The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8797. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 8, 1941. 'MEMBER A_SSOCIATE[) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FAR EAST CRISIS BOILING UP NAZIFORCES KEEP KNIFING INTO UKRAINE ODESSA IS OBJECT OF NEW DRIVE Commander of Russian Sixth Army Captured in Oil Lands BRITISH TROOPS T0 (ROSS AFGHANISTAN Soviet Mars_ha—l Calls Upon~ Peope fo Spill Blood for Blood’ l ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's Command reported to- day that German troops, knifing deep into the lower Ukraine, have annihilated Red Army forces trapped southeast of Uman, 125 miles south of Kiev, and have cap- tured more than 30,000 prisoners and the Supreme Commander of the Russian Sixth Army, a Earlier unofficial ~ Nazi reports said Kiev itself is surrounded but the Command report indicated the main German thrust is directed as cutting off the Black Sea port of Odessa, some 140 miles below Uman. A mystery concerning the over- night bombings of Berlin, the 18th there since the beginning of the war, developed when London said Russian warplanes attacked the German capital and by contrast | the Germans said the raiders were| “undoubtedly British.” The Brit- | ish said no RAF planes went near Berlin. (BY N G e S (Continued on Page Seven { “The f &2 Wy %60 WASHINGTON—SCENE: Cock- tail lounge of Washington's swank Mayflower hotel. TIME: Late evening. * PERSONS: Bob Reynolds, isola- tionist Senator from North Carolina, and Major X of the Quartermaster Corps. The two men had been in the cecktail lounge for some time and they were feeling no pain. ‘They had reached the stage of exchang- ing gracious compliments with one another. Major X threw an arm around Repnolds and congratulated him for his isolationist stand. “You're a great guy, Bob,” cried the Major, “and you're doing a marvelous job. I think you're tops! You've got courage. You're in there fightin’, Why, there’s a hundred thousand men backing you up.” ‘Get out!” replies the Senator from North Carolina. ‘A" hundred thous- and men? —Better make it a hun- dred million!” PLAYING POLITICS The extent to which party pol- itics is being played in Congress with vital problems of national de- fense was graphically illustrated in the House the other day. For eight years the most persis- tent enemies of the New Deal’s labor laws have been the House Republicans. Last Congress they| voted as a bloc to scuttle the Na-| tional Labor Relations Board and for years such party leaders as! Representatives Hoffman of Mich- igan, Coffee of Nebraska, Taber of| New York, Short of Missouri, and 4 Fort during the British campaign ignored. AMISS, THENAHIT - | L i i 'indicated the strike might be re- 2 STRIKES ARE TYING UP DEFENSE Ading Secrefary of Navy Declares Drastic Steps Must Be Taken SITUATION MAY BE PLACED BEFORE FDR Union Officgls_fllame Men as No Authorization Given for Walkout (By Associated Press) Ralph Bard, Acting Secretary of Navy, said this afternoon that un= less labor and the management set- tle the dispute in the Kearny ship- yards “steps must be taken which is one way or another,” to get pro- duction resumed there. Bard said the strike of the CTO at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry- | dock Company at Kearny is holding up $493,000,000 worth of work on naval and merchant shipbuilding. A Defense Board official last night | - . ttack. ferred directly to President Roose- ve lt. Another Walkout In another strike development, several hundred AFL workers walk- ed out from $100,000,000 worth of defense work at the Curtiss Wright Corporation’s propellor division at | Caldwell, New Jersey. At Caldwell, Harold Pearson, or- ganizer of the AFL International As- | sociation of Machinists, and Alfred Thurston, official of the AFL Metal | Polishers Union, both unions in- volved at the plant, said their unions | have never been authorized to walk | out and added that they will inves- tigate the strike immediately. Officials of the plants said the | Here is how the Royal Air Force got the bombing range on Rutbah | bombs misses the fort, but the escond photo (bottom) indicates better aim. British sources reported the bombing came after the RAF dropped a note demanding surrender of the fort. The note was | entire prodution of defense orders are imperilled and several thousand other employees are out of work as | the result of the walkout. The plant officials said the work- | | ers asked for more money but made | in Iraq. (Top) one of the first By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug, : 8.—Before this dries, you are going to be hearing a lot about the CADS. I mean the Civil Air Defense Serv- ices. A national committee headed by Capt. Gill Robb Wilson, who. is also president of the National Aeronautic Association, has had plans for the CADS in the works for quite a whole, For some rea- son the national defense people haven't turned on the green light for the CADS, but it’s coming. I saw a preview of the plans the other day. The underlying idea is to organize civilian aviation for an emergency. Captain Wilson, writing in Na- tional Aeronautics magazine, gave a better description of civilian aviation in the United States than I can: “What is it? It is 82,000 cer- tified pilots. It is 50,000 student pilots. It is 25,000 mechanics and airport personnel. It is 3,000,000 model builders. It is a light plane model industry. It is 22,000 cer- tificated civil aircraft. It is 2,000 airports and landing fields out- Rich of Pennsylvania have filled the Congressional Record with bitter (Continued on Page Four) side those serving military and | scheduled flying.” The list goes on, including ail the m.n;nz“.“m‘l | no specific demands and have not CADS Coming InfoNofic InShort Time, No Fooling; | Green Light Be Given Soon i journals, and national and locnl§ flying organizations. This is the backlog out of which civilian defense proposes to carve; the CADS, with a “Wing” in every state, composed of flights, squad- rons and groups in the smaller centers. NEW CERTIFICATES The first step would be to have| the Civilian Aerorautics Adminis-| tration reclassify all airmen’s cer- tificates. The new certificates would | require proof of citizenship, oath of allegiance to the United States, and such positive identification as| fingerprints and photographs. And | jead : /i | quarters where Bruno’s body the first job of the CADS would be lay in state with his two compan-| to see that no one took off or tight- ened a nut on an air jalopy with- out one of the certificates. From there on, the CADS would take over the job of guarding) radio range stations and the 2,000 airports which, nof being mili- tary or scheduled airline airports, would not ordinarily be subject to military guard. The CADS also would learn how to make these airports unsuitable for enemy use in case of invasion. A courier service, with men; ————— e onunued ou Page Five) J i |Kill Brothers coffee, returned presented their requests in writing. MUSSOLINIIS PROUD OVER SON'S DEATH Funeral Procession Moves Over Flower Strewn Streefs in Pisa PISA, ITALY, Aug. 8—Premier | Benito Mussolini has sent the body of his son, Capt. Bruno Mussolini to Predappion, the Il Duce’s home town for burial after the war hero’s funeral procession had moved to the station over flower strewn streets. Mussolini arrived here early this morning and immediately went to the darkened room in the Fasciest jons who died yesterday in the crash of a plane on a test flight. Mussolini paused long before the open casket and those in the room said afterwards that “his severe face expressed emotional uride but also his intense sorrow.” ————— JOE MEHERIN RETURNS ¢J. J. Meherin; representative of to Juneau yesterday by plane after 2 week’s business trip to Ketchikan.' Mr, Meherin says that business is booming in the fishing city. tured, left, talking to newsmen in tween France and Japan for naval 'After a conference with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the Japanese envoy to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, is pic- A British corvette (top), (background), stands by while small boats from her decks put off to piek up sur- vivors of what British sources said was a German U-beat forced to the surface by depth charges dropped by the corvette. The conning tower (bottom), of the U-boat is all that is above water after the corvette'’s o Jap Envoy With Ne%'smcnr » g } ‘Washington. While silent on the present Japanese moves in the Orient, specifically an agreement be- concessions in French Indo-China, | Nomura did express the hope that feeling between the United States | and Japan “will become better and better.” OFFICERS OF FRENCH ARMY ARE INTERNED ;BriIish ChaEe Failure fo . Release Officers Cap- fured in Syria Vichy High Commander of Levant states and 34 other senior Vichy officers in Syria and Lebaron were interned in concentration camps to- day. British occupying authorities an- nounced the French officers have failed to live up to last month's armistice agreement and return all British and FPree-French officers captured in the Syrian campaign. — Louisiana has 4,794 miles of BEIRUT, Aug. 8—General Dentz, | | shelter and navigable waterways. CHUNGKING BOMBED BY JAP PLANES Air Raid Sl;éier Blasted- Eight Formations Attack City CHUNKING, CHINA, Aug. 8— About 140 Japanese planes, coming over in waves, smashed Chunking and its suburbs today. A bomb exploding near a water- front dugout caved in an air raid killed more than 15 Chinese, injuring many more. Air raid wardens dug in the debris to rescue trapped survivors in an- other cave-in south of the city. The eight raiding formations flew directly over the safety zone on the South bank of the Yangtze river but no bombs dropped there. TENSION IS INCREASING - BY CHARGES | | Secrefary Hull Asserts Ger- many Seeks Conquest, i Western Hemisphere 'BERLIN IS MAKING PLANS FOR EXPOSE | Japanese Spokesman Says { Nation Encircled-U. S. Planes Ready (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) ' ‘The Far East crisis boiled along today with a torrent of charges and counter charges. Secretary of State Cordell Hull | said Germany is looking with long- ing eyes on the Western Hemis- phere for further conquest and as- serted also that Japan is alone re- sponsible for any encirclement of itself on the Pacific, These comments were made by the Secretary of State at a con- ference with the newsmen follow- ing receipt of statements made by [ official spokesmen in Berlin and Tokyo. Berlin - Accuses FDR Berlin sources said a campaign will be launched soon to expose what the Nazi spokesmen described as the ruthless power in politics of President Rocsevelt, not only in the United States but in Latin Amer- ica. The Japanese spokesman asserted that Japan is encircled hy the United States,. Great Britain and The Netherlands. Australia’s Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared that his country “stands with abated breath in the most vital hour of her history.” Menzies proclaimed that the “war BIGTAX INCREASE IS ASKED, Secretary ofieasury Ask Revenue from More Millions of People | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — Advo- cating an “all out tax program for "defense,” Secretary of the Treasury | Henry Morgenthau today asked Con- | gress to tax millions of additional persons with small incomes, by cut- | ting personal income tax exemptions |and stiffening other taxes, for in- | stance, married couples, corporations hag taken a most ominous turn but that Australia is immeasureably better equipped for defense new than in 1939." Ready to Strike and many others. A Reuters dispatch from Singa- | Morgenthau told the Senate Fi- nance Committee that the revenue |from taxes approved by the House, should be increased from its pres- lent $3206200,000 to at least $3.-| 1500,000,000. Morgenthau also hinted | strongly that he would like the tax | | revenue even above that estimated | amount, | Morgenthau estimated that it will | be necessary to raise at least $2- 000,000,000 more than expected if the | Federal Government is to pay two- | | | thirds of its operating costs. John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary | of the Treasury, testified that the | | anticipated expenditures of the gov- | | ernment for this fiscal year will be | $22,000,000,000 and the estimated de- | ficit will be about $12,000,000,000, i ) 'To meet two-thirds of the cost, at | | that rate, Sullivan sald the estimat- | ed revenues will need to be boosted by about $5,600,000,000, including the | amounts contained in the pending ! bill. fBig»Pr;j;di | ' Get Approved WASHINGTON, August 8—The House Rivers and Harbors Committe® | has approved of the $285,000,000 St.| Lawrence Seaway and the $160,000,- | |000 Florida Ship Canal included in {the Omnibus Rivers and Harbors| bill soon to be submitted to Con-! gress. | ———.———— } | STATE SENATOR THROUGH | ! Washington State Senator Ernest| C. Huntley and his wife went through Juneau last night on the | Prince George. They are in Alaska | on a vacation trip. | | | l pore quotes Ministry of Informa- tion there as declaring that Am- erican fighter planes are now being delivered at British bases in Bur- ma and “provides an answer to Japan’s new strategic move in Indo<China.” The Ministry of Information at Singapore, according to the Reut= ers dispatch, also said that the United States built planes are ready to chop to bits any Japanese bombers attempting to attack the Burma Road, also will be able to smash any Japanese air attacks sent out from the newly acquired bases in Indo-China.” NEW UNIT MOBILIZES INCANADA Authority Granted fo Or- ganize Sixth Division for Active Service OTTAWA, Aug. 8.—Defense Min~ ister Ralston announced today that authority has been granted to pro- ceed for mobilization of the Sixth Canadian Division, Active Army Service. Ralston asserted also that all necessary precautions will be taken by the Canadians for defense of the Pacific Coast section in view of the Far Eastern situation. -