The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 18, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY VOL. LVIL, NO. 8805. JAPS WARNED, WAR 15 COMING REDS REPULSE NAZIS ON ALL FRONTS ND IN ICELAND A T KIEV SAID | SAVED BY RESISTANCE Black Sea Po—ri«of Nikolaev Admitted in Invad- | ers’ Hands ‘ OFFENSE AGAINST | LENINGRAD TIMED German Sunday Losses Put! at 25,000 Killed and Wounded (By ASSOCIATED PRI'SS) Fierce Russian counter-attacks are reported to have saved a Uk- raine city identified as “Kay",! possibly Kiev, with 20,000 Germans killed and wounded after tliey ad- vanced to within miles of the town | and then were thrown baci: six to| eight miles by Red Army troops| still advancing, Soviet dispatches| said today. i Hitting savagely at the northern | flank of the long German wedge into the Ukraine on the Central! Front, Marshal Timoshenko's de-| fenders on the road to Moscow are | (Continued on Page Eight) | ; The NG/ S | ! WASHINGTON—One of the most | serious problems of the defense pro- | gram is a shortage of electricity. OPM experts estimate that the de- | ficiency may run as high as 800,000 | kilowatts next year, Already civil-| fan consumption has had to be curb- | ed in some areas, and pending in Congress is a bill for nationwide day- light saving. Yet projects that would provide | hundreds of millions of kilowatts of | additional power have been stymied for eight months by a fierce tug-of- war inside the Administration. All if the participants in this row distrust the big power gompanies, | have battled against them for years. ' Yet now they are battling among themselves so bitterly that the pri-| vate power companies may come out | on top. 4 Sole cause of this battle is who | should be boss of the new de- | fense power projects. | Nothing else is at issue. But over | this issue the New Dealers have bick- | ered and the President has teetered | from one side to the other for al- most a year. Meanwhile the power | shortage becomes increasingly ur- gent. THE CONTESTANTS ! 1. Secretary Harold Ickes, who insists that control be vested in his | Department of Interior. He con- tends that only by such centralized authority will it be possible to ob- tain uniformity and standardization. Otherwise there will be wide varia- tions among the projects, impairing their usefulness and playing into the hands of utilities. 2! Vigorously opposing Ickes are Senator George Norris of Nebraska, father of TVA; Representative Clyde Ellis of Arkansas, militant young New Dealer, who is backing an Ar- kansas Valley Authority with po- tentialities twice as great as TVA; | Senator Homer Bone of Washington, sponsor of a Columbia Valley Auth- ority embracing the great Bonne- ville and Grand Coulee projects; Senator William Bulow of South Da- | kota, author of a bill W an Upper i (Continued on Page Four) United States sailors land from a cutter at Reykjavik, Tee land in this A menth ago President Roosevelt announced he had sent naval forces into Iceland to prevent Londoen. w icture cabled to New York from German occupation as a base for eventual attack against the Western Hemisphere. Juneau's Soap Box Champ Runs Greaf Race ButHis |} Car Is Third in 14th Heal | AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 18—(Special |to the Empire)—Fourteen-year-old looseness. Claude Smith, hometown boy, won | the Eighth Annual All-American| Naticnal Soap Box Derby yestnrdav‘ and the $2,000 scholarship award. Jerome (Jerry) J. Chapman,| champion of Juneau, Alaska, fin- ished third in the first heat of the| 14th round. | Smith also won the International | Soap Box Derby, defeating Mexico | and Canada. Jerry ran an excellent race, driv- ing the course perfectly in the 14th heat but he came in third amidst great applause from the stands. The winner of the heat made the fast- est time up to then. Jerry ‘ran his trial O.K. but the car was loosened up ‘with drying out and the car was in the major Churchill, Roosevelt in Complefe AcordonWar; U. S. Not ROCKLAND, Maine, Aug. 18— President Franklin D. Roosevelt returning here last Saturday after- noon from his sea trip, assertecd that he and British Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill were in com- plete accord on all aspects of the war situation but did not believe the United States was any closer to entering the conflict because of the epochal high seas conference Answering questions of the news- men aboard the yacht Potomac, the President said he supposed that not a single section of this single continent was not discussed. “Are we any closer to entering the war, actually,” a reporter in- quired. President Roosevelt said he would say ‘“no.” The President described the meet- pit for two hours correcting the| Jerry was popular with the race| officials. Jerry had a tough break in drawing one of the fastest driv- ers on the track.' He drew lane; three. | Jerry spoke over the radio Sun- day morning and again from the | press box at the finish of the par-| ade. " | The sporting spirit here was the finest in the world as was the hospitality. The boys pitted against Jerry in the 14th heat were Gene Bean of Washington, D. C., and Cal D. Price of Bloomington, Ind. Before the race started the favor- ites to win were the boys from Akron and Detroit. < NWEIER Entering Fight ng with Churchill as eminently uccessful but declined to reveal vhere the conference took place, | | fow long it lasted nor Churchill’s | resent whereabouts, | The reason, he said, for the, lat- | er, was perfectly obvious. i The President " objected to any . advance announcement of his own | landing but said it had been fogny on the “wayover” and if any sub- | marines had fired torpedoes they would not have been sighted. President Roosevelt said he thought one thing had been over- looked in the joint statement and that was the need for an exchange | of views on what was happening ' in the world under the Nazi re- gime and the needs fo be brought (Continued to Page Three) l MODERN TOUCH Prominent in the entertainment 2s Los Angeles’ Chinatown swept aside scruples to turn the an- cient “Moon Festival” into a shew resemblirg a Hollywood premier, with' Chinese war relief the objective, was Noel Toy, Chi- nese fan dancer from San Fran- cisco. SIXKIDDIES DIE IN FIRE SUTAWNEY, Pa., Aug. 18-—Six children, ranging in age from two to 11 years, perished early today as flames destroyed their farm house at Grange, near here. - >>e - AT BARANOF Representative. of the Willard Storage Battery Company, M. Sutherland of Cleveland, aryived on the Denali. He is stopping 2af the Baranof Hotel. U.S.IST0 HASTENFALL ' NAZI REIGN \President Is Expeced fo Speed Action-Faster Tempo Indicated 'ROCSEVELT AGAIN IN " PERSONAL COMMAND {Key Men in Congress Call-; ed fo Important Confer- : ence at White House | WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Presi- dent Rocsevelt has resumed per- sonal command in the Capital City | | with all signs indicating a faster future tempo for the United States| in efforts to hasten the downfall of the Axis, | The President started the new| 1week by calling to the White House | u\; key men in Congress who have [fiéfl]t with foreign atfairs. | White House aides said the Pres- | | | | { ident arranged to give them full accounting of the international situation. It is also said that at the con- ! ference the possibility of a new ap- ymopriauun for new lend-lease may be considered. BROADCAST NEXT MOVE, CHURCHILL Prime Minister of Brifain Returns fo London After Sea Talk with FDR LONDON, Aug. 18—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill returned to the British Isles today from a meet- ing at sea with President Roosevelt. On his return trip, Churchill vis- ited Iceland localities where he in- | spected the British and American troops. Churchill was met by Minister of Information Bracken to complete arrangements for probably a broad- cast but no time has been set for the broadcast. IRANMAY BE SCENE OF STRIFE German Infilration Arous- es Ire of Great Britain —Also Soviet Russia LONDON, Aug. 18. — Indications |grew today that Great Britain and| Russia are planning a decisive step shortly in Iran from where reports have been received of German in- filtration, Two protests have already been | lodged from London and Moscow but ! they have apparently been ignored, | thus military action is indieated. | ., [ AT GASTINEAU At the Gastineau Hotel today is ‘ | L. E. Tucker of the American Cy- anide and Chemical Company. e ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS MYSTERY EXPLOSION_ FIRES CUBA BROOKLYN FRONT ABLAZE NEW YORK, August 18—Five men were kiiled, considerable ‘ property damage caused and a number of seamen are feared ’ dead in a fire which swept a section of the Brooklyn water- ‘ front this morning. | The blaze was touched off by | a series of lightning-like ex | plesions, and damaged the Cuba | Mail Line freighter Panuco, the | FAR EAST WARFARE PREDICTED Tokyo Newspapers Tell Na- | fionals Conflict Expect- ed from All Directions them dead, have been fished et e, "ruentytwo | UNITED STATES HAS spitals. Both - the acad are_ ngunoremen. | PROBLEM WITH JAPAN N LINER; +1,000-foot Cuba Mail Line pier. the adjoining pier and several craft assisting in unloading the highly inflammable cargo from the Panuco. Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine said 25 men, two of UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT CARRIERS DESTROYERS iy UBMARINES e e AP FEATURE SERVICE Biggest nautical question mark in | the Pacific crisis is the Japanese navy. Only the Japanese know, and they aren't telling, exactly how big is the fleet that flies the Rising Sun flag. Several years ago Japan clamped the lid on naval information. De- | spite that vigilance, naval experts all over the world have a pretty good idea about the present strength | of the Japanese fleet. NAVAL STRENGTH IN THE PACIFIC DUTCH (ALLIED | she's building nine more, five over| {Nippons Refuse Removal of American Private Citi- zens-Troops Massed (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) WITH BRITAIN) GREAT BRITAIN The situation in the Far East |is acute touight The newspapers of Tolky > yester- day and tocg/ warned all Japanese they may expect war soon snd from all directions. Reliable information reccived in Tokyo indicates tho Rusiiun Par East Army of great streagth has Leen fully mobilized and siationed on the Siberian border. From London comes advices that The \United States and Great Brit- ain authoritatively won Russia’s promise for active participation to stop the Japan movement in return |irom a sharply stepped up Moscow war aid. Advices from Peiping, state the Japanese have ordered all foreign 40,000 tons and four super pockef travel to and from Manchoukuo battleships of about 15,000 tons. |halted for two days, hence, pre- _— "sumnbly this facilitates massing of Published British naval data says |troops on the Russian frontler. three of the big Japanese battle~ U. S.-Japan Conference ships have been launched — the| An hour long conference between Kadekuru, Kansino and Haghijo.|United States Ambdssador Joseph They also say two the the pocket- Grew and Japanese Foreign Minis- e . |ver Teljiro Toyoda stressed the criti~ e bl‘;“ffi‘s“:}lofi‘l;‘“;: cal situation in the Pacific At this conference it was believed a new completed in Efll‘|¥ 1942, the smu“';phsse of possibile conflict was dis- or onee by late ‘i, cussed, The Japanese Government Several factors make close esti- mates possible. First, naval con- structors know how long it takes The U. S. publishes no such ex-|yaq refused to clear the American haustive naval estimates as the|jner President Coolidge if it sought British, but consensus of U. 8. to remove more than 100 American {to build a fighting vessel, Second, naval experts is that the ananesc! Japan must import much vital| are building “at least eight” new/| shipbuilding material, and export | battleships. totals show how much. Third, a| Secretary of Navy Knox testi- battleship is too big to be built|fied at the lend-lease bill hearing? in a laboratory, and the news geLs‘ that Japan’s over-all naval com-| around. | bat strength as of January 1, 1941, Japan hagd ten capital ships when was 985,000 tons, not far behind| she went hush-hush son naval in- the 1,250,000 tons of combat ships private citizens in Japan. The Jap- anese Foreign Office is wilung to permit the iiner entering tae har- bor but only to take off American official personnel of which only about 20 desire to leave now In Washington, Présden’ Roose- velt and Secrctary of Stote Hull conferred on the situation and then formation. British sources estimate the State Department sent instruc- in the U. 8. fleet. tion to Ambassador Grew. Japanese Evacuation There is an unfounded rumor also 1] ”n H er ean or s ovle |that Japanese on the Pacific Coast may be evacuated. That Is Written Enfirely From (ongre;sional Record By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—“Ser- geant York” is the only movie ever written from the Congressional Record. As late as 1935, it was being writ- ten into the Record that Sgt. Al- vin C. York, of Pall Mall, neor Jamestown, in the mountains of Tennessee, could have made a for- tune by exploiting his position of No. 1 hero of the World War—but chose only to pull in a few dollars for speeches and such, when the Bible Class of the Church of Christ and Christian Union needed them to carry on. Until 1941, he turned down more offers from the stage ana movies than the most romantic miss ever had in wildest fancy. But finally the need for funds to carry on his work in the Tennes- see hill country drove the still towering, silent hill-billy, to put his John Henry on a Hollywood | In Washington, Representative John D. Dingel, of Michigen, de- | manded that 10,000 Japanes¢ in the | Fhilippines be rounded up and |placed in coneentration camps un- Lil the 100 Americans in Japan are allowed to go aboard the President |Coolidge and given clearanc? papers. | Significant Broadeast | Tonight, very significantly Domei }supulunons he insisted should be"um-qu off its European and Amer- written into it. The first was that|ican broadeast with a discussion of ‘lGnry Cooper, whom he had uevPr’rumm’ed plans of Chiang Kni Shek | seen off-screen, should play the to visit Moscow. Domei interprets role of Al York. The second was|tuch a plan as evidence of China's that there would be no act of weakness and the effectiveness of heroism or deed of bravery in the|the Japanese blockade. Domei also movie which had not been writ-|indicated a serious sltustion he- ten into the Congressional Rec-|tWeen Japan and the United States ord, |referring to the reports Viedivostok |15 to be made a clearing port for (war supplies to the Russlans from REAMS OF DESCRIPTION the United States and also the U. S, The results were that the sl.ndm!l’"bu-ihed statement of all vossible making the film had to trade Bette |assistance to the Soviets. Davis to get Gary Cooper for n\ei bt title le—: story's a e had to o to the congresions Men Over 28 i Record fo! detail of the bat-| ¥ r every detail of the bal f"fl”flBe ] Inducled tle scenes. What they found there werse reams of description, introduced into the Benate record by Sen.} —_— Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee,! WASHINGTON, August 18— who still holds forth on the Sen-| President Roosevelt today signed ate floor and is the third oldest| into law the legislation to relieve. member of the upper house men 28 years and older from ae~ contract. When he did, there were two tive military service under the Selective Service Aet. R | s in| (Continued on Page Five) l B 1