The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1941, Page 1

v - v 20AVHY--de mage HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRIE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8816. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUG. 30 1941. ALL THE TIME” _ THRUST ON MOSCOW STOPPED AXIS FEAR BRITISH-AMERICAN INVASION TRANSPORTS | OF SOVIETS SENT DOWN Terrific Toll Claimed Taken | by German Minesand | Warplanes SHIPS ARE SAID T0 BE | LOADED WITH SOLDIERS Russian Battle Fleet Suffers Losses, Is Report from Berlin BERLIN, Aug. 30—At least 43, possibly as many as 82 Russ transports of all sizes, loaded with soldiers, have been sunk in the Gulf of Finland by German mines and warplanes, in the evacuation of Tallin, the German High Com- mand claims. The Russian Baltic Fleet is nlsu to have lost a cruiser, fonr royers, nine minesweepers anH patrol boats and in addmm\ five destroyers, an auxiliary cruis- | er and one minesweeper have been | el *60® ' WASHTNGTON—That ist-packe¢ Senate Interstate Com-| merce suk-committee appointed by ! Senator Burt Wheeler to investigate | “war propaganda” in the movies' and radio may get more than it| is bargaining for when it tackles | the movie makers. They haven't advertised it, but, they are quietly preparing to gwel the committee a hot head-on re- ception on all issues it undertakes to raise. One of the surprises up the).rl sleeve is to have Wendell Willkie| as their spokesman and legal coun- | sel. The Republican leader is an old | hand in dealing with congressional committees. Before he entered the political arena he faced many of | them and the repute he won battl- ing them had a lot to do with. his meteoric rise in politics. A militant anti-isolationist, Wil- ikie also has strong personal feel- ings about Wheeier's hand-picked committee. Willkie considers it a “sneak” investigation and part of an organized isolationist drive to terrorize opponents ifto silence. The charge of “sneak” lnvesuga.-) tion appears well founded. The Senate has not authorized the probe, the committee has no power to subpoene anyone, and is oper- ating wholly on Wheeler's say so as chairman of the Interstate Com- merce committee. Four of five members he appointed are fellow isolationist zealots and the fifth, McFarland of Arizona, is a rookie of only seven months’ Senate ex- perience, Further as if this biased set-up were not enough, the committee is secretly trying to pick its “vic- tims”. It has carelessly selected cer- tain movie executives for question- ing, apparently with the intention of not permitting others to be heard. N e HOW CONGRESSMEN VOTE The House's refusal to override the President’s veto of the $320,000,- 000 pork-loaded highway bill did not set well with Representative Wilburn Cartwright, Chairman of | (Continued on Page Four) MEN AT WORK U. S. Industry Today Than Ever Before | AND DOWNS OF U.S. LABOR <‘ There Are More in TOTAL WORKERS IN U. S. SEPT., 1929 —-37,470,000 SEPT | SEPT , 1941 —39,000,000 1942 —42,000.000 (ANTICIPATED) Index 100 represents 1923-25 average. ! In chernl N et 1solation- | ‘- 3 Carl Julius Schmidt | A member of the notorious Kalt- | schmidt dynamiting gang of World war days, Carl Julius Schmidt, 63, above, who was deported to | Germany in 1922 after serving a prison term, again has been seized by federal authorities in Detroit, where he has been working. Schmidt was arrested on a war- rant charging him with stealing from a freight car prior to 1922, He admitted he entered the coun- try illegally about a year after he was deported. ICONQUEROR’S FLAGISRAISED OVER VIIPURI Three Red MY Divisions Defeated Is Report of High Command HELSINKI, Aug. 20—The con- queror’s flag is again raised over' Viipuri, key to the defense of Len~ ingrad, after three Red Army Divi- sions were smashed. This is the announcement of the High Com- mand. Major from Omaha Coming fo Alask WASHINGTON, Auvg. 30— Army orders include transier of Major grnest Patty. | Francis B. Millson of the Infantry son at Anchorage Alaska. JAPANGETS LATE NEWS ABOUT U 5. Nippon Government Told| American Wartime SIrudureStrengihened | \SPECIAL MINISTER | MAKES HIS REPORT Ambassador Grew Re- mains in Tokyo Account of Growing Tension ! TOKYO. Aug. 30—The Japanese | Government tc turned principal | attention to the United States, get-| nnn detailed reports on the Amer- can sitvation from Minist to Washmglun. Kaname Wakasuge, | | who arrived this forenoon and went | |immediately into a conference with | Foreign Minister Tokeda. | Wakasuge told newsmen, before l‘n~ conference with Tokoda, that the | \smhme structure in the United Smtes has been strengthened sharply recently and is still growing | stronger. | United States Ambassador Grew| | today cancelled plans to spend the |week outsice Tokyo owing to the E V A ( u A T E | growing tension between the UmLed bmlex .md Japan FROMJAPAN ., covcrsup Coming fo Take Those Wanting to Go f OPERA"NG | ation of British subjects from anam is indicated by a British Embassy announcement. The Embassy hRs‘ arrange;:ll Igrf ;mp 1to ccw;'m(;mdx 1:— Cla m Made 'hat BmISh move all British nationals desiring | | Modern Destroyer and | to leave. About a thousand Britons are tivii B T vets | Merchantman Sunk | | The British Embassy statement | announcing the ship said “subjects| ROME, Aug. 30 — The Italian who wish to avail themselves of High Command said this morning the opportunity are requested to that a Fascist submarine in the| | get in touch with the nearest Brit- | Atlantic has sunk a modern British| \ish Consular Officer. destroyer of the Jervis type, and| SNOWFALUINGIN 5 i " PRINCE GEORGE; = - LODESTAR WAITS "= =5 (PAA Planes Grounded by | ‘ Weather at Juneau, | Canadian Field | ‘Embassy Announces Ship | IN ON NORTHLAND ! Mrs. John L. Richerson of Sitka | arrived this morning on the North- | land for a short trip and is stop-| { | Two Pan American Airways Lodestars continued to sit on the ground at noon today waiting for | | weather conditions between Juneau | and Prince George to improve. Snow is falling at Grand Prairie, B. C. only a few miles from Prince George with the ceiling and vis-| ibility registering zero. There is a ! possibility of snow falling at Prince | | George sometime today, preventing | ithe scheduled northbound flight of | a Lodestar. | In Juneau a southbound Lodestar | = is waiting to fly south. | /ATLIN FLIGHT NOT j ’{ STOPPED BY TAKU| With the Taku wind howling up the Channel from Pomt Bishop, only one Alaska Coastal Airlines flight left Juneau as Shell Sim- fons took off for Atlin with Dr, $ A Pittsburgh youth who went to Russia because “things weren’t go- | ing as they should in Pittsburgh,” Keijo Doyle joined the Red army, fought on the Eastern Front and was captured by the Finns. This photo A flight to Sitka i5 scheculed tnr was taken from his high school year | IReserve at Omaha to Fort Richard- 1 c'clock this afternoon weather book, which prophesied, “He'll be- | 1pemm.mg come famous or else die trying.” Japanese Planes in Mass Raid on China According to the official Japanese caption with this photo from Tokyo, as they set out for a mass raid on positio: Hundreds of these planes are now being China, possibly for attacks on Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. flown to the new bases Japan U.S. Secking Air Base in Brazd AT LANT/ C OCE'AJV' ERTORICO %UA DELOUPE! SMARTIN/ QUE BRAZIL AMER/ICA In a move designed to safeguard the western hemisphere, the United States is reported negotiating for air base rights in Brazil to offset any German threat to Dakar, French West Africa, revived since Admiral Jean Darlan, advocate of closer relations with Germany, has been given complete control over French military matters. legislators in Washington have suggested that Martinique, French island in the West Indies, be seized. Natal, Brazil seaport and stop- ping-off place for ocean flights, is only 1620 miles from Dakar. \ Releases of Selectees Is Coming Soon {Two Hundred ed Thousand Be Sent fo Homes by Dec. 10-Includes Algska‘ ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Disclos- [ ing some details of plans to release 200,000 enlisted men by December 10, the War Department officials said the total strength of the army will not be decreased as replacements will be provided rapidly by new selectees. Among selectees to be released will include some in Alaska. - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 30. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session, the last of the month and before the two-day holiday is 4%, American Can 82%, Anaconda 28'2, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, In- ternational Harvester 54%, Kenne- cott 38%, New York Central 13, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 58, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 127.70, rails 30.19, utilities 18.73. i e o AR BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | Some PROMOTIONS | T0 BE MADE IN ARMY, R( WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — The ‘War Department announces that 3,- 700 officers of the regular Army and Reserve Corps will be given tempor- ary promotions in the near future. The grades will mostly be below | Lieutenant Colonels. | HAIDA REACHES BARROW AUGUST 15 WITH CARGO On a cruise of the Bering Sea and taking supplies to Point Barrow, the | Coast Guard cutter Haida arrived | at Barrow on August 15, according | to reports received here The vessel is now on her way to Dutch Harbor where she will meet the cutter| Hermes and take on board her new | captain, Commander N. H. Leslie. —————————— FIEE AT DAWSON Rooms over the Moderne Beauty | Shop at Dawson were recently found | ablaze and the Department was!| called out. The damage resulting ns held by the Chinese troops of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, (two P-17 training ships locked wings 10,000 DNAZIS " | AREKILLEDIN | BIG BATTLES Advance of Germans Halt- ed in Rain Soaked Fight | Areas, Soviefs Claim MUSSOLINI - HITLER . ADMIT NEW TROUBLES 'Sinews of War Lacking- | Discuss Japan-U. S. Re- lations at Conference (BY AS EO(‘IA""I) PRESS) The German thrust fowards Mos- cow has been stopped and alveady 10,000 Germans have been slain |in the great battles on rain drenched fields. This is the asscrtion made |by the Russian High Commund. 777" | The German High Command re | ports the destruetion of up to 100 savm ships, mostly transport laden wlt.h troops fleeing alter the capture of Tallin, Capital City of Estonia. Rival claims of victories came as Crack -ups of Trainers and Bomber Brings Death |bcth Axis and Allies acknowledged shomwes in vital sinews of war. to Fliers MARSH FIELD, Cal, these Jap planes were pictured is establishing in southern Indo- needs are oil and other raw mater- ials. Major topies discussed by Hitler nd Mussolint at the five day con- ‘(erence at, Hitler's headquarters, are asserted to have covered many »ubjecm including means of safe< guurd‘ns the continent against the | possibility of & British-American | invaston. | The German newspapers are busy | extolling the conference of the two Aug. 30.— | Dictators ac sealing Axis plans for | Four Army fliers were killed eight | permanent peace in Europe. miles east of here yesterday when| It Is asserted that Hitler and | Mussolini dealt with the American- Japanese relations but nothing def- in formation and crashed in flames, The third plane landed iDite regarding plans of assisting safely. the Nippons is announced. Hitler and Mussolini, it is said, The four men killed were Sec- ond Lieutenants John Mitchell and:::;::{:g fo‘;h:‘; “’:ed:““mwm fone Edgar Hose, technical sergeant| wr..colini it is also said, has Rlchard Stafford and puvaLeJnmes‘"reed to supply as many Italian Glenn. |soldiers and workers as Hitler re- Earlier yesterday a B-25 attack|quires in view of the tremendous bomber crashed near Los Angelcs“cqs of Germans in the present municipal airport, killing radio op- ! wu erator James Knight, Jr., 23. Wil- cox Barnes Tex Wild, 37-year- old‘ son of Columei H. J. Wild of se- attle, former district Army en-| Mos(ow Is gineer, received a fractured skull paulGordonbak PROTECTED ForfewDaysHere BY BARRIERS Arrived here on the Mcxxn!ey early this morning, was Paul Gor- | don, chief of the Alaska branch of the Division of Territories and Possessions, under the Department of the Interior. Gordon has been in the Terri- Front Line Dlspakhes Indi- cafe Preparedness— Heavy Rains tory for the past ihree monthd, visiting Alaska communities, most- MOSCOW, Aug. 30—Front line ly to the Westward and in the In- |dispatches received this afternoon terior. This morning he was in said the battlefields west of here conference with Governor Ernest! are a deep series of trenches, anti- Gruening regarding findings of |tank barriers, minefields, and barbed his trip. Gordon is expected to |Wire. Heacy rains nre prevailing over remain in Juneau for several days| the entire fron' and fighting is and then take passage for the out- side, on his return to Washing- Stalemated. | It is anneuncec that 10,000 Ger- ton, D. C. jmans have been siain | —— e e - —— IN FROM EXCUREION | Mr. and Mrs. Ole Syre arrived| BACK FROM VACATION here from Excursion Inlet last| Returning to Juncaun from a short night on a cannery tender and are|vacation to Skag , Alice Smith, stopping, during their short visit employee in the office of the Un= here, at the Baranof Hotel. Syre employment Compensation Cominis- is the superintendent of the A.smrtn-‘\ion arrived in Junean this morn- from the fire was small but Lht*‘ beauty shop was badly soaked by| water. } e i INSTITUTE OPENS SEPT 22 | The Wrangell Institute will open September 22 according to an an- nouncemtnt made by Principal tGeorge T. Barrett. 1 Puget Sound cannery at E’«‘urslon ing on the sonthbouud steamer Inlet. Mount McKinley. She is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel, —— eee GROSS RETURNS P TN S0 HERE FROM SEWARD 1 Representative of the McGraw-! Hill Publishing Compary, James McDonald arrived in Juneau from W. D. Gross, who has heen on & Seward on the Mount McKinley short business irip to Haines and this morning and is staying at the Skagway, returned to Junel Gastineau Hotel. 'morning on the Mount M @ dispatchés sald sherp Axis . - Kinley, | §