The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1941, Page 1

« THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE _VOL. LVIL, NO. 8814. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN-U. §. TENSION GROWING NAZIS ONLY 32 MILES FROM LENINGRAD COLLAPSE OF | INDUSTRIAL CITY NEARS Third Line of Civilian De-| fenders Man Street Barricades RUSSIANS ADMITTED IN TERRIBLE DANGER “Marshal Budyenny Asks Odessa Troops to Fight to Death (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) German troops storming toward Leningrad are reported within 32 miles of the besieged city, while on the Middle East Front all fighting, has ceased in the four day old invasion of Iran by British and Russian forces. Already proclaimed “in terrible Ganger”, Leningrad is be defended by hastily mobilized volunteers of the Peoples’ Army fighting along- #d@ regular Red Army troops inside the great industrial city. A third line of defenders is manning street barricades on the southern front. The Germans said masses of Rus- sian infantry who attempted to cross back to the west bank of the Drieper River have been chopped down by German artillery. Only on the Central front guard- ing Moscow did the Russians pres- | ent an optomistic picture. Soviet| (Continued on Page Severn) | WASHINGTON — Several days| ago the Merry-Go-Round revealed that a chief objective of Lord Beaverbrook’s visit was to get more tanks—tanks for Iran; tanks for| Egypt, tanks eventually for an in- | vasion of the continent. Beaver- brook particularly wanted the new powerful 32 tonners that .soon will roll off the Chrysler assembly line | at the rate of 450 a .month. | 1t can now be revealed that the British Supply Minister will not go! home empty handed. He will mke} back with him very cheering as-| surances regarding the division of | these tanks between the U. S..and British armed forces. But thatisn't | the end of his tank problem. Allotting tanks to the British in this country is one thing, but de- livering them across the Atlantic is another, In fact the problem of trans- porting large numbers of 32-ton toughest shipping problem maritime experts have faced since the magnetic mine, which ravaged shipping until the de-magnetizing devices were evolved. In a nutshell here is the prob- lem: For every shipload of light 12- ton tanks sent to England or Afri- ca, the same ship plus nearly three- fourths of another ship would be required to transport the same number of 32-ton tanks. In other words they are bigger. Translated into specific figures—that 26-ship convoy which landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria three months ago would have had to consist of 44 vessels to carry the same num- ber of medium tanks. with shipping scarcer than hen's teeth, a difference of 18ships (Conunuea on Page Four) tanks is the Miss Maryland Crowned Named “Miss Maryland, 1941,” Helen Pender receives her laurels from Marie Beiser, last year’s queen, and Governor Herbert O'Connor as the climax of a beauty pageant in Baltimore, Md, 'Iommy at It Again NAZI POLICE HUNT FRENCH Shooting of—laval Starts Drive Against Red Sympathizers BULLETIN-—Versailles, Aug. 28—0ne of the bullets fired yes- terday by Colette, struck Laval and lcdged only one tenth of an inch below his heart. Laval’s | condition is proncunced gener- ally satisfactery after a delicate cperation to remove the bullet. VERSAILLES, German Occupied . France, Aug. 28.—The Nazi police Mrs, Beverly Paterno and s0m, |pegan a roundup today of members Joseph, Jr. of the Anti-Communist Legion to determine whether Paul Colette, who late yesterday shot Pierre Laval, had |accomplices within - the legion's ranks. It was at a mobilization of this very legion that Colette, posing as a recruit, took a shot at pro-Nazi Laval and also Marcel Deat, old- time appeaser, and two others. Red-haired Colette frankly told the Invesigating Magistrate this morning that he was a follower of General De Gaulle and he was very glad that he shot the collaboration- ists and politicians and wished he had killed them. ' CEASE FIRE ' :Pea(eful Oca;aiion of Lit- COMMUNISTS ‘Tommy Manville Tommy Manville, playboy heir to an asbestos fortune, is going to try matrimony for a fifth time, | he says. Bride No. 5 is due to be Mrs. Beverly Paterno, who will marry him after she secures her divorce from Joseph P, Paterno, according to Manville. Tommy also says that he will adopt Mrs. Paterno’s four-year-old son, Jo- seph ‘Pdterno, Jr., and make him “heir to the asbestos fortune, Doctors are hopeful of saving the| |lives of both Laval and Deat, who have chest and arm wounds. A strong guard has been thrown around the barracks here where three Anti-Communist Legionnaires have been taken into custody. The three were carrying revolvers of the same type as Colette. The three have been condemned to death. They are Andre Brecht, electrician and former Secertary of the Communist Party; Deputy Emil Jean, militant Com- munist, and a Russian named Abra- ham Trzrbuche. PARIS COURT ACTS PARIS, Aug. 28—Arrests are being made by the scores, today of opposi- !tionists and a new Anti-Communist Court has beeh set up here. court pronounced three death sen- | tences on men arrested in Versailles, las one of the first acts. It is admitted that disorders are |occurring in various parts of Ger- | man occupied France, IRAN ARMY RUSSIANS - ORDERED TO | |k S8 ESg | fle Oil Nation Reported | Made by Allies TEHERAN, Iran, Aug. 28—+ | The new Iran cabinet has or | dered the Iranian Army to cease all resistance to the Brit: ish and Russian Armies. This order is believed to rnfi | hostilities after the start of th four day invasion. { It is claimed now the Allied invasicn has turned into 4 peaceful czcupation. . 15Percent Reduction On Gas Seen ‘ \ [Figures Presented in Sen- | ate Hearing Show Short- | age of Gas, Oil in East | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Gaso- | line supplies in Eastern filling sta- |tions will be reduced 15 percent in | |the month of September as com-| |pared to July, announced Ralph |Davies, acting Petroleum Coordin- ator today. | Davies' testimony opened a Sen-| |ate investigation of threatened oil! shortages. He presented a mass of | | figures which he said showed that | |the Eastern Coast faced an actual, |shortage of both gasoline and oil | for heating and for industrial pur-| | poses during the winter months. | # | >, 'DEFENSE ORDER PLANT ABLAZE; ONEMAN KILIED Four OIherW_orkers Badly T i e | Burned — FBI Starls Im- | weicomea Gommander Gonaai SAN JOSE, Cal, Aug. 28—One| man lost his life and four others| {were burned in a fierce but brief| ]flre at the $12,000,000 magnesium iplant, newly built for filling de- ™ in lower Ukraine, will turn south | |fense orders. 'around the Sea of Azov and march | A K I UE | Donald Bonefield, 26, died sev-| esor Ing o o s 0 jalong the eastern shores of the ieral hours after the fire. | Black Sea. | Two other men are gravely { e, | oo—— burned but doctors believe they | will recover. The other two men were burned less seriously. The FBI has started an inves- By JACK STINNETT This Red Army mine-thrower drew is in action on the Russo-German photo was sent via radio from Moscow, Visitors From Mexico welcomed Commander Gonzalo Montalvo Salazar, skipper of the Mexi- | can training ship Durango, as the vessel arrived at the Philadelphia | i iaafi Navy Yard with 148 cadets from the Mexican Naval Academy. The | medla'e lnves'lgahon | civilian in center is Gustavo Oritz Hernan, Mexican consul, Congressmen Are Now Gel 0pi_nion of Public 5, MAN A MINE-TH gy ROWER PRESIDENT 738 TAKES HAND ~ JAPAN CASE RooseveliSI:fiing Person- | al Letter fo Nippon's E Foreign Minister 'DELIVERY OF NOTE IS " MADE T0 AMBASSADOR ‘Highly Excmn_g Develop- J ments Occur During i Day, Far East Crisis WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.— | A personal message to Japa- | mese Prime Minister Konoye | from President Roosevelt was personally delivered today by | the President to Admiral No- mura, Japanese Ambassador to ‘. M the United States. he . Japanese Ambassador Nomura went to the White House after a day of rapidly developing tension growing - out of the conflict betweéen the Japanese and American policies on the Pacific. At the White House, Nomura conferred with President Roo- front, Russian sources says. Fhis TURKS FEAR sevelt and also Secretary of l State Cordell Hull. Ambassador- Nomura, follow- ing the conference and delivery to him of the President’s per- | FOR BAIUM: sondl message to the Japanese | Prime Minister, refused to ela- S | borate in reply to a barrage of § [Hifler's Demand of Use of | austons tied at bim by bec Black Sea May Mean | Attack on Oil Town | the message to Konoye con- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) tained. Before the conference, how- Turkey, {he next door neighbor | to Iran, whose invasion by the| ever, it was reperted that Am- Russians and British has been ac-! bassador Nomura would discuss with the President the strained rclations between the two coun- f tries, including the reported representations Japan had made complished, today manifested in-| creasing alarm al Germany's in-| to Russia and the United States tentions. | protesting t shipments of American and other supplies to Russia via Viadivostok. Asked by, reporters specifical- ly whether the President’s mes- sage to Konoye mentioned shipments to Russia, Ambassa- Well informed Axis quarters a:" |Istanbul said Hitler .has told Tur-| key he may soon need the use of | Turkish territorial waters in the| Black Sea, This may meam a pos-i sible attack on the Soviet port of | 4 |Batum, on the east coast of the| . | Black Sea, end of thé pipeline from | U. S. Navy, is shown (left) as he |the great Soviet Baku ofl fields. | DRRE . s | These same quarters said that | Hitler assured the ‘Turks, however, j Ap AN M AY | did not think so. . |that he had no other demands to —— (make on them. This action apparently shows that | Hitler is lpoking ahead to the day |when his troops, which are now | |storming across the Dnieper River | rt Ditman Here | ‘ i Dedlared Nof Mere But For First School Year was at its hottest, Mr. Pheiffer sent \0il Shipments fo Russia . !letters to one out of seven of all . TremendousProblem This | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Con- gress has gone a-polling. | :tiganum ; | i * ‘ According to the longest memory SIO(K ouGIA [Io“s of the oldest inhabitant, there never |was a time when the Congressmen | NEW YORK, Aug. 28 — Closing | Were so eager to get the pulse of the | quotation of Alaska- Juneau mine electorate, Many of them !have been T ARd # | away from their districts for a year ;;‘”xn;fi’éa“’mf: oo el |o more Public opinion is changing ] 4 o |from week to week. Election (1942 {70, ‘Commonweplith S Southern | g, o)1’ Representatives and a third ‘;;‘g:::;iey';g;’ GK/:n :’;ZZ:?“;‘:?';of the Senate) i just around the ’ - 7%: cormer. A misstep now may mean New York Central 12%, N“””"‘«"‘gpohncul disaster. v 4 {Pacific 7%, United States Steel| gy gongress, unable to get home |58, Pound $4.03%. !and mend those political fences, is resorting to the poll. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | pooy i the very earlier spring, I | The ’°”,‘7""“!_ are My“{””]g');i'lwmm a story on. one of the first Jones averages: industrials 12786, congressmen to go a-polling. It was rails 30.22, utilities 18.69. |Willilam T. Pheiffer, Representative | - in! New York’s sixbeenth district, Average temperature in Canada!Dropping into his House seat when is higher than in Chile. the fight on the Lend-Lease bllll i Sk Robert Ditman, whose parents| TOKYO, Aug. 28.—The possibll- are Mr, and Mrs. M. J. Haas of |ity that Japan will stake her whols Juneau, arrived here voday aboard par Eastern prestige on the issue |the Aleutian. He has been visiting of tankers carrying gasoline and lis grandmother, Mrs. E. Griffith,|ofl to Russia is reflected today in at Guligna on the Richardsonthe important newspaper Nichi Highway. | Nichi. Robert will start his first year| The newspaper asserted that “it |of high school this fall. He was|is not a mere problem of oil ship- a member of the Anchorage Cv.y“men“i but it is a tremendous prob- Band and of the school band. |lem and means success or failure g |of our own international policy.” 4 PAgKl;B ':{E'"’R s | Thet Mishl Nichi asserted that am N. Parke, assistant dis-| STARTED SOMETHING | |isict forest ranger Of the AMMIr-| i shiomenic 5o noth Fussie a0 It was a lesson that hit Congress |aity Division, Forest Service, re-|(he United States, contending that between the eyes. Since then, the y,edq to Juneau today after “‘these mlpmanu' ate dieathd number of polls taken by members | ;. weoke vacation in the States egainst Japan and causing disquiet of both houses couldn't be listed lr‘}Mrs. Parke remained below to Visit! and anxiety to Japan. this short space. | voters in his district. He explained that he couldn’t poll everybody but 1sked each recipient to pass the let- ter on to as many persons as pos- ible who had not got one. In the letter, he asked the voters to write him their opinions on the pending bill. The letters received guided the freshman representative in his vote and although he is a Republican with a passion for governmental economy, he strung along with the Democratic administration. with her parents in Hoquiam,| The Tokyo Times - Advertiser, Not the least of these jerjtiment}w”h” and will return here Mater| T 2 T Continued on Page Seven. in the summer. | (Continued on Page Eight) 7 £ 3 dor Nomura replied that he k