The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1941, Page 1

K THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8801. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS CHARGE U. §. WITH PLOT NAZIS DRIVE THREE WAYS FOR ODESSA Suicide Rearguards Cover Defenders’ Retreat fo Black Sea (OSSACK HORSEMEN PROTECT SEAPORT | If Germans Enfer Odessa, Only Smoking Ruins Will Be Found (By Associated Press) Russia’'s big Red Armies appear- | ed to have all but lost their grasp on the western half of the Ukra“le‘ below the Dnieper River today as German troops smashed from three directions at the great port of Odessa. Suicide rearguards are reported fighting bitterly to cover the Soviet retreat to the Black Sea. | British War Office spokesmen ac- knowledged the Russian. position in the Ukraine has deteriorated rapid- ly. The Soviet High Command is " (Continued on Pege Seven’ Valerie Parks, blonde strip star of hasn’t any brothers so the least s| home for a late supper. the Follies Theatre in Los Angeles, he can do in the defense program, she cpines, is to feed a few selectees. She plans to invite one soldier, one sailer and one marine from each Saturday night audience to her WASHINGTON — Reports that Harry Hopkins, Josef Stalin, Win-| ston Churchill and Franklin Roo- | sevelt during the past two weeks have been discussing the idea of a British invasion of the European Continent, have an important in- side baekground. Plans for a British landing force in Holland, Spain or Norway, ac- tually have been discussed ever since Germany invaded Russia on June 21, But all of them, for one reason or another, so far have been rejected. Behind these discussions is the obvious fact that Russia has a far better chance of standing up| against the Nazi war machine if Hitler has to fight on two fronts. So far, part of Hitler’s success has been his ability ta pick off one country at a time, while the others stood around watching. Now, everyone is standing around watching Russia. But the British realize that although the Red Army is putting up far stiffer resistance than anticipated, they, the British, are going to be completely out of luck if the Russians erumble. That is why the Japanese have moved in such cocksure fashion in the di- rection of Singapore, apparently confident that Russia will be de- feated and that they can pounce on India from one side, Hitler from | the other. INVASION OF HOLLAND First plan for an invasion of the Continent was a landing in Hol- land. This, it was figured, would get sympathetic support from the Dutch; would create a second front requiring Hitler to divert part of his troops and airplanes from the Russian front. i The original British idea was to have the United States cooperate in a landing force, This, however, scarcely got beyond the informal suggestion stage. It was immedi- (Continued on Page Four) Rainfall 6 (Grand-Daddy of All auges fo Grace Mount Roberts CEILING PRICE SET ON SUGAR Government Price Peg Will Mean 5.8 Cents Pound to Users WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 13— The government today set a price ceiling of three ahd a half cents a pound on raw sugar, slightly below the present price. This will mean a price of approxi- mately five and eight-tenths cents a pound as the retail sale figure on refined sugar sold in United States grocery stores, it was explained. Price Administrator Leon Hender- son said, “There is more than enough sugar for everyone. Specu- lators have been endeavoring to reap a huge profit at the expense of con- sumers.” MEAT INDUSTRY MEN INDICTED CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 13. — The | Federal Grand Jury today indic:- ed 118 corporate and individual fig- ures in the meat industry in 29 states on charges of “conspiring to| fixe the priee of ham at Easter time in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.” ‘The “grand-daddy” of all rain- fall gauges is going to be installed ron Mount Roberts within the next week. As a matter of fact, two of these “grand-daddy” rain gauges will be placed on the mountain, one at the. summit and one at the 1,800- foot level, according to Ashton R. Codd, Hydrologic Supervisor of the North Pacific Regi who came here from Portland on” the Colum- bia last night to supervise the set- ting up of the hugg. gauges. Codd, a lanky, likeable fellow with Ja boyish grin, was today enthusias- tic about his job. After he gets ,through here ha will go to Ket- | chikan, where two more of the big gauges will be placed on the sum- mit and at the 1800-foot level of Deer Mountain. v Had Big Job This s Codd’s first trip to Al- aska, but working on rainfall data cipitation measurement devices in | Portland and brought them up here in a knocked-down condition. It was quite a job, too. The gauges are what the weather men Ixefer to as a “shielded storage pre- cipitation gauge.” They were first developed and designed by J. Cecil Alter, Weather Bureau official in Salt Lake City, and are meant for use along mountain ridges, where not only rainfall but the moisture |from snow must be rheasured. Some 25 of these gauges are al- ready in use around the northwest- |ern states, Codd said, but when it in Alaska the size of container in (Continued on Page Eight) i el furnished by the Weather Bureau | office here, he constructed the pre- | DRAFTIS EXTENDED BY HOUSE 18 Months More Service Is Approved by Vote of 203 to 202 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. House of Representatives late yes- terday officially passed the Army Service Extension Bill, it was an- nounced by Speaker Sam Rayburn, 203 Representatives favoring the bill and 202 against the measure. Virtually the same bill passed the Senate last week. It now goes to a House-Senate conference committee for ironing out minor differences in the measure as passed by each body No important discrepancies. are re- ported, however. extension of service for conscripts, | regular personnel. It also provides a $10 bonus for each month spent | in the service over one year. ! The new draft bill removes thc) present restriction limiting the total number of conscripts in the army | at one time to 900,000. There is no | limitation to army size in the new | bill, BELL PHONE | | STRIKE MAY BE CALLED Communications Over Na-‘ tion May Cease Over Labor Dispute NEW YORK, August 13—A tie- up of the nation wide Bell Telephone System is threatened today when the Association of Communication and Equipment workers announced that a majority of its locals in 13 cities have voted strike authoriza- tion in connection with its dispute with the Bell Company. Negotiations with the company, the Western Electric Company part of the Bell System, are now stale- mated over four points proposed in a master working agreement, the Association said. ‘Work stoppage by the 8,000 mem- bers employed in Western Electric's installation department would tie up work on the Bell System private communications installations in mil- itary .camps and other defense' plants throughout the country. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS MISSING | | No Word from Presidential Yacht in Four Days- Rumor Persists WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. — The National Capital remained without word of President Roosevelt today. This is the fourth day that no word has been received from the Presidential yacht. The Navy Department makes no comment on the yacht's silence. Rumors persist that possibly the | came to installing the same gauges ; President and British Prime Min- |ister Winston Churchill are in con- | ference “somewhere on the At- lantic.” — The| after a recapitulation vote showed | \ The bill provides for 18 months'| National Guardsmen, reservists and | "“—’\ Twg views of tanks described by Russian soldiers as Ge'mnn machines “captured by Soviet troops during an u"enshe in the area ul village S.” These pictures were senti ndln from Mogeow. New "Soll Yoiced” Dealh Angel"__Bomber Into the sky over Burbank, Cal, recenily, a soft-voic: Ventura bomber, pictured above, shown just before tal ance of an oversized Lockheed Hudson bomber, and its builde enemy of comparable size. liner taking off—the Ventura’s blunt, paddle-shaped talking about it. Entirely absent at the take-cff was tl ed angel of death rose—the new built-for-Britain Vega king wing on her maiden flight It has the appear- rs believe that it can whip out of the sky any he ear-splitting roar of a commercial air propellers, newly developed, do their work without Washington Experts, All 'FISH PACK BufOne, 'Guessed' Wrong - IS HEAVY, On Russian - German War By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. — One of the duties of the departments of government is to keep the Presi- dent informed. When any vital is- sue arises, the experts go.into high and grind away on statistics and | knowledge until they have turned out a clear summary and their best conclusions. Often, it is from | such memorandums of fact ard mobablllflc# that the policy of the United States is shaped. Such a matter of vital im- portance arose when Germany | marched on Russia. The experts ! went into their huddles and, from authorities on labor, agriculture, economics, political activity, in- dustry and military and naval affairs, went memos to be stacked on the President’s desk. As nearly as I can find out, only one expert, out of nll_!he score or more, even closely approxi- mated the course of the Russian- German war so far. All the rest sald, in effect, that the Nazis would do just what they said they would do, and in record time— l annihilate the Russian armies and i take everything they wanted short of the Volga River, But this one fellow (I can't; disclose his name) figured it dif- ferently. Roughly, his conclusions | were that the Germans first would win smashing victories, that | somewhere this side of the Ural] Mountains or in them, the Nazi war machine would slow down and | stall, and that ultimately the Rus- sians would win the war. SAW RUSSIANS AS RUSSIANS Even his timing erred m favor of the Germans and of course how right he is from here on rests with the future. But some of the steps by which he arrived at these con- | clusions are interesting. In the first place, he believed that the Russian army was much better and more effectively me- chanized than anybody suspected. The Russians, for years, had been | positive that some day they would have to fight the Germans and they were not Ilulled lnto‘ passivity by Hitler's overtures of friendship and cooperation. They expected attack and they built up | (Continued on Page Five) I KETCHIKAN ‘Another TwF()A\r_Veeks Fish- ing and Total Pack Now Almost Equals 1940 | KETCHIKAN, Aug. 13.—With two | weeks still remaining of the aalmon: fishing season in the Ketchikan dis- | trict, the salmon pack here is neul- ing the total pack of Ketchikan | canners in 1940, Total fish packed to the first of | this week amounted to 551,000 cases, the Fish and Wildlife Service said. That figure is about 100,000 cases | below the total pack a year ago. The Purse Seiners’ Union and some cannery operators are seeking an extension of the season, it was reported. > BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP Christine Halvorsen, owner of Halvorsen's Dress Shop, returned to Juneau today on the northbound Lodestar after a business trip to the south, e PETE OGLE ON ALASKA Pete Ogle, well known business man and oldtimer of Seward, is aboard the Alaska enroute home. RED ARMIES LOSING GRIP ON UKRAINE Comefor Digngr, Sailor GERMAN TANKS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS (GERMANY 1§ RIBBING UP Declares Seizure of French " Island of Martinique ; by U. S. Planned 'PETAIN'S ALLEGIANCE T0 REICH, FIRE BRAND ;Washmgton and London | Aroused Over Stand Tak- en by VI(hY State Chief (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Germany charges the United | States with planning to seize the | French island of Martinique in the | West Indies as the result of [ French Chief of State Marshal Pe- | tain’s newly announced policy of stronger collaboration with the | Reich. i Authorized quarters in Berlin | declare bluntly that certain Ameri- \can groups, which “for a long time have cast covetous”eyes on Mar- tinique,” would use Petain’s speech as an excuse to “satisfy their lust” for the island. In Washington and Londoen, seri- |ous repercussions arose over France’s attitude. | Threat to U. S. Interests In Washington, the conviction is | freely expressed that Petain’s align- | ment with the Reich held threats | to American interests in territories. | The State Department is report- ed negotiating for air base rights on the hump of Brazil closest to Dakar, French West Africa, for a | take off base nearest the Americas. In London, authoritative sources said Petain plans to “subjugate th2 | French people and force upon them the policy they detest.” Break Relations Several congressmen today advo- | cated breaking off diplomatic rela- tions with the Vichy Government |and recognizing the Free French | regime under Gen. DeGaulle. | In a radio broadcast late yester- day, Petain committed himself to a full collaboration with Germany. The broadcast was just a few hours ‘aner his Vice-Premier, Admiral Jean Darlan, had been given su- prcmo military power over French | forces. The aged soldier ranged himself bquarely on the side of Germany in the fight against Russia, whica he said was “defense in the east ol civilization.” " (Continued on Page Eight) Two Foreign - Projects fo Be Starfed {Wallace Declines fo Dis- | close Nature of Inter- i national Deals | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—The Economic Defense Board today |called for reports from several gov- | ernment agencies preparatory to in- itiating two international projects, the nature of which Vice-President | Henry Wallace, Board chairman, de- clined te disclose. “ Wallace told reporters the dis- |cussion covered the field of in- Iclined to say what decisions have been made by the Board, which was set up to coordinate defense activities in the foreign field. | ternational economic action but de- -