The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1941, Page 1

SOVIET DEFEN | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8790 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941. ALL THE TIME” \ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ES CRUMBLING BRITISH MAKE AIR RAIDS ON LAND, SEA \J FAR FLUNG AREAS ARE HIT BY RAF Dominated_S‘e—dions from Occupied France fo Nor- way, Arctic Smashed LONDON, July 31, — Powerful British air raids have been made on far flung land and sea areas of Germany and her dominated lands on the French coast, far northern Norway and the sea lanes that con- nect them. Several raids were made on Nazi naval planes at the Norway base at the port of Kirkenes and Petsamo above Finland’s Arctic Circle was also bombed. The blow on Petsamo is the first struck against the little state the British defended by giving money and offering military help during the winter war between Russia and Finland, less than two years ago. The Royal Air Force followed up these raids by assaults in a new day- light smash across the English Channel, RAF Spitfires and bombers picking up the attacks where bad |, weather stopped them several days ago. Supply ships have been hit at sea and several have been sent down. Other German vessels have felt the blows of the air raiders. - Iceland replaces Norway as the chief source of our medicinal cod liver oil, Department of Commerce records show. “ihe %608 WASHINGTON—When the Vice- President of the United States gets off the train to make his speech at the opening of the new powder fac- tory at Burlington, Towa, today, it is significant that he wilf get off at a little station just outside of Burling- ton called Middleton. There is nothing miich at Middle- ton except a couple of freight cars, a few houses and a gtation sign. It is a typical country’ crossroad flag stop. Yet suddenly, out of the flat Towa prairies a new industry has come to Middleton, an industry as foreign to the corn belt as the philosophy of Henry Wallace is to war. All of which is indicative of what is going on both in the heart of the Middle West and in the heart of Henry Wallace. # % In the last war, munitions plants hugged the Atlantic seaboard. A few cities away from the coast, Pitts- burgh, Detroitf and Chicago, got a sprinkling of pnunitions orders, but no one ever med of locating de- fence factories in Omaha, Tulsa, or Fort Wgrth. But flow the USA is confronted with bombing planes capable of fly- ing 5,000, even 7,000 miles, and so the Middle West has become Like the Ural Mountains of Russia, and ev- eryone knows that the more muni- tions plants Stalin has placed behind the Urals, the better are Russia’s chances. Just as great changes have taken place in the strategic location of munitions plans, so great changes have taken place in the mind of Henry Wallace, War, even national defense, always has been anathema to him. He could see no reason for building an army and navy, regard- ed them as destruetive institutions. Then last winter he went to Mex- ico, and came back a changed man. The United States, he began to feel for perhaps the first time, could be in real danger of invasion. The Mid- dle West no longer was made im- '(Continued on Page Four) | | RAF BOMBS Japan Quickly Expresses Regrels af "Accidental” | Bombing of U.5. Gunboat FOR ALASKA | 1O REQUEST TOKYO, July 31.—The Japanese Government took the initiative and has quickly apologized and expressed deep regret to American Ambassador Grew for the “accidental” bombing | yesterday of the United States gun- | boat Tutuila while anchored in a cove in the Yangtze River opposite Chungking. ‘The Japanese initiative took place before Ambassador Grew was able to act on instructions from Wash- | ington to make quick representations | to the Japanese government against | the bombing. Meanwhile, the Japanese Navy Minister’s chief aide visited the Am- erican Naval attache, Commander | Henry Smith Hutton, and personally expressed regrets at the bombing. The gunboat was slightly damaged but none aboard suffered injuries. | Assistant Secrefary of Com merce Hinckley Seek- ing More Airporfs Fourteen million dollars in ad: dition to the sum already ap- | propriated for the construction of civil and military airports in . Alaska is the amount to be re- quested of Congress by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert © Hinckley, it is learned today. p Mr. Hinckley, who has just completed a brief survey of the major airports in the Territory, NOT CLOSED INCIDENT WASHINGTON, July 31.—Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles said the Japanese apologies for the | bombing of the United Statés gun- ‘ boat Tutuila in China are not suf- | ficient enough to close the incident with this government. | Welles said he will await a mnre‘ complete reply by Japan on the Am- erican representatlons made here | and also in Tokyo. Elliott Roosevelts in East fes Captain Elliott Roosevelt and family Planning to spend the summer at a new ocean house at Swampscott, Mass., Captain Elliott Roosevelt, second oldest son of the president, is pictured with his wife and their children, Ruth, 8, and Elliott, Jr., 5. Roosevelt, whose home is in Texas, is a captain in the army air coros. ! will, in addition to the request 1 for additional money, make a | recommendation, at the request | of Alaska military authorities, to ' have concrete paved runways on all major airports. 1 | Although construction of Alaska | defense bases is progressing speedily | | there is room for much improvement, | as there is in any new undertaking, ' | said Mr. Hinckley. The advisability of an alrport 3t | Skagway is also looked on favorably by the former Civil Aeronautics Authority head. | the southbound Lodestar which will | take him to Seattle. From there he is to fly immediately to San Fran- cisco where he will remain for sev- eral days before returning to Wash- | ington, D. C. U.5. 1o Stop Buying Gold From (anada Joint Defer?s: Board De-i cides fo Switch fo De- fense Metals WASHINGTON, July 31. — Plans | for the United States to switch from | buying a yearly total of $200,000,000 | worth of Canadian gold which it | does not need, to the purchase of | strategic base metals for vital de- « |fense preparations, are now in the i working stage in conferences of the | joint Canadian-U. . Defense Board. | The United States already has $22,- 700,000,000 in gold, about 80 per cent of the world’s supply. | FINN PORT IN ARCTIC Former Allies af Blows-! Aircraft Carrier Used as Base (By Associated Press) British naval aircraft violently attacked the north port of Kirkenes in Norway and the Pinnish port of Petsamo yesterday, according to re- ports from the Admiralty office in London, which said the attacks in- flicted “great damage” on jetties and other port facilities and made direct hits on at least four ships. The British acknowledge the loss of 16 planes in the raids. X From an unnamed Nazi-occupied port in northern Norway a German dispatch said 28 British planes were lost in fighting there after being launched from an aircraft carrier in the Arctic Ocean. l Authoritative sources disclosed that the Canadian and United States |board members reached an agree- /ment calling for greatly increased SEC. KNOX American purchases of Canadian | aluminum, asbestos, antimony, baux- | ite, copper, nickel, sulphur, zinc, chrome, brass, cobalt, magnesium, manganese, mica, stainless steel, ti- TRIPNORTH === Tonsi NewBoard Increased Tension, Wash, | ington, Prevents Alas- | (rea'ed b . i | ka Inspection Tour | y WASHINGTON, July 31, — Secre- | H tary of the Navy Frank Knox has SI en been forced to postpone indefinitely | | his inspection trip of Alaska de-| | fense, according to word given out| WASHINGTON, July 31.—A board today by Representative Warren G. to guide over all activities of Fed-| Magnuson. jeral agencies on economic defense The outspoken Navy Secretary has been created by President had planned a trip to the Territory Roosevelt. in the near future, bt has been| vyijce-President Henry A. Wallace forced to postpone the tour because has been named head of the group of increased tension over the situa- |and other members are the Secre- tion abroad. | taries of State, Treasury, War, Navy. | S U A { Navy, Agriculture and Commerce . One of the largest cameras in the world was developed by the De- |and the Attorney Genera.l partment of Commerce for’ survey S wark. BUY DEFENSE BONDS 14 MILLION ' | T % STALIN'S SON, NAZIPRISONER OF WAR o 3 i Soundphoto transmitted from Berlin to New York by radio shows Jacob Stalin amid his Nazi captors some- where in Soviet territory. The son of the Soviet dictator is picture in center.. A lieutenant in the Red | Mr. Hinckley left Juneau today on Free Man or Prisoner? | Army, he was captured with other Soviet officers while fighting on the Central Front, RED ARMY €S DIVISIONS MASSACRED ;Germans Claim Forces Are Smashing Toward Lenin- grad’ - Fall Expected ' RUSSIAN REPORT SAYS FIGHTING IS BITTER Stalin’s “Scorched Earth” Policy May Be Followed Out - Forests Sprayed (By Associated Press) | Seven Red Army divisions of about | 500,000 men are reported annihilated on the Northeast Front today as | German troops kept smashing to- | ward Leningrad. Nazi dispatches | sald the Russian troops were mas- sacred after the completion of a German encirclement movement, ~ Thousands of prisoners were report- ool A -~ | gd, taken in earlier advances. 3 . Already it is indicated that Soviet ' defenses are crumbling before Len- R i ingrad as German columns strike |from the south and Finnish troops |move down the Karelian Peninsula | from the north in a gigantic squeeze Radiophoto Hermann Wilhelm Goering, No. 2 Nazi, is shown (left) with Werner Moelders, top ranking German air hero, who was decorated for shoot- ing down 101 enemy planes. According to Moscow, Goering is under arrest because he opposed Hitler's Russian invasion. Berlin issued . this photo to refute the claim. ;FfSA Puts Boom Towns On Wheels; Trailers Are Construded for Workers By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 31—Stories about “trailer towns” have been popping up for years, but the Farm Security Administration has ticked off the greatest story of them all. connected with national de- fe Let’s go back to the days of the Okies,” when FSA was under the guns and trying to provide “tem- porary shelter” for the migrant workers flowing back and forth across the land. The trailer offered a quick solution and, in a compar- atively small way, it was put to use. The problem had hardly been zotten in hand when along came national defense, Boom towns np-‘ peared overnight. There chance to provide adequate hous- ap- was no ing. Congress, in desperation, propriated $300,000,000 for defense housing. Some of the problems could be solved by so-called “low cost housing projects,” developed over a period of months. But one problem was a stumper —the “stop-gap housing,” or tem- porary shelter—which would take {care of a rapid influx of workers in communities totally unprepared to house even a 10 percent increase in population—much less the two,, three or four hundred percent in-; creases that did result in some communities. (Contmued on Page Five) 60 TO CHINA, RETURN TRIP |Lend - Lease Coordinator, Now in Moscow, May Not Return fo London MOSCOW, July 31. — Harry L. | Hopkins, American Lend-Lease Co- ordinator, who is making a surprise ‘vlslc here discussing United States aid to Russia, will return to the | United States by some other route than via London, it is reliably re- ported. ; The change in his route indicates he may travel to the Far East. | There has been some speculation on | reports that Hopkins might visit China. | Hopkins has pledged both the . Chungking and Moscow govern- ! ments all possible immediate aid in the present. wars. GASBANON | EAST COAST IS PLACED lckes Takes Stern Action by Closing 100,000 Fill- | ing Stations WASHINGTON, July 31.—A move | maneuver. ' Fighting Bitter A Red Army bulletin, reporting bitter fighting all along the battle- front, gave no hint that the fall of Leningrad might be imminent. | North of the city of three million population lying on the Gulf of Finland, German reports sald Rus- sian troops are spraying forests and | fields with naptha and setting them |afire with artillery barrages in a | desperate effort to stem the advance | of the invaders. | Whether the Russians will put Lennigrad itself to the torch in ex- ecution ‘of Stalin's “scorched earth” policy, remains to be seen. | Steel Trap | Hitler's headquarters, comment- ing on the Leningrad thrust, declar- ed: “In its fighting, Estonia threw back the opponent on the north.” On the Central Front drive to Mos- cow, a Nazi commnique asserted the steel trap around Red armies east of Smolensk has been “further tight- ened.” In the south the dispatch said German troops are knifing deep with “defeated Russian armies” re- treating in the Ukraine. Simultan- | eously the Germans branded as a dismal failure the joint British-Rus- sian military action, apparently re- ferring to the action of British planes from an aircraft carrier in the Arctic, said to be operating near GREATPUSH 1S PLANNED BY SOVIETS London, July 31—A counter of- toward compulsory restriction of the |fensive by more than 3,000,000 Red use of gasoline was taken today by Army soldiers on a front stretch- Oil Administrator Haorld L. Ickes,| Ing from Leningrad to Kiev is Secretary of the Interior, when he;predlcuad in Soviet Russian mili- |called on the oil industry to close tary circles here. 100,000 service stations in the East-| These sources said the attack will ern States from 7 pm. to 7 am. begin just as soon as the Russian seven days a week. The order is'command is satisfied the German effective August 3. |armies have expended reserve The closing affects all gas retail |strength in the attempt to smash Istations on the Atlantic seaboard the Red Army around Smolensk, from Maine to Florida. | barring the way to Moscow. | Declaring that voluntary rationing | Soviet informants said the offen- has not been achleved, Ickes said sive will be one of the largest in reduction must be accomplished by the history of the Red Army as lorder so as to avoid a more serious the ranks by now being strength- situation later, "ened by hundreds of thousands of Ickes spoke of a more serious pos- 'reservists being assembled and sibility including the issuance of ra- |equipped for the big push against | tion cards. the combined German forces. st SRS A= OSSRtk BUY DEFENSE BONDS BUY DEFENSE STAMPS b A