The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NQ. 8771 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'REDS STRIKING BACK se Ship Reporfed Requisitioned NAZIS SAY ROOSEVELT NEARS WAR Occupation of lceland An- other Step - Further Moves Expected (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German spokesman, giving Sermany's first official reaction to | the landing of United States Naval forces in Iceland, asserted the ac- tion is an active military step and | the United States is now represent- ed by troops in the war zone. “From a military viewpoint, these troops might as well be in a British port. President Roosevelt has for a long time been approaching war and row has moved much closer to it.” Nazi sources implied clearly that | Berlin is counting on the possibility the United States will occupy other places, such as the Azores, Cape Verde Island and Dakar, on the coast of French West Africa. In London, Prime Minister Chur-| chill hailed Roosevelt’s action as| “cne of the most important things that has happened since the war bezan. Churchill said the British and the | United States navies will probably | find it to be “mutually advantageous to assist each other in the very dan- gerous. waters around Iceland.” Dorothy Fors Leaves | For Seattle Tomorrow | Miss Dorothy Fors is leaving Ju- neau. tomorrow afternoon for. Se- attle on the Aleutian. She will visit relatives in and around Seattle and in September plans to enter the| Eeattle Secretarial School for a nine | months course. She will return here next spring. WASHINGTON—The really im-} portant-feature of the new Air Corps set-up announced by Secretary of ‘War Stimson escaped general notice. This was that Assistant Secretary Robert: Lovett, hard-hitting World War ace, will have charge of decid- ing on models -and. types of Army aircraft. This is a major reform. Previously the responsibility was scattered among the brass hats, resulting in long delays and other hitches in getting new planes into production. Under the reorganization, Lovett will be boss and able to deal firmly with red-tape and the bureaucrats. Because he shuns the limelight and works without hoopla, only in- siders know that Lovett has been militantly, battling the red-tape bri- | gade since he entered the War De- partment last December. The reor- zanization plan, which sets up a unified, autonomous Air Corps command, was largely Lovett's work. NOTE: Major General “Hap” Ar- nold, commander of the newly cre- ated Army Air Forces, is outranked by Lieutenant General Delos G. Emmons, chief of the Air Force Combat Command, which is under Arnold. To remedy this incongruous situation, either Arnold will have to be promoted a notch or Emmons’ tempoarry rank, given him last Oc- tober, will have to be reduced to Arnold’s. NAVY AIR PLANS The Navy hasn't announced it yet, but it is formulating a new program to boost its air force to 15,000 planes and 17,000 pilots. Its present plan calls for 10,400 planes by July, 1943. Expected are 3,600 planes by July, 1941, 7,300 by July, 1042, and 10400 peak by the following year. The proposed in- crease will be requested to keep the air arm abreast of the rapidly materializing two-ocean Navy. NEWEST CONGRESSWOMAN Eleven-year-old Goodloe Byron, | | hlonde Marian Sorenson, FARM GCIRL_just a little farm girl at heart, complete with a huge straw hat, striped shirt and overalls, a hayfield and a rake, is Ginny Simms, singer, who has just bought her- self a ranch near Fresno, Cal, her chilahood home. AIR RAID ON GERMANS IN GREECE AREA Royal Air Force Makes Sur- prise Aftack - Fires Reported Started CAIRO, July 9—Royal -Air Force bombers, in a series of surprise raids, started fires at Eleusis, on the southern coast of Greece,about 11 miles northwest of Athens. The attack was aimed at the Germans now occupying Greece. The attack was carried out without any loss- es to the British raiders. -~ —— FORMER ALASKANS TRAVEL Mrs. E. P. Resling and her daughter Margaret, fformerly of Douglas and Petersburg, are round trip passengers on the North Coast. Mrs, Resling is a cousin of Mis. J. A. Williams of Juneau. She is now living in Snohomish, Wash. e ———— son of Maryland’s héw Congress- (Continued on Page Four) Saida (or Siden) in.Syria is be- leved to -be the most northem point visited by Jesus. PART I NDIAN_visitors to the Washington State bo th at the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce conven’tt‘l'on in Minn:l- polis had trouble concentrating on this old Indian totem pole when 19, decided to look it over. ‘Hemispheres (Cannof Have Roosevelt §a—ys Defense Points Extend Info Other Areas WASHINGTON, July 9.—President Rooseveit today discarded hemis- pheric dividing lines as controlling factors in matters affecting the de- fense of the United States. As far as defense considerations are concerned the President took the position it is impossible to draw an imaginary line between the West- jern and Eastern hemispheres and put a buoy on it, The pronouncement came in re- B | sponse to questions asked him in yesterday’s conference with newsmen | regarding the occupation of Iceland. There are points in one ocean or another, he said, which are not im- portant to defense, but others, just outside the hemispheric boundaries, might be terribly important. American Red Cross Nurses SunILby Sub Six Volunfeers fo England Are Missing After U- Boat Affack (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) American Red Cross officials to- day said a British vessel bearing ten Red Cross nurses to England has been torpedoed and six of the nurses are still missing. = A spokesman for the Red Cross said the vessel, the identity of which has been kept secret, was torpedoed about two weeks ago. Four of the young women were rescued four days ago, all appar- ently unharmed and in good phys- ical condition. p This spokesman ass¢rted the boat sailed from a Gulf Coast port on June 6. Missing nurses are Phyllis Evans of Everett, Mass.; Dorothy Morse {of Boston; Nancie Pett of Detroit; Helen Jurewicz of Southamboy, Mass.; Margaret Somerville of Catskill, N. Y., and Dorothea Koehn | of Oshkosh, Wis., e~ BUY DEFENSE BONDS | J Dividing Line 'NAZIS RUMOR REDS SELLING VLADIVOSTOK Russia, However, Denies | | Reports thatU. S. Isfo | Buy Kamchatka MOSCOW, July 9.—Commissar of | Foreign Affairs Lozovsky said Loday' | he has heard the German reports that Russia is negotiating the sale | of Kamchatka, Far Eastern mari- time province of Russia, to the Unit- ed States, but declared these rumors are groundless and spread ‘‘doubt- less to create friction between the United States and Japan.” Kamchatka peninsula contdins Vladivostok and the eastern-most provinces of Siberia. Some Japan- ese imperialists have suggested the Japane S — | Wreck P | | | { | | | acquisition of the area by Japan, - HELSINKI 1§ | | | | Soviet Planes Make Vio-| lent Attack on Finnish City Before Dawn | HELSINKI, July 9.—Soviet W“ | planes rained bombs on Helsinki just | before dawn today and Observers |said the raid exceeded in intensity 'any carried out during the Russian- | | Finnish war. Incgmplete official count places! | the casualties at 15 dead, 125 ‘wound- |ed of which 65 are in a serfous con- ,‘ dition. | i h | | | = | ! | LARGE SUM | Eoanas | T | Appropriafions Be Sought| for National Defense | | and Lend-Lease WASHINGTON, July 9— Presi- dent Roosevelt will ask Congres this week for an additional appro- priation for both national defense and for lend-lease operations. Several Administration forces said| the figure will probably equal the| original seven billion dollar Lend-| Lease bill. | | FRENCH IN SYRIA | . . . | Australian Official An- nounces Terms Have Been Broached SYDNEY, Australia, July 9 — Australian Minister of External Af- fairs Sir Prederick Stewart an- nounced today that he has received an official geport that the French authorities in Syria have déclared their readiness to discuss armis- tice terms. ————— ALASKANS CALL ON DELEGATE DIMOND Among the recent visitors 19, Washington, D. C., who have called on Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond are the Rev. and Mrs. B. J. Bingle, of Palmer, accompanied by their daughter Vella and son James, Mrs, Teresa V. Cordell of Ketchikan, and Capt. James jDavis of Juneau. | |and well-beloved Sen. Pat Harri- | son, President pro tem of the Sen- |ranks of loyal Semators that thej . ", 0 "he “ihe next President # ed Russian I (e 7% The Nozima Maru, formerly the Nojima Maru, shown anchored in Manila harbor, has been ordered to unload '6,000 tohs of chrome ore consigned to the United States and then sail for Japan, informed sources said in Manila. Two other ships, the Kyusu Maru and Bordeaux Maru, both carrying American-bound cargoes, were also requisitioned, the sam e sources said. e 5 Getman soldiers inspect Russian tanks piled up in this manner along the Germn;n-luuh.n front. The picture was sent by radio from Berlin. g ey B} ’ Pre Liaison Man Men Bein_g Menlionedi INCREASE By JACK STINNETT v WASHINGTON, July 9 — The President has hung out a new sign. It reads: “Help Wanted—A liaison man in the Senate.” The death of kindly, soft-spoken até, has so further thinned the Administration repertedly is getting a_ little frardtic about what to do 10t leadership in the upper cham- ber, It isn't that there aren't some men remaining who can be count- ed on to line on the right side| of the aisle when the chips are being counted. The administration still has a substantial majority as long as the fight is just a skirmish between Democrats and Republi- cans. But when it develops into a| knock- down- and- drag- out, Wwho's| going to give the signals, call the plays, and keep Lhe boys from gei- sident Now Without ting' off-side? ‘8en, James F. Byrnes—the great- est contact man the President dver V. has/had on the Hill—has moved up' to the Bupreme Court. Pat Marr- inSenale; 3 | son is gone to an even higher tri- hunal. I've combed the cloakrooms and| listened to the rumors. There's hardly any one you could point| to and say.he’s the next Presi- dent’s man, GEORGE ALREADY BUSY Sen. Walter F. George, of Geor- pro tem, but Senator George, as chairman of the Foreign Relations| Committee, already has his hands full. “President pro tem” never was meant to be anything more than an hoporary job anyway and it is only when some Senator not other- wise in a key position can be given| that” post that it means anything. As for a real “liaison man” (really an anonymous job, be- cause neither legally nor politi- cally is there any such official title), the men most prominently, mentioned are Sen. Tom Connally, of Texas; Sen. Scott W. Lucas, of Illinois, and Sen. Lister Hill, of Alabama, ' Measured by the political stature (Continued on Page Eight) | DELIVERY | OF PLANES OPM Announces Military' Craft Turned Over Dur- ing Month of June WASHINGTON, July 9.—The of- fice of Production Management an- nounces that military aircraft man- ufacturers delivered 1476 planes in June compared to 1334 planes in May. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 9.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 86%, An- aconda 29%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors 39%, International Harvester 51%, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 7, United States Steel 58%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, AT HITLER SOVIET ARMY RESISTANCE STOPS BLITZ Nazi Invad;r—s—Trying fo Build Breastworks in White Russia RUSSIANS WIPE OUT GERMAN REGIMENTS Conventional Warfare May Start in Few Days if Advance Dies (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) A smashing victory over Hitler's invasion forces in a battle in north- ern White Russia is reported by the Red Armies today as the Soviet High Command said two German motorized regiments were wiped out and the “enemy left hundreds of dead on the field, retreating to the West.” A Moscow war bulletin said fierce Russian resistance is stalling Ger- man drives along the 1,000 mile front from the Baltic to the Black Sea so far executing Hitler's blitz- kreig. The bulletin sald the Nazis are trying to entrench in northern White Russia on the upper Dvina River. For the second successive day Hit- ler's Command the gigantic battle in Russia with the single sentence: “Pights continue sticcess- ful on the entire Eastern front.” DNB said Nauzi' troops scored ma- jor gains in the Baltic sector with the capture of Parnu and Viljandi in southern Estonia, and Ostrov on the main raflroad line to Leningrad. Authoritative quarters in London sald the Nazi eastward push into Russia appears halted and unlfess there is a big break-through in the next few days there is likely to be a great pause, with the intended blitz of Russia killed and conventional warfare the every day occurrence. GERMANS STALLED, FIFTH DAY Vichy RepoENazi Forces Held Up with Excepfion of Two Pushes VICHY, July 9.—Military sources here said the Germans generally are being held up on the Russian Pront for the fifth consecutive day, with the exception of two new pushes, one on the line of Potolsk-Lepel and the other in the Noveograd-Volyn- ski sector in the Ukraine. AMERICA SUGGESTS STATUS QUO LINE IN PERU TROUBLE U. 5., Argentina and Brazil Send Envoys fo Dismams ‘WASHINGTON, July 9. — The, United States, Argentina and Bra- zil have asked Peru and Ecuador to establish a “no man’s land” on both sides of the line to be known as a status quo line in the territory dis- puted by the two nations, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles announced the request af- 4er envoys of the three nations made the recommendation to Peru and Ecuador. The three governments also in- formed governments of all other American republics and asked that they give support in ending the conflict. Motion picture theaters in Can- Jones averages: industrials 127.63,8da had receipts of nearly $37- rails 20.32, utilities 18.40. 600,000 in 1940,