The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8776. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1941. - “PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS HURL BACK INVADERM TWO SEAS DANGEROUS SAY RUSS Action Take—flgainst Nazi | Warships—Keeps Vladi- vostok as Open Port TOKYO, July 15—Japan’s Am- bassador in Moscow, Yosh Itsuga Tatekawa, has informed the Jap- anese Foreign Office the Soviet | Navy has declared the main water zones facing the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, especially off Kam- chatka, are dangerous for naviga- tion and are designated as free routes for ships bound to Vladi- vostok. Tichi Kishi, acting spokesman for the Cabinet’s Board of Information, said: “The reason seems to be Rus- sia is preparing against the pres- ence of German warcraft in the | Sea of Japan.” . £ | The acting spokgsman said the | Soviet Union has not been in»i formed of Japan’s attitude toward the Russian Navy's action but add- ed he did not expect a protest at this time, —————————— GEMMILLS VACATION Lynn Gemmill, Assistant United | States Attorney, and Mrs. Gemmill sailed south for a several weeks vacation on the southbound Princess | Louise this morning. The Gemmills will visit relatives in Seattle and | Wenatchee, Washington. —.————— | HERE ON BHORT TRIP 1 Mrs. Robert Jernerg will arrive | from Sitka on the, Northland. She | will be in Juneau for a few days on | business. ——————— s The Sisters Seek Beauty Crown A house full of beauty is shown above as sisters Ph Davis, of Santa Monica, Cal., pose for the ing the title of Miss California in compe! eventually will lead to the Atlantic City beauty pageant and the Miss America title. Undle Sam (Bndudifig BigBallyhoo Campaign; Is Real Super-Sflé'sman WASHINGTON—WIith Germany making its inroads upon Russia| largely through the use of tanks,| Secretary of War Stimson has been giving a lot of thought to develop- ing an American weapon which would stop what he calls the “Ger- man mastodon.” Also he has been having a hot row with some of his own ordnance men over the purchase of a new and trackless tank which Stimson thinks! may be the answer. The Chief of Ordnance, General C. M. Wesson, oppcsed purchase of the mew tank as far too expensive. However, General Benedict Cro- well, Assistant Secretary of War during World War I and now War Department advisex on material, went over Wesson's head to Secre- tary Stimson himself. “An eight-wheel tank has just been developed,” General Crowell told Stimson, “that is a wonderful thing. It may be. the answer to Germany. It has been turned down by Ordnance, but I think you ought to see it.” So Secretary Stimson went over to Ft. Meyer and saw it demon- strated, later sent it down to Ft. Knox to General A. R. Chaffee, Chief of the Armored Force. Then he went to Ft. Knox, personally, and conferred with General Chaffee, who was enthusiastic, wanted the Army to order 17 tanks immediate- ly. But Ordnance wanted to order two at the most, considered the price far too high. Photo by Gallo Studio This photo of Prince Louis Ferdin- and, grandson of the late ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, and his bride, Grand Duchess Kyra, daughter of Grand Duke Kyril of Russia, was made during a honeymoon tour of the U. S. in 1938. Today Prince Louis is reported to be Hitler’s choice for czardom over Russia. if Germany conquers the Soviet. STOCK QUOTATIONS TURNED DOWN LEWIS GUN At this point Stimson harked | back to the days when he was| Secretary of War in the Taft Ad-} ministration. | “There is always a 3 to be attained between what the fighting | forces want and what the War De- | partment in Washington wmu1 them to have” he explaitied to! friends, “and the trouble with the! Ordnance office is that it is so deluged with peopie who want to win the war with new inventions,| that it gets rather callous. —_— (Continued on Page Four) ' NEW YORK, July 15. — Closing'| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 88%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 76%, Commonwealth 'and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, Gen- eral Motors 387, International Har- vester 54%, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 58%, Pound Déw. JONES AVERAGES By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 15 — The biggest ballyhoo campaign the Gov-| ernment has conducted in at least 20 years, perhaps ever, is under way. It’s the campaign to peddle to the public billions of dollars of de- fense savings bonds and stamps. From kindergartens in the lit- tle red school houses to the mar- ble halls of high finance on Wall Street, from the ecash-and-carry counters of the chaingroceries to the old gray United States Treasury Building, the bondd and stamps are now on sale. It is estimated thst more than $10,000000 of free radio adver- tising already has been contribut- ed. This ranges from the 10-second announcements that intersperse the soap operas to a full pne-hour show (which will run, into ;September) that contains more dollars-and- cents talent than the richest com- mercial sponsor in the "country would be likely to buy. The amount of newspaper ad- vertising, from one-line slogan ads to full pages, couldn’t even be rougly estimated. A direct mail advertising cam- paign, now in the experimental stage (to determine, by sampling groups of 100,000 or so prospec-| tive buyers, what letters and pam- phlets get best results), will be launched before the year is out. THOUSANDS OF SALES TALKS A speaking program that will take the sales talk into every civic, satriotic and fraternal club from New York City to the hamlets is ilready steaming. The movies are wrinding out shorts. Posters spat- ‘er the scene wherever you look and pamphlets and booklets now or soon may be had for the taking ‘rom hundreds of counters in every community. Behind this great sales splurge s Eugene W. Sloan, & two-fisted World War field artillery captain, The ' following are today’s Dow,Bwho started his career as a shoe Jones averages: Industrials, 128.19; rails, 29.64; utilities, 18,67, (Continued to TWO) DAYLIGHT SAVING IS NOW URGED President —Rauesis Con- gress for Legislation— Electricity Shortage WASHINGTON, July 15—Presi~ | dent Roosevelt today asked Con- | gress for legislation to provide -for daylight saving time ‘“upon such regional or national basis for such part or all of a year that might be deemed necessary in the interest of national defense.” The request is made in letters to Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House and Vice-President Henry A, Wal- lace, Presiding Officer of the Sen- ate. Supporting the recommendation, the President gives figures to show the effects of year around daylight saving with a probable reduction | of 736,000,000 kilowatt hours in the | use of electricity. The President also sent letters to eight Southern Governors telling them of the need of daylight sav- try is “faced with a serious power | shortage by the impending nanrmnli defense program.” i —————— | 'HEARING ON FISHERIES ANNOUNCED Dr. Gabrielson to Be in Juneau September 18 ; on Regulafions Hearings on Alaska fisheries reg- | ulations for 1942 will be held in Juneau September 18, according to an announcement by the Fish.and Wildlife Service today. | Fishermen, vessel owners, can- |nerymen and others interested in the industry are invited to attend | the hearings and present their | views. | | Dates and places of other hear- | ings will be as follows: Ketchikan, September 10; Wrangell, Septem- | ber 12; Sitka, September 15; An-| chorage, September 24; Cordova, September 27; Kodiak, September | 130, and Seattle, October 20. All hearings will Be conducted by | Dr. Ira Gabrielson, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Assisting | him will be regional representatives | of the Service for the various Dis- tricts and Seton H. Thompson, As- sistant Chief of the Division of Al- aska Fisheries. D. C. Trip will serve again as reporter for | tbe hearings. | GRAND JURY SETS TRIAL FOR SPIES 33 Men to G;ngore Court { on FBI Charges of Espionage NEW YORK, July 15—Thirty- | three persons, rounded up in an |FBI spy hunt last month, were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury today and ordered to trial in Sep- tember on charges of espionage. Six others were similarly indict- ied, but U. 8. attorney Harold Ken- nedy said they are at large in for- |elzn countries including Germany |and Portugal, The 33 are accused of conspiring to transmit informa- tion to a foreign government Thirty-one of these are addition- ally accused of a second count of | ernment without having, register~d with the State Department, I ing time and declaring the coun-|— BYRWNES SWORN IN AS ASSOCIATE JUI(E James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court at'a White House ceremony. Watching as the former Senator (second from right) takes the oath from Chief Justice Richard Whaley of the U. S. Court of Claims, ‘are the President, who holds Byrnes' commission; Senator Carter Class (left) (D.-Va.) and Mrs. Byrnes. The new justice holds a bible in his right hand. $00 . 1000 Map locates Iceland where a United Stad forees which have been stationed there. The U. 8. forces moved into Iceland in accordance standing between President Roosevelt and the P ~ NAWY FQ‘R(ES MOVE INTO ICELAND ATLANTIC OCEAN A58 (3 tes Navy force arrived to supplement and eventually replace British rime Minister of Iceland. with an under- Ickes Labels Lindbergh as German Eagle Secrefary of Interior Says Flier Tries fo Break Down U. §. NEW YORK, July 15—Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said Charles A. Lindbergh's “passionate words are to encourage Hitler and to break down the will of his own fellow citizens to resist Hitler and Nazism. % “It makes ‘one realize what a menace he and those like him are to this country and its free insti- tutions whether they know what they are doing or don't,” he con- tinued. 3 The outspoken Secretary of the Interior referred to . Lindbergh as the Knight of the German Eagle. Juneau Visitor Here From Interior Trip Returning today on the Baranof from a few weeks’ trip in the In- terior was Mrs. Flora Allen who hl a guest of Mrs. Mary Keith Caw- thorne. Mrs. Allen is a public school teacher in Portland, Ore., and will stay in Juneau several more weeks visiting. She left Juneau with Mrs. Cawthorne’ but spent most of her acting as agents of a foreign gov- | time at Ctrole Hot Bprings and then creased to 30,000 a year, joined Mrs.: Cawthorne on thé re- turn trip, )| great_progress to American defense EWG'IGV.IIISI {Born 450 Years Too Late Columbus arrived just a year too late to bid on a | contract posted on the Federal | Building bulletin board here this | week, | Across the bottom of the bid call, a slip of a typist’s fingers accom- | plished the following: | “In no event shall this contract' extend beyond July 30, 1491.” | — o - MUNITION SUPPLY IN U. §. LACKING FOR "TOTAL WAR" WASHINGTON, July 15.—Under Secertary of War Robert V. Patter- son today told the Senate Committee on Military Affairs last year brought in America | production, but “for total warfare of the kind raging in Europe, we have never enough munitions.” Patterson submitted to the Sen- ate defense investigating commit- tee & review of the Army’s expan- sion work in the fiscal year ending June 30. The present army, he said, con- sists of nearly a million and a half | soldiers, including nine triangular | divisions, one of which is completely motorized, eighteen square divisions, | two cavalry divisions, four armored | divisions, and various other troops | engaged in specialties and manning | | overseas garrisons. | The Army Air Corps now has an | enlisted strength of 167,000 men with the rate of pilot training in- | ————————— OPM Revises BUY DEFENSE BONDS. Plant Plans For Aluminum Plans Given—E) War De- partment Recommends Site Shift fo Tacoma WASHINGTON, July 15 — The aluminum plant previously planned for North Carolina will be bullt instead at Tacoma, Wash. if the War Department accepts the re- vised recommendations from the Office of Production Management expanding the nation’s aluminum capacity by seven new plants and 600,000,000 pounds per year. Recommending the shift, OPM cited that power was short in the Southeast, and announced that the power authorities in the Grand Coulee and Bonneville areas recent- ly made available an additional bloc of electricity for aluminum production. s EARL NEURU LEAV ON INSPECTION TRIP Earl A. Neuru, sanitarian in the division of Public Health Engin- eering, is leaving for Sitka today on the North Sea and will be gone about a month and a hail. He wiil conduct & general sanitary inspec-| tion in that city and also inspect the canneries in the district. He, will then go to Ketchikan for fur- NAZIS LOSE GROUND AS REDS ATTACK Russian Forces Tofally An- nihilate Three Ger- man Regiments STEEL RING DRAWN AROUND LENINGRAD Turkish Reports of Evuaca- fion of Moscow De- nied at Capital (By Associated Press) Hitler's invasion forces are de- clared today to have been hurled back 19 miles along the strategic Dnepr River when Russian troops launched a major offensive. The Soviet Command spoke con- fidently of “the bloodthirsty Fascist hordes whom we now smash.” Rus- slan military dispatches said Red troops, striking back along the cen- tral front and guarding Smolensk and Moscow, have crossed the Dnepr River at several points in the south. Soviet war bulletins declared Rus- ‘| sian troops have won a victory in the annihilation of two German and Rumanian artillery regiments and an infantry regiment driving toward | Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. Enveloping Leningrad Berlin reports said German tank corps mdnmlu the clty of Noy- gorod, 100 miles south of Lenin- grad, and are drawing a ring of steel closer around Leningrad itself. Nov- gorod is 50 miles from the main Leningrad-Moscow rail line. The German Command, again us- ing a single sentence to describe the mammoth conflict, declared, “Op- erations in the east are steadily pro- gressing.” A dispatch from the front and timed 5 a. m. today and published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, said the Russian drive to the west- ward is continuing. The dispatch reported that Soviet troops have re- captured the town of Rogachev on the west bank of the Dnepr River, 130 miles southeast of Minsk. The area has been the scene of some of fllu bitterest fighting in the strug- gle. DNB Clalms Victory DNB asserted that Soviet attempts to maintain the defense front on the Dvina-Dnepr river sectors have been smashed by Nazi attacks. Stal- in’'s Command, in a laconic com- munique, said merely “Violent fight- ing raged all night on the central and northern fronts.” Dispatches from Rome said an Itallan expeditionary force of 14 long trainloads of infantry, artillery and tanks is moving to support Hit~ ler’s invasion armies. Since Friday, suthoritative quart- ers in Moscow have declared em- phatically that there is no truth of diplomatic reports from Ankara, Turkey, that the Soviet Govern- ment is preparing to flee to & pro= visional capital in the east. FREIGHTER IS TIED UP BY STRIKE Oduna af Dock in Valdez Qver Dispufe Regarding Hiring of Workers VALDEZ, Alaska, July 15 — Freighter Oduna, Capt. Goetz, has been held here since Sunday eve- ning by a strike. The dispute is over the question of whether the Mates or Sailors Union does the hiring of the dock workers. The Seattle office is expected to make a decision in the case some- time today. The same trouble took place at Hidden Inlet. —— P Water expands one-eleventh of its ther inspections, yolume in freezing,