The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8784. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS FAR EAST CRISIS IS NEARING & s 4 L4 L4 NAZIDRIVE STILL HALTED, SAYSLONDON Hitler Admils—”Strong Loc- al Resistance” from Soviet Armies JAPAN STABS REDS ON SIBERIA BORDER ™ Another Massacre of Rus- | sian Troops Asserted by Germans (By | Associated Press) | Hitler’s invasion of Russia is slow- ing down if not entirely halted, authoritative sources in London re- | ported today while at the same time | reports come from Russia’s back\l avor that Japanese and Soviet troops have clashed on the Manchukuo- Siberian frontier. i On the Russo-German war front | violent fighting continued without a | decisive turn“in the conflict. DNB | asserted a large Russian force, en- | circled south of Vitebsk on the cen- tral front, has been smashed by Nazi trcops with ‘“extraordinary heavy losses.” The -Nazis claimed 13,000 Soviet prisoners were captured. | Hitler’s High Command once more acknowledged “strong local resist- | i ance” from Soviet troops. They de- | | clared, “Operations of the German armed forces and their allies are taking their planned course along the entire East Front in spite of dif- ficult roads.” CThe ‘% i MOSCOW, July 24.—Windows on two sides of the residence of United States Ambassador Steinhardt were blown in last night in the third | successive night of German air as- saults on Moscow. ans declared, , it was a fail- hours, but the Rus | | | SN R B Private Ronnie Pollen had a hard | The raid lasted five and one-half | ~ "Eyes Front, Soldier” < 4 No officers of the United States Embassy were in the residence at the time of the bombing, but four American newspapermen there were | not hurt. Bomb fragments and blasts from the explosions ripped the curtains, and showered the rugs and furniture | with glass. | time keeping his mind on his work | as he did sentry duty backstage during a performance by a group of Hollywood, Calif., show girls at Camp Haan, anti-alreraft -battery training center near Riverside, Calif. WASHINGTON—For just about one century the African Republic | of Liberia has been a pain in the! neck to the United States govern-| — = ment. But now, at long last, it may justify the headaches it has‘ NEW MINISTER caused in Washington. It may be another Iceland. | Liberia, meaning a “free coun: try,” was founded even before thi Civil War by American negroes who sought to establish a free black re-| public and lead a movenient “Back ' to Africa.” The idea was enceur- | aged by abolitionist leaders in New | England, and the colony had an| auspicious start. | However, American negroes trans- | planted to Africa- later became slave-owners themselves, and es-| tablished a lively trade selling their own brethren from the jungle to plantation owners. This trade of blacks selling blacks got so bad that irate Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State, practically forced the resignation of the President of Liberia. Stim- son stamped out the slave trace and Liberia has been fairly clean since. | Liberia always has been under the protection of the United States. Its government operates partly on funds borrowed from the U. S. gov- ernment, and its customs are watched by a U. 8. collector. A| rejjiro Toyoda (above), a retired friendly U. S. gunboat drops in at| yjce.Admiral, became Foreign its ports from time to time, and| prinjster of Japan, succeeding U. S. Minister Lester wm::;fla: Yosuke Matsuoka, as Prince Fumi- Harlem newspaper _editor, es g { maro Konoye formed a stream- great we{eht in the affairs of the Hined ¢abinet. country. v i ,_,__—————-——-NOW' PSRN I h“w| George. Nlemllwns admitted to (Continued on Page Four) | st Ann’s Hospital yesterday eve- s Byesor e ning ‘for medical treatment, $14,000,000 FOR ALASKA Air and Submarine Bases in Territory fo Have Additions WASHINGTON, July 24. — The House Appropriations Committee to- day recommended $291,000,000 for the Public Works Program on naval yards and stations in the $8,000,- 000,000 Supplemental National De- fense appropriation bill. The measure includes $3,413,000 for additional submarine operating facilities, ammunition and storage facilities at the Kodiak submarine base, $200,000 for cold storage facil- ities at the submarine base in the Unalaska area, $3,266,000 for addi- tional aviation facilities at the Ko- diak Naval Air Station, $2,654,000 for . additional aviation facilities at the Sitka Naval Air Station, and $4.- 346,000 for additional aviation facil- ities at the Unalaska Naval Alr Sta- tion. ¥ # Q BUY DEFENSE STAMPS. , - 4 -SHARP WARNING U. S. Embassy in Moscow Is Blasted During Atfack of Germa_n_[lighl Bombers MORE SOUGHT & (4 'WHEELER IS - PUTON SPOT Monfana Senator Charged with Near Subversive Ac- | fivites If Notf Treason | WASHINGTON, July 24. — Secre+ ,tary of War Henry L. Stimson de- | Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon= tana, has mailed postcards to army officers and men urging them 19 oppose American entry into the European war, At a conference with the newss | men, Secretary Stimson said, *I think this comes very near to the | line of subversive activities against the United States, if not treason.” | The cards went out postage free, said Secretary Stimson, on a frank held by Senator Wheeler. One mil~ | lion of the cards were printed at Government expense at the Govern- i ment’s printing office but were lab- | | clared today that United States t | 1 elled *“not printed at Gonrnmmu ! expense.” !l "Senator'Wheeler told the reporters he sent out approximately 1,000,000 post cards to a cross section of citi- zens all over the country,” in an effort to hold the President to his | pledge to keep this country out of ! war.” | Senator Wheeler said that some of the cards naturally reached officers and men of the United States Army, “but they were not addressed pri- | marily to that group.” —— e JOHNPUBLIC HAS INCOME TAX TREBLED New Bill Levies Charges Even on Billboards, Broadcasts | WASHINGTON, July 24. — The | $3,529,000,000 tax bill now in Con- gress, the largest in the nation’s history and designed to make both individuals and corporations dig deeper than ever to help finance the defense program, is headed for House consideration today after ap- provél by the Ways and Means Com- mittee. | The committee stamped final ap- i proval on the bill after a number of last-minute changes, among them the inclusion of unprecedented levies on radio broadcasts and billboards. | The new surtaxes on individual | new incomes start at five percent on the first dollar of taxable income and range up to the maximum 75 percent on incomes over five million dollars. ‘The new tax virtually trebles the {payments of persons in the lower middle brackets. For instance a ! married man ‘with two children with ‘a $3,000 net income, now pays no ‘hx. Under the new system he will pay $11. A mag with the same num- ber of dependents with a $5,000 net inconie now pays $74.80. He will pay } $202.40 under the new levy. 'ARMY BOMBER HERE WAITING WEATHER Waiting here for weather before continuing to Elemendorf Field in | Anchorage, an Army B-18 bomber, |commanded by Lt. E. T. Yarbrough, is in Juneau today after arriving {from McCord Field near Tacoma, Washington. {_Officers on board are Lt. G. K. Hazelton, Lt. J. P. Stuart, Lt. F. L O’Brien and' Lt. H. W. Patch. l BUY DEFENSE BONDS | | | \ | | BY STIMSON, 4 & L4 04 4 ADE BY RAF_ & 4 L4 4 & GIVEN JAPAN BY U.J. TWO-WAR FRONT IS M WAR CLOUDS Vi RTEREIREKK? LE HAVAE oo While Russia fights Germany in the east, Britain steps up raids on German cities and important industrial and commun A Soviet commurique said severe NORTHERN FRANCE'S indus trial area has been incorporated into Nazi war production econ- | {omy. Power plants, factor synthetic oil refineries are pri ipal targets. ONWARFRONT fighting was going on in the area of Pskov in a drive (1), aimed at Leningrad. A German drive in the central sector (2) was said by the Germans to have captured Smolensk, 230 miles west of Moscow. The Rusians claimed they still held Smol- ensk. The Russians also reported a successful counter-attack 3) Volynski, aeross the Dnepr River. The German drive (4) for Kiev continued, with Moscow reporting heavy fighting in the vicinity of Novograd- FBIMen Are Demanded Now ~ For Chiefs of Police; Many ~ Requests Filled by Hoover By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 24 — When | Mayor Marvin Kline of Minneapo- |1ls appealed to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to find an FBI man for a police chief, Kline was join- ing a parade that is making the FBI one of the most unusual em- ployment bureaus in the land. When Hoover informed Kline that he had such a man in his own front yard, Hoover was ful- (illing ~his = little-known function Ias No. 1'placement man for chiefs of police in the United States, FBI National Police “Academy graduates and men from the FBI rolls now are chiefs of police in now down in Whitehorse waiting 182 cities. After explaining to Mayor Kline that all FBI agents worthy of conducting the Minneapolis police department were needed in na tional defense, Hoover told the Mayor of Edward B. Hansen, veteran of the Duluth police force who not only had worked himse! up to chief in Duluth, but hac also acquitted himself with hon- ors in lhbeBI'B “West Point of law enforcement.” Mayor Kline grabbed his man. A DAILY ROUTINE This has been going on (Cootinued #n poge Six) ¢ fo her efforts in the west with unprecedented air ications centers in France and the low :Gen.Marshawsdays Scheme LOWERING ON PACIFIC NOW fJapanese Demands on | FrenchIndo-China Arous- es Fury of This Nation 'NIPPON WARSHIPS MOVING T0 SAIGNON Denounces Japan as Agaressor in Move | (By Assoclated Press) | War clouds lowered today in the | Far East situation caused by move- ments of Japanese war vessels and | denouncing of Japan’'s move in %?rem:h Indo-China by the United States. I Japanese warships are reported off Capt. 8¢ Jemes, Camranh Bay, in southern Freénch Tndo-China, after TAFT'S PLAN S5 s s | ylelded to the demands of Japan for i air and naval bases. F R DRAHEES | Dispatches indicate that 12 Japan- | ese transports are enroute to Saigon, | less than 700 miles by air from Great | Britain’s key naval stronghold at D | Singapore. NOT So Goo | Denounced by U. S. | In Washington, the United States | Government has strongly denounced Japan as an aggressor in the French Indo-China_situation and declared . . | positively the move there menaced Fine for Any Time | Rmerican seourty and endangered American terri and interests in But Present g™ ke Under Secretary of State Sumner WASHINGTON, July 24. — Gen. | Welles issued the formal statement TARCET OF LIMITED BOMBING ATTACKS TARCET OF REPEATED BOMBING ATTACKS | George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff in behalf of the United States, as- |for the United States Army, today serting that Japan' 's action is pri- turned thumbs down on a proposal | marily in preparation for further of Senator Robert A. Taft to limit | “movements of conquest in adjacent the maximum active service of se- 8reas.” lectees to 16 months. Action Condemned ) In a statement filed with the! Welles said the substance of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, ' United States condemnation of Jap-' the only full general in the United an’s movement was given last night States said Taft’s plan “has great to the Japanese Ambassador during | merit, but only as a long range plan 8 half-hour snappy conference. for peace time procurement for| The statement contained no hints training purposes. |as to steps planned by the United “The present grave international States to counter the Japanese move situation prompts me again to re- 8s that is not generally the way in quest Congress to remove the re- Situations now arising. strictive clauses from the present law, in order that the War Depart- ment may haxe maximum flexibility , to meet any . situation that may arise,” Gen, Marshall said. e i EECIRA FLES 0 FAIRBANKS One PAA plane left Juneau Air-| port today before a blanket of | Gastineau fog closed in, stoppmg’ all flying operations. The north-| bound Electra left here at 10 o'-| clock with five passengers aboard for Whitehorse and Fairbanks. | Fairbanks passengers were Rex C.| Muger, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Hardy, | and Frances Meals. The passenger | booked for Whitehorse was William | Bacon. Two southbound Lodestars are for ‘ weather conditions to clear. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, July 24 — Cloalng; quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 4%, American Can| 88%, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem | Steel 176%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors 38, Kennecott 39%, | New York Central 13%, Northern! Pacific 7%, United States Steel | 58 3/4, Pound $4.04. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials m.sfl rails 30.33, utilities' 18.65. Direct Warning The statement did declare that occupation of French Indo-China or (Continued on Page Eight) 40 NIPPON SHIPS ARE OFF SHORE Japanese Vessels Hove-fo Along Coast Await- ing Orders SAN FRANOISCO ,Cal, July 24. —More than 40 Japanese ships i bound for United States ports are !reported to have hove-to offshore as the result of the declaration of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles that Japan's latest move against Prench Indo-China endang- ered United States safety. % One of the vessels hqve-to is the Tatuta Maru, carrying passeng- ers and a $2,500,000 silk cargo. The Tatuta Maru was due to arrive at dawn today but up to late this afternoon was still offshore. The other vessels include both empty tankers and cargo ships, It is understood all ships hove-to are awaiting for arders from the Japanese Government as to the next moves. 'Stafe Department Official