The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8785. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN PLANS WAR ON PACIFIC 4 4 & L4 (4 L4 & .. WILL TAKE A RAFBOMBS BURST INRAID ON ROTTERDAM R — Smoke rolls from a bombed area, seen from a British plane during an RAF daylight raid on Rotterdam, British sources said. The plane’s tail structure is in the foreground . The RAF announced destruction of 22 ships in a daytime smash at Rotterdam. Picture cabled from London to New York. BIG GUNS GUARD BRITISH CONVOY The heavy guns of the British battleship King George V guard an Atlantic convoy enroute b England. This battleship visited the United States some time ago when she brought Lord Halifax, British Ambas- sador, to this country. “The was a brief pause after the bill was read—and then the battle began. All the Republican members and three Democrats, including Downey, jumped from their chairs hotly charging that the War Department was trying to put over a fast one, and demanding that Coy take the bill back to the White House. Ordi- narily reserved, .Senator Warren Austin of Vermont, a strong sup- porter of the President’s foreign policies, wrothily declared that he would not “go along” on this legisla- tion, ‘giving the President blanket powers to seize property.” NAZIS ARE L and Emden, Also Var- WASHINGTON — Those present BASESOF Royal Air Force Blasfs Kiell 4 L4 4 S & L4 REDS FIGHT 70 LAST MAN ATSMOLENSK. | Leningrad Threafened by, Finnish Forces from | | North, South 'NAZI DIVISION AT | | BORDER WIPED OUT 'Russian Air Force Turns Back Night Air Raid ' | on Moscow BERLIN, July 25—The German High Command today reiterated that the current offensive ag:\inst‘ Russia is continuing “according to iplan despite stiff fighting.” In- | formed sources said the battles are | marked by Russian orders to de- fend the Stalin line at Smolensk to the last man. 48 ¢ | Military spokesmen announced! . | that Finnish forces are threatening | i the Leningrad to Murmansk rail-| way northeast of Leningrad, hav- i |ing forced a passage between the | ! Russian capital and Lake | | oA 4 FIELD ARMIES Divisions 456.000 KRARAARAS ARMORED FORCE 430,000 Four Divisions AR FORCE ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY . | former + | Ladoga. 4 i t | Also reported are threats to Len- ingrad from the southwest and southeast where it is said German | | units are making steady progress | on both sides of Lake Peipus and | Lake Ilmen, each about 130 miles | i from Leningrad. 1 | The German High Command's | brief summary of action on the | | Eastern Front added, “a large num- | | ber of prisoners of war and mn»: | terial are being captured daily. | Individual planes “bombed mllitax‘yi iobjeclives during the night in thrz} | eastern part of Moscow and norlh‘ of the Kremlin.” OVERSEAS GARRISONS ENGINEERS NAZI DIVISION MASSACRED MOSCOW, July 25—Soviet troops defending the road to Moscow are | | reported here today to have wipwl" {out an entire German infantry di-| | vision near Smolensk. ! Further war bulleting in the! Soviet capital said the air defense| is credited officially with beating| i off the fourth successive night at-| tack of the Luftwaffe on civilian areas in Moscow. Bitter battles, a war communique said, continued all night, not on at Smolensk but also in the Zhito- mir sector west of Kiev, the Pet- | rozavoosk sector on the Finnish front north of Lake Ladoga and the Porkhov, Nevel and Polotsk areas south of Leningrad, In all| sectors the Russians are said to he battling stubbornly. EACH SYMBOL = 50,000 117,950 Eyes of (ongress Are on Texas and New Role fo Be 'FAIRBANKS AREA 4 CTION AGAINST NIPPON 'REPRISAL Played by__w. Lee 0'Daniel f are keeping mum about it, but Ad- ministration leaders almost had to call out the riot squad to get the Senate Military Affairs Committee to report out the War Department’s “draft property” bill. . The com- promise bill was approved only after what one Senator privately described as the “wildest committee meeting I ever attended.” He wasn’t exagger- ating. For a time, while debate was at its hottest, the closed-door session seemed like a waterfront brawl. | Members threw senatorial dignity to the winds and all but slugged it out over the Army’s demand for author- ity to draft property for defense. Two Democrats, Sheridan Downey, California’s “yes and noer” on for- eign affairs ,and ” Chandler, militant anti-isolationist Kentuck- ian, almost did throw punches. 1t started when Wayne Coy, head | of the Office of Emergency Manage- ment, came from the White House with a draft of the property-seizure “FIGHTING WORDS” Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, another GOP anti-isola- tionist, exclaimed: “If the President wants national unity and suport from Republicans, he’d better give this bill back to the ‘War Department.” Downey and several others also joined in the attack. Meanwhile Chandler, in charge of the legisla- tion, kept shouting at the top of his voice: “Property is no more sacred than | human life. If the President has power to draft men for the Army,| he also should have the right to| draft property.” ‘The big blowoff came when Dow- | ney yelled, “This bill means revo- | lution.” “I'm surprised,” shot back the truculent Chandler, “that a re- | sponsible member of the Senate | would make such a wholly irrespon- | sible and absurd statement. I, don’t | think a man of your position should ‘I?e loosely predicting revolutum: ious Airfields LONDON, July 25—Great damage and a number of large fires were caused by the R.AF. on /German | bases at Kiel and Fmden as the| English hammered the Baltic and North Sea military centers in al series of intensive night raids, an- nounced the British Air Ministry today. Other squadrons of /British air-| planes blasted the airfields at Wil- | helmshaven and ‘Rotterdam as fierce offensive warfare was waged on all the major airdromes in oc- cupied France. | Thirty-three German - planes was the number shot down, declared the British Air Ministry, to five British planes downed by the de- fenders. | Daylight attacks were also made' on - the - 26,000-ton battleships, | Scharnhorst and” Gneivenau: DESIGNATED NEW DEFENSE REGION Means Operafive Builders May Sell Houses With- out Down Payment WASHINGTON, July 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has approved of 21 localities as defense areas, including Fairbanks, Alaska, in which the Fed- eral Housing Administration may insure in amounts suf- ficient to permit operative builders to sell houses without any down payment. —-———— John Secrest had recovered suf- ficiently from a mine injury to be dismissed from 8t. Ann’s Hospilal this forenoon. s —eo——— BUY DEFENSE RONDS . l ~ BUY DEFENSE STAMPS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Juiy 25 — Con- gressmen and a good many other government officials have ' their nofes to the defense grindstone, but, like little boys in school when they hear the first notes of the circus calliope, they are casting eyes out the window. | In the case of Congress, et al, |the glance is' toward Texas and what they are wondering is will Gov. W. ILee O'Daniel, newly elected Senator (to fill the seat of the late Sen. Morris Sheppard) try to play the same topsy-turvy with naticnal politics that he has as two-time Governor of his state. About three years ago, & com- paratively unknown flour man who never had held public office jumped into the Texas political arena with both feet; a six-plece “hill-billy” orchestra; a wife, daughter and (wo sons who cam= | paigned with him; a sound truck jand frequent radio programs. He announced his platform was | the Ten Commandments and his motto, the Golden Rule. His polit- | ical power was a $30-a-month| pension for folks over 65, talk of | economy and a lot more talk about “the professional politi- cians” But with that, he blasted | his way into the Governor's. man- sion at Aus‘in, | ADMITTED HIS FAILURE | His inaugural was held in the| University of Texas football sta- dium and the crowd was reported | at 50,000. Two years later he ran again, using almost the same tac- tics, but adding to it the frank| admission that he had been a fail- ure and asking the people to keep him in office so he could whip the | legislature and the “professional | politicians” into line. Once more it was O'Daniel all the way. Last month, by a margin so nar-| row (less than 1,100 votes) that it won't be official until another can- (Conuinued nn page Six) ® (4 S 14 (4 METHODS PLANNED ' President Declares Specific ‘Retaliation fo Be An- nounced Tomorrow EXACT MOVES ARE | "NOT TOLD NEWSMEN Freezing of'Cr;dits, Assets Considered Inevitable Is General Belief HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 25 —| | President Franklin D. Roosevelt disclosed today that the United | states would retaliate by specific | dction * tomorrow against Japan’s |'occupation of naval and air bases 4in French Indo-China. | The President told the newsmen Jat.a conference Unnt somethirig-will !'come out of Washington Yomorrow !but he:would not say exactly just | what, The . most likely move appeared | to be freezing of Japanese credits | and assets in the United States. | Drastic Measures | Many persons, it is learned here, consider the step as inevitable and | whether the United States is ready to take additional measures® appear | to be waiting for future determina- | tion, it all depending how the’ in- | ternational situation develops on the Pacific. | | To the question as to whether | “events in the Far East have sharn- ly accentuated the dangers in the international- situation,” the Presi- | dent suggested that the answer could be put in this way, that !events in the Far East are bring-| !lng a greater warning to public | dangers in the present world situ- ation. | To Change Policy | | In washington, late yesterday, |the President intimated that re- : voking the policy under which this :Government has been letting Japan | | MAY PLACE | (Conuinued on Page Seven' | BANON OIL TO JAPANESE | { | xiraordi_fi;ry Counter| Measures Planned in- | Far East Situation | WASHINGTON, July 25—Aban- donment of the two-year-old policy of giving Japan access to United States oil in order to prevent ag- gressive action in the Pacific was late yesterday considered as a dis- tinct possibility now that the Jap- anese forces have moved southward to occupy the strategic military bases in French Indo-China. Informed quarters agreed that extraordinary counter measures arve in the making as the result of the affair. Measures designed to express this country’s o] ition to action al- ready taken, as well as any fur-| ther Japanese steps in the direc- tion of Singapore, The Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines. Capitol Hill heard increasingly and frequent speculation on the| use of the Navy to safeguard Am-I erican Far Eastern interests while immediate prospects were for some | E'nd of an 22oncm's “ction, MILLION MEN IN JAP ARMY WAITORDERS Indo-China Thrust Merely Start of Nipponese March South MANDATE OF FRANCE REFUSES PROTECTION Emperor’s Order Blackout of All Merchant Ships’_quios (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japan's dream of the conquest of the Pacific moved toward a grim reality today with a reported mo- bilization of a million men. At sea her ships, blanked out by silence, have turned away from American shores. British dispatches from. Singapore sald Prance's colony of Indo-China has ignored a recent offer of pro- tection by the British, United States, China and the Dutch East Indies “against further encroach- ments from the outside.” In Rome editor Gayda declared the Indo-China thrust is the first episode of Japan's march to the south and was undertaken with the full agreement of the other Axis powers. Warships Near Singapore Dispatches from Saigon said con- cessions gained by Japan from In- do-China include the right to sta- tion warships in the strategic Cam- ranch Bay on the sougheast Indo- Chinese coast 800 miles from Sin- gapore. Moredver, repdts said, the Japanese may station warships in the river port of Saigon and ob- tain several air bases in southern | Indo-China. Foreign inteliigence reports reach- ing Shanghai said the Japanese mobilization is the greatest since July, 1937, when the war with China began. Progress of the mobilization since July 17 is still continuing with troops’ destinations being kept secret, but advance contingents are expected to occupy the newly wgn (Continued on P_ue Seven) JAPANESE RESENTING U.5.PoLicY {Newspapers Print Stafe- ments Made by Roose- velt on Far East Issue TOKYO, July 25—Evidenees of official and popular resentment of the United States attitude toward Japan is increasing as the news- papers gave great prominence to statements made by American Pres- ident Franklin . Roosevelt. The Government officials, it is understoad, are closely studying re= marks which the President is said to have made regarding possible revocation of the rights of Japan to secure oil from the United States. One newspaper devotes the first page to the President’s utterances. References to the French Indo- China situation have been elimin- ated from all Japanese newspapers and they have not yet been per- mitted to discuss the program of bases in Indo-China, not even the movement of troops to that area.