The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8791. “ALL THF. NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REDS STALL WEARY GERMANS HOPKINS IN Brifish Ship D!vgslo?lglg[xfiravein Atlantic JAPSDEMAND ARMYBASES OF THAILAND Liftle Siam Said fo Be Next for Octopus Grasp of Nippon NEW MOVE THREATENS BRITISH SINGAPORE Royal Air Force Strength- . ens Bases in Burma for Any Event Japan’s high pressure march to the south took another big stride today with reported demands for | military bases in Thailand (former | Siam) and the control of that coun- | try’s rubber, rice and tin production. Authoritative quarters in London, the source of the report, said that | Japan in exchange has offered to restore Thailand the province of Laos and the ancient city of Angkor, both in Japanese dominated French Indo-China. British concern over the reported | move was pointed out by the fact that Japanes occupation of bases in Thailand will put the Nipponese within 400 miles striking distance of Britain’s fortress of Singapore and | also poise a direct threat over Brit- ish-ruled Burma and even India, ‘While attorneys for Mrs. William ping the showgirls, each of whom named in the will. She is shown Guggenheim excluded his explanation that “I have made Named in Guggenheim the Guggenheim estate, according to the will. former Ziegfeld beauty and now a radio singer, is one of those wife and son from the estate with the my lifetime.” Will Mary Alice Rice being photographed Guggenheim announced she would contest the will of her late husband who left his entire $1,000,000 estate to four Broadway showgirls, photographers were busy snap- were to “share and share alike” in Mary Alice Rice, a being photographed in New York. ample provision for them during which lies acrcss the Bay of Bengal. RAF STRENGTHENED LONDON, August 1.—The British Air Ministry- today said the Royal Air Force in Burma has been strengthened by the construction of airdromes “for both offensive and defensive actions.” Meanwhile dispatches from Shang- | hai said Chinese-Communist and Russian officers have already held staff conferences to plan joint mili= tary action in the event that Japan Bombing of Tutuila Closed Incident; Philippines May NotBe Given Freedom Now strikes at Siberia. Shanghai reports said Japan is| still pouring war supplies toward the Manchukuo borders of Siberia. Fourteen thousand troops are re- ported to have moved there recently. T > WASHINGTON — Criticism of Roosevelt by isolationists is an old story on Capitol Hill; but the Presi- dent was never more sharply criti-| cized than by his staunchest sen- atorial supporters at a recent hair- down get-together over foreign af- fairs. * Speaking as first-hand sufferers, they unburdened themselvesabout “White House leadership” in bit- ter words. The pow-wow took place in a private dining room off the Sen-) ate restaurant. Among those pres- ent was Vice President Wallace, who, however, left early. The dis- cussion centered on two grievances, which have galled Cabinet and Ad- ministration leaders ever since the defense emergency arose. One is Roosevelt's constant back- ing and filling on taking firm measures against the Axis; the other his frequent habit of letting down those who carry the ball for him in Congress. Leading the attack were aggres- sive, young New Deal Senaters Josh Lee of Oklahoma and Claude Pep- per of Florida. Both sharply cen- sured Roosevelt for his ‘“ultra- caution” in waiting for public opinion to jell on foreign policv, instead of “leading public opin- jon,” which, they declared, he should do as President. An outstanding example of this, they said, was his vacillating stand on convoys. Lee and Pepper con- tended that the President realizes more clearly than anyone else that convoys are necessgry if suppplies are to be delivered to Britain. Ye!, despite this, he has held back frorh ) In the opinion of Alpha Iofa, in- ternational business women’s ‘sor- ority, Roberta Woolstencroft (above), 22, secretary to a Glen- dale, Calif., minister, is America’s most beautiful office girl. She won the title during the sorority’s an- nual convention at Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon ~‘Brazil contains the ousing convoys for f gredtést’ variety of trees of any ?f_ul___..__ln.———(—n:l known' forest area, the Department ) Pown) of Commerce says. | ohetidiy | | WASHINGTON, August 1—Jap- an’s bombing of the United States gunboat Tutuila, near Chungking, China, is marked as a closed inci- 7 |dent by the State Department, but concern in Congress over the Far Eastern situation caused talk of de- { laying the independence of the Phil- ippines indefinitely. | Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, after conferring with the | | President, announced that the Unit- ed States has accepted the officiai | apologies of the Japanese govern- ment for the attack on the gunboat near Chungking, China, Wednesday. i | The apologies, Welles disclosed, were accompanied by an offer to pay i | indemnities for damages suffered by the ship and by assurances that measures would be taken to prevent | the recurrence of such incidents in | the future. Senator Warren R. Austin, Repub- lican of Vermont, said in an inter- | view that the entire Philippine question should be re-examined in the light of recent events. Said he, “I believe indefinite postponement ;o! the Philippines’ independence would be advantageous to both the United States and the islands.” Aus- tin said there has beeni some sugges- tion in the Philippines that the islands be given a dominion status, cuus entitling them to American protection. Alaska Bill Infroduced, Hou_sEToday Measure fo Change Mem- bership of Legislature Propo;ed by Green ‘WASHINGTON, August 1.—Chair- man Lex Green, of the House Com- mittee on Territories, has introduced a bill increasing the Senate mem- bership in the Alaska Legislature from eight to 16 members, four from each Legislative Division and the | House of Representatives member- ship is' thereby- increased from 16 to 24 members to be elected on a 1S IMPUDENT RUSSIA SAYS - NAIIS 10§ 'Lend - Lease Coordinator A Confident that Hitler Cannot Win | MOSCOW, Russia, August 1—In | | ordinator, who is visiting the latest | section of attempted conquest of the B | blitzkrieg armies, said today: “I am | even more confident that Hitler is | going to lose.” i | the caiptal city of Nazi-invaded Rus- | sia, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Co- | o }' The administration leader, who | made a surprise flying trip to the | Soviet capital on Wednesday to con= | ter with Premier Joseph Stalin, made: the statement to newsmen today, but) | did not amplify if. | The terse assertion,-coming froi } Hopkins in the face of contradictos reports about the 2,000-mile battle (" | front, gave more credence to Russian/ | claims that they are holding theij | German army. | | | | - NAZI ACTION German Request for Mexi- ican Profest foU. . | Is Two-Faced ; | | | | | WASHINGTON, August 1.—Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles | today accused Germany of bare- | faced impudence in urging Mexico | | to protest to the United States over | | the black-listing of Latin American firms catalogued as pro-Axis. ‘Welles asserted the German gov- ernment has violated and destroyed | the sovereignty of many countries and therefore, he said, it is nothing more or less than barefaced impud- | ence for Germany to try to tell Mex- {ico what it should do to protect ltsi | sovereign rights. i | The outspoken Under Secretary | | made the comment on the action of | ‘Mexlco in strongly rejecting a Ger- | {man request that it protest United ‘Slates action in blacklisting 1,800‘ firms in Latin America who were| {deemed operating for the benefit ! of the Axis. | Congressfo ' Compromise OnArmyBill Two and a Half Years May Be Maximum Service for Draffees ‘ S | WASHINGTON, August 1.—Sen- | ator Lester Hill of Florida, said to- | day that sponsors have agreed to| compromise on the Army Service | Extension legislation to provide a | maximum of two and a half years/ of service for citizen soldiers. | He told re] that proponents of the bill are attempting to work | out an amendment for a limit of 18‘, | Yownin Pl et At the Downey, Cal., plant of Vultee Aircraft, Lady Halifax, wife of the British Ambassador, christens a | NEW DIVE BOM S s A large British tanker is pictured above in the very act of plunging beneath the waves after being tor- { pedoed by a German submarine somewhere in the Atlantic. An oilskin-clad lookout watchés the final act of the sea drama from the deck of the U-boat which dealt the ship her death blow. BER'CHRISTENED new type dive bomber being built for Britain and named the Vengeance. The first two dive bombers have been built at Vultee and by Northrop Aircraft at Hawthorne, Cal. horsepower Cyclone engine, carries a crew Rumor Killers SpringUp It In Washingfon fo Squelch - Hundre_dgl Wild Stories By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — Here and there in Capital Town: duction chief half that long. | With a single barrel, the rumor- | killers have left these two riddled to the ears. In each case, they ask Leon Henderson's in-laws, mother ) . question: Who would be put and father, drove down to visit him recently from Pennsylvania. His mother-in-law told the story. They had driven miles along the gas—at 18, cents a gallon. When traffic got thicker, they turned into a back road, stopped again for gas. 19 cents. Henderson’s father-in-law paid. He was mumbling and grumbling, but all of a sudden he turned, to his wife. “1 ‘wonder,” he said hopefully, “if Leon cam't do something about this.” RUMOR KILLERS I saw a report recently that An- months of additional service. AnY|yara Turkey, was the most rumor- selectes tnlght be called n to under- | igden city In the world, but It B o e 591, In 8dditIon | cunt, have much on Washington. required. ‘1 don’t think anybody would pay much attention to any of the ru- lmon if it weren't for the fact that (o‘l Ml"ln fm | occasionally one comes along like INCORPORATION FILED = | the days-ahead rumor that the U. would occupy Iceland. | More often, the rumors are wrong. n|So there has sprung up in the k | capital an army of rumor killers— folks who take it orl themselves ‘o Incorporation papers have bee: tiled with Territorial Auditor Fran! A. Boyle for the Anchorage Coal Company. The firm will wzrk coal{SQuelch wild stories. mines and process coal. Incorpora-| Forexample, fwo rumors that I tors aré Archie Lewis, Jake Angell,| have heard lately are that (1) Win- and Ophelia , all of Anchor-|stom Churchill won't be Prime Min- age. The tion has 100,000 ister two months from now; (2) shares non per. - { | william S. Knudsen won't be pro- ! main highway and had stopped for | | in his place? In many cases, rumors can be deflated with just as simple a shot and the propaganda experts here are saying daily that in these times it would be well if every-| body would pack a little of that | ammunition. ANSWER TO A GRIPE That old advice to the effect that {“if you have a gripe, write your congressman,” doesn’t apply to the Army. The other day, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri got a letter| from a lieutenant in training, tak-| for | ing the Government apart some of its policies, foreign and domestic. What the Senator, a colonel in the reserve corps, wrote back was: “Dear Lieutenant: “While I was @ lieutenant of field artillery in training at Fort Sill in 1917 and later a captain in France, it never would have oc-|tonight and the British Minister in| curred to me to write a letter to my Senator and give him my | opinions on the state of the na- tion. i “Pirst, I was too busy with the | job in hand. Second, I didn't feel | gualified, and third, there was something in Army regulations which said that an officer in the of two men. Bombs are carried internally in the fuselagé, is powered with a Wright 1,600 MAKE DASH OVER SEAS T0ENGLAND Reaches British Port in Large Convoy BRITISH PORT, August 1.—The Third Division of Canada's Army has arrived here after a speedy At- lantic crossing to join the Canadian Corps rapidly becoming one of the strongest formations of the Empire. The troops came in a second large | convoy to have passed unmolested | through the Atlantic danger zone within a month. 2 NATIONS BREAK OFF RELATIONS LONDON, Aug. 1—Great Brit- |ain and Finland formally complet- | ed severance of diplomatic relations Helsinki has been instructed to ask for his passport. ——————— TO SITKA ON BOMBER Dr. Henry Clark, senior Seocial Security recreational representative, |left here on an Army bomber to- | day. Dr. Clark is in the Territory | investigating conditions around de- | fense bases. | Third Canadian Division| NAZI UNITS IN STATE OF - EXHAUSTION \ London Clafis_Comradid- | edbyReports Issued from Berlin 'DNB ASSERTS FORCES CLOSE IN ON ODESSA |Soviet Armies Take Offen- sive Action at Sev- eral Points (By Associated Press) Hitler's invasion armies are pic- tured by London reports as stalled along the whole 2,000-mile Soviet war front for the past 24 hours and near exhaustion, In Moscow, Lend~ | Lease Coordinator Harry Hopkins expressed ‘“even more confidence that Hitler is going to lose.” The Germans, however, asserted |that Nazi columns, lunging toward Moscow, have wiped out Red Army | troops trapped south of Smolensk, capturing 35,000 prisons and 245 |cannon. Nazi dispatches claimed | tens of thousands of Russians were | killed in action yesterday. From Hitler’s headquarters came another comminique of extreme brevity saying, “Battles on the East Front continue to gdevelop..in .our favor. Warplanes last night bom- | barded military objectives in Mos~ | cow.” ‘The official German news agency DNB declared that Nazi troops on the far Southern Front have forced passage across the Dniester River, near the Bessarabian town of Ceta- tea Alba and are threatening Rus- | sia’s great Black Sea port of Odessa, }30 miles away. | DNB asserted also that German | artillery fire has halied troop trains | attempting to withdraw Soviet forces | from the Southern Front. Moscow dispatches said Soviet | troops are taking the initiative at | some points on the vast battle line, A Red Army bulletin reported fierce overnight fighting in the Smolensk and other sectors. .o — RUSSIA IS SURPRISING ' NAZI HEADS 'Roosevelt Declares Soviel | Resistance Is Magni- ficent Display | WASHINGTON, August 1.—Presi~ dent Roosevelt asserted that Rus- | sia’s resistance of the Axis war ma- | chine is “magnificent and frankly | better than any military expert in Germany thought it would be.” This was the President’s reply at |a conference with newsmen today, {and he authorized direct quotes, to the inquiry as to what he thought of the Russian resistance today. President Roosevelt, in reply to another inquiry, said Russia did not come under the terms of the lend-lease bill and he saw no pros- ipect of such action for the reason “Russia is able to pay for all pur- chases of war material in this coun= try.” The President did not have any- thing to say regarding conditions in the Far East, nor shipments of oil to | Japan. Mrs. Flora Allen Leaves on Baranof Mrs. Flora Alien left Juneau last night on the Baranof after a visit |of three weeks with Mrs. Mary Keith Cawthorne. She is return= ing to Portland, Ore., where she is a public sehool teacher, While Mrs. Allen was in Alaska she made a trip to the Interior and remained for some time at Circle Hot Springs.