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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LVIL, NO. 8778. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU AlASKA THURSDAY JULY 17, 1941, MhMBl-R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUCIAL STAGE JAPANESE RESERV S CALLED T0 COLORS DESTROYED RUSSIAN PLANES THOUSANDS SUMMONED IN NIPPON Orders Issued for Immed- | iafe Mobilization-Old Soldiers Recalled SHANGHALIL, July 17.—An un- | determined number of Japanese | reservists, hundreds of thou- | sands, it is believed, are being called up to join the vast num- ber of men already under arms. | This is an accompaniment to } the Japanese Cabinet shift. | Information received here says | reservists are being called to re- | port immediately. Even soldiers discharged trom the army in China one year and a half ago, are being recalled to the colors along with reservists reported to be in Manchoukuo. HAIDA IS BACK FROM SEATTLE: The Coast Guard ctitter Haida arrived in Juneau last evening at, 5 o'clock after a two weeks' trip| to Seattle. The cutter, under the command of Lieutenant Comman- | der H. W. Stinchcomb, will remain | in port until the end of the month whereupon it will commence the | annual voyage to Western and| Northern Alaska carrying provis- ions. Selected as Capital Queen Yean Cavanaugh Selected “Miss Washington of 1941,” Jean Cavanaugh, 18, of Wash- ington will represent the nation’s test to be held in Atlantic City, Labor Day. | | | { capital in the annual beauty con- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS “The WASHINGTON—Details of that long-rumored defense price con- trol bill are still incomplete, but/ three major provisions have been‘ decided. They would arm Adminis- trator Leon Henderson with these far-reaching regulatory powers: 1. Authority to fix price ceilings on all commodities. | 2. Licensing of all importers and commodity brokers, with power to revoke their licenses if they failed to comply with price eurbs or civil- ian rationing regulations. 3. Creation of government import moenopolies. This. would prevent dealers from bidding against each other, thus skyrocketing prices, (This system already is in force on rubber. The RFC's Rubber Re serve Corporation is now the sole' U. S, importér of crude rubber and centrols both distribution and price.) The new plan differs radically from the over-all price freezing formula long advpecated "Bernard Baruch, who was chal of téhe old War Inrustries Board under Woodrow Wilson.*Unlier “Baruch’s methed the Government would automatically freeze all prices, wag- es, rents and commissions as of a given “P-Day.” This plan was considered too rig- id by Henderson. He wants more flexible legislation to deal with in-| creasing hardships in special cases. Also, the basic cause of g number, of recenf price boosts is of for- eign origin—not domestic. FOREIGN COST FACTORS ‘Numerous commodities vital to; U. S. industry and agriculture come from abroad. Chrome, essential in the hardening of steel, comes from the Transvaal, burlap, from Cal- cutta; tin from Balivia and, the, Marines in London United States Marines stand guard in.front of the U. S. Embassy in | London for the first time. Sixty- three officers and men of the Marine Corps, - including eleven rescued when the liner Maasdam was torpedoed, have been sent to ' the British capital to act as fire STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 17. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 88%, .Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 74'%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 38%, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 12%, North- ern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4 DOW, JONES AVEBAGBS The ‘foliowing wate today’s Dow, Jones ' averages: Industrials, 127.16; rails, 29.40; utilities, 18.54, : 1 Gains Support y backing. BILL TO KEEP, MEN-IN ARMY ASSURED 0. K. Measure As~kag Extension | of Military Service WASHINGTON, July 17—Exten- sion of military service for Selectees, National Guardsmen and membemK of the Army reserve is reported authoritatively today to be gaining subdtantial .suppdrt in ‘the Senate now, that President Roosevelt has| given the bill formal unqualified | The Presidential approval of the War Department proposal to have the present one-year service limita- | tion removed was conveyed to Con- gress yesterday by Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. In the Senate even some of the! opponents of the extension said the | Administration has sufficient votes to assure passage. School Ground Is Improved for | Greafer Space, The grounds of the Juneau Pub- [lic - School are being jmproved to provide more and safer playground space, according to A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of Schools. A low bulkhead is being built,| and the ground will ‘be filled in and leveled. Later im .the yeflr! shrubs are to be placed in the| space below the new bulkhead, to prevent erosion of the ground be- tween it and the old bulkhead, Il ——r i | MAYOR ON TRIP ! Dr. E. J. Wheeler,- Mayor of{ | WATER SHORTAGE I LINDBERGH HEAT WAVE IS HITTING, | PACIFICN.W, Unpreceder@ Tempera- tures Reported Qver Wide Section 3 STOPPING SPRINKLING iForest Fire Hazards Are In- creasing - Prostrations in Seattle-2 Deaths (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) An unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has caused a critical water shortage in some cities and multiplied forest fire hazards. Weather observers predict new heat records will be established in most of the cities in the Pa- cific Northwest area. Aigh, yesterday of 100 degrees. Six cases of heat prostrations, one serious, was reported up to late last night. Two deaths in Portland, Oregon, were attributed to the heat. Tem- perature went up to 102 degrees. In some cities officials have halt- ed sprinkling of lawns, in fact all kinds of sprinkling has been halt- ed. Cooperation of citizens is sought, especially in Seattle, against sprinkling. The Seattle water mains delivered 30,000,000 gallons of water yesterday or an equivalent of 295 gallons to every person along the| pipe lines, In Eastern © Washington, one| ranch house was destroyed by a fire as no water was available and | two others were threatened but a| sudden brief wind switched ' the | grass blazes. i One fire in Eastern Wa.shlngtonj swept for a distance of 15 miles| through clump grass and sage in the Frenchman Hill section. | | | Declares Has Never Had Connection with Any Foreign Government NEW YORK, July 17—Charles A.| Lindbergh has advised ' President| Roosevelt he has had no connec- | tion with any foreign Government and received his German decora- | tion while serving at the Ameri- can Embassy. Lindbergh declared in his let- ter he has the right to ask for an apology from Secretary of In- | terior Harold L. Ickes for certain | “statements and implications.” | and testify before any committee appointed by the President and answer any charges that may oe made against him. Lindbergh declared however, that | unless the charges made are proved, he felt he has a right to “expect truth and justice from members of your cabinet.” —_ | ICKES COMES RIGHT BACK WASHINGTON, July 17—Secrc- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes lWrnnge]! is on @ vanflan trip to *| portiand (Continued on Page Eight) Seattle reported a new all-time}|, German sources described this as a Soviet airport lit tered with destroyed Russian planes. This picture was sent by radio from Berlin. SNIPER HUNT ENDS WITH CAPTURE Gornun military police, guns ready, bring thelr quarry gut of hiding. German sources described the man in foreground, hands raised in surrender, as a Ruygsiap, sniper on the Eastern' front. This plcture was radioed from Berlin to New York. ASKS H. ICKES jlalk of Scalfering Offices FORAPOLOGY " 0f Government Almosfas Hot as (a By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 17 — The talk of decentralizing Washington is getting so hat it ®o longer can | be igniored. Washington is glutted. I have | told about ‘it often. The steady in- | flux of humanity to supply the de- mand for toilers in national de- fense (government workers here |now mnumber more than 200,000) has caused such a bursting at the seams that high officials and con- gressmen can no longer stand the strain, Something has to be done and that something very likely will cause one of the grand scraps of the year, Already on Capitol Hill the lines are forming and cabinet | | members and their lieutenants are arming for battle—a battle of words to prevent their bureaus and uencles from being packed off to Oshkosh or Tuscaloosa. Even President Roosevelt’s press conference has heard the first| rumblinigs of a skirmish. It came out of the talk of moving the In-" pifal’'s Weather terstate Commerce Commission to Chicago—a move for which the {CC has no stomach—but which 1as been suggested on the floor of Tongress with the argument that the ICC could keep just as- close an eye, if not a closer one, on the | railroads and such from Chicago as from Washington. Asked ‘o comment, the President only re- plied with another query: Why | pick on the poor old ICC? ! Just what the something that has to be done to relieve the Washington glut will be is not yet clear. Aside from rushing construc- tion of new government office buildings in suburban Virginia and Maryland and announcing that the regional forestry office will be [mnvt d out of here, no action has | been taken. BUDGET REPORT AWAITED The Bureau of the Budget, whieh | Jmms to be all things to all gov-; | ernment, has been making a study (Continued on Page mgm) HOPKINS FLIES TO ENGLAND Supervisor of Lend- Lease| Program Makes Ocean Trip on Bomber NINE MILLION LOCKED OVER SOVIETFRONT {Russians BrHUp Last Re- serves to Fight Off Blitzkreig SMOLENSK FALLS | T0 NAZI ATTACKS Moscow Silent About Ger- " man Claims-Admils "Violent Fight" (By Associated Press) | Nine million troops are locked in |a “tremendous struggle for the de- |cision” of the Eastern Front with | the Russians throwing their last re- |serves into the conflict in an at- |tempt to stem the Nazi blitzkrieg, Hitler's Command declared today. Hitler’s ifivasion forces, storming {through the center of the Stalin Line, have captured Smolensk, 230 miles east of Moscow, DNB asserted. ‘The German hews agency also re- ported that Polotsk, 170 miles north- west of Smolensk, was ignored by on-rushing Nazi vanguards, and tak- en later by enveloping tactics. ' The reports of the great successes are the first indication that Hitler's field headquarters is casting off the mood of reticence which prevailed there for the past week. A Struggle for Road A communique from Moscow ac- knowledged violent all night fight- ing in which German and Russian troops are contending for the mast- ery of the road to Leningrad. Details ‘o{ a battle reported raging in the Pskov sector, 150 miles southwest of Leningrad, are lacking. In an official report the Soviets said, “In other sectors no major op- erations took place, with no signi- | ficant changes in the positions occu- | pled by our troops.” | Crucial Time at Hand But on the’ all-important central | front guarding Moscow, the critical ;hour has struck as Russian reports officially concede that tank-led Nazi . legions have broken through in the | vicinity of Smolensk, key railway | town about half way Alang the (conunued to Plze ‘Two) MARSHALL TALKS OUT ABOUT WAR Declares It Is Necessity for Longer Period for Se- lectees, _Gyardsmen \ | i | WASHINGTON, July 17 — Gen. LONDON, July 17. — Harry L.|George C. Marshall, Chief of Army Hopkins, Sapervisor of the United States Lend and Lease Program, ar- | rived here today and almost immed- | iately attended a suddenly-called session of the British War Cabinet. An authoritative statement said Hopkins came to England on one of |the fleet of Onited States built| bombers, all of which made the trip safely, MANY TOURISTS FOR WESTWARD ‘There are 19 round trippers aboard ' | the Mount McKinley on the present | mp Also aboard are 15 making the | Golden Belt Tour and 59 booked for | the Yukon River Circle Tour. BUY DEFENSE BONDS Staff, today testified there is an | “urgent necessity” from a military standpoint for Congress to de- clare a National Emergency under which selectees, reserves and the National Guardsmen could be re- tained in service beyond the pres- ent one-year period. From a strategic point of view, | Gen.. Marshall told the Senate Mil- |itary Committee, the efficiency of the War Department’s military forces will be greatly improved if Congress will act to clear the way for service after the one-year per- iod. Gen. Marshall declared: “It will be a fundamental error to increase |the chances of war. The present | danger of the Nation is far great- er now than when Congress inau- gurated the Selective Service pros gram last fall,” |