The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1941, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8813. BATILE LINE STRAIGHTENS AFTER DRIVE Invaders in Strate- | gic Position | THREE DIVISIONS KILLED BY NAZIS Germans Make Giant Push Taking 30,000 So- viet Prisoners BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Aug. 27. — Soviet dispatches received tonight said the Red Army, in counter attacks, have thrown the Germans back on approach- es to an undisclosed city. | The dispatches also state that heavy battles are raging on the front from Leningrad to the Black Sea port of Odessa. The Russian High Command also declared Nazi troops have fallen by the thousands and are being driven back from a city identified as “K.” | “Fonight's communique also | states a tremendous aerial battle for control of the seas has de- | veloped over Leningrad. | (Continued to Page Two) ~ihe 3 Wep, % | NEW VERSION, STRIP-TEASE (Editor’s Note —The Brass Ring, good for one free ride on The Washirigton Merry-Go- Round, this week goes to Alex- is Leger, former Under Secre- y of State of France, who kept his head and his ob- jeotives today more than al- mest any cther Frenchman.) WASHINGTON—This is the story of a Frenchman who, during the decade before the war broke, did his best to head off impending dis- aster. It is also the story of how the U. S. State Department balanced this Frenchman’s advice against the advice of an American diplomat in gambling for the great stake of the Weygand army in Neorth Africa, This French African army for one year has been the pawn of desperate diplomatic jockeying. The British wanted it to join them against the Italians in Libya.The Germans and Italians wanted it to join them against the British in Egypt. And the United States wanted it to guard the approaches to Dakar, possible Nazi jumping- off place to South America. 1k The two men whose advice count- | ed most with the United States. | were Robert Murphy, Counselor of the American Embassy at Vichy, and Alexis Leger, for many years the No. two man (permanent Under Secretary) in the French Foreign' | Office. Leger came to the United States after the fall of France with exact-| ly $300 in his pocket, condemnedi to death by Vichy, While he was living in a garret in New York, | The Saturday Evening Post of-| fered him $15,000, with an intima- tion it would rpise the ante to $20,000, for a series of five articles on the inside of France. Leger by this time had used up his $300, but he declined. “I had been trusted with many oonflden-\ D s — (Continued on Page Four) ‘Warlime Army Man of JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 1941. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” S — 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘THREAT MADE TO JAPAN BY 'RED ARMY ANNIHILATED, NEW SALIENT ‘No Nearer War,” Says FDR President Roosevelt rides to the White House with Secretary of State Cordell Hull as the Chief Executive returns to Washington after his historic meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the high seas. The President said their formulation of a peace program had not brought the United States any closer to war. West, Commander of "Lost Division,’ Is Dead NEW YORK, Aug. 27 — Major General Robert Alexander, 77 war- time Commander, died last night in the Veterans' Hospital. { Maj. Gen. Alexander was one of the few living United S'ates Army | generals who rose from the ranks| in the old regular army. At the time of his retirement in 1927—after 40 years with the colors, | fiom infantry private to wartime | command of the 77th (New York) | Division and its famed “Lost Bat-| talion"—it was noted there were| hut two cthers who had done like- | wise: James G. Harbord and Preston | Brown. | But Gen. Alexander chose the! “hard way” to a commission be-| cause it was the only way for him.| 'He wanted to be an army officer| but his mother wanted him to be| a lawyer. He did both. | P a child, T always wanted |to be in the army,” he recalled. “My | father died when I was 10, and T, never could get an appointment to West Point. “My mocther wanted me to study law. So after I was admitted to the |bar, T went into the army in the |only way open to me—as a recruit.”| | That was at Omaha, Neb., April| |7, 1886, as a private in Company G, the 4th Infantry. On the Fourth |of July, two years later, he was promoted to sergeant. | Fought Sicux Indians ‘ Much active service followed—in | the Sioux campaigns of 1890 and |1891; the troubles in Colorado in ithe Philippine Insurrection; Per- | Villa, and then the World War. | He was born gt Baltimore, Md., |October 17, 1863, the son of Judge | William Alexander. He studied law :in an office and was admitted to the bar at Centerville, Md., in 1884. Then, his duty done to his widowed |mother, he enlisted. | He took examinations. at Van- couver Barracks, Wash., and at Li Ling Ai, Chinese film star visit- J ing Hollywood, laid claim to the I for promotion to commissioned rank. strip-tease dance as a Chinese in- vention, “but as an art instead of vulgar entertainment.” She dem- onstrates here how the essence of | the art as practiced in China is |lieutenant illusion, “never reachirg the finai | In Fhitgnse ing “artistically — in black lace & underwear.” * | 7 (Continued on Page Eight) CAPITAL OF ESTONIA IS SET ABLAZE Russians Set Fires in Tal- Close in linn While Nazis ‘ (ONLY GULF LEFT ~ | OPEN FOR ESCAPE |German Navy Sinks Ships. Taking Supplies to Besieged Port (By Associated Press) Giant walls of flame streaking over the siege-girt port of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, indicated today that the Russians are destroying the city, presumably getting ready for a mass attempt to escape to the sea. German troops are reported to have | cut off the city on all sides by land. | Dispatches from Helskini, 50 miles across the Gulf of Finland, said a glow on the southern horizon above Tallinn began in the night and con- | tinued this morning. Observers on} the Finnish shore also heard the | thunder of artillery fire, indicating’ that Germans siege guns are pound-~ | ing the city. | “Operations before Tallinn are | proceeding successfully,” the Ger-| mans announced, adding that Nazi warplanes sunk four Soviet trans-| ports and damaged four other ships | in the Finnish Guif only a few days | ago. The Nazis said they thwarted an | attempt to send supplies to the be- | leaguered city by the sinking of seven Russian ships, two transports | and a destroyer flotilla heading through the Gulf of Finland toward Tallinn. - — ICKES WILL BROADCAST INTACOMA Interior Secretary Is fo Ad- dress Pubic Ownership | Meeting on Sept. 5 | [ | | | TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 27.—Invi- 6,000 persons in the Pacific North- west, inviting them to attend the | tations are being sent out to some "Foreigners" Increasing | Northwest Convention of the Public | Ownership Leagues of Washington | land Oregon, to be held here Sep-| tember 5. | Big feature of the convention will | be an address by Secretary of the| Interior Harold L. Ickes, to be broad- | cast threughout the nation. Mr. and | | Mrs. Ickes are now vacationing in| | the Olympic National Park. | When he arrived here last week, | 11894; the Spanish-American War;|gecretary Ickes conferred briefly | WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—As the with Dr. Paul J. Raver, Adminis- ishing'’s punitive expedition against|trator of the Bonneville Power Auth- |shrinks, the diplomatic world in | ority, regarding public power devel- | opments in the northwestern States. ! | “I am in favor of purchasing all privately owned power projects so0 |the area will be served entirely by | publicly owned plants,” Ickes said in |a statement to iéwsmen. “Why put | |off something’that we intend to do ultimately.” ! Asked by reporters whether 2aso- {Fortress Monroe, Va. one of the line rationing on the Pacific Coast|commissions, special military and high five enlisted men qualifying is in the offing, Ickes made no di- [naval delegations and attaches, sec- | rect comment. i He became a second lieutenant in| The Secretary said he believed | One should start with the Brit- the 7th Infantry in 1889 and served Eastern motorists would feel better |ish . embassy, seven years before winning a bar about conserving on the motor fuel |sion, etc., on his shoulder straps as a nrst;if they knew the westerners were I'm going to start with the Union sharing in the same sacrifice. He said he could not predict when gaso- line use in ths West might be cut PRCb U i BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | Russian Munitions Train sa - T ———————— Luftwaffe Wreck o s 2 | | i " Radiophoto which was flashed by radio from Berlin to New train before an attack by the Nazi Luftwaffe. TURKS FEAR - NAZI MOVE ON BORDER ! Refaliation for Allied In- . vasion of Iran Sus- pected Coming Aceording to the official German caption with this phou. York, this mass of wreckage was & Russian munitions _ First Lady at Scout Rally LONDON, Aug. 27.—Turkish lead- ers with the German Army en- camped along the Thracian frontiers are reported concerned today over rumors that Berlin will ask them to eject all Russian and British en- gineers and technicians as a count- er move to the British and Russian invasion of Iran. Turks here reported they fear if Turkey fails to reply to their, de- mands, the Germans might seize the opportunity to march into their country from Thrace to take control of the Dardanelles Strait, entrance to the Black Sea, and also Turkey's long Black Sea coast. - FBI SEIZES - GERMAN FOR ESPIONAG Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown (center) as she attended the second Western Hemisphere Encampment of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides at Camp Bonnie Brae, East Otis, Mass. Behind the First Lnd'y and the scout leaders are some of the girls, holding the flags of their us nations. e In Washingfon; Embassy Staffs Shov_"ng Build Up Alleged Spy Arrested in’ staff was sent home. The embas- sy staff slipped below levels of By JACK STINNETT world unconquered by Hitler|any recent years. Now the embassy staff has 15 Washington expands. accredited diplomats; the Amtorg boys are coming back, and what is happening to the clerical ani secretarial staff is mushrooming. The luxurious old Pullman man- sion, built from the sleeping car fortune, is now the Russian em- bassy. A few months ago, it looked like a haunted house. Now it looks like a week end excursion. Burrowing into the memories of old-timers, I find that there never was a time—not even during World War I—when there were so many “foreigners” in Washington. Some embassy staffs have increased a thousand-fold. There are purchas- ing commissions, “good neighbor” retaries and clerks. HAS RADIO TOWERS Cle Elum, Washington as Fugitve SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 27.—Kurt Frederick Ludwig, 38, accused by the Government on a New York indict- ment of violating the Esplonage Act, is in the Spokane County Jail today in lieu of a $50,000 bond awaiting a preliminary hearing on September 11 Trailed across the country by the FBI, Ludwig was plucked from a westbound motor bus Saturday in Cle Elum, Washington, and brought here yesterday. At the arraignment U.S. e————— FREEDOM OF SEASISTO BE ENFORCED Secrefary ofit—ate Hull De- | clares Supplies Will Be | Sent fo Vladivostok 'NIPPON OBJECTIONS LOWILL GET TURN DOWN %Representafions Declared - Made fo America, Rus- sia, Denied in Toto WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull made it plain today that the United States stands for a “freedom of the seas” | policy in connection with shipments 'of war supplies to Russia through | the Pacific. i Asked at a conference with news- men today whether the United | States will insist on the “freedom of | the seas” in carrying out shipments |to Russia, despite Japanese objec- tions, Secretary Hull replied that | until this poliey is revoked, it could | be assumed that it is in effect. } Dental Up te Tokyo" | As to whether Japan has made | formal representations to the United ! States cohcerning shipments to Rus- |via via Viadivostok, Siberian port, | the Secretary of State said he would leave any statement on this to the Foreign Offite in Tokyo. | Secretary Hull implied the United | States is ready to enforce the right |of “freedom of the seas.” | Secretary Hull did state, however, | that Japanesce Ambassador Admiral Nomura has asked him for an ap- pointment sometime today but theére |15 no immediate information as to Nomura's purpose for the confer- | ence, JAPANESE PROTESTS TOKYO, Aug. 27. — Domel, the Japanese news agency, today, quot- ing what it describes as from reliable (Continued on Page Seven) IRAN MAY - SURRENDER, - THREE DAYS British Sources Predict Col- i lapse of Resistance- l Forces Advance | LONDON, Aug. 27. — Informed ! sources here predict the collapse of Iran’s resistance within the next | three days. ward and are reported to have cap- tured Tabriz, the country’s second | biggest city. | British imperial forces are striking northward and up to noon today had ‘advnnced 40 miles. | Navy Wiped Out | British reports from the Simla headquarters of the British com= | mand, said Iran's small navy has | been wiped out by British men-of- war and Iranian Admiral Bey Endor has been killed. Invaders Near Terehan Red Army forces invading Iran | captured the town of Dilman, only 100 miles northwest of Teheran, |Iran’s capital city, and this repre- | semt an advance of 100 miles in three { Russian troops are driving south- | he pleaded innocent of being a fugi- |days in the campaign to throttle Not only that buf the Russians have taken over another spreading old mansion on Military Road, just off Rock Creek Park, and it too, is brimming with activity as well as purchasing commis- but I'm not going to. of' Soviet Socialist Republics. Only a few months ago, Am- torg, the Russian purcahsing agen- ¢y 'in this country, . was running|__ i i) out of work and about half of its (Continued on Page Five) towers that stretch skyward to bristling with a couple of radio| tive from justice, Ludwig is specifically accused of sending a foreign power information on the strength and equipment and distribution of the Army. Ludwig claimed United States citizenship, but asid he had spent most of his life in Germany. Authorities said he ‘re- jturned to this country last year: Teheran. Will Oust Germans | Delayed dispatches from Teheran, Iran's capital city, says Iran’s Shah, at a conference with Russlan and | British ministers, proposed a peace plan and the Shah further declared 'all Germans will be ousted from Iran within one week,