The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8781. JUNEAU, ALASKA, M()NI)AY JULY 21, 1941. MhMBLR ASSOLIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REDS CLINGING TO DEFENSES AMERICA IN DANG 10 (ONGRESS Asks for Extensmn of Serv-| ice for Selectees, Re- servists and Guards MAINTENANCE OF ARMY NECESSARY <‘ Wed at 13, Mother at 14 o i < Situation Is Graver fhan| When Legislation Passed WASHINGTON, July 21. — Declaring that America is “in- finitely in greater” danger than cne year ago, President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt today asked . Congress to authorize extension of the cne-year period for ac- tive service of Army selectees, Naticnal Guardsmen and re- servists., Elaine Dick Roemer and child Only 14 years old, Elaine Dick Roemer of Pittsburgh is a mother. Pictured with her son, Mrs. Roemer was married to Alfred Roemer, 19, when she was 13. The two have been separated since, The child Unless this extension is granted, President Roosevelt said in his message, this Na- tion is taking a grave National risk for disintegration of the Army, underway within the past several months, and also for maintenance of efficiency of the -Army. The extension of the service, said the President in his mes- sage, rests solely with the legis- lators, The President emphasized that conditions in the world have changed since the 12- (Continued on Page Fiver bride quit & junior high school to elope to Winchester, Va., with Roemer. Safe in the U. S. CHURCHILL | SHAKES UP i Edith Ackermann arriving at New York from Bilbac, | Bpain, is Edith Ackermann. Her HIS STAFF Sends Coop:rTo Far East as Coordinator-Bracken Is Successor LONDON, July 21.—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has re- vised his government for the third time since May 2, dispatching Alfred Duff Cooper to the Far East as Special War Coordinator in the Brit- ish War Cabinet, and naming Bren- dan Bracken, Minister of Informa- tion in his stead. Bracken, who has been Chur- NAZIS PLOT IS NIPPED IN BOLIVIA | Police and -l;e-sidenf Frus- frate Revolution-Ar- rests Are Made 'GERMAN MINISTER ! Reported Head of Trouble | Makers-Stafe of Siege | LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 21.—A num- | ber of prominent Bolivians, includ- ing former Finance Minister Victor Estenssoro, are under arrest in con- |nection with an alleged Nazi plot | the police are said to have smashed by the timely actlon of President Penaranda, advocate of closer co- | operation with the United States. . Ernest Windler, German Minister, | has been ordered expelled from Bol- ivia and must leave immediately. President Penaranda says he has | | documentary proof that Windler has | | attempted to meddle in Bolivia's ‘domesuc affairs. Estenssoro, member of the Cham- | ber of Deputies and Cabinet Min- | | ister until June 20 when he resigned | | !as the result of the exchange rate | "of the peso and dollar, is described by the police as the head of the Nnuannlisl Revolutionary move- Tne organization has been dls- solved automatically by a proclama- tion of a state of siege. All is re- | ported quiet in the Capital City, i also at other important centers. H U. S. BEHIND BOLIVIA WASHINGTON, July 21.—Under | Secretary of State Sumner Welles | told the newsmen at a conferencz| today the United States has prom- i ised full support to Bolivia in event !international incidents might arise | /in the alleged attempted Nazi coup | there, also the immediate expulsion | of the German Minister to Bolivia. | SAYS ROOSEVELT Germans in Minsk, Lapltal of White Russm ORDERED EXPELLED | Former Cabinet Member Is! / —I. I. N. Phoacyioio German sources say this picture shows Nazi heavy tanks rolling through the main square of Minsk, White Russian cavital. The picture is & radxophow lmnsmlltted from Berlin Glass Honored by Scnators NEWSTEPSIN AGGRESSION, Learns of Proposed Moves Welles, Under Secretary of State, | said the United States has informa- tion Germany is planning new steps independent countries of Europe. conference with the newsmen today but he did not go into details. The comment of Welles, however, aroused speculation as to the pos- sibility that he meant Spain and Portugal might be due for attacks. e NAZI PLANS Sumner Welles Says U. S. WASHINGTON, July 21.—Sumner | of aggression against the remalnlng‘ Welles made the statement at a | | | | ; Senator Carter Glass SOVIETSHOLD NAZI SALIENT ATSMOLENSK ‘Germans (laim Russia, | Like France, Ready for Killing Blow 'MOSCOW AIR RAID PROVES BOMBLESS 1 IndicalionsR—uss Forfifica- fions Crumbling Under Invasion (By Assoclated Press) | Clinging tenaciously to its de- fenses at the head and flanks of | Germany’s Smolensk salient, the Red Army is reported to be fiercely | opposing the invaders from positions in Smolensk itself. | Private Soviet advices said the ' Germans are being held, notwith- standing contrary German claims that the city is in Nazi hands. Smol- ensk is230 miles southwest of Mos- cow on a good motor road; | With the war now in its fifth week, and the Germans on their second offensive, Nazi communiques continued to mention the same areas where battles have been raging for days. These are the Polotsk-Nevel sectors on the northern flank of the Germans’ Smolensk operations, the Smolensk area itself, and the Novo- grad-Volynski section in the Ukraine where Russian forces defend the path to Kiev, capital of that rich oil province. Alarm in Moscow In Moscow the sixth air raid alarm of the war sirened over the city for 45 minutes, but no German planes came through. “A big destructive battle is in progress east of the Stalin line,” German spkoesmcn reported tonight, They compared tiie Russian cam- paign situation at the end of the first month with the situation on the Western Front between the Meuse River and the English Chan- nel after the Nazis had turned the Maginot Line in June, 1940. Even as the Germans gave the harried French and British forces no breath- ing spell then, the spokesmen said, chill's Parliamen private sec- Octogenarian Carter Glass, senator from Virginia for many years, 18 so the Germans are now not giving | mother is still in Germuny, having | peen refused permission to sail. | Her father is in the United States, retary, is the foi an since the war to hold the I ation port- folio. WASHINGTON—Friends of the President in Hyde Park the other day were urging him to deliver an-| other fireside chat. They wanted him to keep the American public| buoyed up, iten. uum further | on American’ One of th fim& Kerr, able tant of clv!l* Defe: Administrator LaGuardia. She said: “Mr, President, a lot of us would like to have you make a fireside| chat every week or ten days, give us the news hot off the griddle and keep our minds straight about the international situation. “All right, Florence,” the Presi- dent replied, “I'll give 'a fireside chat a week—and you'll get a new President.” What Roosevelt meant was that it takes so mwuch time an# study to prepare each fireside chat that he would be able to do little else, would have to neglect affairs of state. However, the President indicat- ed that he did intend to deliver an- other fireside chat on the war sit- uation and on American policy in the near future. CAN RUSSIA LAST? Despite all the conflicting reports from the Russian front, U. S. ex- perts have not wavered in their be- lief, arrived at regretfully, that in the end Russia cannot stem the tide of Nazi mechanized force. The two big things they are hop- ing for are: (1) that Stalin may keep his Red Army intact, retreating sclowly and giving terrific punish- ment to the enemy; (2) that the wfter escaping the Hitler regime two years ago, Lew Fields Passes Away Half of Famous Vaudeville Team Succumbs-Taken 11l Only Last Thursday BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, July 21 —Lew Fields, 74, half of the fam- ous vaudeville team of Weber and Fields, is dead here. His lifetime partner, Joe Weber, joined the small family group and will attend the funeral services. Weber said: “It is like losing my right arm. We have grown up to- gether. He was everything to me.” Fields became ill only last Thurs- day. — GRUENING RETURNING Latest word received from Gov. Ernest Gruening, on a flying de- fense trip to the Interior with as- sistant Civilian Defense Director J. J. Ryan, was a radiogram from An- chorage saying he is on the return trip, and will arrive in Juneau Russian peasants and army may T e T L S — (Continued on Page Four) within several days. ——a———— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS The exact nature of 'S as- signment is not disclosed, but it is understood his duties will be similar to those of Capt. Lyttleton, Govern- ment Coordinator in the Middle West. Cooper is believed to be headed for Singapore. "V FOR VICTORY" CAMPAIGN STARTS BRITISH EMPIRE Nation MusI—F—ight for Em- pire’s Independence and Honor at All Times LONDON, July 21—Col. C. F. Britton, Director of Great Britain’s “V for Victory” campaign, declared Sunday, in observing the “V for Victory” day, must “faithfully fight the bestway possible for your's country’s inde- pendence and honor, and war against the German army occupa- tions must be carried out every- where and at every opportunity. The ‘V for Victory’ symbol. should be displayed everywhere.” —————— “HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Mr. and Mrs. O .W. Jenson from Anchorage are now staying at the Baranof Hotel, sald all Britishers| — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 21, — Closing gnotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel . 77%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors 39%, International Harvester 56%, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific | 7%, United States Steel 59%, Pound | $4.04, DOW, JONES AVERAGES | ‘The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials, 129.50; | rails, 30.54; utilities, 18.61. NATIONAL DIRECTOROF | INDIAN SCHOOLS HERE Willard W. Beatty, National Di- | rector of Education for the Office of Indian Affairs, arrived in Juneau today by plane from the south. He will be in Juneau for a few days and will then leave for the interior. He will make an extensive tour of na- tive schools in Alaska, the new president pro tem of the upper chamber, succeeding to the post held by the late Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl. Senator Glass, 83 years old, was unanimously nominated by a Democratic FIRE IN OREGON FOREST CURTAILS HEAIH'S_V_A(MION Forest Service Employee Is Drafted fo Aid in N. W. Blaze Because of a reputaton of being an | exce'ptlamlly good fire-fighter, Vir- gu Heath, Forest Service employee{ at Juneau, had his vacation cut short and was drafted for work over | a thousand miles from his home. Word reeeived in the local Forest | Service office revealed that Heath is flghtlng fire in Oregon in the same | area where he was formerly station- ed. Because of the severity of fires in Oregon, Heath was drafted from his vacation trip and has been fight- ing fire for the past week. ARG o o= G A BUY DEFENSE BONDS Funny thing about t wearing in Canada these Canadian Women in War he uniforms women are days—a lot of the men don’t like them. Canadian women, though, are dead serious about their part in the war. Mar- garet Kernodle of the AP ‘Feature Service has written two articles on Canadian women in the war. The first is in today’s Empire. 'Read it! e ———————{RTy ' Appropriations Subcommittee conference for the job, ‘Army May Gel By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 21 — The thorn in the side of the United States Army for more than 15 }years may leave the House of Rep- be no consolation to the Army, for |he will move over to the Senate. Congressman Ross A. Collins uf Meridian, Miss.,, may not be widely {known outside his own state, but | if there is a brass hat in the armed | forces who can't tell you about | him that brass hat is sleepier than ! Representative Collins ever has ac- | cused him of being. And that would i be superlatively drowsy. { Mr. Collins has just announced |that he is a candidate for the | Mississippi Senate seat left va- 'cant by the death of Pat Harri- son, Whether he wins or doesn't won't make much difference to the Army because, even in the Senate wing, his voice could not be much louder than it has been for years as chairman of the Mili- Thorn in House But He May Move Inlo Senate | resentatives—but if he does, it will | of the powerful House Approprm-‘ tion Committee, Representative Collins came to Congress in 1921 and except for a, following his| two-year interlude unsuccessful race for the Senate against Theodore G. Bilbo, he has been there ever since. | Back when the whole world was talking disarmament, Collins began to dip into vur military| history. His thoughts then were| pretty much the same as they are today, he says. { “To me, it is incredible that the policy makers of our War Depart- ment and our Army have not seen| the handwriting on the wall. I| am only a civilian, but I like to suppose that the good Lord en-! dowed me with at least some} measure of common sense,” Col-i lins says. To him then, it wasn't common sense that the Army, back in the the Russians time to reorganize after the smashing of the Stalin Line in huge complex encircling tac~ tics. | Russ Division Lost It was declared the Germans de- | (Gontinusd oo Page Eignt> i | GERMANYTO BE BOMBED IRTENSELY Raiders NoleS;)unding In- dustrial Cenfers Both at Night, Daylight LONDON, July 21—The Royal Air Force .will launch the heaviest air raids in history against Ger- | many within the next three months authoritative sources said today as a stream of British bombers kept up a non-stop air offensive already under way, British ralders swept across the channel in day light today with a strong fighter escort and are re- | ported to have smashed industrial Lille in northern France. Last night, British bombers in squadrons struck at the Rhineland and Rotterdam. middle 19th century, had waited (Continued nn page Six) Heavy bombers built in the Unit- ed States are expected te be the spearheads in all future attacks,