The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1941, Page 1

2ONCH SON N aad AL PRz pssi0"p. © i a WASE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8773. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” .JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY NAZIS ADMIT BLITZ IS HALTED FDR MAKES | REQUESTFOR | NAVY MONEY Asks Congre—ss to Appro- priate Over Three One- Quarter Billion Dollars AMOUNT DEMANDED IS ALSO FOR NEW SHIPS President DeniesMerchant Ships fo Be Armed at Present Time WASHINGTON, July 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Congress for $3,323,000,000 in cash and con- tract authorizations for the Navy Department and Federal Maritime Commission. With the request on Congress made yesterday for $4,770,000,000 for the Army, today's total struck a two-day total of $8,093,000,000 for National Defense. Included in the sum asked for the Navy in cash is $400,000,000 for maintenance, repair and defense in- stallations on Government or pri- vately owned merchant ships. Newsmen asked the President whether this meant merchant ves- sels were to be armed. | The President assured the news- | men at the conference that this is not contemplated and the sum for maintenance, etc., will probably be used on Navy ships. Roosevelt seeks in the Navy ap- propriation cash and additional con- tract authorization, the sum of $1,- | 698,000,000 for the Maritime Com- mission and this money will be used for a great number of new ships, but he did not disclose the exact num- ber. —w—— | WASHINGTON—The 1942 poli- tical rumba is still a long way off, but the politicos already have be- gun to cast their eyes over possible candidates. One of their chief top- ics of discussion is the governor- ship of New York. Herbert Lehman, thrice Governor of the Empire State, is certain not to run again. This creates a wide open situation for a prize consid- ered a stepping stone to the 1944 presidential contest. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt went from the Executive Mansion in Albany to the White House in 1932. A number of hopefuls are known to be ready to try their luck, chief among them Republican Tom Dew- ey and Democratic Lieutenant Gov- ernor Charles Poletti, Dewey came near beating Lehman in 1938 and his yen for the presidency is un- diminished. As Governor of New York, he would have the inside track for another shot at this am- bition. Poletti is a political pro- tege of Lehman and was selectzd as running-mate on his insistence. But the most interesting possi- bility being mentioned in inner political circles is Wendell Willkie. Particularly significant is that this talk is coming from Demo- crats as well as Republicans. These Democrats are not the party bolt- ers who supported Willkie against Roosevelt last year. They are men| who fought Willkie bitterly then,| but feel differently because of his outspoken stand against isolation- ism and appeasement. Convinced that this issue will dominate the 1942 elections, these Democrats already are discussing the possibility of starting a boom for Willkie as a fusion candidate for Governor. NOTE—Wiilkie has not been ap- proached on the idea, has given no intimation even to close friends that he is interested. But. the idea is in the air, and, as proved in _— {Continued on Page Pour) . the United States, New Senator for 90 Left to right, Doxey, Bilbo and Eastlan¢ Days For the next three months, James Eastland, right, will serve in the U. S. senate as a successor to, the late Senator Pat Harrison (D.) of Mississippl when a special election will be held to fill the unex| term. - Representative speclalelection. ' shown, all Doxey, left, will be a candidate in l{l:dm%x‘:l'u other senator, Theodore D, Bilbo, is ry.dn this picture taken in-Wi " at If Bases Are Beihg Builf InIreland, Scotland, It Is Perfecly Fish Ready for Duty Hamilton Fish, Jr. One of the leading isolationists on Capito] Hill, Representative Ham- {iton Fish of New York, is pic- tured as he packed his bags to depart for Fort Bragg, North Car- clina, for a month’s active duty. Fish is a colonel in the Specialist Reserve. Anti-Jewish Decree Issued_iEHungary BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 11— Before recessing for the summer holidays, Hungary’s ‘Parliament passed a law prohibiting marriages between Jews and Gentiles. ———— Fire causes an average annua Legal, Says FDR | | WASHINGTON, July 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today declared that he would not be surprised if Am- | erican steel has gone to 50 British | Federal conciliation and ' mediation | | bases and if American workers all over the world are being paid by the British Government. This, the | President said, is perfectly legal. The President made the state- | ment at a conference with newsmen | today relative to reports that con- struction of American bases in Ire- |land and Scotland is now under- | way. a“ -» The newsmen told the President | that Senators A. Taft and | Burton K. "Whi claimed they | have information that such con- | partial substantiation to such re- | ports from abroad. President Roosevelt said that whatever is being done is accom- plished either through straight pur- chases by the British Government or | the Lend-Lease Act. DEFENSE DATA 10 BE COORDINATED . BYBILLDONOVAN Leader of Fighting 69th fo Gather Information for U. S. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today apointed Wil- liam Donovan as -coordinator of information with & bearing on the defense program. Donovan, who led the famous Fighting 69th during the World War, will “collect and assemble information and datta with a bear- ing on national security,” and var- ious government agencies will an- alyze the material for official gov- ernment uge. - While it is predieted that Don- ovan will head a super-agency to combat espionage, the official White | House announcement gave no de- | finite support of that idea. | ————— | SIDES RETURNING | Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Sides are re- | turning to Juneau on the Denali, which left Seattle yesterday. They property damage of $300,000,000 in have been vacationing in the States !for several months, | struction is underway and there is| | i \Twenly-oné Ambulance HOUSE HITS NAZI HELD AMERICANS ~ RELEASED Drivers, Survivors of ZamZam, Free ‘Washington, July 11.—Under See- retary of State Sumner Welles an- nounced this afternoon that the re- lease by the German authorities of 21 American ambulance drivers who survived the torpedoing and sink-| ing of the stemaer ZamZam on April 17 has been arranged. The repatriation of the ambulance drivers was made after extended negotiations with the German Gov- ent and culminated quickly yeterday, when a very curt note ksent to the Axis Nations stat- ing” Americans held as hostages must be freed immediately or ng- tionals of Italy and Germany will be held in the United States. The ZamZam was sunk by & Nazi surface raider. 3 Welles said he understands the ambulance drivers are now enroute to Lisbon from some French port where they have been held since they landed following their rescue. .- material. PRESIDENT, ™ 2101 VOTE Defeats Pr&fi;al for Chiefé Executive to Take Over Defense Plants WASHINGTON, July 11—By a/ vote of almost 2 to 1, the House has defeated the proposal that President Roosevelt be empowered to take over defenSe plants where| the management refuses the use of | services to settle labor disputes. | An amendment to eliminate that| section, pending further legisla-| tion, that was introduced by Rep-| resentative Arthur D. Healey cf/ Massachusetts, was adopted by a| standing- vote of 170 to 91. | SIX VESSELS AREBLASTED BY BRITISH : @ | RAF Makes Affack on Ger- man Held Coast of France | with Good Success | & LONDON, July-11—British bomb-| ‘¢ The Empire. A woman, left, gave the Communist USSIAN MISSIONREACHES LONDON salute as the car carrying the Russian' mission to England pulled through: a crowd at the London station. The picture was cabled from London to New York and airmailed TRANSMITTED FROM M P ———— 0SCOW This picture, first ever transmitted from Moscow, was received in New York via RCA as an experimental test transmission from Soviet government picture sending apparatus. The picture carried NO caption ing planes late yesterday afternoon attacked the German-held French coast and blasted enemy shipping, hitting six large ships and leaving| each a total loss. This is the an- nouncement made by the British Air Ministry. | ""Boomiown Music” Now . - Big Hit in Washinglon; ALASKA WALRUS TOBEPROTECTED; CAN'T BE KILLED WASHINGTTON, July 11 — The By JACK STINNETT today about Hans Kindler, con- Senate the legislation to protect| walrus in Alaska, | The legislation prohibits killing| OT1estre. the animals except by natives, for | there being | theater, WASHINGTON, July 11—“Music| oo ~good music—for & boom-toWn”| i, piysh and so when, in 1931, | House has passed and sent to tho|$POUld be the title on any story, e w5 doing a concert tour in| { Java, ductor of the National Symphony| g, sea islands, and was fed up .| with Holland -. born Hans Kindler|these exotic Hans Kindler Does Trick three bad weecks in week, Christmas made “Easter and Washington,” Sumatra, Bali, and other the lands, he turned his food or clothing, or for scientific adopted Ameriga. He wasn't run pack on a great concert 'cello ca- specimeas. Expor; of ivory in the raw state,|lack of funds or conscmptioprilaws obtained by killing walrus, is also|or anything, He's “4 prohibited. choice,” ‘whieh gave hio et S The United States -takes more and ashamed. that the than half the kapok produced in’ adoption had a great n Netherlands Indies, according to ital Without a symphony o the Department of Commerce, That old-theatrica sayiil i he pight ot oxciwgstTe; ok out of anywhere by diétators or reer and came to Washington A BY, CALLED HIM CRAZY Folks told him he was crazy. We ‘\Lo be & little shocked nid stufined yere in the depths of a depression. & B “When does one want music if it “4p-! 15 not when one is depressed?” an- Kindler, and he had his He estimated a $35000 box- pomp and applause of/ | office take, raised $445000 in guai- | antees. At the end of his first de- | pression season he had netted near- ly $100,000 and in a year when gil‘- |edged stocks couldn't pay half of | one percent, the National Sym- | phony cut a sweet liftle melon for its backers. I give you this background, be- cause without it you can't under- stand big, blondish Hans Kind ler and his “boomtown musi | which is now almost as much 3 part of the Washington scene as | the Monument. | .The Washington start with national defense. It | began several years ago. Kindler |saw it coming. He saw govern- | ment workers pouring in by the hundreds. This is beginning to be a boom- town, he said, and looking ahead | o troubie in Europe, he saw that it would become even more so. He started figuring. What happens’ to men in a boomtown? They pan gold all day and at night they want to spend some of it. What happens to people in Washington boom didn’t |7 (Continued o1 Page Pive) PRESENT PUSH CRISIS IN RED CAMPAIGN \German Spokesman Says Million Russians Kill- ed and Captured PREDICT COLLAPSE OF SOVIET ARMIES Wreckage of Stalin’s Army Litters Roads—Pre- venis Evance ({BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany's heat-white drive east- ward from the Bialystok and Minsk area is stalled in several places, DNB conceded today, but an auth- orized military commentator said the Red Army has lost a million men killed and captured, and de- clared a collapse of the Russian military machine is inevitable. A Soviet communique implied the Nazi blitzkrieg has been stopped cold. At the same time reliable sources in London said the might of the new German offensive to crush the Red Armies is now under way. On its success or failure, ob- servers said, may depend the out- come of the Russ-German War. DNB claimed the halt in the drive toward Moscow is caused be- cause-of-the necessity to clear roads of the littered wreckage of Red Army machines. According to previous reports from Vichy military circles, the German ‘juggernaut has been vir- tually stalled for more than a week now, in sharp contrast to the hur- ricane sweep through Belgium, Hol- land, Luxembourg and France last summer, Russian reports indicated the sting has been taken out of the Nazi blitz with German legions no longer attacking. Red warplanes declared they have shot down or destroyed on the ground 68 German planes, compared with a loss of nine Soviet aircraft. NAPLES IS AIRRAIDED BY BRITISH RAF Makes Attack Lasfing Nearly Three Hours on Big lfalian Seaport ROME, July 11—British planes bombed Naples last night for the second night in a row. The Italian High Command an- nounces that “much damage (o civilian dwellings” was done and five persons were killed and 20 per- sons injured. The raid lasted for nearly three { hours. | It is admitted the residents of Naples were panicky and demand- ed their Government give them some protection. i B AT U VICHYTURNS DOWN SYRIAN PEACE TERMS jFrench Find British Armis- | tice Terms Unacceptable | —Fight Is fo Continue | vicmy, July 11.—Vichy govern- | ment officials, after studying British terms for an armistice in Syria, an- {nounced today it has found them unacceptable. ! Indications are that the fight between the British and the De- Qaullists will continue, ».