The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA 1D “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIREK VOL. LVIL, NO. 8800. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTY MI‘MBLR ASSOCIATLD PRESS ODESSA SURROUNDED; SURRENDER NEAR Atlantic Chief Asks for Ships NAZIS CLOSE IN ON RUSS GRAIN PORT Million Germans Reported | in Drive Info Rich Ukraine Area RED FORCES FLEE FOR TROOP SHIPS Luftwaffe Sinks Six Soviet Transporfs Evacuat- | ing Odessa ; (By Associated Press) German military dispatches today | pictured Russia’s big Black Sea port of Odessa as doomed to quick sur- render with Nazi troops storming | down both sides of the Bug River, | as Red Army forces are desperately ittempting to escape by the sea. DNB, official German. news agency, reported that German bomb- | ers already have sunk six troop- |™ laden Russan transports off the | Ukraine coast near Odessa. The Germans declared the inland ave- nues of escape from both Ddessa and Ochakov, farther east, are virtually cut off. ' Advices reaching London fur ther | emphasized the critical plight of So- viet Marshal Sem e on Budyenny's I (Continued on Page Sever) | Clhe ‘ WASHINGTON—For perspective :John Kiest sold newspapers a bundle under his arm at the |he was sole owner and publisher |of the Dallas Times Herald, now {plant into which no concrete was Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the United States’ Atlantic Fleet, is shown (left) with William H. Collins, general man- ager of the Fore River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass, where King lppelled to Bethlehem Steel Company workers for all possible speed in ship production. At nght is N nvy Snpuvxsor A 'g Smith. Publisher of Newspaper In Texas, Who Starfed as Newsboy, GivesLast Copy DALLAS, TEXAS, ‘Aug. 12—Edwin Kiest, 79, onetime newsboy who built the outstanding Dallas Daily RAFMAKING | BIG ATTACK ONGERMANY (Start Pledge?)_furn Reich’s Cities Into Burning Hells | -large Daylight Raids | (By Assoclated Press) In the war in the air, Royal Alr | Forces planes began to carry out the | pledge to turn Germany's cities into | | burning hells. A violent large scale daylight as- | sault on the Rhineland city of Col- ogne was made today. British sources said the attack was | possibly the heaviest daylight rald yet made on Germany. Several squadrons of Blvnhflms \])llllng large cargoes of bombs, hit many other sections of Germany. | Other great waves of RAF bomb- ers and fighters are this afternoon | reported attacking the coast of Nazi occupied Frnnce MORE FIGHTS INECUADOR OVER BORDER Each Counlr?fiames Other for Starting Spas- modic Clashes imes Herald, died yesterday. He was a charter member of the Asso- ciated Press. More than sixty years ago, Edwin from | : | corner of Clark and Randolph streets | | in Chicago. For more than 40 years ! | housed in a modern Dpewspaper <l on the present South Pacific tug- of-war between Japan and Britain, | it is well to remember that Ior; years Thailand, then known as Siam, was a pawn in the powcr' game of the bigger nations of the Pacific. In this game the United States had a hand. For years, American financial advisers have been at- tached to the Thailand throne, one| of them having been Francis Sayre, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson, now High Commissioner to the Philippines. We wooed Thailand on many oc- casiens, including the ornate re- ception given the former King of siam, who as “Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half Brother of the Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-four Golden Umbrellas,” came to Washington in the days of Herbert Hoover and was regally entertained, The British ‘were even more in- terested in the Siamese. British ad- visers for a time ran the king- dom’s government, trained its army, supplied the one or two ships for its navy. But half a dozen years ago the Japanese began preaching the doc- trine of Asia for the yellow man, and Siam for the Siamese. That was how the name came to be changed to Thailand, a national- istic token of home rule. Young Siamese nationalists took over the government and Thailand grasped the Japanese bait as a step toward nationalism. Reason for Japan's interest in this small country was not nation- alism, but the fact that a slender| finger of land, about as wide as) the Isthmus of Panama, called the| Isthmus of Kra, is_ controlled by et At (Continued on Page. Four) |and sell papers for one day for :depmlt box. poured or steel laid until he had 7 | $1,000,000 in a bank to pay for it. » i His newsboy experience was the| 5 ! source of an episode in his middle |life he often related with huge enjoyment. $100 For Paper 4 | “Mayor Carter Harrison, the‘ younger of Chicago,” he said, “sev-| eral years before the World War got a list of old-time newsboys and asked us to come.to Chicago| — DYNAMITE GANGSTER ISNABBED, i Carl S(hmid_t,_dnce Deport- .ed fo Germany, Found Again af Defroit DETROIT, Mich., Aug. lZ—Cnrl: Julius Schmidt, once deported to! Germany as a member of the Kal- his watch frequently wen* to the ;enscth}fl;dt Dl:{ nl: t_ing l:.lng lt}::t pawn shop, and shares of windmill | st ' most _exciting | stock ing 20 i | sabotage trial during .the World | by Jne omk dvidends‘war' has been arrested here on were sacrificed at 75 cents on the, dollar in order to keep life in his | &% immigration warrant and faces newspaper. He had no credit, he|® €W deponatlan said, “but that watch represented' Iy B | ot meper o 1w 4 sovios| JOHN BISHOP IS EDWIN ). KIEST charity. “I took my own station and pretty soon Victor F. Lawson (late pub- lisher of the Chicago Daily news) came along. I stopped him, nagged him, and finally sold him a copy of his own paper for $100.” Knew The Business The milestones in Kiest's life paralleled the transition of Texas from the wide open spaces and the cotton patch to diversified indus- tries and multitudinous cil fields. Rebuilding The Times Herald from its moribund condition when he bought it January 1, 1896, was his lfe work. He was a practical printer with experience in salesmanship of newspaper accessories, training he applied to creating a successrull daily. Financed By Watch He worked himself unsparingly, in financial pinches.” The watch in later years found rest in a safe| Tough Sledding John Bishop, of the B.-M. Beh- 'over the weekend with each g ,urday night and again 1 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Fighting between frontier forces of Ecuador and Peru began anew iernment blaming the other | starting the outbreak. The Peruvian Foreign Office is- sued a communique saying Ecua- dorian forces staged a number of for ‘surprLse attacks along the Napo | River, but each has been repulsed. | The communique said the clashes occurred throughout yesterday. Ecuador's Secretary General said | in Quito that Peruvian troops at- tacked the town of Zapotillo Sat- nday but were turned back. { FRENCH CABINET CHANGED German Pressure Puts Ad- miral Darlan in Great Power in Vichy VICHY, France, Aug. 12—Vice- Premier Admiral Jean Darlan has been named Minister of National| Defense in reorganization of the French Cabinet. All military powers have now been concentrated in Darlan’s hands «0d i the decree gives him greater power than any other person er group of | persons except Chief of State Mar- shal Petain- himself. ‘The German-controlled nPws]nah- ers of Paris have been insisting on collaboration to include military as! well as political and economic mai- ters. —— oo TO JOIN AIR CORPS Robert H. Rowe, Fairbanks, a member of Company C, Alaska Na- tional Guard, will receive an hon- The physical equipment of the, newspaper plant he acquired com- pn.sed a “few cases of body type a T (Continued on Page Five) | rends Company, who has been south |orable discharge from his company on a buying trip, is returning m to enabie him to enlist in the Army Juneau tonight, a passenger aboard ' Air Corps at Fresno, California, it the Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- was announced here today. Rowe is cess Loulse. Inow in the States. k SHOWS GIRLS ASSURE SI ‘With Japan eliminated as a source of supply of silk, these New York models show how they intend solving the stocking problem, and a neat way it is, too, The girl at right is drawing seams on the bare legs of her friend and when she’s finished you'll swear those lovely limbs are «<lod in sheer stockings. Vice-President Wallace Proves (apable; In Line For Another Big Posifion By JACK STINNETT jonly proving a eapable and popu- WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — An=|lar presiding officer in the Senate, swering the mail orders: but there is a rumor he may get D. C. S, Akron, Ohio — Vice- President Henry Wallace is not (Continued. on, Psge Sflm‘ These show girls, who said silk stockings were a necessary decoration for stockings at a late-ciosing Solvmg Stockmg Problem Atlanta drug store after hearing of lhr Mw!.rnment‘% silk freezin, order LK SUPPLY their livelihood, are tryiug on FRANK KNOX HAS CONFAB OVER STRIKE U. S. Navy S_e(;elary Talks! About Taking Over Jersey Shipyards | (By Associated Press) Navy Secretary Frank Knox and L. H. Korndorff, President of the| Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, conferred for more thnn‘ an hour today on the company’s| offer to turn over its strike- bound‘ Kearny, New Jersey, yard to the Navy, and then adjourned until later | today. ! Knox withheld any hint as to his attitude towards the company’s of- fer affecting the big plant where 17,000 workers have been idle since Thursday. Other Sore Spots An American Federation of Labor. strike oontinued to hamper opera- | tions at the Curtiss-Wright Corpor- | ation’s propellor division in Culd- well, New Hampshire, with labor | production on a minor seale. The company said several current labor disputes were involved. i In the South and in the East| Jersey City and Dover, New Jersey plants of L. O. Koven and Brothess, workmen struck, halting work on a | million dollar na¥y contract for sub- ! marine manifolds and gasoline and water tanks. 'ALUMINUM DRIVE | NEARING WIND-UP | Juneau's drive for old aluminum |to be used in national defense in- dustries is about completed, it was announced today by Dr. W. M. Whitehead chairman of the llum-‘ 1num collection. | Aluminum in the municipal “pot” | | at Front and Seward Streets will be | gathered up in two days, Dr. White- head said. Late this week, the Alaska | Steamship Company will offer free s | transportation for the defense metal | to Seattle, | EVENTS ARE MOVING FAST T0 BREAKING Swift Devefip—ments Indi- cate Explosion Point Is Now Very Near JAPAN GETS WARNING DIRECT FROM BRITAIN | American Ffiline of De- fense May Be Russia’s Port of Vladivostok (By Associated Press) In the Far East crisis, a series of swift breaking developments indi- cated events are moving inexorably nearer an explosion point. In London, authoritative quarters declared bluntly: “If Japan wants | war in the Pacific, there will be war. | If Japan wants peace in the Pa- cific, there will be peace.” In Tokyo, the militarist newspaper Kokumin says today the United States and Great Britain have been { warned that any further anti-Jap- anese pressure would bring about “nothing but the worst situation.” The newspaper further says that Japan is bent on pushing ahead with her new order in East Asia. (Continued on Page Eight) THREE ARMY FLIERS DIE IN PLANE CRASH Observafion Plane Report- ed to Have Gone Into Surf Off East Coast NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 12.—Lang- ley Field officers reported today that three Army fliers are missing and it is indicated they are probh- ably occupants of a plane which crashed into the surf a few hun- dred yards off Virginia Beach last night. The missing fliers are Second | Lieutenant Adrian Wilcomb, Pilot; Sergeant Allen Rogers, and Private | Phillip Wheeler, off members of the Third Observation Sfluadmn Walrus Bill Ison Way fo WhiteHouse Measure Ofia_ws 'Killing, Selling or Possession of Ardtic Animals WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The Senate has passed and sent to the White House for the President's signature, the bill outlawing the killing, selling and possession of Arctic or Bering sea walruses and |also places a ban on exports. This chiefly discourages the Eskimos from killing the walrusses for ivory The bill allows the Eskimo {o kill the walrus for food or clothing. The once abundant walrusses are now extinct over much much ‘of the - former morthern range, U & e