The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1941, Page 1

n THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8807. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1941. e MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — GERMANS MAKE NEW ADVANCE Two U. S. Fighting Planes In Headon Collision 'ANY FUR"’IER Nazi Bomber Shot Down in Ba SEVEN NAVY FLIERS DIE IN CRASHES Toll of Florida Training School Deaths Mounts -Two Day Accidents JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Aug. 20. | —Seven aviators from three Florida al Air Stations have died in two Actress Seeking a Divorce? JAPAN MOVE IS SERIOUS London Sources Say No Specific Assurances of Profection Given LONDON, Aug. 20.—Any further move by Japan in the Far East would be regarded by Great Britain ttle of Atlantic | NNALZIS MOVE NEARER TO LENINGRAD Airborne Troops Now En- tering Sixiy - Day -Old Conflict, Soviels Say i {TRANSPORTS WITH MEN AND TANKS SHOT DOWN ays in accidents, five of them in | bd “extremely serious,” authorita=- two collisions. | tive quarters said. g 4 | | P g . A lieutenant and two cadets were | However, it is understood that Belleved Gl'and ASSGU" on killed yesterday when their ships crashed head-on at 4,500 feet in the | air near Pensacola as they were fly- | ing blind on instruments. | Two aviation cadets from the Jack- | sonville station were killed in a col- | lision at Lee Field as they came in | for a landing. Two other cadets from the Miami station died in a crash of their plane in the Ever- glades. ————.———— PACKER BOATS BUSY AT (OLD STORAGE | Six packer boats tied up 4n close | quarters under the ice chute at| the Cold Storage dock this after- noon taking on ice and supplies Maureen O'Hara Screen Actress Maureen O'Hara, protege of Charles Laughton, has London has given Thailand no spec~ ific assurances that her independ- ence would be protected by British arms. NO SALMON ESCAPEMENT SE. ALASKA Streams Are Too Low as. This four-engined Nazi American built Lockheed Aitliner the British plane shot down the Nazi raider. Photo a dinghy (arrow). The downed fliers were saved. Folke-Wulf Kurier was about to attack a British convoy in the Atlantic when an Hudson of the RAF coastal command came on the scene. At pmlnt-h_lnnk range, bove shows the bomber’s crew swimming to their U. S.-Canada Joit; H;nds Al New Russian Line Is About fo Begin (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler’s Invasion Armies today tightened a ring on Lengingrad with another 50-mile advance. The Russians acknowledged the Germans are driving on the Nov- gorod region which is 100 miles south of the old Cearist Capital. The Red Army bulletin also in- dicated the Germans are begin- ning to use airborne troops in the 60-day-old conflict, reporting a number of four-motored Junkers transports, loaded with light tanks and men, have been shot down. German ' dispatehes this morning . InCrash, T Killed Result of No Rain-0l- son Is in Quandry | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 20— |No salmon are escaping up the | | streams in Southeast Alaska to IV [ spawn because the siresms are wo {TWO Americans Known fo ‘ ; Have Escaped Alive ence Olson, Fishery Management | in Crack-up for unother trip” cut. to-the isls for loads of salmon. Yesterday over 90,000 pounds salmon were unloaded here. Teday the Elfin II unloaded 40,- 000 pounds of salmon, the Tillicum | unloaded 20.000 pounds and [rollers[ . approximately 8,000 pounds. The! Tundra, Tillicum, Peiican, Elfin II, Rotkl Fremont and Fern II are preparing | 1o return to pick up more fish. established residence in Reno, Nev., in a step to séeure a divorce from George Brown, English film man, according to Hollywood re- ports. Miss O'Hara married Erown 90 minutes before she boarded | | m liner at London and sailed for the United Siates two years 2go. | They haver n each other since. fig Chair Associa; said the left wing of Gen. von Rundstedt’s army, estimated at 1,- 500,000 men, is advancing against stiff resistance toward the great bend of the Dneiper River, site of the big industrial city of Dneiper- optrovsk. Advices reaching London indi- cated that Marshal Budyenny had succeeded in withdrawing a great many of his troops across the river of Agent, said this morning. 1 Olson further said there has been | . BUY DEFENSE STAMPS C‘b e WASHINGTON—President Roose- | velt personally is credited with the idea of having Queen Wilhelmina of Holland join him and Winston Churchill at their floating confer- | ence off the coast of Newfoundland. However, the Queen, who is 62 years old and in exile in England, at the last minute found she was unequal to the rigors of a flight in a modern bombing plane. They are not insulated for noise and lack Jusfice Takes Seal, High Tribunal, Next October, Assets Zero no escapement except the early run and it is a “toss up whether to close the districts as scheduled, hoping him. In it, he would sit and rock By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Around Capital Town: | ‘When the Supreme Court recon- venes in October, there will be| added to its furnishings one of the strangest articles that ,the highest | judicial body of the land has seen in modern times. It is new Associ- ate Justice Robert H, Jackson’s/ rocking chair. When the new justice came to Washington seven years ago, he’ brought his rocking chair with| and read his briefs. It's just a plain, ordinary. rocking chalrfinu‘ fancier than Grandma used to sit! and knit in. But up the political | ladder it went with Mr. Jackson. When he was Solicitor General, it | for rain, or go out and catch all sal- | American airliner were killed late mon we can so they won’t go to|yesterday when the plane crashed waste dying on the beaches.” ISFLYING TOLONDON FOR TALK Prime Minister of Canada‘ Either on Way Now or Is About o Leave OTTAWA, Aug. 20.—1It is disclosed here that Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King has already SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 20.— Seven passengers of a giant Pan near Sao Paulo. Five of the 12 oc- | cupants of the ship were reported | safe, | Of the. five escaping injury in the | | crack-up, American passengers we"i Professor Philip C. Jessup of Co- | lumbia University and Hugh Davies |of Harrisburg, JBa. The two men | |reached ‘@ Eao Paulo suburb only | |slightly injured, but no word has' | been received concerning the safety | of the other three passengers who | | reportedly escaped from the fatal | erack-up. | | ———.———— LONE NAZI PLANEOVER Gov. William H. Willis (left) of Vermont, and Hon. C. D. Howe, Canadian minister of munitions and supply, use teamwork in welding the U. S. and Canadian settions of national Border. The pipeline joins & tanker terminal in Portland, Me., with oil refineries in Montreal and will aid in relieving the gaso- line shortage on the East Coast. a 286-mile oil pipeline at the Inter- TWO BOMBERS ON RED ARMY but his forces are believed weak in guns anc¢ are depending too much on the old fashioned horse cavalry. Hitler's headquarters sald speed troops are successfully attacking the few remafning bridgeheads on the west bank of the Dneiper River which are still held, up to midafter- noon today, by the Russians. From all reports, a grand as- sault on the new Soviet line is about to begin. ——————— FERCEST | BATILEIS REPORTED Germans Being Drawn Info ICELAND Canbfomwest INADVANCE | modern conveniences. And by that was in his office and there he| 11 . time it was too late to take the left or is about to leave by air for | would sit and rock and read briefs | 4 by the hour.- As Attorney Gen- London for conferences with British | | Novgorod Province- [ Queen to Newfoundland by warship. The fact that she was invited highlights what was the most lm-l portant part of the conference—. joint action against Japan. The Dutch East Indies, with its wealth of tin, oil and rubber, is the biggest prize of the entire South Pacific— more important than Singapore, Thailand or Australia. The floating conversations off Newfoundland concentrated on the problems of | blocking the Japanese drive to the Indies. Roosevelt took with him to New- foundland the Navy's plan for its next tough move against Japan— namely, invoking the articles of pi- racy. This means that any Japanese merchant ship carrying a gun would be considered a pirate and be haul- ed in by the U. S. Navy unless in its own home waters. > Since most Japanese merchant vessels now are mounted with guns, in clear violation of the law of neu- trals, this means that the Japane-e | would either have to dismount their guns, or, keep their ships at home, or else Tisk a brush with the U. S. Navy. The whole tenor of the Roosevelt- | Patricia (Honeychile) Wilder | Patricia (Honeychile) Wilder, | Broadway actress, owes $8,212'24 | and has no assets except her clothes, | according to a voluntary bankruptey | petition filed in ;‘edl:ul Court, New | A 0or | SOUTH TONIGHT The southbound steamcrs Col- |umbia and Baranof are due in eral, he did not have so much| brief reading to do, and the chair went into a little cubby hole sev- Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other British leaders. HE’S THERE eral rooms removed from that LONDON, Aug. 20. — Canadian spacious one where he held his!|prime Minister Mackenzie King ar- conferences and mapped the poli- |cies and fights of the justice de- there were days, !many of them, when he slipped away to solve his problems in the| ;old ' rocker. partment. Still, Atlantic plane to confer with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other British war leaders and also to inspect Canadian armed forces in the British Isles. (Continued on Page Eight) BUY DEFENSE BONDS rived in England today by a trans-| REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 20. —A single German twin-motored bomber flew over Iceland today and was immediately chased out| to sea by fighter planes. | | It dropped no bombs. This is the! |first such incident reported since! |the. United States Naval forces joined British troops here. | - I it 1s to its own capital, Raleigh. | SPLIT YOUR SEAMS LATELY? We think it's a good idea once in awhile, Some of America’s wittiest people do, too. So start- ing tomotrow, The Empire invites you to sit down with F. D. R, Irvin S. Cobb, Fred Allen, and a host of others and hear their fav- orite stories. Army Planes from Fort Richardson Scheduled fo Return Today Fort Richardson, Anchorage, sitting at the Juneau airport tl Murphy, North Carolina, is near- afternoon after arriving from the | er to six other state capitals than westward, one late yesterday and | the cther this morning. In command of the flight land- ing last night is Capt. C. W Gilkes and in the flying party are Major E. M, Altfather of the Medi- cal Corps, Capt. Jay Wanner, Lf. G. Hazeltine, Lt. John L. Burns, and Lt. Earl E. Karnatz. Officers on board the bomber landing here today are Lt. Thomas F. Mansfield and Lt. Paul Van Osdal, Jr. The ships are here “on reconnaissance work” and will leave today for their home station. Ao Arizona’s 50,000 Indians are di- vided into 14 tribes, each with its| are | 1S REPORT Nazis Being Driven Back in Central Sector, Moscow Army Paper Says MOSCOW, Aug 20—The Red |army is launching a sharp new series of counter attacks against |the Germans in the central sector, the army paper, Red Star, reports tonight, Western forces, commanded by General Konev, have been advane- ing for three days, it is stated. They have driven the Germans out of three successive defense lines ‘rmd have captured five populated | centers and are continuing to ad-| vance, the Red Star declares. | e RUPERT FISH'SALES Prince Rupert, B. C. Aug. 20—/ {One hundred and twenty thousand| Determined Stand (By Associated Press) While two German and one Ger- man-Finnish columns made a drive today on Leningrad from both the west and north, the Soviet High Command late today sald the fiere- est battle is raging about Novgorod, ancient walled town above Lake Ilmen. The Novgorod Province terrain is favorable for a. determined stand since it is half covered with forest and dotted with about 1200 lakes, —_————— ——— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4% ,American Can 82, Anaconda 28'%, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, Internation- al Harvester 53, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 12 3/4, North- ern Pacific 7%, Uniled States Steel Juneau tonight, both leaving soon Churchil_conversations swas_that [0 0 00 mbia s ex- own soclal, economic and cultural | 57, Pound $4.08%. there was no use experimenting| - 2 T RUW IN THE backgrouhd pounds of halibut were sold here i 0 b today at 1250 to 12.80 and 11 cents with any more appeasement, that Japan respected only armed might and would back down a lof quicker pected at 7 o'clock, and due to leave at 8:30 o’'clock. The Baranof will arrive at 7:30, il il S s S A (Wuhpm;- and sail for the south two hou later, f EMPIRE A | Enowflake, Ariz,“was named for its founder, William J. Flake, and a friend, Erastus Snow. ' 1 pound. DOW, JONES AVERAGES h The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 126.01, BUY DEFENSE EONDS l rails 30.21, utilities 1835,