The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1941, Page 1

— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8806. PRICE TEN CENTY JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 19, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZIS SWARM OVER UKRAI Thousands of Army Men May Be Sent Home What It Means If Japan Gels Info New War "HUNT FOR.RESOURCES EXCLUDE_INDIES? SELECTEES, GUARDSMEN T0 BE OUT Two Hundred Thousand Ex- | pected fo Be Released | Before Christmas | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The War Denartment announced that unless the international sit- tion interferes, substantial rumbers of selectees and National Guardsmen will be sent home after as little as fourteen months service. | Approximately 200,000 men will be due for release from active | service this year in order that | they may reach their homes be- | fore the Christmas holidays. The release of the selectees | and Guardsmen will be accom- | plished prior to December 9, it is | said. Late today the War Depart- ment further announced that | unless the international situa- it would not be necessary to keep any men for the maximum of 30 months. | e i RULAFORD ON BUILDING JOB' tion prevented, it was hoped that | I 4 C. C. Rulaford, building contrac- tor, is now busily engaged on 2 job at 316 Sixth Street. He is| remodeling the home of Frank M. | Kardanoff and making an added | apartment. | “The 3 WASHINGTON Confidential cables tc the Commerce Depart- ment report that Axis business firms in South America are shipping their | files and records to Japan. | Last week twelve Japanese vessels put in at five different West Coast Latin American ports ostensibly to | pick up Tokyo-bound mail. What they actually loaded was hundreds of crates filled with the papers and beoks of Axis businessmen who had been forced out by the U. S. black- list and the freezing of Axis funds. Hundreds of Axis firms have shut down all over South America, and thousands of Germans and Italians have been flocking to southern Chile, where there is a large German col- cny. Their files and papers have followed, all painstakingly marked “mail” and sent to Tocopilla and Coquimbo, Chilean ports, or to Mol- lendo (Peru), Guayaquil (Ecuador), and Buenaventura (Colombia). By obvious pre-arrangement, the fleet of 12 Japanese ships arrived at these ports shortly after the records turned up. No effort was made to stop shipment, since the contents of the crates were known to authorities. NOTE: Axis funds also are in flight from Latin America, -appar- ently fearful of freezing action. In one case $5,800,000 in U. S. currency owned by a German agent in Brazil was transferred to Santiago, Chile, then to Buenos Aires, where instruc- tions were received to convert the money into salable commodities. | i | | FISH EGGS Announcement that 57-year-old, four-times married Senator Rey- nolds was to wed 20-yearold Evalyn McLean, $80,000-a-year heiress,! brought great jubilation to one man in North Carolina. He is Cam Mor- rison, whom Reynolds nine years ago unseated chiefly on the issue of Mor- rison’s wealthy wife. Reynolds did not mince words in making this issue. His campaign speech on the subject was. an epic of rabble-rousing. After emphasiz- (Continued on Page Four) Wale Nazis Capture a Red Train Radiophoto According to the official German caption, Nazi soldiers are shown on the locomotive of a Russian train captured on the eastern front. The caption did not reveal.on just what part of the far-flung'battle line the train was taken, Photo radioed from Beulin to New York, Shorfage, Ketchikan Area, Hinders Operations of Mrs Vanderbilt Sues Manuela Vanderbilt Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, million- aire turfman. of New York, is being sued for divoree by his wife of three years, the former Manuela Hudson. The couple were married on June 8, 1938. Vanderbilt admitted on Dee. | 3. 1940, that they had separated. Their daughter, Wendie, was born on March 10. 1939, FENTONS ARRIVI Mr. and Mrs. Dive Fenton of ployment 3ervice diréctor Juseph T. Sitka arrived m Jurncau s after- Flakne is a passenger on board the :oon with an Alaska Coastal Air-;nnrmbdund steamer - Aleutian. Jnes ~iot from the Coust and are) will visit Mr. ao stoppng at the Baranof Hotel. Canneries; Lakes Drying Up§ KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 19— Continued summer weather this 1 month in this section of Southeast | Alaska is assuming drouth pmpm'-‘ tions as some canneries and mines | gxperience serious water shortages. ‘ Lighthouse stations have become dependent on ships for water. For the first time in history, the Cape | Decision light station on Kuiu | Island, near Ketchikan, is without | water, due to drying up of two| lakes at the southern end of the | island. | The Coast Guard cutters Nemaha | and Cyane have heen kept busy transporting water to Cape De- cision, Guard Island, Three Point | and Eldred Rock lighthouses, all of Iwhich are ordinarily served by col- lecting rainwater or by lakes. Canners On Spot Canneries find themselves between the frying pan anfl the fire, due to the rainless weather. Canned sal- mon is piling up on their docks, due to the shortage of ships to take the pack south. At the same time, they need rain for their water supply, but rain would damage the cases of can- ned fish on the docks. Hawk Inlet and Kake canneries have reported just enough water to get by. " Three pumps which have been in | lacticn to maintain water in Ketchi- (kan’s Reservoir Lake from the sec- |ond lake have reduced the water (level in the second lake four feet below the level in Reservoir Lake. {Without this water source, Ketchi- | kan would be in a serious fix for |water and power. Practically No Rain | i The rainfall this month here is .76 iof an inch, eompared with a month- {1y average rainfall of 11.57 inches. ‘ The Gold Standard Mine, at near- by Helm Bay, has suspended opera- tions because of a lack of water. Dr. G. E. Dickinson, one of the owners, said the situation there is the worst | {seen in 40 years. 5 Visitors from Loring report the |stream there is at its lowest since | 1927, i Wrangell also reports a serious | water shortage. Pt SR N FLAKNE’S NEPHEW COMING Earl Fiakne of Kansas City, Mis- {curi, nephew of Territorial Em- He .Trs. Flakne in AMERICANS STILL HELD - BYJAPANESE No Explanfin for Not Permitting 100 fo Leave —British Also in Trouble TOKYO, Aug. 19.—British sub-| | jects trying to leave Japan are ' | meeting with the same frustrations as Americans, it is learned heve | tonight. | As a whole, the subject bccnme: more complicated. -~ Responding to the official Ame; | BORNEO | can statement that Japan has not | | given any satisfactory explanation | for refusal to permit 100 Ameri- | cans to leave aboard the liner Pr dent Coolidge, the Japanese Gov- ernment spokesman disclaimed any intention to hold Americans as | hostages. | Koh Ishii declared that the ques- tion depended upon “certain incon- veniences” in the Japanese-Ame o | can relations but implied these did | not involve trade, political or o(ner] international issues. 1 | The Japanese generally continued to express concern over the United 5,000,000 TONS T EACH SYMBOL = 1,000,000 TONS Solving the Stocking Problem DUTCH EAST INDIES Annual Output (1940 Estimates) | | | noy.remain indifferent to any such| | help. ‘ —————— i 7PERSONS KILLED N EACH SYMBOL = 10,000 TONS . = SHIP BLAST Forty MissiEAfier Explo- | | sion-FBl Investigat- ing Sabotage NEW YORK, Aug. 19. — Seven persons were known dead and some With the war shortage threatening to deprive _Amel:icn'n women_ of their silk stockings, somebody in Boston had the bright idea of spraying their legs with suntan oil as a substitute for hose, and here's the result. Left, sprayed legs; right, silk-clad legn. -|ace the raw materials we need in | OiL | TIN |RUBBER AbddA . SO EACH SYMBOL = 100.000 TONS By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.— Japan has about a year of high speed military and naval warfare under | her belt, despite her costly excur- | sion ‘into China, That’s the consensus of the mili- tary economists, And they figure Japan’s first move, if she's wise, will NOT be into yet again into Siberia (provided | the Russian army is not destroyed | in the West). They assume Japan | would strike for Burma and the | upper part of the Malay Penin- | sula. | The reasons ure Japan why the experts fig- has her eyes now on | the British Empire’s Burma and| Malaya are four-fold: 1.—The Japanese army and navy could operate jointly, the army moving through Thailand and the navy along the China coast and forced merely to hold off, not at- tack, the fleets of the enemy. 2.—Great Britain would be hard put to muster as much military force at the focal points of Burma and Malaya, as could Japan. 3.—Politically, the argument of the United States that any fuc- ther move by Japan would men- INCREASE IN FIERCENESS Leningrad R—ea(iy for Crack- | ing as Pincers Drive 1 { Together RUSS NAVY UNITS "IN GERMAN HANDS {Soviet Situation Is Not Yef | Serious — Will Be If Budyenny Falls (By Associated Press) Hitler's high command reported today that Germany and its allles | have overrun all the Ukraine terri- tory east of the Dnieper River and |announced violent new assaults |against the siege-bound port of |Odessa on the Black Sea. | On the northern front a Red Army | bulletin acknowledged that the jaws of the giant German and Finnish | nut-cracker is closing in on Lenin- i grad with bitter fighting raging only 175 miles southwest of the old-time capital of the Czars. The German high command fur- ther reported the capture of Russian | fleet units under construction at | Nikolaev, fallen Black Set port, in- |cluding a 35,000-ton battleship, a 10,000-ton cruiser, four destroyers NAZIBLOWS the Dutch East Indies, nor|and two Submarines. In addition to this capture, the high command said German bomb- ers disabled three Soviet warships including a heavy cruiser in waters off Odessa. . Authoritative quarters in London | said the German occupation west of |the Dnieper River is not a death | blow to Russia, but if the Nazis suc- ceed in smashing Marshal Budyen- ny's army, the result would be | serious. Explosive Incendaries were drop- ped on the Soviet capital in a new }ntght raid last night in which the |Russians said only one German | plane broke through, e i e Western Germany in big from Burma and Ma- Surprisingly, Japan is well sup- Brocklyn pier, eating up the cargo death toll of the $1,500,000 fire may | ke Vligen 1 l Ina y s e awyers a direct thrust at our security. possible sabotage. much of the oil, tin and rubber | States business men finally have The legal business jogged along last among the big-five world | | me. “And as the weeks | necessities of war right in ¥ . 0 | Chur(hl“ confab |a class by themselves. Their busi-{ ==y cinace for the first six|ions and colonies boost her es- planted in new soil—and yet it is fourth, with a 50 percent scorc. that President Roosevelt's joint|Pring along the worms. But when But that was a month or six|high speed. States.” That’s why ien the‘w”mm;mn lawyers have dropped | the possibility of sending an Am- | tracts; when there came the first It is thumbing through the first|laya. been discussed at a conference be-| rolled up ' their sleeves, and o |y.i has brought the conclusion|plied with many of the 10 basic two score are missing today as inc and destroying the Cuba Mail Line craft yesterday. | the Dutech East Indies, would be never be known. B, E. Sackelt, | hattan Field Office of the Federal | For British possessions would be [] County District Attorney William | Iurn “ow 'o Ge‘ BuSIness 4.—Most important, Japan would —————— she needs to prolong her war | - The military economists limit Ja- in a few days or weeks at most. | FlARES OVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—United Jor world power to one year be- 1 a national 8t its even pace. ilicker tape. “We couldn’t understand it,” one| The United States is first, be- | became | basic ! months and nothing happened, it our own front yard. Great Brit- ’ aiis ness thrives in direct proportion to |50 pn of this year actually fell | sentials to 70 percent. Germany now Means "Offensive ‘ | PR | dustry. When sailing is compara- | L L e T hcing; got France and most of the rest of tor Hiram W. Johnson, Republican ' most Washington lawyers are as | seemed to be going through this| She has the resources—more than statement with Churchill of Anglo-|the laws of the land start dumping| % 0 " "o ecentative in Wash- |industrial capacity to convert and “offensive and defensive alliance be- here and there, capital legal lights | weeks ago. Now, all is changed. The| Japan is last, with 35, because | avalanche He made this statement in a months ago, and the four major essentials of war—oil, denial by Senator Alben Barkley, Army and Navy were SPUtting| . ... ¢chino poles and niblicks and | 0f these she could get erican expeditionary force to help|rumble of priority talk—Washing-¢ . ¢ ucklonds of cases that their tween Roosevelt and congresuonnl‘rcady-tor the avalanche of business (Conuinued on Page Eight) Juneau. aftermath of a fire which swept a ship Panuco and numerous small An investigator said the total | — partly answered if Japan avoided Special Agent in charge of the Man- | Bureau of Investigation, and Kin; | menaced instead. O'Dwyer began investigations .,(: find in Burma and upper Malaya . L] < 'Iona e ense|smylng power to two years, per- ISOLATIONIST From ‘ i i By JACK STINNETT | pan’s staying power against a ma- | Then what happened? Nothing. cause the island empire still ranks | decided that we are ir | emergency—and that business-as- usual is as dead as last week’s COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT sources. ——— |1 got it straight from the Wash- of the legal fraternity explained to!cause we have 75 percent of the Hiram Johnson Says FDR- iston lawsers X ‘ | The Washington lawyers are M, .. oy the more puzzling. Why,|ain is second, because her domin- | covernment aetivity in private -\ a0 g period a year ago. |ranks third, with 60, because she's WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Sena- tively smooth in the marts of trade, | o "0 B % voots and. trans- | Europe to draw from, and Russia of California, today told the Senate|idie as a fisherman who forgot to cataclysm without a lawyer—with- anybody else—but she lacks the American peace aims constituted an |apples out of the industrial cart|To T, feed them to her military forces at tween Britain and the United have to weight their coat-tails. s;aven L:x; cltgdh!." arrived with Washing-|she is almost wholly deficient in when national e~ | + | ton’s mid-summer heat stormy debate precipitated by the| fense began to boom; g Democratic leader of Kentucky, on| whereases in thousands of con- come back to work. | quantiies Britain invade Europe, which had | ton lawyers peeled off thelr coats, | ;.. nave dumped in their laps leaders yesterday. | they felt certain would strike with- (Continued on Page Seven) | powers in the 10 basic essential re- | IsEombed British Air Force Makes Night Raid-Many Large Fires Are Starfed (By Associated Press) The British Air Force bombed western Germany again last night and the planes also touched off large fires along the French coast from Dunkerque to Boulogne. F. D. R. ASKS PEOPLE T0 GUARD AGAINST MATERIAL WASTAGE National Sa?eWCoun(il 0f- fered Lead in Con- cerfed Drive WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — Presi- dent Roosevelt today called upon every American citizen to enlist in a campaign against accidents to pre- vent “wastage of human and mater- Uin, rubber and aluminum. Three | jal resources of the nation.” He ask- ed the National Safety Council to lead the concerted drive, - et | The Navajo Indians of Arizona |and New Mexico, famed as silver- | smiths, learned the art from Mexi~ cans they captured about the middle of the 19th century,