The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1941. _VOL. LVIL, NO. 8810. - MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LENINGRAD BESIEGED ON 3 SIDES 2 DEAD AND | ONE INJURED | IN GUN PLAY Oakland Newlyweds Mur- dered in New Home- | Killer Shoots Self OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 23. — Two | persons are dead and one cther fat- ally injured as a result of a shooting | fray here early this morning. Killed were Robert Newcomb, 42, and his bride of only two days, Dorothy Dunn Newcomb, 35. The newlyweds were married in Mezxico last Wednesday, and were shot to death in their new home. Deputy District Attorney Laurence Dayton said the killer was James McDonald, 47, Army Sergeant and | ROTC instructor in the Fremont High School, who was a friend of the | bride befcre her marriage. After shooting the pair he put a bullet in his.own chest and may die. The murderer first disabled the Newcomb car, then broke through a | door in the rear of the house and shot Newcomb three times. As he charged in, Mrs. Newcomb got a pistol and was able to fire once be- fore being killed. Newcomb was a | plumbing shop operator. -ee CLAYSON WESTBOUND Will Claysen, former Ski:way | chant and later operating cioth- 1 ores in Covdova and Anchor- | iee, is aboard tne Mount McKinley | enroute to Seward on a business; es in Portland. | e | OFF TO SEWARD Mrs. George Gullufsen is a pass-} Hospital Ship The U.S.S. Solace, first hospital sh: World War days, is commissioned Kormerly the liner lroquois, the h Commissioned R i ip to be added to the navy since in Brooklyn. Crew, ofticers and | guests are pictured standing at attention at hoisting of the colors. ospital ship has 400 beds and is modern in every detail. enger aboard ihe Mount McKmley [— for Seward where she will aitend | the American Legion Auxiliary con- | vention as a delegate, | | Tries Again KRAME The Misses Amy and Margaret | Kramer, formerly of Fairbanks,| § 4 | graduates of University of Alaska | 4 5 | and Territorial teachers are pas- | cengers on board the nox-v.hbound; Mount McKinley. They are return- ing to their school after a trip to the States. GIRLS RETURN | | | WASHINGTON —In the Lead- sines, lend-leas: aid to Britain is chiefly a story ol planes, lanks, ships and munitions, But these dra- matic war susnlies are only one part of the piciure. An equally vital, though little known, phase of tiis gigantic pro- gram is food. Today, practically.every ship leav- ing U. S. shores for part of its cargo. Also sivnificant is the fact that this steccy flow of food shipments differ. mark- edly from those of World Wrr Gays. | Then the fooistufis were in bulk form—boatloads of grain ana fresh meats. But now, with Briush and| suffering terribie| enough | bulky | shipping Cestruction, there aren’t Lottoms to transport bota armaments and buiky food across the hazardous At:antic. Since the cargo space for bulky armaments cannot be reduced, and with the British feod situction be- coming acute, tood is beine shipped 1 concentrated and delydrated form, Thus it is carried in the same ships with arms and muni- tions, taking up relatively little +pace, The extent of these shipments and what they meaal to the Awer- ican farmer is shown grapaically by £1lied cinbattled | England carries stocks of iood as| | For the second time, Rosemary i LaPlanche of Los Angeles will | represent her state in the “Miss | | America” beauty contest in At- | | lantic City, N. J, Sept. 1-7. Miss | LaPlanche was adjudged second | last year, 'STOCK QUOTATIONS | DIMOND ASKS U. 5. T0 TAKE RED ISLANDS Protection of- Alaska and States Depends on Momandorski WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Alaska NO GAS SUNDAY Going fo Be-e“A>Iright Going But Will Probably Be Tough Returning | motorists planning long weekend | trips may have trouble getting home | as filling stations in some localities announced gasless Sunday for to- morrow, the first since 1918 | Senator Walter F. George | that he was reliably informed that a | one-third cut in Eastern motor fuel is planned, compared to the present | 10 percent cut. Showdown On ‘Germans in Iran Nears Asiatic Country Cancels Leaves of Thousand Arm\[ gficers TEHERAN, TRAN, Aug. 23—An- ticipating a showdown on the 3rit- ish-Russian demand t» expel Ger-| {man technicians, the Yran govern- went today cancelled the leaves of | 1.072 newly graauated : rmy officers land crdered them to the fror tie for active duty with 120,003 troop: | The answer handed the British |minister yesterday was understcoa 10 agree to r-duce the number of |Germans in Iran when thew con- {tracts with state-owned railroads, communications and industries ex- pire. TRIPOLI IS " BOMBED BY RAF FLIERS Delegate Anthony J. Dimond sug- | gested today that the United States acquire Momandorski Island from Russia to make the nation invul- nerable in the North Pacific. “Under the present circumstances | with Hitler pounding on the front door, and maybe in the future Ja- pan at the back door of Russia, both the United States and Russia would be better off if we had the islands,” he said. If Japan attacked Russia one of her first moves /would be to seize |the island, and Dimond said he was alarmed at the prospect which |would be almost as bad as if Japan took Hawaii. ’ e e———— CANADIAN MINISTER IS BOOED Mackenzig_Kin'g Given Queer Greeting by Own Forces from Dominion SOMEWHERE IN _ENGLAND, IN EAST | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Fastern | said | Hitler’s mechanized forces, which many self-styled mili- tary experts predicted would con- quer Russia in two or three weeks, are merely neck-and-neck with the horse-and-buggy army of Napoleon in the race for Moscow, as this map shows. Napoleon broke his alliance | with Czar Alexander to invade Rus- sia June 24, 1812; entered Moscow Sept. 15. Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded Russia | | | | | { | | | { L | Victim of encephalitis (sleeping sickness), ulx-yegr-old Doreen Shook, of Dormansville, N. Y., is shown in Albany Hospital as she began her SOVIET bering. She is shown being fed a [RUSSIAN. é%b/vmey ,' third year of continual sleep. Since she was stricken in 1939, she has eut her second teeth and overcome an attack of measles while slum- nurse Marion McFarland and student nurse Martha McHugh, i British Repo?fireai Vic-| Hitler on Napoleon’s Ill-Fated Road to Moscow? IEV. [NAPOLEONS MARCH ON MOSCOW blitzkrieg | record, he must enter Moscow by Sept. 13. Napoleon's troops entered Smolensk Aug. 17. With two days head start, Hitler's forces are re- ported only a few miles beyond that key city. It was there that Napo- leon’s two main columns, the south- ern one commanded by his brother, Jerome, combined. At Borodino on Sept. 7 they lost 25,000 troops to the Russian’s 38,000, and eight days lcter the French entered Moscow. June 22, 1941. To equal Napoleon’s [ In a few hours the city was set Begins Third Year of Sleep liquid diet through her nostrils by | fory in Gomel Area-- | large Fires, Berlin (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British bombers dropped more |than 25 tons of bombs on Tripoli, | |chief supply port of the Axis in! }Libya. | Large fires and explosions are |reported in Berlin after the RAF raids last night, The German army is now stand- ing 60 miles east of Gomel in the area southeast of Klintsky, while| advance units are pushing toward the important rail junction of Bry- | | | | } By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. —.The House of Representatives is in the doldrums. It has been shorn of its | laughter, applause and cheers—at ansk, 100 miles to the northeast, |jeqst so far as the Congressional repor'ted. |Record is concerned. And there are The British High Command an-|some who even would welcome re- |nounced a great victory in the Go-'iyrn of the “Bronx cheer” if they mel area, smashing 25 divisions an|could only get the notations back capturing 84,000 prisoners. into the Record that their stirring It started back in June when Rep. | Clare Hoffman of Michigan asked | this morning with pilot Shell Sim- made, the’Record noted that there |mons as he took off from the was “Applause.” House Members Can Get Cheers or Jeers; Record Won't Print If, However to see just how funny he was and at the end of his hilarious gag was just a cold little period and after that a quick resumption of business, SENATORS GET FULL CREDIT It was the same when the members delivered themselves of those titil- lating orations that called for hand- claps and hand-clasps. So far as the Record showed, the members might have been reading from the 3.008th page of the cumulative sta- tistics on the life cycle of a house fly. Into this deplorable state of af- fairs the other day (all the more deplorable since the Senate report in the Record, with such phrases as “boisterous laughter” and “loud ap- plause,” &till shows to what extent ‘he Senators are laying them in the afire by Russian saboteurs, and Na- poleon was forced to retreat before winter and the still furiously fight- ing Russians, Fewer than 100,000 of Napoleon’s original half-million men ever got out of Russia, and the road to Moscow proved to be only a detour on the way to Waterloo. Stalin, like the czar, left Smolensk in ruins and is following the czar’s scorched earth policy, and crops are being hurriedly harvested. And Hitler has yet to reach Moscow. 6,000 JEWS ARRESTED IN NAZIS PARIS Murder of Gher;\van Colonel | Puts Lives of French Info Pawn PARIS, France, August 23.-—-Put- |ting the lives of thousands of Frenchmen in pawn, German offic- |ials in occupied France today de-| ‘lcree‘d death for any new violence | following the assassination of a Ger- | { man Colonel, stabbed in a Paris sub- way. The killine was followed by the arrest of 6,000 Jews. The German commandant of Paris said, “If such | | actions continue, a number of host- | ages corresponding to the gravity of | the act committed will be shot.” ‘:clzmnx briefly {the East F RED MARSHAL APPEALS T0 CITIZEN ARMY Finns and Nazis Crushing in on Gulf Port from Three Sides SOVIET CIVILIANS TURN BACK GERMANS Reticent Bullefin from Hi- ler Indicates Stiff Resistance (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Soviet Marshal Klementi Voro- shilov’s dramatic appeal to the pop- ulace of Russia's second greatest city today acknowledged that a “terrible danger is hanging over Leningrad,” with the enemy near- ing the sprawling, industrial cen- ter on the Gulf of Finland. “Dig yourselves in, the decisive moment has arrived,” he said.Red armies defending the city, rein- forced by troops rushed from the city’s garrison of a million men, are reported to be under heavy pressure from three sides. Soviet dispatches said the com- bined Red Army forces and volun- teers from the “People’'s Arm have saved an unspecified Russ city from German siege columns, hurling the Nazis back six miles in fiorce counter attacks. The city mentioned may have been Odessa on the Black Sea, now under siege for many days. A bulletin from der Fuehrers headquarters contained no details of the 63-day struggle, merely de- that “operations on continue according h In the past has the invading Ger- encountered stiff nt to plan," whi indicated that man troeps resistance, DNB, official German news agen- cy, said the Dnepr River city of Cherkasi, 90 miles southeast of | Kiev, has fallen into German hands, Bufing = By Bifs ~ PLANE ? ~ DOWNED » Courier Craft Shot Over| Field - Imporfant Docu- . menfs Fall fo Germans | BERLIN, Aug. 22. — Important secret documents and other materi- | |als of the Soviet High Command }ml into German hands today | [Lhmugh the downing of Mflrshnli {Voroshilov's own courier plane which was hit in the motor as it | flew low over an airfield of Ger=- man infantry.” This report is made by the DNB, | German news agency, tonight. MAN JAILED IN ANCHORAGE O New Government Regula- fions on Installments Effective Sept. 1. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — New strict Government regulations on installment buying, proclaimed ef- fective on September 1, covers a wide range of luxuries and also includes ftems considered necessi= ties, One of the regulations includes one-third down payment over a | maximum of one year and a half to |pay the balance on new and used automobiles, airplanes and power= driven boats. BIG LEGION CONVENTION | Aug. 23.—Mixed cheers and boos NEW YORK Aug. 23-Closing and hand clapping greefed Cana- the following list of lend-lesse f00d |quotation of American Can today dian Prime Minister MacKenzie on purchases between june 1 »nd July'jc 81%, Anaconda 281/2, Bethlehem his arrival at the sports stadium bt H American cneese, younds; corn starch, pounds; frozen eggs, | Steel 20,482,175 Southern 35,820,000 Kennecott 381/2, New Yoik Cen-'a field day inspection. 26,648,630 tral 681/2, Commonwealth and this afternoon where 10,000 Cana- Curtiss Wrighi 9'%,'dian soldiers were assembled for 12%, Northern Pacific 7"»’4,i The booing came from the rear pounds; honey, 3,557,300 pounds; United States Steel :7, Pound of the grandstand but was drowned canned fish, hydrated soup soy beans, 90%0,050 pounds; lieans, 40,770,000 pounds; cor 0,696,000 pouris; enzymes (Continued on Page Four) 1,083,052 cascs; 4,400,000 pounds; dried | sugar, de- $4.031/2. 5a6g| The following are toda, s | ! Jones averages: indusirias 12091, against the relative inaction of the rails 30.28, utilities 18.40 \Kout by The hand eclapping and | cheers. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | It developed later that the boos Dow,|Were an_indication of expression ! Canadian forces. R R B - T e | speeches didn’t find the customers FOUR I.E | sitting on their hands and that their AvE F oR | wisecracks weren't just jocular duds. | (o‘s' 0“ plAN permission to correct the Congress- | —_— | ional Record. On a certain page, he | Four passengers winged to Sitka, caid, following a speech that he had Channel with Mrs, Harry Harto, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Fenton and Mrs. Ralph Slagle. He is scheduicd to return with five passengers. Pilot Dean Goodwin is on 2n |emergency to Chatham, the nature of which was not known when the I pilot left. Alex Holden made three freight trips to the Polaris-Taku mire, with groceries and supplies for the Canadian mining town. Goodwin is scheduled to fly to the Coast later in the day with Peter Swanson to Hirst and E. J. Sweeney and Al Jensen' to Sitka. He will return with two passengers from Sitka. | “There was no applause,” sajd Congressman Hoffman, “and I ask that the word be stricken out.” This somewhat flabbergasting re- | quest made such an impression that Speaker Sam Rayburn made a rule. | He pointed out that it was the Chair’s |opinion that “applause,” “laughter,” |ete., wer: not a part of the House | proceedings and should not be in- lcnrpm-amj into the Record and thereinafter would not be. At the moment, no one took the | matter very seriously. But reading | the Record, from day to day, brought ‘'a different reaction A member got off a smart one. The House and the galleries laughted. The next day, reading the Record, he checked up CHECK CHARGE aisles) stepped Rep. Louis Lud]ow,‘i »f Indiana, who as newspapersman | Sought by the U. & Marshal's ind congressman has been watching Office since March 2:, when he, he Washington scene for 40 years. |2llegedly cashed a bed rbeck lorl In all his career there has been $60 1t the B. M. Behrends Bank| nly one such other demonstration here, J. B. Crawford was -rrested »f henesty as Mr. Hoffman’s, said |in Anchorage last nizht, according Mr. Ludlow. That was 35 years ago |t0 a radio received today vhen John Shafroth, a representa- | ive from Colorado, stood on the floor ing a check drawn on the Bend jarrival there the Pirst | Ketchikan delegations. wnd presented his resignation, stat- Oregon, branch of ing that he had been studying the National Bank of Portlana in a| IS DELAYED The American Legicn and Aux- Diary convention at Seward, scned- uled to start next Wednesday to continue for tireé deys is under- Crawford was charged w.* cash-|stood to have been postponed nntil f the Jun-au and The delegations from the tw> big evidence surrounding his election, |complaint filed by Jamwes McNaugh- |Southeast Alaska cities, aad dele- and that he had come to the con- |ton, cashier at the Be! rends bank. | eates from Wrangell and Pe.ers- clusion that the other fellow had |He will probably be rcturned here Purg, are scheduled to leave for been elected. {for trial. the westward on the Yukon. The ——e—— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Nevertheless, said Mr. Ludlow, the " (Continued on Page Eight) steamer is due in Juneau Monday, ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS