The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8769. “ALL THE. NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941. GERMANS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY 'SMASH STALIN LINE ORCES OF U. S. ARE NOW IN ICELAND NAVY UNITS RAF Bombs Wreck Nazi Airport NOWOCCUPY OCEAN BASE will Replaféfiifish Troops -Adequate Defense fo Be Given Area | OCCUPIED / AIR RAIDED Both Night, Day Aftacks Continue as RAF Sweep Over English Channel : Nazi Gun Fires On Retreating Reds memes WASHINGTON, July 7.—Forces of the United States Navy have arrived in Iceland in accordance with an understanding between President Roosevelt and the Prime Minister of Iceland. The U. S. naval forces moved in and other units will join them later, eventually replacing the British forces stationed there to insure adequate defense for the ocean base. President Roosevelt told Con- gress today, in a special mes- sage, that occupying Iceland with Navy forces, is a far-reach- ing step of America’s foreign policy and further stated that the United States could not per- mit “occupation by Germany as strategic outposts in the Atlantic will be used by Germany as air or naval bases for an eventual attack against the Western LONDON, July 7—British bomb- ers today raided German - held . France with two heavy atiacks, - continuing without letup the over- night assault which extended, from the docks of Brest to the Ruhr industrial valley. Watchers on the southeast coast of England this morning saw an armada sweep over the channel and later heard distant bomb ex- posions. It is estimated that many tons of projectiles were dropped on northern France. i This afternoon another armada | swept out over the channel and 1 watchers heard the snap of anti- laircrnn gunfire as the Germans |put up a fierce barrage between | Boulogne and Calais. .. The German industrial -centers |of Dortmoud and Muenster were among the targets in last night's Following up a heavy barrage which set the vill, afire, a Nazi field plece 1s moved Into e R woldier epoflkial German caption failed Pposition on th to Hemisphere.” | At the same time, the Presi- dent said in his message, this country has no desire to see any change in the present sover- | eignty of those regions. Iceland was a sister republic to the kingdom of Denmark and even- | FIRST'GLAMOUR LADY": SHE'S FROM MARYLAND Cablephoto | Made by a British observer during a Royal Air Force raid on Nazi- | occupied France, this photo shows nine direct hits bursting in a line on the concrete runway of St. Omer Airport. The German Luftwaffe used | the airdrome as a springboard for raids on Britain, according to the | British Ministrv of Tnfarmation overran Denmark and was separ- ated by the last tie. | The United States has already taken steps to insure that Germany (Continued on Page Eight) | CThe By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 7—Congress a small trianguular face. The most 1 hair, and large black-brown eyes in ~ | has its first “glamour lady.” She's surprising thing about her is that Drew Pearsos | Mrs. Katharine Byron, the only she is the mother of five sons—| d woman the “free state of Mary- the eldest, 16, | wsm land” ever sent to Congress. Elect- when she was less than a day | | | ed recently from Maryland’s Sixth district, to fill the vacancy created by the death of her husband, Rep. William D. Byron, in an airplane crash, Mrs. Byron moved in on WASHINGTON—Just what Cap-|the House like a cool evening | breeze. | tain James Roosevelt reported to, Her induction gave the House his father regarding his recent wnr;’ trip, is their secret. But if it wasjof Representatives its livelieSt day them even nodded and said per- anything like the report Jimmy in months, notwithstanding all haps it could be managed when a gave to his superiors in the Ma-!the dynamics of national defense.| vacancy showed up. | rine Corps and the Navy Depart-|In the first place, it was hardly ment, it was definitely pessimistic|over before she had almost tear- | G;:SN Dgt,’:‘::in ;!::d:g‘:: T::'s, regarding British morale and or-|fully cried, “Oh, Sam,” and forth- Louis E. McComas, Representanvel ganizational ability. with proceeded to plant a happy‘w Congress from t.‘hnt s Slxthj One story he told was of the/kiss on the blushing cheek Of piiiot of Maryland and later British attack on Solum, the Axis|Speaker Sam Rayburn. U. S. Senator. He died a judge on cutpost on the Egyptian border in| The news photographers asked| .\ "'nictriot of Columbia bench the Libyan desert. The British at-|the Speaker to give them a re-|po. roiner was E. Goodloe Edgar, | tacked Solum last month believing| take. The bachelor from Texas Detroit sugar ra[lx;er 4 general in" that it was defended largely by|sald he was sorry but he did not the World War in charge of Unit- Italians. But the Germans immedi-|kiss in public. Sen. Millard F. ed States air, truction, Her | ately came to the rescue withTydings of Maryland—and even|, .. .pib By, as 3 ik anti-aircraft guns mounted on| longer a friend of the Byrons than|yonai in qur World War air force trucks. These guns fire with great| Mr. Rayburn—said something 0| .1 st the time of his death one rapidity and tremendous power. |the effect that not being a bache- of the ringleaders of national de-| Result was that the British tanks|lor, in public was the only way 0655 and’ Almdet & pioneer in| fighting for adequate defense high- old in her new job, Mrs. Byron let it be known that she would like to serve on the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee. That is a But those who knew Mrs. Byron were terribly smashed up, that out{he would kiss. So the photogra- of a total of 350 tanks making the| phers got their picture—probably attack, about 250 were smashed cr|the: only one extant of Senator ::y; dg?:r is”':‘;::;u‘:::sn:};‘fir captured. congratulating congresswoman in etk Cn, | Jimmy Roosevelt made the same such a manner. recommendation which most U. S. observers make after returning from. Europe these days—that the Unit- After military matters and de- SON HAD HIS FUN fense, Mrs. Byron says, perhaps If all of this isn't enough to|her greatest interest is education prove what a flutter Mrs. Byron's (she was president of the Williams- d S ill have to act and act :;uicl:;mm‘: S dhonly vance| debut gave the staid halls of the port Parent-Teacher = Association tatd R’uula continues, the' British! Capitol, meet Louis McComas By-‘ when she was elected to Congress).| covervssnt, will fase & BemgnAoiis 0% aged 3'%. Louls was unim- Then come laws relating to wom-| Cave Tortag ng nnmenti pressed by his mother’s elevation w‘ en’s interests—and after that meas-| i bt p:‘”m R oty hel high office, but he was terribly im- ures which will help solve the prob- Unlted‘ i Wil faich & ‘hm;pressed by those little buttons on lems of the smaller cities. She e hve Germany backing| the congressmen’s desks. He went knows all about that, 100, becsusa| her practically next"d“oor‘ about through most of the pro- she was the first woman ever elect-| . ceedings pushing every one he ed to the Willlamsport town coun-| could fhd, sending the page boys cii. She was also president of the SHONE PRI e b linto " disrupting the whole busi- local Red Cross nd baitied it, but for a few hours the: other(P%S - farkous one gl RO T Y t prohibiti .. Rep. ' Katharine ' Byron of Wil-/ ' 80" you see, Congress’ “glamour . AL S Md, 'is of medium lady” isn’t just that and nothing liamsport, u (Continued on -Page Four) vivacious, with ur-bhck‘ more, stature, (land caved in, attacks by the RAF. | The British Air Ministry acknow- |ledges that the night raid cost six planes, One lone German plane’ was re-| | ported over England late’ this af-| the first daylight raider ternoon, in weeks. MILITARY MEN URGEINVASION OF CONTINENT \Creation of Second Front for Hitler Advocated in Washington By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON, July 7.—Behind the Knox statement urging that the U. 8. Navy be used before it is too little like a new office boy asking|late, and behind General Marshall’s | for a seat at the directors' table.|Statement that the time has come | to remove the ban against sending didn't snort at all and some of{¥r0oPs abroad, was a plan urged privately by Army-Navy strategists for some time. This was to create a second front against Hitler along the coast of France or Holland; in other words, to give direct and immediate aid to Russia by forcing Hitler to fight on two fronts. So far Hitler has been able to pick his battleground at his own sweet will. He took Czechoslovakia when | he wanted to and then waited until | he was ready for Poland. After Po- the British and French waited calmly until he was ready to pounce on the Low Coun- tries and on them. So during the past three weeks, |some of the best military and naval minds in Washington have been pointing out that Great Britain, with two and one-half million men in the United Kingdom, should not wait for Hitler to clean up on the Russians, after which he will con- centrate his full force ageinst the British Isles. Instead, they have advised a sec- ond battle front along the English Channel, with perhaps participation by the U. 8. A. But they got no encouragement from President Roosevelt. The furthest he would let the Army and Navy go was the Knox and Marshall statements, cal- culated to sound out public opinion 50 he could ascertain the reaction. ————— VACATIONS IN KETCHIKAN Miss Ellen McKechnie left on the Denali Saturday for Ketchikan where she will spend her vacation visiting friends. She will return in several weeks, b e | | | | | QT T | A I G o\ L % I Russo-German battlefront angd fires on retreating Red soldiers. Th state where this action took place, but it probably is a village in former Polish wtit?q.» FIRE THREATE Tank cars which caught fire after collision with a switch engine in the NS BRIDGE g s P . railroad yards at Omaha threatened the Ak-Sar-Bem bridge across the Missouri River. Firemen kept burning oil from spreading to the span. Damage to railroad equipment was estimated at $100,000. Removing - Children At Moscow MOSCOW, July 7.—Voluntary re- moval of children from Moscow is now underway although it is official- ly stated there is no compulsion for them to leave. ——————— NEW CITIZBN Jessie Marie MoCrary, forier cft- | wen' of ‘Great - Britain, today obe tained final U. 8. citizenship papers in Disttiet Court bere. ., . | New l!eguialloni For Ships Given Ouf, Canal Zone | CRISTOBAL, Panama Canal Zone, | July 7.—The Commandant of Cris- tobal Port today put into effect new regulations under which ships will not be permitted to enter the Cristobal or Balboa harbors between the hours of sunset and sunrise. | Cristobal is on the Pacific side, In Limon Bay, and Balboa is on the | Atlantic side on the Bay of Pan- | o | G 10 0 s Some comets are so bright they san be seea M the daylight, PAUL McNUTT GIVES NOTICE TO JAPANESE Securities hHSays U s Will Not Appease | Tokyo Politicians WASHINGTON, July 17.—Federal Social Security Administrator Paul McNutt said today America’s stake in Asia “is far too real’ to be aband- oned “in order to appease the polit- ical machine that now happens to | be power in Tokyo.” His address, an emphatic warning serving notice that this country will resist any Japanese attempt to raise a military barrier between America and the Far East, was prepared for exercises of the Washington Chinese colony’s observation of the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of Sino- Japanese fighting. McNutt warned that a German ‘ conquest of Russia might bring Jap- an into outright military collabora- tion with the Axis and declared that China and the United States must | take action now to prevent “a uni- | fication of a totalitarian battlefront” | across all Europe and Asia. He said, “The time has come to lact. Events have clarified the is-| sues and they have brought us a new unity. China and America must each shoulder a fair share in putting down this old disorder which seeks to subjugate the free people of the | world.” HOLDEN MAKES TRIP | TO HOONAH WITH 3. Pilot Alex Holden winged out of| the Channel this morning with, three passengers for Hoonah and, returned with one from Funter Bay. Tom Dyer, Norman Banfield and Henry Moy were round tiip passengers with the flier and Mrs. W. R. Mills was booked from Fun- ter Bay to Juneau. On a flight to the Coast Shell Simmons carried H. McKinney, C. L. Saineberg, R. Notar, Esther Hawkins and Anton Gallinatti to! Sitka and returned with Lieut. and' Mrs, S. Gazzee, Mrs, ‘Eleanor Rowe,' Cal McGraw and A. Wallace. SOVIETS SAY NAZI TROOPS DRIVEN BACK Late Reports Conflict, with Both Sides Claim- ing Victories PANZER TANKS MADE OF WOOD, SAY REDS Russia Takes Offensive fo Repulse Invaders— "Enemy Suffers” (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's united invasion ar- mies are reported to have “broken” the Stalin Line, but Russian reports declared today that the Red Army troops have blocked the Nazi of- fensive along the whole front and , have driven the Germans back in five sectors. The Soviet Command said Rus- sian troops have seized the offensive .{in heavy’ fighting from the Baltic 'to the Black Sea and have smashed the Germans along the Berezina River, hurling back the Nazi drive aimed at the north flank of the Stalin Line. 15 Miles Penetration DNB, officlal German news agency, asserted German troops have broken the Russian line of fortifications in runs of 75 miles deep in some places. The equally vague Berlin radio said German col- umns have pierced the line at sev- eral points. Surprisingly the Soviets reported officially today that the Germans are using wood and canvas tanks to pad out their panzer columns. The fake machine was described as self-propelling and carrying machine guns. Red Army scouts, it was said, discovered the subterfuge when they spotted a Nazi tank column moving up to the front and saw with amaze-_ ment that “the body of one of the tanks gave M under the pressure of the elbow of an officer who lean- ed against it.” The Russians said only one of 30 of the tanks were genuine. On Upper Dniester ‘The Nazi High Command said (Continued un Page Six) ECUADOR, PERUNOW BATTLING Bombing Raids, Border Fighting Takes Place Over Old Dispute QUITO, Ecuador, July 7. — The Government of Ecuador charges Peru with political and military aggression after a weekend of bomb- ing raids and border fighting grow- ing out of the century-old frontier dispute. Gathering crowds paraded the Capital City’s streets, waved Ecua- dorean flags and sang the natiomal anthem in chorus in front of the statue of Simen Bolivar, Liberator, as the government ordered the army dispatched to the southern boun- dary. Reports from the south tell of two days of sporadic garrison battlesand artillery shelling of frontier towns by Peruvian troops and of Peruvian bomb raids on Ecuador's mililary outposts. The Ecuador Cabinet and military defense commission have issued a communique : blaming the outbreak and penetration of Ecuadorean ter- A trip to Yakutat is scheduled this afternoon, ritory to Peruvian soldiers and clv~ ilians. i