The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K VOL. LVIL, NO. 8775. NEW MOVE IS MADE BY NIPPON GOVT. Port of Kobe Is Closed fo| Foreigners for Ten Days Beginning Tuesday IMPRESSION GIVEN | REGARDING CONFLICT Military Observers Believe | Warfare Looms in French Indo-China SHANGHAI, July 14—The Jap- anese port of Kobe has been closed | to foreigners for a 10-day period | starting tomorrow, according to au- | thentic reports received here. | The closing of the port is amid | an apparently anoneaefspouwred propaganda campaign fo create the | impression that a Japanese attack | against the.Russians in Siberia is | Most of the foreign miilitary quar- ters here however are inclined to the belief that the Japanese are indulging in war nerves as far as Russia is concerned. The military | quarters are still convinced that the next Japanese move will be against French Indo-China, which is the object of the tirade by all Japanese newspapers. The tension in Saignon, French Indo-China, is apparent, and dis- | patches \from there declare this tension is growing because of fail- ure of the French Indo-China Gov- ernment to agree to certain trade agreements, Military observers assert how-: ever, that if Russia collapses under German blows, Japan might risk attacking the powerful Red Army | in Siberia, estimated to be about 39 Divisions. WASHINGTON — If Mayor La- Guardia runs short of ideas on how to keep the Office of Civilian De- fense going at top speed, he can get some pointers from his chief in the White House. - Keenly interested in enabling ev- ery man, woman and child to “play a part,” no matter how small, in the defense program, Roosevelt feels that the big flaw so has been that the average has not been made to “feel” that he can contribute something. Discussing this with Defense ad- visers the other day, the President remarked that one of the best ways to stimulate civilian participation in preparedness was the organization of movements such as “Bundles for Britain.” “Bundles for Britain was an excel- lent idea,” he said, “because it made people realize that in helping the British they were also making a contribution to our own defense. But it is only a start. Other movements of a similar nature should be en- couraged. Why not Binoculars for Britain, also?” To illustrate his point, the Presi- dent related how in the World War, | American factories were producing. In a few weeks thousands of binoc- “ulars poured in from patriotic don- T (Contioued on Page Foun) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941. —— el Firemen rescue Rush McMinn, 15 (white shirt) trapped halfway up the side of a 200-foot cliff at China man John C. Anchick (tettom) had himself lowered by & rope to make the rescue. A girl companion of McMinn's was pulled to safety frst. Territorial To!iuy fo fermine Order Held ' Juneau Today ' MAURICE BERG GETS " FIRST JUNEAU CALL | Governor Draws Capsule from Breadbox in Ceremony Here { Eight hundred and seventeen (817) was the first number drawn in the ! Territory of Alaska selective service lottery, held today in Juneau. | _ Holder of serial No. 817 is Morris Raymond Berg, who is assigned ‘order No. 1 for Juneau and will be !the first called by the Local Board ! for questioning and possible service. | The first number was drawn {Gov. Ernest 'Gruening at 11:2y in the Governor’s office arranged by i Alaska Selective Service Diréctor | John MecCormick and attended by Territorial and Federal officials, | former service men and a battery Beach near San Francisco, Cal. Fire- Alaska Discovered 200 Years Ago; Bering Day Designaled By Proclamation of Governor of reporters and photographers. ‘Wearing a heavy blaek cloth blind+ fold, the Governor dréw a capsule land handed it to Secretary of Al-| 'aska E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, who ex- | tracted the number and announc- jed it. Ceremonial Drawing Other numbers were drawn by Bartlett, Judge George F. Alexander, Attorney General Henry Roden, Mayor Harry I. Lucas, Department Commander Walter B. King of the Aquaplane Menace Lucille Wilde Hailed as the first girl actually to threaten the supremacy of Boh Brown a2nd Don Berry, aguaplane champions, blonde Lucille Wilde, 18-year-old Los Angeles high school girl, will enter the Catalina-Man- | Asso- Sight of each other in the fog and hattan-Hermosa Agquaplane ciation race in August. American Legion and Frank Met- Gov. Ernest Gruening has issued a ; calf, Commander of Alford John | proclamation calling attention to the | Bradford Post of the American Le- | fact that this week marks the 200th | €100, Juneau. . [ { Numbers were drawn from a| janniversary of the discovery of Al- |prignt, new, red-and-white kitchen | aska. Vitus Bering Day is designated | breadbox. The numbers, from 1 to tomorrow, but the Governor, in view | 2,000, were enclosed in opaque cap- ! of today’s national emergency, and | sules furnished by Selective Service | 1 o'clock this morning in a ceremony | e i MEM RESS ASSOCIATED I - | the necessity of continuing work 'headquarters in Washington. Di- without interruption, does not deem ! rector McCormick stirred the cap- | . |it advisable to proclaim July 15 a . sules around with a wooden kitchen f | public holiday but suggests Alaskans spoon before each was drawn. | | recognize the day In whatever man- | ~ Atter the ceremonial drawing in | ner seems appropriate and to display the Governor's office, the lottery | the American Flag and the Alaska 'equipment was moved into the office Flag. . |of the Secretary of Alaska, where The complete proclamation, issued Selective Service staff members here by Gov. Gruening, is as follows: ! were to_continue drawing numbers “This week will mark the tWo hun- | this afternoon until all 2,000 had An increasing volume of vitamin products is being produced China, the merce reports. — e BUY DEFENSE BONDS Department of Com- dredth anniversary of the discovery (Continued to Page Two) historic importance to be noted and | of too great significance in the an- 5 nals of courage and daring to pass unrecognized. | “In 1741, after sixteen years of | and St. Paul,: under- command of 0" MESSAGES Vitus Bering, a Dane in the service of Russia, set sail from Petropav- ! lovsk, Kamchgtka. “he exploration had been authorized by Peter the Great; after his th his purpose ,Tzarina, Catherine. IN' o | . “At that time, the beginning of A the fifth decade of the eighteenth lppon Gcovernznent IAn | century, the maps of.the world were | - blank as to the northwest coast of | nounces Conrol of Tele I America. Thé range of exploration graph and Telephone coast only to Puget Sound. Bering was dispatched to find out whether | TOKYO, July 14—The Japane ,there lay between Asta and America iGovamment today tightened contro 'called Juan de Gama Land, or ices of other languages used| whether the first mainland which he throughout tHe Japanese Empire. would encounter: would be part of | Messages for abroad, sent in code, | Shore Party Landed +and these translations must be at- “On June 20 the two vessels lost t3ched to the coded messages. All| messages for abroad must have the The messages are limited to Jap- Captain Alexel Chirikov sighted land Aese, German and English. | —présumably Noyes. Island and ¢hen | pire, only Kruzoff islands expic the west 3 coast. Tt was not until July 18 that'| The Communications Mimsh’\" a landing was attempted near Cape Made the announcement this morn- (ing regarding. the telephone and control. 1 of Alaska. The event is of sufficient preparation, two ships, the St. Peter | was fulfilled by his widow, the had extended northward along the a supposed land which had been on all telephone and telegraph serv- the American contintent. ;must be translated into Japanese| full name of the sender. { sailed northward along Baranof and the Japanese language is being uscd t4lephoning. (Continued u Page Six) telegraph ’ Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck Subscriptions from all parts of the British Empire ambulances, costine about $40,000 each, and shown in flight over London. to the Silver Thi immediately above the landing whe T};cy Figure in‘ B;itish Shakeup | Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell n a surprise military shakeup, Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, British middle eastern commander, was transferred to India, being replaced by Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, 57-year-old Scotsman who directed the British attack on Narvik, Norway. NAZIS SAY RUSSIA TOT HITLER CLAIMS " HUGE SUCCESS AGAINST REDS German Reporfs Indicate | that Stalin Line Has { | Been Crushed i SOVIETS READY T0 ] EVACUATE MOSCOW Communist Communique | Calm-Says No Changes | Have Been Made ‘t (Ry ASSOCIATED PRESS) mble Fund paid for these two flying Claiming to the Note the yosition of the motors. els. RAP SWEEPS ' DOWN OVER " NAZ! PORTS German-held Channel ‘ Areas Subject to More |« Raids from British July ree optimi 'the Dneiper Ri a combined ait and land as- ult, Moscow is no longer protect- ed from German panzer units by the Stalin Line and Leningrad is caught in a German frontal drive and a Finnish 1l offensive, I the claiy m der expectantly teway to.the industrial and in Hitle s and even de- aterworks, ogether are of la an campaign sther from the from authorized German | sbokesmen and in a slight degree from the daily ecmmunigue of the High Comir Hitler's oyed the Reports It id this outcorde of the been pieced to LONDON Royal Air o on D cored bomb hit on and w0t | ¥ ar ol down seve ha morning - ! word: The & | said the | by i quarters said Fin- ned an attack both sides of the > Ladog tor ar 1 on Leningrad. of i fron the broken” Stalin de- main all the CHURCHILL “'SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE WORKERS ™ WILL S00N LOOM U By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 14—In the next six months, you are going to hear a lot about “the second line of defense workers"—the woman power of the nation. Over in the women's bureau of the Department of Labor things are humming and almost any journalistic war horse can smell the smoke of battle. The first .guns have been fired. The objective—to get that “second line of defense workers” trained and ready to step into the labor market and fill gaps caused by .rapidly expand- ing industry. The ink isn't dry yet on a re- port ‘on the possibilities for wo- men factory workers in aircraft production. The survey was made by Miss Ethel Erickson, industrial supervisor of the bureau, and her staff. The labor ladies went from the * storercom where raw. mate- rials are received to the ramp where assembled planes were be- ing revved up for the test pilots. What they found can besummed up in a couple of sentences. They reviewed seven plants, where ipmximately 100,000 men are en aj no women at all. In four, less the one percent of the employee: women. Yet from one-fourth one-third of the jobs in those fo men, if they had the trair Miss Erickson. At the end of the World War percent of the workers in 40 plane pants in this country women. In Germany and Britain, it is believed 40 to 50 pe cent of the workers today are v men. Women's bureau recognize that conditions are dif ferent here from those in G Britain and Germany and cc tions are different from 1917 ply is getting pretty thin are ginning to pop up from sections and the labor ladies s the second line of defense wor hasn't even answered its first ro (Continued on Page Five) ployed. In three of these there we: July 14 in is unshaken after ten \ Ger- "' man air blows, and has sun’ hit- tories could be performed by wo- air- wer Great official But squawks that the labor - be cuate Moscow f A ra, Tur- officials ; to move from Mos- ns are still the capital. I has already transferred to_Gorki, 250 miles east. By contrast with Nazi claims, the Ru ns, after reporting the 2,000~ Prime Minister Believes Same as Neighbors |- IS UNSHAKEN -.": | | | | | " (Continued to Page Two) )- LONDON fearful might. Il orily the rowing air power ter Winston Churchill cheering crowd wi ginning Prime told a| of | AT KODIAK IS SOUGHT Mini | eivil de He ghti L message Ly amoring Veteran: Defense at at Hyde ter ot o neieon o Nayy Department Asks nis ume - Congress for Appropria- tion-Also Other Sums wans should INGTON, July 14. — The Department has requested »ss to appropriate an addi= " tional $300.000.000 for shore con= ? struction items, including a sub- marine base at Kodiak and addi- ol tional facilities, also $3:413.000 for A naval air station at Unalaska and * aviation- facilities totaling $4,346,~ | 000 } London’s P great rey 1 Jater nize d: 5 be mag their own homelund of the torm lifetime the loose upon thelr peigt » world, We have in the past m wnd mebiodical bome cale of German and other military uft ome bt WASH N now AT | tied, fon a targe 11 | Jectives.” - BUY DEFENSE BONDS