, But All Rumors Unconfirmed SHANGHAI, July 5 — Uncon- firmed reports circulated in Shang- hai are that the Japanese Army jand Navy are preparing to move within a fortnight against South- ern French-Indo China and occupy Saigon. These reports are among many circulated concerning Japan's next move but none have been confirm- ed here. The Japanese spokesman here, and also non-Japanese officials, re- called in ‘the past that intimations of impending Japapese action leak- ing out were similarly denied. °