The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1941, Page 1

T T PR —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8770. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, ALL THE TIME” TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS ARE HELD ON 600 MILE FRONT . S. Action In Iceland Declared War Threat TOKYO, ROME IN COMMENT ONU.S.MOVE Japanese Paper Declares Occupation Is De Facto | War Participation REAL INTERVENTION IS SEEN BY FASCIST| One Malian Official Says' Roosevelt Has Vio- | lated Promises | TOKYO, July 8—The dispatch oft United States Naval forces to occu-| py Iceland is a “de facto participa-1 tion in the war,” the Nationalist newspaper Hokumin declares today.| Domei says: “This action is de- cisive and must have been taken af- ter strong determination.” Domei also says the United States, by the action in occupying Iceland, | has finally entered the zone of hos- till defined by Germany and hold “increased possibilities of fur- ther aggravation relations between the United States and Germany.” INTERVENTION SEEN ROME, July 8—Political circles here said the arrival of American forces in Iceland “constitutes a real and true intervention in European waters.” One highly placed Fascist, com-| menting on the action, said: “In o¢- cupying Iceland, President Roosevelt has assumed a grave responsibility in sending his ships to the block- ade zone.” This same Fascist declared that (Continued on fi;ge six» WASHINGTON—Inside story on General Wavell’s transfer to India, as told in diplomatic dispatches, is that Wavell had been quarreling with " Churchill and had opposed political-military moves such as the campaign in Greece and Crete and the expedition to Solum. More important from the Amer- ican point of view, Wavell had fav- ored the evacuation of all British forces from the entire Mediterran- ean area And U. 8. military experts agreed with him—in fact, urged it. So although in a sense General Wavell is being demoted, yet in other respects he will be in a posi- tion to command British forces from an area to which he had urged that British forces retreat. For some time General Wavell had contended that Britain's position in the Mediterranean was indefensible. The British force of only 400,000 men in the Near East faced a combined Axis total twice as strong—400,000 Germans and Italians in Libya, plus 600,000 Nazis in Greece, Bulgaria and Rumania. The latter figure has been par- tially diminished by transfers to Russia; but Wavell argued that the Nazi-Fascist armies could concen- trate attack in one place while Brit- ish troops had to spread out over a far-flung line from Libya to Syria and Iraq. Therefore he disagreed with Churchill on all military moves which had a political motive. U. S. WORRIED OVER ATLANTIC U. S. military and naval strate- gists sided with Wavell, were strong | for the idea of a complete British witdhrawal from the Mediterranean The strategy behind this was two- fold: 1. The British have lost 40 per cent of their origingl Mediter- Fritz Kreisler Convalescing World-famous violinist Fritz Kreisler is shown resting on the roof of his New York hotel during a visit to the city from Long Island, where is almost completely recovered from the severe he walked into path of a truck some weeks ago he is convalescing. He juries suffered wh NATIONAL DEFE ~ NOWHITTING NEARLY ALL; WARNING GIVEN Her Ship Confiscated Mlle, Lysiane Bernhardt, mews- paperwoman, granddaughter of the late actress, Sarah Bernhardty ar- rives at New York. She and 536 other passengers were aboard. the French liner Winnipeg, en route to Martinique, when it was confiscated, by a Dutch warship. Nearly 800 of! the passengers were taken to a con. centration camp, the others per- mitted to proceed to New York on the Evangeline. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 76%, Commonwealth and Southern 9/16, Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors 39%, International Harveter 52%, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 13, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 59%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 127.64; raiis, 20.34; uiliities, 18.34. L eee Importation of wool and dairy products by the United States from Argentina has increased since advent of the war, | | | JAPSREADY - FORACTION ~ INPACIFIC U, S. Ships fo Vladivostok | May Be Stopped by | Nippon Navy | OBSERVERS WARN ? OF PREPARATION Spokesman Says Steamers | Concentrated Merely ‘i for Freighting SHANGHAI, July 8.—Experienced observers said today that Japan's | curtailment of her shipping routes |and the concentrations of her mer- ‘chant marine in the Pacific is ob- viously preparation for “any even- tualities” or in other words what- ever action Tokyo may take next. | Koh Ishii, spokesman for the Japanese Government, said Tokyo’s concentration is due to a shortage of ships on the Pacific routes and | pointed out there is little chance for ik ’Japanese freighters of obtaining ecar- goes on the East Coast of the Unit- ed States, so henceforth Jap: (ships will probably confine jcalls to the West Coast, He ad at U. 8 regu‘at.lons coneerning the Panama Canal are very incon- | venient to the Japanese. Shanghai observers said Ishii’s statement is not convincing and as- serted Japan’s trade in the Far East has declined greatly while its trade in Europe has cempletely halted. They suggested ships called home will be handed over to military authori- ties if Japan attempts new over- eas expeditions. NSEIS By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Fcature Service Writer WASHINGTON, July 8—UD %0 ese Army spokesman, sald Japane now the war has hit most of us is greatly concerned over the pos- the pocketbook, the electric re-!sibility of the spread of the Russian- frigerator and the fasteners on our German war into the Far East,” as clothes. | & result of the passage of U 8. ma- This month it starts in on the, terials to Vladivostok. kitchen, the bathroom and the. Both Akiyama and the naval scrap box of nuts and bolts and';Spokesmnn declined to say whether wire in the basement—possibly on|U. S. and Soviet vessels carryingl the Sunday afternoon joy ride. . war supplies to Vladivostok are sub- By fall it'll catch us in the suit, Ject to stoppage and search by the| and overcoat, probably the fuel oilj Japanese Navy. tank and possibly rent. Come win- IR T i ter we may even be giving up that u S R [ ] | new house we planned—or at least us 'n modifying its design. | aws J [ us making a sacrifice if the war) Plans |o Ald lasts. | d Oddly enough, we soon may be! living better in some respects be-| 2 H cause Uncle Jim, wh asn't hnd‘ Ig 'ng uss! ‘We're already pay#ig through the pocketbook because of the 10 per- cent special income tax 'for de-‘ fense and we'll be paying even| Next year? i Every hour of the day will find} a job in years' may working| steadily at the foundry. | Negotiators Now Down to Fine Points of Discuss- ing Minor Defails ‘ heavier next year. If' we haven't| put out income tax money, we have! paid extra on taxable products like| ‘ & movies, cigarettes, ete, gither be-| WASHINGTON, July 8.— Acting cause taxes are higher, or because|Secretary of State Sumner Welles we've bought more. {said plans for American aid to Rus We are paying fhrough the|® are proceeding rapidly and ef- | fectively. refrigerator, because ice trays are \ getting scarcer, and so are the:om“n?ky“:;sucml:: e:"",fisfi:‘ freezing units. |and also Assistant Secretary Ache-| We're paying through clothes!son on plans to place Soviet orders fasteners, because manufacturersin this country and they are now have been forced to lower the qual-!down to a point of discussing details. | ity of dollar wash frocks for wom-| In reply to questions of the news- en by putting on more and cheap-| | Major Kunion Akiyama, Japan-|f | | | | B Fire Sweeps Naval Stores at$ P § { 3 at Sitka, Alaska, and spread rapidly to adjoining stru ctures. Firefighters were hampered by lack of essen- which had not yet reached the base. Portions of several buildings were destroyed. Extent tial equipment of the damage was not disclosed by salvaged. Smoke rolls from a burning Russian oil depot after a German bomber attack somewhere on the Russo-German front. Foreground, a Ger- man army motor column moves along a road. Fire broke out at mid-day June 20 in an old building used as a warehouse at the United States naval base : mbs Versus 0il Tnks i naval authorities, but it was believed that most of the naval stores were BYRNES IS GIVEN OATH ' HIGH COURT Into Highest Tribunal at Session Today WASHINGTON, July 8.—Before | an assembly of officials, friends and | members of his family, former Unit- 4 jed States Senator James F. Byrnes “ol South Carolina, was today sworn | in as Associate Justice of the Su- | preme Court of the United States. | The oath was administered by | Byrnes' old friend, Chiet Justice | Richard Whaley, of the United States Court of Claims. | P PR 'WHITNEYTO ' BEPAROLED AUGUST 11 Gasoline-le_s; Sundays Possible in East; It Is, However, Upfo Molorislsé By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, July 8-—Trying | to put your finger on exactly what strictions, is going to happen to you and me; |as result of priorities, national de-|are, so far as the individual is 1ense.shonages and even temporary bottlenecks is like trying to pick feathers from the wing of a busy| humming-bird. Not long ago at a press confer- ence, Interior Secretary ‘and cil czar Harold L. Ickes was asked if he believed we would really have . and defense and civilian needs re- er buttons, and fewer zippers. So far, aluminum products are under the heaviest restrictions.| That's because defense industry is| absorbing every pound of virgin al-| uminum production’ in this country. Next hardest for the householder to get will soon be copper. I know; a woman who already has given| up her cherished ‘hobby—making! dishes and decorative pieces out o sheet copper. A manth ago, the price went up on her, Now she can't even buy copper in the de- sired form. The trouble is, we're going to produce less than 1,000;-| 000 short tons of copper this year, quire more than 1,800,000 _ tons. men at today's conference, Welles gagoline-less Sundays. His answer ?nld h; has received no official in-| yag that in the East we might have ormation substantiating reports! iy forego pleasure driving altogeth- that Japan might establish a “safety | .. ik & zone” around the Japanese Islands| A few days later, Russell E. ;nd ;;: tou Yladivostok as the only| i oer genoral manager of the ‘ar port through which Rus-| /o0l " tomobile Association, sia could secure American supplies.| Former Head of New York * Stock Exchange fo Be [ Llet Oum Prison OSSINING, N. Y., July 8—Rich- ard Whitney, onetime head of the New York Stock Exchange, will be paroled effective August 11. ‘Whitney has been serving in Sing 8ing prison a sentence from 5 to line-less Sundays, postponed vaca-|10 years for larceny. tions, and all other kind of re-; On August 11 he will have served three years and four months, the legal minimum, less time off for ‘goud behavior. The State Parole Board acted on Whitney’s parole at a meeting -to- day in Sing Sing prison. These two views on a situation concerned, at variance with each other, yet either of them could come true. 2 —— ——— PARACHUTE TROOPS IN NEW FLOP CAMPAIGNS MAY SAVE IT 1 have talked with experts in the Office of Production Management, the Commerce, Interior and Ag-| riculture departments, and the sum/ of -it seems to be that somewherc| between these lies what’s around| the corner for you and Neighbor| Doakes and me. ! The gasoline situation 1is local-| ized to one section of the nounn'y.\ but it illustrates the point well.| Former Senator Indutted! SN0 ot ol | said the American Petroleum In- VACATIONERS LEAVE FOR TAKU LODGE Mary Joyee'took_fin party of vaca- tioners to her lodge on the Taku | stitute estimated that because of | | transportation problems peculiar to| the edsbern seaboard, we would have to get along on about 15 percent less gasoline this year, BUT, said | Mr. Singer,- if eastern motorists| would just cut down their driving| If enough people wage a cnnsrrva-‘ tion campaign by doing the things, Mr, Singer suggests and perhaps| corner drugstore and back inst,endfi of hopping in the old buggy, there HELSINKI, July 8.—The Russians tried again today to land parachute troops in Finland but these were | walking a couple of blocks to the “rendered harmless’ the Finnish communique said. ‘The communique further said that today to spend a few days. Making the trip were Mrs. Robert, Schoettler and her daughter Maria, Mrs. Prances Hayes who is an old {riend of Mrs. Schoettler from Louis- town, Idaho; Mrs. Alex Holden and speed, quit making “jackrabbit{ getaways” i city traffic, have| their “gars adjusted for maximum [ and use a few other, simplg gs of congervation, - they could gasoline comsumption 20! wontiued on Pw Five) i her son Sandy, and Mrs, Don Able! with her two sons, Don and Joe, » pereent: and forget gl about Mi may be few or no restrictions what-|four Russian planes were downed| ever. Even now, in Washington, a by the Finnish Air Porce and more/ campaign is being readied to bring|than 60 houses are reported to have| this abouts If the pa. is a been destroyed in an air raid on| fizzle, then the ' restrictions will|the Kotka coast, eighty miles east ‘have to be made by law or execu- jof here — e BUY DEFENSE BONDS (Continued nn page Blx) RED ARMIES 'Dnieper River s Scene of Rout as German Troops Refreat INVADERS (LOSING IN ON LENINGRAD Hitler's Fort?Sufier Giant Losses With But Sl igMains (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Determiryd and bitter against the Invasion of their land, Soviet Armies are reported holding the Germans at bay along a 600 mile front as river defenses out in front of the main Stalin Line are crushing repeated Nazi attempts (o break through enroute to aoscow. A Russian War Bulleufi‘phoed the scene of the heaviest fighting on a tightly stretched line running al- most due north and south hetween Ostrove on the Latvian frontier and Mogilev Podolski on the Dniester River at the Bessarabian border. The Red Army release said Soviet tanks and metorized forces in the Ukraine sector at Novograd Volyn- ski, and further south have siruck a “decisive counterattack on a flank in the rear of the enemy” annihi- lating two Nazi infantry regiments. Nazl Attacks Fail The Soviet Command said the Germans have been routed in a se- ries of attempts to storm across the Dnieper River on their drive to Moscow, but conceded on the north- ern front the Nazis have approached to within 75 miles of Leningrad, as blazing heat engulfed the entire battlefront. Tersely Hitler's field headquar- ters made a lone comment on the invasion. It sa&id, “operations on the eastern front are proceeding on schedule.” In past campaigns Ger- man communiques have been simi- larly brief when huge scale opera- tions have been in a fluid develop- ing stage, The Russians report the Germans are suffering enormous casualties with only slight galns along the 2,000 mile front. Tass, Russian news agen- cy, reported 1,300 Nazi troopers killed or wounded in a five hour fight in a single village, and asserted 7,000 Nazis were killed or wounded and 1500 others surrendered when Sov- iet tanks trapped a column of Ger- man infantry penetrating the Rus- sian lines. Berlin, Too, Claims Prisoners By contrast the Berlin radio re- ported the capture of an.additional 142,000 Russian prisoners between July 2 and 5, and 584 Soviet tanks a1fl armored cars. In Moscow 1t was announced thet former Forelgn Commissar Litvinof will make a radio address at noon, PST today. NAZIDRIVE HALTED FOR AFULLDAYS VICHY, July 8—Military circles here have received authentic ad- vices that the German drive against the Stalin Line has been virtually * stopped for four full days. These circles_indicate the German losses are enorinous ang this is ane of the reasons for stoppinz the of- fensive andMregrouping the German units. Another reason given for a halt is that the Germans need to reorganize their supply lines. Guerilla resistance to the rear of the German columns is said to be pronounced, even women and chil- dren joining in the guerilla attacks. i ¥ s PR The National Board of Fire Underwriters reports 850,000,000 matches are used each day in the Uniled States. -y