The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8783. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 194]. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN MAY ATTACK SINGAPORE & (4 ¢ UNITED INVASION IS STOPPED (OLD AT FRONTIERS Air Attacks on Moscow | Show Hitler Stalled on Ground RED CAPITAL STILL BURNING FIERCELY Germans Make Claims of Hugh Slaughfer of 4,000 Troops (By Associated Press) For the second successive night the Nazis blasted down in aerial attacks on Moscow and admittedly left scores killed and injured, but the Russians declared the raids were an indication of another setback to German ground forces who are said to have made no progress in their new wedges inside the Finnish and the Ukrainian frontiers. The Red Armys midday bulletin reported stubborn battles through- out the night, but mentioned the fighting in the same zones as yes- terday, saying nothing significant had occurred elsewhere. Moscow in Flames In Berlin the German High Com- mand declared a shower of explosive (Continued on Page Eight) WASHINGTON—Out of 26 major “incidents of damage” in defense plants last month, Military Intelli- gence authorities have evidence that fourteen were caused by sabotage.. The other twelve were accidents. Of the fourteen sdbotage cases, four were fires and ten were mechan- ical damage. Two are gttributed to Communists; the others to Nazi agents. There is no indication that Communists and Nazis worked to- gether. Since the outbreak of the Russo- German war, the Communist Party line has somersaulted. The current dictum is, no interference with de- fense output. It is significant that since the Nazi attack on the Soviets there has been a sharp decline in strikes. However, Intélligenceiiagents re- port that the party has made no change in its poligy of prapagandiz- ing soldiers and sailors. This is be- ing pushed as vigorously as before, although with little success. In fact, party generals are S0 dissatisfied with results that they recently ord- ered labor unions: dominated by Communists to help their campaign by offering their halls as soldier re- creation centers. JAPANESE | CONSULATES Another sitnlflc&nt development in subversive influences relates to the Japanese. Since the expulsion of the Nazi and Italian consulates, Intelligence officers have found that the Jap- anese consulates in Los Angeles and Seattle have become the chief clear- ing houses for espionage on the West Coast, Japanese residents are send- ing in a constant stream of reports on airplane production, ship move- ments and other military informa- tion. & (4 Colleclor Captured by Nazis Revenue Collections in Alaska Reach High Mark; 4 Squire (oming Internal revenue collections for Alaska have reached the $1,500,000 mark. | Collector Clark Squire, with, headquarters in Tacoma, announc- | es that total collections for Alaska | during the fiscal year ending June‘ 30 were $1496,143.74. He said th“ 1940 fiscal year collections were| $975,709.61. | The gain is $520,434.13, or ap-| proximately 53.3 percent. ! Squire pointed out that a ]lke‘ increase during the present ye:»r‘ would put collecticns above the‘ $2,000,000 mark. The revenue bill now before Congress probably will; result in such an increase, he said. | These revenues are derived from a variety of taxes. Those with which | the general public is most familiar| are the income, social security and admissions taxes. There are cor- poration income taxes as well as individual income taxes. Many of | the income tax returns are non- taxable. | However, regardless of whether| a person is taxed, he must, file a| return if- his . gress-ineome- reaches ! . certain figures. | (4 TES N ""Man All Ships” «® S L4 & READY ~Then 150 Planes Soar Alef L4 (4 & Fledging pilots of the “West Point of the Air” move to their basic training planes for another morning aloft in the Texas skies, Within a short few minutes this seemingly endless line of more than 150 sturdy trainers will be in flight with its student pilots—just arother step nearer America’s program of training 30,000 pilots a year. Completing their ten weeks and 70 hours aloft at Randolph Field, Texas, classes of almost 400 flying cadets leave this south Texas school évery five weeks for advanced fields to complete their training for wings and commissions. ngrad NEW FORM T0 & (4 S L4 STRIKE FLEET IS TOKYO ASKS - READY FOR CONCESSIONS, ~ EMERGENCY INDO - CHINA Secretary F. Knox Makes Nipponese Want Airfields | Positive Statement Re- and Naval Bases in garding Far East Issue French Mandate NEWSMEN FIRE U~ AID T0 BRITAIN BLUNT QUESTIONS MAY BE STOPPED Nippon Ambassador Call- Brifish Planned fo Invade ed fo State Deparfment | South Sea Nation, for Conference Says Germany WASHINGTON, July 23—Plnned’ (By Associated Press) down bluntly at a conference with | ma; past dispatches broke with the newsmen, Secretary of the Navy atest Nipponese imperialistic move Frank Knox today answered a ques- to4qgy gg they said Japan.has made tion concerning developments in the syeeping demands for concessions in Far East by t"’;mln!- “Look for & southern French Indo-China, pos- movement out there very soon.” board p | Questions.fired at. the utspoken meiain geent ety oo, g | Naval, Secretary n::::mm nrm,mb:y pore. [the Japanese 8, estab- * simuitaneousi: dispatel ‘lu\mgncotud;omummlm not, "u,m:rmt; [ship and information that JApan. orjental colony, fs to.have gon- means new military movements; i, firmed. officially that the Japanese | | I | the Far Bast. | Taxable individual returns in Al- Drive onLeni have demanded the use of facilities General Richter L 1. N. Radiophoto Among numerous Red prisoners ;aken by Nazis in Russian war are a number of generals, according to the German propaganda bureau. This photo shows General Richter of the Russian army, captured in | the fighting around Polish Lwow. according to the Nazi caption, Russian Air Hero L Radiophoto Copyright RCA Test Transmission Capt. A. Vyaznikov, shown in the cockpit of his plane, is being ac- claimed a hero by the Soviets, Mos- cow says. He and his gunners are credited with shooting down four _German planes during one air battle over the front. 3Halibufers Sell, Seatfle SEATTLE, July 23—Three hali- buters arrived from the western banks today and sold their catch- es as follows: Seymour 40,000 pounds, Fay 40,- 000 pounds, both selling at 16%, and 13 cents a pound; Vansee 40,000 pounds, at 15% and 13% cents. ‘The recent arrest of two Japanese spies in Los Angeles caused a flurry in Japanese quarters, and a number ’ The Aleutian Islands take their name from a Russian word mean- ing “botd rogk?, |aska have mounted to 10,045, ! Squire said. This is an increase of 5,120, or 103.9 percent, for the year. beLurns on taxable incomes cover- | ing 1939 totaled but 4,925. | Individual income tax collections, | jumped from $360,446.32 to $679.- 1 395.50, a gain of $318,949.18. Social security tax collections | went up from $235427 to $314,928. ' Admissions tax collections leaped | from $26,058 to $69,101. Collections of the various forms of liquor taxes increased from $19,- 13719 to $52,520. | Squire is expected to be in Ju- | neau tomorrow, arriving here after an inspection trip to the Interior and Westward, General Public Not Aware: . of Condifions Prevail- [ | ing Infernafionally | |man Andrew J. May, of the House | Military Committee this afternoon |said he believed the international situation is “even more serious than the general public understands and is rapidly becoming more seri- | ous.” The Kentuckian made the state- ment after he left an executive session of his committee at which| Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, was questioned about the Ineed of retention of selectees. Representative Edwin M. Schaef- 'er of Tllinois, who is opposed to the foreign program of the Admin- istration, admitted after the execu- | | tive session that “Gen. Marshall's' testimony convinces me that very serious consideration must be given his request for extension of the; training service. It may be qulte} necessary to accede to his re- | quest.” ——eve—— TOURISTS ON BARANOF —_— | There are 68 roundtrippers aboard the Baranof on the present voyage to Southeast and Southwest Al-| aska. —o— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | ...L hfir—-fli !i MILE sIN 3 | George C. Marshall denounced as Authoritative British sources said they regarded the German drive on Leningrad as the “most dangerous” of the German offensives against Russia. Narva (1), Estonia, was reported under siege, and Germans reported Finnish forces were attacking from the north. Germans claimed successes at Pskov and Vitebsk (2), but Russians reported the recapture of Rogacheve and Zhlobin (3). WASHINGTON, July 23—Chair-| asserted their forces were hammering at the gates of Kiev (4). To the south, Germans (1] Airmen; NO"ling Is Like i4,000 Indians Influenced If on Western Hemisphere By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 23 — The new National Airport at Gravelly Point is an airman’s dream—and & passenger’s. Along with the Jefferson Memor- ial, it gives Washington two more “musts” for the visitors' list. I stood on the promenade of the Terminal Building the other after- noon with a man who is an expert on the world's airports. We looked out over the greal network of runways — broad ,enough and long enough and solid enough to take care of the great- est giants in the air today or even of those greater ones which de- slgners andengineers have only| INaiionaI Airport s Dream discussed in unguarded moments. We could see much of the port’s 759 acres and all of the 450 “lifted out of the Potomac River bed and laid out in the sun to dry.” We could see all of that 7,000-foot- long north-south runway and just west of it, at the south end, the bay which some day will be the marine airport. Below us on the apron, were three huge airliners, two prepar- ing to depart. One had just ar-, rived, had taxied slowly in, dropped its right wheel into the turntable saucer and gunned its left motor to swing around in formation. (Continued on Page Five) The Secretary answered with his’ ™ southern Indo-China. By “facili- | eryptic warning before news of JaP- ties” it was assumed the Japanese | | | OFSABOTAGE IS REVEALED -t an’s demand on French Indo-China had reached the United States. Sumner Welles, Assistant Secre- day. | Amid increasing signs that the United States is preparing a new notice to Japan on the threat of | their military moves in the Far East, Knox was asked whether the | United States fleet is in a position | to go “wherever necessary to carry | out our policy in the Far East?” Smiling, Knox said, “Yes,” and refused to elaborate. ECUADOR, Pefitions Against Exten- sion of Training Per- iod Denounced WASHINGTON, July 23 — Gen. sabotage of a most dangerous char-% acter what he said was organized ' efforts to have draftees petition Congress against extending the ser- vices of selectees, reservists and Na- | tional Guardsmen, Testifying today Eefore the House | Military Committee in behalf of! the extension of the period of ser- vice beyond the 12-month period,| the Chief of the Army Staff as- serted there has been an organlzed; etfort of “countless outside forces” | to have members of the First Army | e e dons aguinst the extension Inyaders Repulsed, Driven 1 Back Across Border- REVOI.““ON 1 th(:sul O:tp:fii & i IN B o l I v I A Official Ecuadorean’ reports today IS QUELLED said Peruvian troops have started a general attack on a 12-mile front on the southern frontier of | Ecuador but have been repulsed pand driven out of several of their jown outposts. | The Ecuadorean reports said trecops of Ecuador, although greatly outnumbered, pursued the attackers b ]- f “ . " |to the other side of the Zarumilla Y 0 i ' aflall Ideas | River and captured Peruvian posts |at Aguas Verdes and Brancamoro. in Revolt ‘ LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 23—A re- | STO(K ouo“‘"o“s volt of about 4,000 Indians in me( department of Cochabamba was | reported here today as officials| NEW YORK, July 23. — Closing charged it was started by elements | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine interested in fostering totalitarian |stock today is 4%, American Can conspiracy. | 88%, Bethlehem Steel 77%, Com- The arrest of 12 Indian leaders monwealth and Southern 7/16, Cur- presumably quelled the disturbance | tiss Wright 9%, General Motors 38%, which came while officials in-|International Harvester 56%, Ken- quired into an asserted Nazi plot|Decott 39%, New York Central 13%, to overthrow the government President Penaranda. e OFF FOR ANCHORAGE Steel 58%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES 4 The following ‘are today's Dow, Jack McDaniel, son of Mr. ‘nd\.!ones . * Industrials, 129.16; Mrs,"J. W. McDaniel of Juneau, 4 ils, 30.30; utilities, 18.78. leaves for Anchorage today on me.} e . b Baranof where he will take a job at | the air base.’ BUY DEFENSE BONDS tary of State, has arranged to re- ' of | Northern Pacific 7%, United States | ,meant airfields and naval bases, Still Conferring Conferences between French Ad- miral DeCoux, Governor General of Indo-China, and Major General Sumita, chief of the Japanese mili- tary mission, are said to be continu- ing in Hanol with the end not yet in sight. Washington and London watched the situation with mounting anxiety, and Berlin kept an eye on develop- ments which might affect the Unit- ed States’ ability to give #id to Brit- ain and China. | The German radlo declared, “Ac- cording to news avallable here the Japanese government has learned that British aims are directed at French Indo-China, and the Japan- ese government is determined to defend its interests by all means at its disposal against such intentions. The French government is likewise | believed to share this view.” | British On Border In Vichy it was officially disclos- ed that negotiations for the tech- nical protection of French China are under way in both and Hanoi after what French auf Orities claimed to have been British troop concentrations were seen along the Malaya and Burma borders ilndo-chinl. b Newspapers in German - Paris charged General “fifl!,wwl“cf tive free-Prench leader, cruising off the Indo-China coast, with direct- ing increasing flows of DeGaullist propaganda, and also accused the British, free-French and Chinese of conferring in view of a division of Indo-China, JAPANESE "MOVING ON INDO - CHINA fl‘hiriy Tm@rfs, Under | Convoy of Warships Re- { ported Off Hongkong CHUNGKING, Jhly 23—Admiral Shuen Chen, Director of Chinese Military Intelligence, told the for- eign correspondents this afternoon that 30 Japanese transports, con- ivoyed by three Japanese warships, were seen near Hongkong July 18 steaming in the dirertion of Indo- China, ¥ e