The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1941, Page 1

(™ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURD/»\}'. AUG. 9, 1941. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8798. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS SMASHING RUSSIAN LINES THOUSANDS KILLED, TERRIFIC FIGHTING BERLINIS AIRRAIDED BY SOVIETS Fires Are Reported Started in German Mefropolis -2 Night Attacks (By Asscciated Press) Soviel High Command in Moscow this morning declared that fires were started by the Red Air Fleets during a tremendous raid on Berlin during Thursdey ni(mi and a second Soviet air attack on | the Gerwan metropolis was success- tully made last night. Berlin claims that fires were started Thursday night but quickiy extinguished and last night the Red Air invaders were beaten of. e — | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — Closing | quotation of American Can today | is 86%, Anaconda 2%, Bethlehem | Steel 1 Commonwealth and‘ Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright 8% International Harvester 53%, K necoft 37%, Neéw York Central | 12%, Northern Pacific 7%, United | States Steel 57, Pound $4.03%. | The DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jenes averages: industrials 126.40, | rails 20.85, utilities 18.58. | ~The WASHINGTON — Dinner ~ guests at the home of Harold Ickes are likely to have a tough time these days. If they are wise, they will take along their razors, a pair of pajamas, and if toey, happen to be ‘Solons Back Wheeler’s Stand ;DERBY Bov Senators Hiram W. Johnson and Burton K. Wheeler Republican, Progressive and Democratic senators have joined with Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D.) of Montana in his attack on Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson who last week accused the western isolationist of ‘“near treason” action. Among those who rallied around Wheeler is Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R.) of California, shown with Wheeler, above. The “near treason” charge was hurled at Wheeeler following discovery that soldiers had received post cards from the Montana senator urging them to write the president to protest American entry into the war, MILITARY INFLUENCE Passengers . From Zamzam Yet Missing Two Amerfis Seriously Wounded During Sink- ing Are Not Found BULLETIN WASHING- TON, Aug. 9—-Germany late this afterncon informed the Am- erican Goverzyment that two wounded Americans, unreported since their capture on the Zam JERRY IS INSOUTH Juneau Cha—n;;;ion Having | Great Time-Two Days in Seattle with Skuses MOUNT VERNON, Aug. 9.—(Special dispatch to | The Empire)—With his arm | strengthened for driving by | playing shuffle board for three days on the southbound Cana- dian steamer Princess Louise, little Jorry Chapman, winner of the Juncau Scap Box Derby, | arrived here today in a private \ car frem Vancouver, B. C. | As happy as only a boy can be on a triumphal trip and eating as only a boy can, young | Jerry, accompanied by Mr. and ! Mrs. Don Skuse, enroute to the national Scap Box Derby in Akron, Ohic, was met by a del- cgation of Scap Box Derby | committeemen in Vancouver | and is being taken to Seattle | by them. For the next two days the Derby driver and the Skuses ‘ will see the sights in Seattle | in a car put at their disposal. The party will arrive in Se- | attle this afternoon and later continue to the East by fast train. SHIPYARDS - INN.JERSEY Wash.,, o Moscow to New York. "~ U. S-Built Bombers Surprise Nazis at Brest ish air ministry news service. more than 35,000 feet. When - STOP WORK 117,000 Men Strike Where | Cruiser Juneau Is f Being Built | } KEARNY, NEW JERSEY, Aug. 9 |—The huge Federal shipbuilding |drydocks here remained in a strike {grip today while CIO unionists PRESIDENT FOGBOUND in the columnist business, a type- writer. H For, once you get to the Ickes K house for dinner, you find you can’t get away until breakfast. You spend | the night. Reason is that Secre-i tary Ickes lives on a farm about| K twenty miles from Washington and Zam, are still abcard the raider Tamesis but its whereabouts are not disclosed. ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — The United States asked Germany today (for an immediate report on two | Americans, asked the Government to immed-} |lately take over the plant, which| | has $493,000,000 in defense orders.| |a modified union shop, 17,000 . workers have been idle two days. ON CRUISE Yacht Supposed fo Be Off It is the New Jersey shipyards in he objects to using extra gasolxne\ for an extra trip back to town. So it you don’t have to get Lome to close the windows or feed the | baby, you wait and drive to town|{ with him in the morning. | However, lock-up for dinner guest at the Ickes home is tough, consider the| plight of Mrs. Ickes. Mrs, Ickes has| two babies and a large chicken farm. And before there was a gaso- line shortage and her husband be- came Oil Conservator, she used to dodge in and out of Washington once or twice a day to take the baby to the doctor, interview whole- sale chicken dealers, or even have lunch with her husband. Now when she goes to town, she| has to get up in time to ride with the Secretary of the Interior, notor- i jously one of the earliest risers in the Roosevelt Cabinet. Ickes leaves his farm in Maryland at 7:30 and gets to his desk about 8:10. Also he is one of the latest workers. | So Mrs. Ickes not only comes to town early but she has to stay late —until her husband leaves his desk at about 6 P. M. Of Iate, however, she has got even with him. If you notice the Secretary of the Interior coming | to work in the morning with rather a sheepish expression, holding hold- tied together, you will know that it’s Mrs, Ickes' fault, (Continued on Page Four) if you think being a|} Mary You McDonald, one of four girls entered in the aguaplane race between Catalina Island and Her- mosa Beach, Calif., wears a new swim suit, the bra of which is fashioned after the Army’s Sam Browne belt. The bra is also rib- bed with kapok, making it a semi- life jacket. SUPPER PARTY IS AT COUNTRY HOME Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. W. S Pullen were co- | hosts last night at a large buffet ing twelve pullets with their legs, Supper party. It was given at the ! Robertson country home on Auk Bay. - eee « New York City has five sheriffs. Francis Vicovari, York co-leader of the British-Am- erican Ambulance unit, and Ned | Laughinghouse Wilson, North Caro- i:ina tobacco man, both unreported |since' they were wounded aboard |the Egyptain steamer Zam Zam 1115 days ago. | They were then reported in ser- | ious condition, but their present | whereaBouts has remained unknown | despite inquiries in Germany and | cccupied countries. Counc Luncheon fo Honor Dick Dowery, Roiaryj)_i?rict Gov. | Dr.and Mrs. W. W. Council are | entertaining at a small luncheon !in honor of Rotarian District Gov- ernor, W. R. Dick Dowrey, today in the Iris Room, Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Whitehead are also to be present. Dr. Whitehead is last year’s Presi- dent of the Juneau Rotary Club and Dr. Council is-taking the place of this year's president,- Rod Dar- nell, during the latter’s absence. e 48 ROUNDTRIPPERS ABOARD NORTH COAST | There are 58 round trippers aboard |the North Coast on the present Southeast Alaska voyage. New which the cruiser U. 8. 8. Juneau| iz being built and will be launched /in the near future. | ARSI o GREAT WAR - MANEUVERS ~ ON MONDAY (Army Calls on Many De- venting Forest Fires The Army has called on Foresters, the CCC and soil erosion workers, also Highway Departments to aid {in preventing forest fires during jthe big war game maneuver which starts Monday and which will place in the engagement 100,000 soldiers. Warm and dry weather hazards, complicated by mass movements of s0 many troops, makes precautions necessary. The war game is described by partments-1o Aid in Pre- j‘ | FORT LEWIS, Wash, Aug. 9.—| | New England Coast- i No Special News WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, on a |cruise aboard his yacht, is fog- !bound, presumably off the coast of |New England. The radio announcing the fog- bound condition said there is no special news to be given out, | do LEA A ALBLS FHA OFFICIAL DUE HERE CN ALEUTIAN Franklin D. Richards, Deputy Ad- | ministrator of the Federal Housing Authority, is due to arrive in Juneau tomorrow on the Aleutian for a routine inspection of FHA activity in the Territory, especially in de- fense centers. Monday, Richards and Herbert Redman, chief underwriter for the FHA office here, will fly to Fair- banks and Anchorage on an inspec- tion trip. They are due to return next Saturday, at which time Rich- |ards will return to the States. | Richards winl be the first FHA deputy administrator to ever visit military men as the greatest emer- | alaska. He is in charge of activi‘ies peney mobilization the nation has i, Zone 5'of the FHA, which includes lfl'er seen against a simulated en- the 11 far-western states and the emy. | Territories of Alaska and Hawail. American-made Boeing flying fortresses like thi German battleship Gneisenau in port‘at Brest, of their bombs was probably the first inkling the Ger: R U. S.-built flying fortress takes off s one pictured in a radiophoto from London bombed the France, from a height “so fantastic” that the scream ‘mans had of their attack, according to the Brit- These bombers, according to airmen, (ivilianDefenseStarfed ~ With Bang in East Texas; ~ BouqueisShouldBe Tossed raid over Brest. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — You have heard what most of the big cities, especially New York, are doing about civilian defense, but I want to tell you about a fair- sized chunk of the “hinterlands” into its own Germgvn_Tanks Batte red by Russ Artillery i ~I. 1. N. Radiophoto can readily reach altitudes of the above picture was made the Boeing plane was taking off on that HOPELOST FOR DRAFT EXTENSIO Indefinite Service for Se- lectees Swapped for 18-Month Plan BIG CLAIMS NOW MADE ~ BYGERMANS 140,000 Soviets Reported | Captured - 200,009 Killed or Left Dying |MOSCOW SAYS LINES GENERALLY HOLDING Stalin’s Headquarters As- | serts Heavy Losses In- * licted, Hitler's Army | (By Associated Press) Conflicting yeports come from the European war front today. At Moscow, the Soviet headquart-* ers declare heavy losses have been | inflictd on 10 more German divi- ‘!alonx, ranging in Nazi losses from 21 percent on four infantry divisions, | to 30 percent on six tank divisions. | Hitler’s Claims | Hitler's headquarters claim that | more than 140,000 Russian troops | have been captured in two gigantie ' smashes, one in the Ukraine and the other 60 miles southwest of Smol- | ensk. Over 200,000 were left on the | fields, dead or wounded in the ter- rific fighting. | The Nazi reports also claim the (capture of Korosten, a bitterly de- ! fended rail junction 80 miles north- west of Kiev after many days of intense fighting in the dreary Pinsk marshes. Much booty has also been |captured, including 317 Russian tanks, 12 railroad trains and 5,250 trucks. ° Russ Lines Holding | The Russian communique contend the lines are holding well and the blitzkrieg is merely a series of local patrol actions in bitter night fight- ing. | Authoritative sources in London, | however, conceded the Germans are | making heudway toward Odessa but depreciated the German “high | sounding claims” of annhiliation of | the Russians’entire sixth and twelfth armies and part of the eighleenth las broadcast early this morning | from Berlin. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — Some - “hat took matters hands and now has the jump on Democratic leaders today aban-v . lot of the metropolitan areas— doned hope for the indefinite ex- including Washington. |tension of Army service for Belect‘,ees I got this straight from Julian/in view of the growing opposition, Saper: r. jew, Tex, and sought over the week-end to apers, . i, i SANEION. . TR |buttonhole support for the 18 i 11 who has. Nad,moheed o it 4 month extension now approved by Almost as soon as civilian de- ense was mentioned , the East fexas Chamber of Commerce, vhich embraces 70 counties and| setter than 3,000,000 people, ap- pointed a national defense CcOM- Government contracted with draft-| mittee, headed by Jess A. McGill, 1 Scot from Paris, Tex. The com- | mittee notified Washington they raid it would be if selectees are dis-| were ready and waiting. And what happened? Nothing. As Capers puts it, “We got a little weary of waiting for some one in Washington to get down brass tacks and outline a plan for organizing civilian sentiment and support. So the committee took the bull by the horns.” ! Three members of the commit-| tee were put in the field with in-| structions to organize :'Cuunty‘ Councils for National Defense” in every one of those 70 counties. It| wasn't any slap - hazard -idea either. They had a plan. They called meetings and at each, prac- | tically on demand if that's what| it took, were the county judu(‘,[ the mayors of the important cities and towns and leaders of ex-ser-| vice organizations, labor groups, the schools, women's clubs, and| grominent farmers. And when the meeting was over, those folks found they were the “county coun- | efl for national defense.” | the Senate. The opposition is still contending that national interest is no more imperilled than a year azo when the Selective Service Act passed, the ees for one year, and the Army will not- be disorganized ps Roosevelt charged after one y -UNIONISTS STOP WORK ONPLANE Curtiss - Wright Propellor Plant Tied Up by Wage Strike CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY, Aug. ©2--The production of $10,000,000 | propellor plant here. INBERLIN Thousands of Nazi Injured Being Flown from Fields Aboard JunkersPlanes NEW YORK, Aug. 9—The NBC system this afternoon picked up & | radio broadeast from Berlin which | stated squadrons of Junkers have | brought home thousands of Ger- |man wounded from the Central | Russian sector. | The broadcast also reported that | more war material is being rushed | to the front. | 'Miss Perich to Wed ' M. A. Bloom Tonight | [ The marriage of Miss Mary Ann Perich and Melvin Adolph Bloom, Jr., will take place tonight at the Catholic Church of the Nativity, the worth of defense orders was virtually rev. W. G. LeVasseur officiating. halted today as a picket line was| Miss Perich arrived in Juneau on thrown around the Curtiss-Wright the North Coast today from her 'home in Mt. Vernon, Washington. KEEP THE FIBLD CLEA® Eight hundred of 1,493 employees Mr. Bloom lives In Juneau, and is | Through McGill's committee, joined the strike. Negotiations on employed by the Alaska Junean Gold (Continyed on Page Seven® | wage increases are at a standstill. Mining Company. o £Hi S