The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8788, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1931. NEW THREAT MADE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY JAPAN GERMAN DRIVE ON MOSCOW BREAKING NAZIHORDES | FORCEDBACK BY RUSSIANS Bessarabia Is ""Liberated” from Soviets by In- vading Forces DNB CLAIMS TROOPS EAST OF SMOLENSK : \ Three Main Sectors of Front| : | Scene of Violent | T Fighting (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Hitler's drives toward Moscow | and Kiev are “breaking up against the firmness and stubborness of | our troops,” a Red Army bulletin declared today. In some places R\is-“ sian troops have opened counter- attacks and are inflicting heavy | losses on the invaders. | Hitler's Command asserted, how-i ever, in the south Red. armies have been thrown back from the Bes- sarabian “buffer state” into the Ukraine and gave this picture of the action on the vital central| i }c;ml.xnued’ ;};g‘a‘ _B-even‘ WASHINGTON — Twenty news- papermen leaned forward around the long blue baize table in the |H ante-room of the Secretary of State. At the extreme end stood tall, austere Acting Secretary Sumner | Welles. On his face was an expres- sion of grim-lipped intensity. In his hand was a type-written state- | ment. He read it aloud. It was a| scathing, carefully worded blast | against Japan. At the opposite end of the table stood three Japanese newsmen, short, affable, eager. For months and years they had been attending press conferences, given the same priv- ileges as any American newsmen. For months also they had waited for some such bombshell. Now it came. One split second after Welles fin- ished reading his statement, the Japanese were out the door, patter- nig down the marble corridor to the ‘ press room telephones. It was a big day for Japanese newsmen. | FINALLY ICKES WINS { It was also a big day for certain members of the Roosevelt Cabinet. | For months and years they also had been waiting. For months and years " also they had been urging Roosevelt | to embargo oil shipments to Japan. At the Friday cabinet meeting just | before Japan moved, Secretary Ickes, | as new oil administrator, raised the | embargo question again. He pro- posed to stop ol shipments to Japan. | But the Acting Secretary of State | said no. On Monday, he said, Japan was going to make a move toward Indo-China and it would be wiser to | wait until then. { Once before, Ickes had stopped a shipment of oil to Japan and aroused | the wrath of the State Department. | Last June a Philadelphia manufact- | urer complained to him that a Jap- | anese ship was loading 240,000 gal- lons of lubricating oil. i “I can’t get oil myself to speed up my own defense orders,” wrote the manufacturer, “and yet I see in front of my nose this shipment of oil (Continued on Page Four) CUTIES START DRIVE ~mmy § ¢ Getting the aluminum coveoni IS HO Mrs. Jean Knox (above), first and only woman major general the British army has ever had, begins her new duties at her desk in Lon- don as chief controller of the aux- iliary territorial service which eh- rolls many women members. Her | first act on assuming command was to order more stylish uniforms for the service she heads. This picture was cabled from London to New York. PILOTS MAKE FEW FLIGHTS TO COAST Air traffic slackened in Juneau today as only few passengers in com- parison with yesterday’s number flew in and out of the Channel with Alaska Coastal Airlines pilots. Pilot Shell Simmons carried Mr. and Mrs. J. Tenneson and Jim Ten- neson to Tenakee and returned with Lottie Peters. Alex Holden carried Edna Wilson, Walter Wilson, Louis Davis, Violet Davis and A. Van Mavern to Sitka. He is scheduled to return to Junean with Jack Lit- tlepage; Paul ‘Sorenson and three other passengers. defense drive, which good start, five film actresses of the “Navy Blues” sextette are pictured in Los Angeles as they tossed pots and pans into a huge bin in front of the City Hall, with the aid of Mayor Fletcher Bowron. The girls, are left to right: Alice Talton, Margarete Chapman, Peggy | Diggins, Georgia Carroll and Lorraine Gettman. | of United States Dead INVASION ATTEMPT NOW NEAR Churchill Warns Britishers| fo Expect Trouble in | September f | LONDON, July 29.—British Prime | ! Minister Churchill today warned | | Great Britain of the possibility uf | |a German invasion attempt in Sep- | tember and rejected demands made | for the appointment for a Minis- ter of War Production. k s | The Prime Minister spoke with | considerable regret at the sever- (ance of diplomatic relations with | Nazi associated Finland. | Regarding the possibility of an attempted German invasion, | Churchill said: “An invasion is at hand. All armed forces have been ! warned to be at a concert pitch by September 1 and maintain the ut- most vigilance.” | The Price Minister cautioned the | people of the British Empire to be | on guard equally against both pes- simism and optimism but said the | | Britishers should be heartened by the “magnificent strength and cour- age of the Russians and the atti- 3tude of the United States.” NAVY DROPS| | | | began July 21, off to a Dr.R.H.Hill DEPTH BOMBS Passes Away TO HIT SUB ' Texas Home us. Destroyer Off Green- fi ot \ land Lefs Go Charges | \Former Principal Geologist| During Rescue WASHINGTON, July 20—A Sen- ate Naval Committee report re- leased today quoted Secretary of | the Navy Frank Knox as testify- ing that a captain of a United States destroyer dropped three depth bombs off the coast of Green- {land when he believed there was possible danger of an attack from a submarine. The testimony was contained in Mexico, Central. America and the|® FePort ot e sommities which’ Panama Canal route and, in asso- ;:c;?;me;deie:.;fl::th::m:r:’est‘i,; clation with Alexander Agassiz of: | Harvard, explored the atr?lfa of th':’ shiggbing - Amescar Hagsl 1its Into American-Caribbean region. the Atlantic for convoying British He discovered and described the | Merchantmen. { Cretaceous (chalk) rocks in the| KTOX Was quoted as saying, “One Texas area and located the Trin-|U: S destroyer, operating off; ity, Paluxy and Woodbine oil-bear-| 3reeniand, heard an SOS from ing sands of that state. Also he|?2 Steamer and proceeded to its found the “Comanche series” in|location where it picked up 60 the geolugical column of Texas, n‘survlvom from the sunken steamer. link in the earth’s formative re-| While engaged in this act of cord which did not fit in any|™Mercy. the operator of the listen- ~Had Long Record DALLAS, Texas, July 29. — Dr. Robert Thomas Hill, 82, a “self- | made” scientist of high attain- ment, who was a, former principal geologist of the DUnited States Geo- logical Survey, passed away at his home here today. Dr. Hill studied the geology of Nazis Say This Is Battered Bunkes on Stalin Line’ ¢ i soldiers According to the German caption’accompanying this radiophoto from Berlin, these are Naz examining the shattered gun slits of a large cancrete and steel bunker of the Stalin line. When this plcture was taken, members of the Soviet military mise slon were in London where they discussed British-Russian co-opera- tion against Germany. Shown, left to right, are M. Maisky, t'hs Suviet ambassador; General Filip Ivanovitch Golikov, deputy chief of the Russian general staff, and Admiral Kharlamov of the Red Now General Golikov, chief of the mission, has returned to following indications that a new Rus- i 4 Moscow for “consultation” lan-British strate, lan has been drafted, n - Moscow whereby each agreed to have just concluded a pact in “render each other assistance and support of all u times in the present war against Hitlerite Germany. Red li'IlhtaryMlssxonm London ' tion is given' for, the picture. . — inc NIPPON IS ™ : ' DEMANDING * - MORE BASES | Makes Offer fo Indo-China | Province Which Violafes | Japan-French Profocol OCCUPATION IS Now REPORTED HIGH GEAR 1Warships,T@) Transports -| Landing Forces-40,000 Soldiers Now Ashore (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japan's swing to the south today assumed an even broader aspect, risking new Anglo-American resent- ment. A Reuters report from Bangkok said Japan has offered Cambodia, —1I. I. N. Radiophoto No loca~ / —1I. I. N. Soundphoto Britain and Russia kinds and in all By JACK STINNETT dent Roosevelt Turns Up an Ace in the Daylight Confest; Put Up fo Congress known textbook, “Incidental to this,” he once ex- plained, “was the discovery, sub- sequently, of artesian water in| central Texas, an element more im- | portant than any other.” Orphaned at 5 Born in Nashville, Tenn., Aug- ust 11, 1858, he was orphaned when tive years old and-at 15, after he had finished the sixth grade in school, traveled alone for more than 300 miles to Comanche, Texas, “the last town of the frontier and the toughest and roughest of that time.” He remained there séven years,! setting type on a brother’s weekly newspaper, the Comanche = Chief, which still exists, Then. for two| \ ing equipment reported to the cap- tain he thought he heard a sub- merged sub. The captain immedi- ately turned in the direction indi- cated and dropped three depth charges. In doing this, he very pru- dently exercised the right of self preservation. Had there been sub there his destroyer might have been sunk.” WERNECKES FLY 'HEREFROMMAY0 Mr. and Mrs. Livingston Wernecke and their daughter, Claire, have ar- rived in Juneau, flying in from Mayo, Yukon Territory. ‘The Werneckes, who have been in years he wandered a bit, helping to| Mayo for several weeks were flown drive cattle up the trail via Doan’s here by Charles Gropstis, a pilot Store on the Red River, to Dodge for the Consolidated Aircraft Cor- | City, Kans. On one’of these trips poration. Mr. Wernecke is Gencr- | he got stranded -in Dodge City but al Manager of the Treadwell-Yukon got a'job-oun b esttle train to St 8t Mayo and consulting geologist of 4 the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining (Continuea ui Page Bix) { }Cun 4 WASHINGTON, July 20—-It Was generally overlooked, but behind the’ President’s recommendation to Congress for legislation to permit |the President to establish regional |or general daylight saving for all |or any part of the year is a plan |to circumvent onhe of the major po-- litical explosions . of the ,whole of national defense legfslation. i In World War I, Congress and {the nation paused in its entire defense effort ‘to.wage one of its bitterest battles over whether we should or shouldn’t have univer- sal daylight saving Every time congressmen have made faces at the clock in the present defense effort, there have been little whirlwinds of eriticism and debate all over the land, Why? Because , the conuroversy. over daylight saving is a fight between farm communities and the large |urban and industrial centers. Even { » i . some of the most vigorous advo| cates of universal’ daylight saving | will admit ‘that the farmer has a justifiable gripé. And on the other | hand, some of the outstanding op- | ponents confess that daylight sav- ing in some areas probably is a good thing. | It undoubtedly does save elec- tricity. According: to the Federal Power Commission, national day- light saving would conserve more than 736,000,000 kilowatt-hours a year. It gives the factory workers on one or two shifts more working daylight. For many workers, even those working overtime, it provides leisure daylight hours. These ar- guments are pretty well established. FARM ROUTINE RIGID But what it does to the ‘farmer| is something else again. In farm communities, where the working Fleet AwaitEOff Shore in | that prompt clearance will be given a province of Indo-China, to Thai- *+!land in. return..for .her allegiance | to Japan's: New Order in Asia. | Violtes Treaty Such division of Indo-China will violate the French-Japanese pro- tocol signed in Vichy and which pledges Japan “lo respect the ter- ritorial Integrity of French Indo- | China and the sovereign rights of | France over all parts of the Indo- | Chinese Union.” British authoritics sald they wil is forced to grau! specisl to any third pow: obv. ly re- ferring to Japan. Tucy scoffed at Tokyo broadcasts saying that Brit- ish forces in morthern Malaya are an active threat against the Thais. Similar Charges Informed Shanghai quarters are Japanese ships from American ports, | Unable to confirm the veports that AP SHIPS CAN CLEAR 'ON COAST in rotest if Shanghai “hailand privileges Pacific Given Special Orders fo Enfer Ports WASHINGTON, July 29. — The United States today informed Japan | this apparently assuring vessels now Japan has served demands on Thai- waiting off the West Coast that they land, but observers recalled that will be able to proceed to port. Tokyo made similar charges of out- Vessels lying off the United States side thre just before making de- coast out in the Pacific Ocean wait- mands for bases in southern Indo- nig orders from Tokyo are bringing China. at least 200 American citizens and Meanwhile Japan's occupation of heavy cargoes of silk to this coun- southern Indo-China went into high try. gear as warships and troop trans- Under Secretary of State Sumner (5 prought garrison troops and Welles gave the assurance of clear- i,y cupplies to Camranh Bay. ance to Japanese Ambassador Kichi- | ¢ panol, capital of the French sabuo Nomura at a conference, mandate, it is announced officially NO TRADE PERMITS that a total of 40,000 Japanese Washington, July 20—Under Sec- F00PS are now stationed in south- retary of State Sumner Welles this €™ Indo-China. afternoon said the United States Troops have already moved into has given no assurance that Japan bases at Nhan@ang, 200 miles licenses ‘will be issued to permit northeast of Saigon and Tourane, continuing of trade. |300 miles up the coast from Sai- Welles made the statement in ex- gon. ‘ plaining that clearance will be — e given Japanese ships in American KEEP FIR ¥ ports under present conditions. AMERICANISM 1§ REAFFIRMED;NAVY | WORKERS SIGN UP - IS DEMAND BREMERTON, Wash., July 20— Thousands of employees at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, have flocked to sign statements of American loyalty and freedom from all subversive policies, according to officials of the Thir- teenth Naval District. Administraion Is Urged fo | Stay Unswervingly on | Present Course ‘This is in accordance with direc- | tion by the Navy Department, but the Bremerton yard officlals have expressed themselves as’ extremely gratified with the speed and willing- ness shown by the 14,000 workers in signing the statements. The affidavit is sworn to before a notary public. “Our workers have been proud |and eager to reaffirm their Ameri- canism in this way,” one yard of- ficial stated. —-ee—— BOUND FOR FAIRBANKS Irvin Dyer, accompanied by Mrs. day is from dawn to dark and.there | is very little waking time between, —t it e (Continued nn page Six) | Dyer and daughter Sharon, are taboard the Denali for Seward en-| | route to their home at Fairbanks. WASHINGTON, July 29. — The State Department is silently fol- lowing the course of events of the Japanese occupation of French Indo- China and other movements in the Orient. Supporters of President Roosevelt, especially those in the Senate, are urging the Administration to hold unswervingly to its Far East policy. Senator Claude Pepper ,of Flor- |ida, declared, “now is the time to let Tokyo know whethey we mean business. Tokyo unhappily knows no language except force.” BUY DEFENSE BONDS “