The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1941, Page 1

'NIPPONS GROW DEFIANT AT 2 ] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 1941. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8792. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS D ~ PRICE TEN CENTS U.>. FOUR GERMAN DIVISIONS SLAUGHTERED T0 IMPROVE | Redlands P B L T 60,000 NAZI | MEN KILLED, SOVIETS SAY German Advance Forces| Refreating - Berlin Claims Progress X1 (By Associated Press) The Russian armies defending Smolensk, gateway to Moscow, are reported to have slaughtered four | German Divisions, about 60,000 men. | Soviet military dispatches declare | the Nazi advance forces are re- treating with heavy losses under Red Army counter attacks. | The official communique from Moscow says counter attacks “are| hurling back the impudent enemy.”| The Nazi report says German in-| fantry is moving up slowly es-! pecially in the Smolenck salient and making a new break toward Moscow. | ——————— FASTER, FASTER! PHILADELPHIA, August 2 — A/ few years ago it.was thought im-| possible for a human to run 400 meters in 47 seconds, But, in the AAU championships the other day, Grover Klemmer of California U. not only set a world record of 46 seconds but the first six finishers > clocked in better than 47 sec-| onds. WASHINGTON—It certainly is risky to oppose Senator Burt ‘Wheeler on his isolationist-appease- | ment stand in Montana. Although he never misses an op- portunity to beat his breast noisly | upout freedom of speech and press, Wheeler wields a ruthless axe on| critics in his home state. Several| weeks ago Walter Winchell was barred from three Montana radio stations owned by Wheeler intim- ates. Latest to feel the scourage of Wheeler's ire is John Erickson, | three times governor of the state| and for a short term U. 8. Senator. Erickson presided at a Helena meeting addressed by Senator Claude Pepper, militant Florida anti-isolationist. A few days later, Governor Sam Ford, Republican closely allied with the Wheeler| machine, | [ | fired Erickson from his| $250-a-month Job as assistant ad-| ministrator of the Montana Liguor! Board. | NOTE: The state convention of the American Legion and the Butte Miners Union have ‘adopted resolu- tions condemning the barring of, Winchell from the Montana radio stations: CREDIT TO FASCIST SPAIN? On December 13, 1940 this column published the fact that the .State Department was considering a $100,000,000 credit to Fascist Spain in order to keep Franco from throw- ing Spain into the war on the side of the Axis. That story was em- phatically and officially denied by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and also by the Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Subsequent cable dispatches from} Spain and Portugal to the New York | Times referred to the proposed $100,000000 credit, but there was| no official confirmation of the| story. { Seven months later, however, on! July 17 General Franco, speaking; belore the National Council of the Spanish~ Falange ~ ( Pascist Party) delivered a t tirade ag- Four) A Ger_man amouflae -8y These pictures, released by the British Air Ministry, are described as showing how a lake and bridge at Hamburg, Germany, were cam- ouflaged. Top: British identify the smaller body of water as Binnhen Alster, one of two lakes in Hamburg, the other as Aussen Alster, an- other lake, with a bridge between them. Bottom: British say an arti- ficial “built up” area, floated on rafts, covers the small lake, and a replica of the bridge, a rail connection, had been built 600 yards away. & AIRPORTS IN ALASKA AREA RuX President Asks for $17,- &% | 000,000 for CAA-De- | fense Etgessity WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—A sup- | plemental appropriation request has been sent to Congress by President | Roosevelt indicating further ex~ penditures for improvement of Al- aska airports. President Roosevelt | $17,000,000 for the CAA. . | The President did not give any details on how much is planned for | Alaska but the Budget Bureau, in 1 | a statement, said the appropriation is needed because of the increased importance of Alaska national de- | fense, and it is now necessary to make further improvements to a. ports now being constructed in Al- aska owing to considerable expan- sion of the communication services (used by the Army Air Corps, CAA and Weather Bureau. has asked HUNCH IS GIVEN In an exclusive story in The Em- | pire Thursday, July 31, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert Hinckley stated he would immedi- ately ask for $14,000,000 for con-~ struction and improvemént of civil and military airports in Alaska. He also said he would recommend an airport at Skagway. Silk Planis | InU.S. Are ToShutdown jA(Iion Taken_as Result of | Shortage Owingfo U. S. | and Japan Relafions 5 Union Assefs MayBeTaxed Under Law Represe nfative Vinson Says Funds of Groups Have Increased WASHINGTON, August 2—A tax | on the assets of labor unions, exempt under existing laws, was proposed today by’ Representative Carl Vin- son of Georgia, as the House began its fourth day of debate on the 1$3,525,000,000 tax increase bill. Vinson asserted that 150 large AFL and CIO unions had assets of $42,000,000 on April 1, 1941. He said this represented an increase of four million over the assets of October 1, 1939, when the present emergency began. This increase, he said, is “due entire to the national emer- gency.” e NEIDERHAUSER IS RETURNING NORTH William Neiderhauser, of Connors Motor Company, and for- mer Assistant. Fire Chief, is 3 passenger aboard the Princess Lou- been south for several weeks. — - the | BUY DEFENSE BONDS ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — Al | processing silk hosiery mills, not | making defense products, have been |ordered closed at midnight to- | night. | The closing order has been issued by the Office of Production Man- jagement as the result of the pres- | ent strained relations between the ! United States and Japan and thus causing a shortage, Debated Cost Control Bill Will Be Based on 1929 Highs | When silk goods now on the | shelves of stores are depleted, deal- ers must resort to imitation silk products. $250,000,000 industry will | obey the orders and 175,000 or more silk workers look to the Federal | Government to provide means of | support. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Chair- man Henry B. Steagall, of the mills and warehouses are House Banking Committee, said to- “frozen preparatory to a possible day the Administration’s price con- requisitioning by the Army and trol bill will use the price levell Navy who thereby gain a two-year of July, 1929, as a yardstick for: supply of silk parachutes, powder a basis to regulate the price struc-|bags and other defense necessities ture of the natior. { After a series of hectic wnrer-is.bl ' prices of any farm commodity less than 110 percent of parity. ome ere early swimming records: the first take up important matters between champion was R, Weissenborn, who the CAA and Weather Bureau. Every bale of raw silk in the ences, Steagall announced a num-| - swam the mile in 1877 in 45 min-| Mr. Sibley was in Juneau in 1937 now ber of last minute revisions in thej SWIM RECORDS Eugene Sibley, head of CAA Com- bill including the stipulation that no ceiling could be established on| NEW YORK, Aug. 2—The AAU munications, is due to leave Seattle has just dug up some interesting Monday by plane for Juneau to i Iise arriving this evening., He has utes, 44% seconds. That's a sharplnnd this is his first official visit contrast to today’s record of 20:57.8, to Alaska since then, Jack Medica and Halph‘ —————— held by BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Er— £ | 1 | | | | | & ) | | | 9_Ije Must Hav loged These five Redlands, Calif., girls figured the police must Imve. looked.the utfier way when they decided to defy a ban against wearing shorts and other scanty clothing in public by parading down the steps of the City Hall, past the police station and along downtown streets. Left to right: Joyce Neil, Beverly Chauncey, Patricia Annabil, Mary Annabil and Dorothy Johnson. flavy fo Take - Over Goddard ~ Hot Springs '$175,000 Voed for New| Wing on Pioneers’ Home as Clark Reports | Construction of a new wing of the Pioneers'’ Home at Sitka and dis- posal of the Goddard Hot Springs | location to the Navy Department | were voted at a Board of Admin-| istation meeting held in the Gov-! ernor’s office this morning. i Henry W. Clark, Coordinator of | the Federal Security Agency, sent | to Alaska by the Federal Govern- | ment to report on Territorial needs brought about by the defense pro- gram, recommended the acquisition | by the Federal Government of God- | dard Hot Springs division of the Pioneers’ Home. It will be converted | into a recreational area and head- | quarters for the 3,000 Army and Navy personnel ultimately to be| stationed at the Sitka combined | Army and Navy bases. Mr. Clark has spent over a month in the Territory, visiting and study- | ing the needs of every community | affected by defense activities, Some of his recommendations have al- ready been forwarded. Mr. Clark | departed from Juneau to Kewhikanj today taking other recommendations | with him. They will total several | million dollars. Mr. Clark returned from Sitka | last night—his second visit to that| city where he inspected Goddard Hot Springs in the company of Com- i mander J. R. Tate, Commandant of | the Sitka base . This morning the | Governor called a meeting of the Board of Administration for the pur- pose of effecting the steps necessary to the transfer of Goddard to the Army and Navy. The Board of Ad-, ministration voted pursuant to| Chapter 53, Session Laws of Alaska, | 1941, to construct an addition to| (the Pioneers’ Home. The act pro- | vided $175000 “for the immediate construction of an addition to the! Ploneers’ Home at Sitka, Alaska.” | | ‘This act of the last Legislature was taken after the regular visit of | | the Legislators to Sitka and followed | the 'recommendation of Superin- .tendent Eller Hansen that Goddard | Hot Springs be abandoned for pur- | | poses of lodging pioneers as soon as | i (Continued to Page TWO) | | | 5 Brown-haired Barbara Wilson, 18, who was chosen “Miss California” by the Venice, Cal, Mardi Gras Association and some 10,000 spec- tators on the Venice pier recently. She will reign over the Venice I Mardi Gras and will have a chance | at the title “Miss America of Na- tional Defense” in a contest con- cluding the festival August 17. FISHES, T00! AURORA, O., August 2—Mrs. M. L. Smythe, cne of the country’s best women skeet shooters and pos- | sible winner of the national cham-| pionship at Indianapolis in Au-. gust, is also a deep-sea fishing en- thusiast. e HOLBROOK ON TRIP oo EDR ORDERS ' MINING CORPORATION | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| Wellman Holbrook, of the Forest Serice office here, will leave on the | Aleutian tomorrow for a week at| Cordova, then will g8 to Seward for another week, he said today. He, will be doing routine check-up work | with Forest Service offices in those | |cities. . | JAP HINTS - WARSEEN INOFFING Presidential Order Will | Only Speed Nippon- ese "New Order” 'SITUATION TENSE AS EXPORTS CEASE Tokyo Pules— Troops To- ward Thailand for Another Grab | (By Associated Press) | Japan defied American and Brit- |ish economic pressure today after | President Roosevelt slapped an em- bargo on aviation fuel being ex- ported to Japan. Her minister of | commerce, Vice Admiral Sakonji, |said the situation is “so tense that |a single spark will be sufficlent to cause an explosion.” Simultaneously. foréign miMtary circles in Shanghai, which pre- dicted Japan's cwrent move into Indo-China, said they expeci a |crisis in Thafland within a month. Japanese troops are reported mas- sed in Cambodia near the Thailand {rontier and Jap planes are poised within two hours flying time of Bangkok, the Thai capital. Other WE! S—— i New Aggression i ‘ Usually reliable Japanese sources {in Shanghai said Tokyo has tenta- |tively approached Thailand already | with the object of welding tue |country into Japan's so-called “co- ‘pl'osperlty sphere”. This further |supported a statement from au- | thoritive quarters in Londen which |sald yesterday that Japan demanded Ma?nuson Says Request o e v rom Chlef EX&(U'IV& {400 miles striking distance of Sing- £ iapore, and asked for control over the country’s rubber, rice and tin Coming Up bie v it | In Tokyo the Japan Times-Ad- SEATTLE, Aug, 2.—A news story |vertiser, organ olm.:he JapnnA:;e in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer |Foreign Office, said flatly that Brit- said today that Congressman Wfll‘-ii&h and United States move to cut ren G. Magnuson has notified that off Japan’s vital supplies of ofl, newspaper that President Roose- tin and rubber will only speed her velt will order an immediate sur- program to win economic self-suf- vey of the proposed Alaska Inter-!fiency in the South Orient. national Highway and ask an.ap-| Drastic Embargo propriation for it if needed. ‘ Roosevelt’s order clamped a full~ - - i fledged embargo on aviation fuel |and drastically reduced shipment of other oil supplies on which Japan |S FORMED A-I RUBY !depends for more than two-thirds |of her needs. ' | Domel, Japanese news agency, Incorporation papers have been said the measure is aimed directly filed in Territorial Auditor Frank at Japan. Tokyo newspapers asser- | A. Boyle's office tor the Midnight |ted the United States is attempting to monopolize vital raw materials in the South Seas on a preferred customers basis, Mines Developing and Operating Company by incorporators Joseph T. Coyle of Ruby, M. P. Halleran | of Bremerton, Wash, and W. J. Halleran of Seattle. ;jApAN wAR The corporation has 1,000 shares of common stock valued at 310‘ each and 100 shares of preferred t $100 each and the property ls‘ MA(HI"E ocated at Ruby, Alaska. | MR Y { STOCK QUOTATIONS i - GIVEN BLOW NEW YORK, Aug. 2. — Closing| i WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Japan stock today is 4%, American Can|faced & showdown in her pro- 88%, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem 6ram of expansion southward to- Steel 75 Commonwealth and South-|day as Presidens Roosevelt enact- ern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 9% Gen-|ed an embargo on aviation fuel, eral Motors 38%, International|and drastically reduced other oil Harvester 54 3/4 Kennecott 38%, €Xports on which Japan depends New York Central 13%, Northern for more than two-thirds of her Pacific 8%, United States Steel SuPPly of gasoline and lubricants. 58%, Pound $4.03% The Nipponese Empire's needs of DOW, JONES AVERAGES fuel and petroleum have been main- The following are today's Dow, !y supplied by the U. S. since Bri- Jones averages: industrials m.m,ymn and the Dutch East Indies, rails 20.76, utilities 18.58. '!he only other available major - e ‘snurces imposed a stringent export LOUISE SKINNER LEAVES | control and financial restrictions on Miss Louise Skinner left Juneau oil and other military necessities. today aboard the Mount McKinley| Petroleum authorities consider for Anchorage. She has accepted Japan's war machine and industries a position with the Alaska Road|must now run principally on hoard< Commission, ed diminishing ol} ‘stocks. ** -