The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1941, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A - E— VOL. LVIL, NO. 8809. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 22 , 1941, MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN1T3 CIVILIANS DEFEND LENINGRAD JAPAN FEARS BOMBERS OF U. S, ~ NIPPONS EXPRESS ANXIETY Hope Warplanes from Am- erica Will Not Be Kept at Vladivostok | ACTION WOULD BE CONSIDERED THREAT Spokesman of Foreign Of fice Seeking Clarifica- tion on Subject TOKYO, Aug. 22.—Japan today expressed anxiety lest American- made bombers sent to Russia might be kept at Vladivistok, Soviet Pa- cific port, which the Japanese have termed the northern Singapore, as a threat to their Island Empire. Hoh Ishii, Tokyo Foreign Office spokesman, said Japan hoped for United States assurance that any such planes would not remain there, thus leaving clear the. implication that Japan will be less worried if the planes went on through Russia to the Western Front for use against the Germans. The Japanese have adopted a new plan for mobilization of materiai re- sources designed to speed national | defense preparations to make Japon | self sufficient, it was also announced here today. Hongkong's population has more than doubled in ten years, accord- ing to the Depaftment of Com- merce. e ! oW S | WASHINGTON. — Last spring, when Hitler was on the verge of| invading Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav| Minister in Washington, Constantin | Fotitch, telephoned to the Soviet; Ambassador, Constantine Ouman-| sky, to remind him of the pact of mutual assistance between Russia | and Yugoslavia. i “I hope,” said the Yugoslav Min- | ister, “that our treaty will now! work and that Russia will help: Yugoslavia in her hour of need.| “Oh, my dear colleague,” replied | Ambassador Oumansky, “you must realize that Russia considers the| capitalistic governments of the; United States and Great Britain | much greater enemies than Ger- many.” Several weeks later, on June 22, to be exact, the Yugoslav Minister | telephoned the Soviet Ambasndor; again. By this time Hitler had| turned the tables on his former | ally by invading Russia. “Do you still think,” asked the Yugoslav Minister,” that Great Britain and the United States are| greater enemies than Germany?” “My dear colleague,” lmplores‘ Ambassador Oumansky, “please say no more about it.” NEW NATIONAL DEFENSE BOARD After Roosevelt gets out of the glamour of international affairs and settles down to mundane do- mesticity, one of the first problems | waiting on his desk is an effort| to end wrangling between the OPM and OPACS. ! This wrangle is over the guestion of priorities for national defense.| When Congress passed the Priori- ties Act last spring, it divided au- —_— __ {Continued on Page Four) > President Hiis Japan Another Swat; Tariff On (rab Meat Raised HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. President Roosevelt today ordered a 50 percent increase in the tariff on imported crab meat from Javan, which is the chief source of sur . he proclamation made no men- tion of Japan, specifically, however. The proclamation des ed the duties on imported crab meat shall be raised from 15 to percent ad | cent looking document on the sur- valorem and further states the in- | face it constitutes a link in the crease is necessary to equalize differ- | chain of economic measures against ences in cost of production elsewhere GREETERS FOR FAIR 22— which has been determined by in- vestigation of the Tariff Commis- sion. meat prepared or preserved in any manner, including raw crab, paste crab or sauce, packed in air-tight containers. While the proclamation is an inno- o Four shapely Stockton misses (left to right) Viola Hahn, Naomi Par- sons, Jurie Ware and Margot Marsden, are on hand to greet visitors to the San Joaquin County Fair, August 15 to 24. The Stockton ex- position is the third largest i the nation and annually attracts ap- proximately 150,000 persons. The greeters, pictured each with a musical note, reading “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” greet visitors at the entrance to Agricultural Hall. Al Smith, Jr., Serves HALIFAX ~ ISFLOWN T0 HOME ‘Brifish Ambassador Cross- es Atlantic Aboard Bomber from Canada LONDON, Aug. 22—Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, arrived at a British airport this afternoon. The British official crossed the Atlantic from Canada in a bomber. CHUNGKING AIR RAIDED BY JAPANESE Chinese Cam City Under Atfack Again Today by Nippon Bombers CHUNGKING, Aug. 22—A force Alfred E. Smith, Jr. Son of the former governor ot New York, Alfred E. Smith, Jr., puts away his law books as he prepares to report for military duty at Fort Dix, New York, Smith is a captain on the state staff of the New York national guard, In civilian life he is a city councilman. ¢ SPECIALIST TOURS Noted San Francisco specialist Dr. William H. Sargent and wife, are on board the Prince George, booked as tourists to Skagway. China Capital City today in the first air raid since the record week:long attacks that ended August 14. The tariff in crab meat applies to | of 50 Japanese planes bombed this ' FDR ASSAILS SENATORFOR FALSE FACTS {Defense Pr;dl;ction Is Not Satisfactory, But Up fo Estimates HUNDREDS OF TANKS GONE TO ENGLAND Aircraft Outpj Approach- ing 1,500 Monthly, Says President HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 22— Sharply assailing the figures cited by Senator Henry Flood Byrd of Virginia, President Roosevelt assert- ed today ‘that while American de- fense production has never been sat- isfactory, on the average it is up to estimates He said we have turned over hun- dreds of tanks to the British, includ- ing tanks of modern design pr duced in the last year. The anu- aircraft program calls for monthly deliveries of 61 for the four remain- ing montbs this year. The War De- partment believes the program will be met, he said. Byrd asserted the production of 37 mm. anti-tank guns was at the rate of 15 monthly while the actual output was 72 in July and will be 160 in August, 260 in September and 320 in October. Actual production of 81 mm. motars is 340 monthly, with piane production at 1,465 per month. SKAGWAY PIONEER 1S DEAD {Mrs. T. Rapuzzi Passes Away Early This Morn- ing After Brief llness SKAGWAY, Alaska, Aug. 22— (Special to Empire)—Mrs. T. Rapuz- zi, pioneer merchant here, passed away early this morning after a brief illness. She is survived by three sons in Skagway, Charles, George and Louis, the latter Deputy U. S. Marshal, {and Andrew, residence in Seattle; two daughters, Mrs. Aubrey Sim- mons, wife of the Deputy Collector of Customs at Whitehorse, and Mrs. Sid McDonald of Seattle. Mrs. Rapuzzi came here during the Klondike rush and started a small store on Broadway, a short |distance from the White Pass and | Yukon Route passenger depot. The store was enlarged from time to time |and here her family grew up. WAR STRANDED FINNISH SHIP 1 DAMAGED, FIRE Motorship Aurora, New York Harbor, Kills One NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—A mystery Aurora took the life of one shin officer and caused an estimated $50,000 damage_ to the war strand= ‘ed vessel. The fire on the Aurora ra five hours before brought und ,control. @ There is no evidence of sabotage. ged for er ‘Mysierious—BIz;ze Aboard fire aboard the Finnish motorship ! ~ | | | inst » background of ruins three refugees return to the re, radiced from Be ODESSA PRESSED | Germans reported the Russian Black Sea port of Odessa (1), under heavy pressure from three sides, and German military commentators cxplained German forces were in a position to sweep eastward and also to push inland aleng the Dnieper River (shaded arrows). Berlin also reported moppit:g up operations in the north (2,) in the Smolensk sector and east of Lake Peipus. (ifies on Rivers Subjed Now in Need of Huskies By JACK STINNETT had the worst night bombings in WASHINGTON, Aug. zz_(:apual,this war and you will find that | conversation: nearly all of them are split by 4 p ;. |rivers or curve around harbors The night bombing of Moscow is|1Vers °OF sround e one more link in the chain of proof | 1:u Dulmm vx:: ULn :EL :":::“:;.l that cities centers or 5 " which straddle rivers | |are nighly vulnerable to blizkriegs |23 located on water. The polnt is that you can black out man- {from the air. The Moscow River iwlnu‘s through the Soviet c“’m"’,:::dih:gx:l;&b:r:uy::xncem;;im?!xfi and, like a twisted arrow, points the way for enemy bombers. skies. Just as the stars in the Check over the cities that have (Continued on Page Eight) ETURN TO SMOLEN ~ ToBlifzkriegs; Armyls SK AR battle-searred Russian city of Smolensk. This n, was made by Alvin J. Steinkopf of the Associated Press. NAZI FLEET IS BOMBED BY SOVIETS German Transports Attack- ed-Two Sunk, One Set Afire, Others Hit LONDON, Aug. 22.—A Soviet radio | broadcast picked up here tonight said a fleet of German transports, carrying reinforcements to the Ukraine battle front, has been rout- ed by Soviet bombers in three sweeps along the Rumanian coast, The broadcast declared two Ger- man transports were sunk, another set afire and others were hit but damage Is not known. NEW PLAN ~ ON TAXES ~ PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. De- |claring the time is ripe “to make a bold departure in taxation for |defense,” Prof. Harry Lutz, of Prince- ton University, urged the Senate Finance Committee today to ap- prove a 10 percent withholding tax jon individual income. DUFRESNE BACK AFTER PATROL Executive Officer Frank Dufresne, the Alaska Game Commission, |was back in his office at, the Fed- jeral Building today, following a ix-day frip around Southeast Al- ta on the Black Bear. | In Petersburg, Dufresne con- ferred with Earl. Ohmer, chairman |of the Game Commission, regard- ing general game matters. Return- of rector of the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska this summer. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS RUSS TROOPS HOLD GERMAN SIEGE DRIVE iIhousands])_in Peoples’ Army fo Aid Fghting ' Red Army INVADERS MAKING © LITILE PROGRESS fFinns Knifebown Karelian - | | Isthmus-Losses Are Tremendous (By Associated Press) Russian tr'oops are reported | checking German siege columns storming toward Leningrad today as | thousands of the city's civilians vol- ‘untecrcd for service in the Peoples’ | Army. i Dispatches from Moscow said Len- ingrad is now a “formidable military |camp” after four days of bitter fighting on the outer perimeter of |its defenses. The invading Germans | appeared to be making no significant | new progress. | A Tass, official Russian news |agency, correspondent, said the city is echoing to the sound of marching | men through its broad squares and parks to join the Peoples’ Army sup~{ {porting the regular army at the \front. | All through the night the Red Army battled in late summer rain- storms to check the main Nazi drives around Novgorod, 100 miles west of Leiningrad and at Kingisepp, 70 miles to the southwest. g From the north, other Germank and Finnish forces are knifing down the Karelian Ithmus only 65 miles away. A bulletin from Hitler's head- ‘qunrt ers, declaring “the enemy’s casualties are unbelievably high,” reported more than 1250,000 Rus= slans taken prisoners, but did not say durl.ng what period. | e IRAN FACES INVASION, ~ TWOFORCES ;Brifish and Russians De- mand Expulsion of 3,000 . Germans from Nation ' | (By Associated Press) Amid the critical hour 4n the Ger= | man-Russo warfare, a new theatre of war appeared on the verge of opening in the oil kingdom of Iran. London dispatches indicated that Great Britain is ready to send troops into the country unless the Iran Government complies with the Brit- ish and Russian demand for ousting of 3,000 Germans, said to be “tour= |1sts” but who are all with military motives, | British and Russian troops are rée= ! ported poised on the border, ready to move at the given signal at any moment. S st s (GOV. GRUENING ' GOES T SITKA Bearing Gov. Ernest Gruening, a navy plane roared out of Ju= neau this. morning, bound for Sitka. At the defense city, Gov. Gruen~ ing will confer with Commander |ing here with Dufresne was W. E. J. R. Tate regarding navy base !Crouch, who is representing the di- work in the Territory, it was wn= 'derstood. He is due to return late | today. | - eee BUY DEFENSE BONDS