The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8818. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1941. MLMBER ASSOCIATED PREBS PRICE TEN C GRAVE CRISIS FACED BY JAPAN TWIN COUNTER ATTACKS HALT BLITZ VICIOUS RED | ARMYDRIVES BACK NAZIS 22 Villages Recaptured from Invaders by Des- " perafe Soviets | TRENCH DEADLOCK MAY BE IN OFFING RAF Night Raid on Berlin Admitted One of Worst in Many Months (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Twin Russian counter-offensives are reperted to have rolled bagk German thrusts on Moscow and Leningrad as the determined Red | Army, reinforced by the People’s Army of volunteers, is fighting desperately to protect Soviet homes. In this resurgence of Red Army the ~Russians ‘are said to retaken 22 villages in a ten- plant of the Federal Shipbuilding ent engineer. cruisers, six destreyers, two C-2 | over the entire plant. mn( and Drydeck Company, ctilled for 19 30-mile counter thrust on the center of the main front before Moscow. The destruction of an en- tire division of Blackshirt Hifler infantry is claimed as the Germans | were driven back three miles on the Leningrad end of the main front. Leningrad has been under NAZI BoMBED} a direct threat for several weeks as! g Finnish and German troops knifed B Y B R I T I S H (Continued to Page Two) | cn the former ecapital city| Ten Thousand-Ton Pocket day down > e \&\NG/. " Battleship Luetzow | o Q{, . HitbyTorpedoPlane Orew Peorsce ‘ v od | LONDON, Sept. 3—A British tor- wsm pedo plane hit the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Luetzow a few weeks ago and did much damage, it is be- | ’ lieved. | .Go" | This stalement was made by sir ' \Archlbald Sinclair, British Air Min- |ister, at a luncheon today of the | WASHINGTON—When the un- National Defense Commission. No ! written history of the past three| getgils of the engagement were, how- years is finally written it will show | ever, stated. | that three times during this period | sir Archibald also said the Bat-[ Great Britain secretly asked the tle of the Atlantic was “not going | United States what cooperation it too badly for us,” but warned that | could get from the U. §. fleet inprobably it will require some time case of an attack by Japan. And and immense concentration and ef- | three times Roosevelt replied that fort. He said sinking of British the American Constitytion prohib- ships last month were the lowest of | ited any commitment in advance any month for more than one year. | ———— — without the consent of Congress. It may well be that historians will compare these conversations t,o‘ that between Lord Grey, the Bri,-i ish Foreign Minister in 1914, and ! the German Ambessador in Lon-| don. At that time, just before the | outbreak of the last war, the Brit-| ish were asked what they would do in case Belgium was invaded. Would they deciare war ngamsu Germany? Lord Grey sidestepped | Delegate Making Trip fo! Alaska on Plane Pilot- ed by J. J. Ryan Similarly in the late summer of WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Alaska 1938, before Germany invaded the|Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and Sudetenlaad, Prime Minister Cham-|J. J. Ryan, of New York, Assistant berlain called in Ambassador Joe!Director of Civilian Defense in Al- Kennedy to ask what support Bri- aska, have left here today aboard replied that the Constitution would permit no advance agreement re- garding the fleet. On one other occasion during the Chamberlain regime when the situ- the issue. He declined to take a tain could get from the U. S. fleet|a flying boat. Dt M (e S N (Continued on Page Foar) . stand. Many historians believe that had the British flatly stated i advance that they would declare war in case Germany invaded Bel-} gium. Belgium never would have been invaded and World War I} might not have started. | in the Pacific in case of war in| Ryan recently flew from Juneau Europe. He reminded Kennedy that|to New York and Washington to the British fleet would have to|obtain supplies for civilian defense be concentrated in Atlantic and|units in the Territory. Mediterranean waters and could not operate in the Far Bast, Ken-|bian plane. nedy, after consulting Washington,| The Delegate and Ryan expeci to reach Minneapolis tonight, go! to Edmonton and Calgary and ar- rive in Juneau on Friday. — e ——— There are no fish in #he Great Salt Lake. Shipya}r(‘ls Reopen Under U. S. Navy Control The United States Navy announced August 26 a 97.3 pcreent return tc work at the vast Kearny, N. J., days by a CIO strike. Rear Ad- miral Harold G. Bowen, who tock ocmmand of the strike-bound yard under Presidential order, is an emin- Abeve Soundphoto shows employees passing through the gates to resume work on two cargo 'ships and three tankers now on the ways. Atlanta stands ready for launchirg in the yards. Th: Navy is considering an offer frem the owners to buy The cruiser U. S8, 8. WARSHIP OF U.S. ArmyPursunPIane Crashes On Busy Streel; Three Children Killed BERLINIS BLASTED IN NIGHT RAID RAF Stages s One of Liveli- | est Attacks in Months | ~Explosions, Fires | LONDON, Sept. 3. — British bombers blasted Berlin last night and caused “enormous explosions” in the German Cap- | | ital City and also “started very lorge fires” near cne of the mzin Berlin railway stations. This is according to an of- ficial statement issued by the | Air Ministry this afternoon. ' ADMITS FIERCE ATTACK BERLIN, Sept. 3.—It is ad- mitted here that the RAF at- tack last night on Berlin was the liveliest assault in months. CE Fishermenon 2 Boafs Fined Fishermen from two boats paid $375 in fines into the coffers ofl the U. S. Commissioner at Wran- | gell yesterday, when they plesded‘ guilty to charges of illegal mmng in closed areas. It was the second offense of the season for the boat Eagle. Three {members of the Eagle’s crew, Ro-| bert Harris, Charles Johnson and Albert Rhinehart, each paid $50, each, Henry Bowman, captain of lhe‘ boat Tiny Boy, drew a $50 flmi while five crew members of the boat were fined $25 each. They were George Case, Gifford Close,, Andy Dakke, Charles Powers and Marion Goodrich. |stock today is 4%, HEMPSTEAD, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Three children on a busy | street were killed when an Army pursuit plane caught fire in mid- air. The pilot bailed out and the plane landed in the street and the tank | exploded throwing flaming gasoline over bystanders. The dead children are Casper Cucio, 5, Georgian Karmer, 4, and Pauline Cucio, 7. The pilot, Lieutenant Roy Scott, was not injured in his landing by | parachute. e PRAVDA SAYS THREEMILLION NAZIS LOST | Claims Over—Two MiIIion Germans Killed on Rus- sian Front Alone (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Russian news agency Pravda ! |has estimated that Germany has lost two miilion, nine-hundred, thirty thousand men on all fronts in the two years of war. These fig- ures include those dead, wounded or captured. Pravda declared that of this am- |ount over 2,000,000 have been lost | on the Russian fron! alone. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK Sept. 3. — Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine American Can 83,*Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Curtiss Wright 9%, Interna- tional Harvester 54%, Kennecott Ryan is flying his own amphi-|While the other two, Thomas Case 371, New York Central 12%, North- & et {and John Anderson, were fined $25 |ern Pacific 75, United States Steel | re vy imme atandley 58. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are foday’s Dow, Joms averages: Industrials 12791, 'rails 30.20, utilities 18.79. —e——— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 2 RUSSIAN PLANFSNOW | AT KODIAK| | | [ | | | land at Naval Base Affer| Seven-hour Flight | from Nome | FLIGHT 1S STILL MUCH OF MYSTERY Flying Boafs | Refueling- May Fly to Sitka, Se- attle Enroute East ruuum ITKA, Alaska, | Scpt. 3—The Russian Military | ‘Mission, in two flying boats, ; atiived here at 11:45 o'clock this | forenoon. The two crafts left J Kcdiak carly this merning. | | 3 T KODRIAK, Alaska, Sept. 3.—The 0 Russian flying beats with 47 “selan members of a rep*rted Rus- { sianr Military Mission aboard, arrived fron Nome last evening after a seven-hour flight from Nome. Navy officials here gave no de- itails and did nct state ‘when the | planes would leave for the south | enrcute to Washington, D. C. It is | }presumed the next leg will be from | Kodiak to Sitka. | | Extra loadings of gasoline are to | I be taken aboard here. Duff-Cocper, one of Britain’s war | | TO MEET PLANES | SEATTLE, Sept. 3.—Russian Con- \sulate attache Ivanov from San | Francisco has arrived here saying | he has been ordered by his govern- ment to meet the Russian planes |last reported at Kodiak, Alaska. | The Civil Aeronautics Authority communicaticns station is standing | by to establish radio communication | imt has ne information as to the irequency of the Russians’ radio. Neither Boeing Field, the Thir-| | teenth Naval District nor the fand | Point Naval Air Station hes know- | ledge of the frequency and ‘ie Rus- | | sian representatives are likewise in | the dark. | MAY LAND AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 3—The two fly- | ing boats with the Russian Military | — {Mission aboard, probably will stop h-x Seattle erroute to Washington, | |D. C, on a secret mission from | (Continued on Pnge Eightr | FDRSENDING - MISSION T0 | - AID RUSSIA as co-ordinator for England’s Far East. Hull. Cooper’s warning to Japan on the Pacific. Net Loss of U.S FAIR QUEEN. . Heads Group to Dis- cuss Material Help i * — = R WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Presi- ent Roosevelt today named a five man mission headed by W. Averell | Harriman, Lend Lease expediter in Londen, to go to Moscow and dis- cuss material aid to Russia. | Others on the mission are Major | |General , James Burns, executive | officer of the Lend Lease Adminis-| / tration; Major General George| | Brett, assistant chief of the Armyl{ Air Corps recently ordered to aj ¥ R . <pecial mission with Britain in the| Fiesta Farmerette Jane Thompson Middle East in connection with de-| heralds the San Mateo County Fiesta to be held at Bay Meadows Ad-! William Standley, retired ! September 18-21, by parading with this basket of choice produce. But | former chief of naval operations;| |and Willam Batt, deputy .director i oan provide a basket of data telling about all the other of the Office of Production Man-| agement’s production division. features of this annual festival event. L Lend - Lease Expediteri‘ _— ¢ ing | destroyers _ TOKYO GIVEN WARNING Any Japanese action against England, America, the Dutch East Indies or Russia in the Pacific would be national suicide for Japan, Alfred leaders, told 8an Erancisco’'s Com- monwealth Club before boarding a clipper plane for Singapore with his wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, where Cooper will act pelitical and mliitary efforts in the Cooper recently conferred with Secretary of State Cordell was interpreted as indicating that the U. S.-British plans for maintenance of the status quo in the Pacific also includes the inviolability of Russia’s maritime provinces .Combal Ships by Transfer Made To Britain Is Only 2 . By JACK STINNETT | "WASHINGTON, Sept, 3.—Answer- the mail: D. L, New Lendon, Conn. — Ac- cording to the latest available in- formation, the net loss in combat | chips to the U. S. Navy through | transfers to Britain and other de- | velopments has been 27. Fifty-three have disappeared from the navy lists in the last year and a half, but the navy has gained one aircraft carrier, three cruisers and | 22 submarines. The navy now has a The information as to how many submarines are new and low many recommissioned is not | wailable, Also, the 53 figure doesn't represent total transfers to Great Britain. Thirty dstroyers left the; rolls when they were uw]nssmed (for non-combatant use). T. C. J., Manchester, Tenn Trainees may join the parachute rcops only after they have com- vleted the training period at in- fantry replacement centers. I doubt if at this time there are any trainees in the 'chute battalions. All of the men are drawn from the regular army. The second 'chute battalion (at Fort Benning li%e the first) now | is being organized and two more are autherized. It certainly is no dis- grace to “flunk out” of 'chute troop | training, - This is a highly special- ized job and you could have nerve, brains, brawn and almost everything else, but if it developed that you had a “glass” ankle or knee, you would be out immediately. The only ‘chutist I have talked with told me ‘let it was not considered a dis- |grace to lose your nerve on your Hrsl hop. : F. G., Newton, Kas.—Sens. Elmer Thomas of Okl&homa and Jsmes J.| IIIIY DFFFNS! lONDl About nine technicians will ac- | company the mission. No announce- | ment was made as to when the men — will leave. (Continuea o Page six) total of 332 combat ships, with 360 ' :lon order. JAPANESE | _TOLD TO ~ MOBILIZE ‘Premier Crown Prince Kon- oye Paints Gloomy | Picture fo Nippons 'NATION THREATENED, GOVERNMENT I TOLD Ocean Safety Lone Propos- | ed-Russ Planes Landing | in North Cause Concern | TOKYO, Sept. 3.—Japanese Pre- mier Crown Prince Konoye today | told government and war industries | representatives that Japan is facing iene of the gravest crises in her his- tory and that total mobilization is | absclutely necessary to overcome the : present emergency. E The official talk was the Premier’s | first statement since July 30 and. . |came as the movement of war sup- |plies to Russia from the United | States approached, these supplies | passing through waters adjacent to |Japan. He stated the subject is |already a discussion between Tokyo, | Washington and Moscow. i For Economic Power ! Premier Konoye spoke with deep | concern before a round table confer- {ence of government executives and leaders of Japanese business. It was the first conference of a series plan- \ned and initiated by the National | Service Association to develop Jap- |an's economic power. | The Extreme Nationalists, a pol- itical groeup headed by Seigo Na- kano, threw support to proposals for the establishment of an ocean safety zone around Japan, a plan which Konoye said yesterday was under consideration. H Dangers of North ‘The passage of two Soviet planes across Bering Sea to Alaska was cited today by the Japanese Times- Advertiser as indicating the possi- bility of dangers of the north. | 'The newspaper said: “Any effort to establish a system of warplane service between the American and ! Asiatic continents will be viewed by | the authorities charged with the | defense of Japan as a question of s!.ate and ipternational importance.” e SAYS JAPAN IS AFRAID OF U S. FLEET Republican_c—ongressman. | Col. Maas, Gives Views After Service on Sea | WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—A Min- |nesota Congressman, just returned from sea duty with the Marine Corps as a Reserve Officer, de- ‘clared that Japan is “deathlv ‘afraid” of the United States Fleet when it is in the Pacific. | The legislator, Col. Melvin J. | Maas, Republican of Minnesota, made the remark in an interview and further said that although some of the Pacific Fleet has been | withdrawn from the Pacific and sent to the Atlantic, there are, in his opeinion nevertheless, strong U, |S, forces remaining, enough to fend off any attack against the United States and at the same time, keep open :the supply routes vital to shipments of rubber and tin. Col. |lieved the Western Hemisphere was I\n ‘no danger of Japanese aggres- sion.” Maas further said he bes