The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1941, Page 1

1 1 | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI VOL. LVIL, NO. 8819. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY SEPT. 4, 1941. ALL THE TIME” BE N Wil MLMB[:R ASSOCIATED PRESS l"s’l( E TEN CENTS NAZIS TAKE LENINGRAD APPROACHES Finns Readmr Final As-| sault on Former Rus- | sian Capital GERMAN DIVISION | CUT DOWN AT KIEV Berlin Atfempis fo Pacify | People for Lack of | Information (By A&mxated Press) | The Battle of Russia Is surging to a climax today on the four principal | sectors of the main Russian-German front, on the immediate approaches | to Lennigrad on the north, on the frent west of Moscow, on the rail- ways and highways converging on Kiev and the siege ring around the city of Odessa. | Russian sources said the assault of Leningrad is now threatened on the north by the victorious Finns, | but in the south, the Germans have been checked. | Graveyards for Invaders Pravda, the Russian news agency, admitted “The beastly, treacherous | enemy is breaking through ap- proaches to the city.” The inhabi- tants of Leningrad are turning out | to build deep and continuous de- fense lines to meet the foe, de- | termined to turm the 9pproaches‘ into graveyards of the invaders’| attacks. ! Terrific fighting has stdrted on | the approaches to Kiev with the Russians declaring the Nazis have (Continued un Page SiX) l ~ihe SW6%, GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS IN KETCHIKAN DRAWS FIRE FROM ATTORNEY ARNOlD;Dean of U.S. ¥60® WASHINGTON—-Deaplte all the denials and counter-denials about | an sorship of the press, the real ln-‘ side fact is that the Navy Depart- | ment did try strenuously to per- suade Congress to appropriate | $796,000 for censorship. | The request for this money was made by Captain Herbert K.Fenn, of Naval Intelligence, blessing of his superiors. In fact,| out-and-out government cen- | with the' the request for funds was trans-| mitted officially by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy to Senator Adams of Colorado on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Later Captain Fenn appeared before the committee and made a vigorous plea for funds “to deal with cen- soring outgoing and incoming cables and other items.” The Navy even wanted to start a‘ school to train censors. Part of the discussion was off the | record and a good hit of it was deleted from the committee’'s pub- ! the| lished hearings. In the end Senate Appropriations Committes turned the Navy down. Hence the barrage of denials. There will be no censorship, at least for the time being. \ NO GAS TROUBLES The shortage of gasoline in the| East raises no problems in the life of Hattie Caraway, though, as ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, she plays an important role in the investigation | of the alleged shortage. The motherly Senator from Ar- (Continued on Page Four) : A Germans reported their forces had cut the Moscew-Leningrad rail line (1) in the ncrthern sector, where Leningrad is the objective of three- Berlin also said the announced victory at way pressure (arrows). Velike Luki (2), had relicved Rus: In the Ukraine (3), the Germans el a railway point, east of the l)meper s Mllady Nicotine ior Harold Ickes today for the town- OFF, SOUTH Soviet Military Commlssmn Leaves Sitka-Headed | Now for Seaflle | SITKA, Alaska, Sept. 4 — Twr)‘ Russian flying boats with the Rus-| |sian Military Mission of 47 men |aboard from Moscow, enroute to; Washington, D. C. left here for, the south at 8:50 o’clock this morn- n pressure on the central front. ing ed to have entered Zaporozhe, | | i | GOING TO SEATI1LE | — | SEATTLE, Sept. 4—Peter Ivanov.| Representative of the Russian Con-| sulate in San Prancisco, said he has| received advices the Russian Mili-| tary Mission left Sitka shortly be-| |fore 9 o'clock this morning and the two seaplanes are expected to &ar-| rive here late this afternoon. | - House Passes Away,Denver Rep. Taylor First Elected to Congress in 1909, Dies of Heart Atfack | | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 4— | Outside defense contractors are "rak- | ing tremencous fortunes” out of Al- \ aska and making profits that he is \ “reliably informed are not less than 50 per cent,” Gov. Ernest Gruening told the Ketchikan Chamber of ‘Commerce yesterday. Gov. Gruening said the failure of | the. Legislature to ndopt his tax | program means this profit, as well | as wages of defense workers, can‘ not be taxed by Alaska and is being | ! lost, never to return. 1000 persons, The Governor further accused the | mining and cannery interests, “so ably represented” in Juneau during ‘ the legislative session by W. C.; Arnold, Ketchikan attorney, as being | “unpatriotic and unenlightened” for | opposing his program. Arnold, who was at the meeting, | challenged this statement. He said | he was unwilling to delegate anyone ‘ to say who is patriotic or unpatriotic | on the basis of opposition or support | of a tax program. STOCK QUOTATIONS = NEW YORK, Sept. 4 — Closing! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine' stock today is 4%, American Can' 831/2, Anaconda 287/8, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtis Wright 9%, In-| ternational Harvester 54%, Ken-| hecott 277/8, New York Central 121/2, Northern Pacific 7%, United! States Steel 57%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES. ‘The following are today’s Dow,' Jones averages: industria'c 12751, Tails 29,93, utilities 18.65. Wearing a costume made from 2,000 cigarettes, Nancy Lee Wall will have a featured role in the dra- ! matie production, “The Fate of the Tobacco Farmer’s Daughter,” which will be presented at the National Tobacco Festival in South Boston, Virginia, BUY DEFENSE BONIIS DENVER, Colo., Sept. 4.—Repre- sentative Edward Taylor, 83, former Kansas cowboy, elected to the House of Representatives in 1909, and the oldest member of the House after seventeen consecutive terms in of- fice, died last night after an attack |of the heart. Taylor was a Democrat. He was the Dean of the House; author of over 100 Federal laws, two of the most important being the Taylor | Grazing Act, and the 640-acre stock raising homestead law by which over 32 million acres of near-barren land | have gone into private ownership and beneficial use, two of the great- est conservation laws ever enacted. He was a Scottish Rite Mason, Mystic Shriner and an Elk. He had been Chairman of the Appropria- " tions Committee of the past three Cangresses. vy ————— RAMSEY RETURNS Dr. W. S. Ramsey of the Terri- torial Department of Health re- turned to Juneau by plane from a week’s visit to Sitka. While there he worked on business of the De- partment. 2 %0 o K To NAME AP FEATURE ERVICE | - i Just & tough word to pronounce {to most Americans, Vladivostok is ¢ 1growing in ‘world importance asthe LY Far Eastern open gate through {which will move Uncle Sam's lease- |lend aid to embattled Russia The other water outlets of the New Termlnus Of AlaSka USSR. arc limited to the gen- o ergllv icebound ports of the north | Ra"road '0 Be ca” jand the internaticnally - shared ! ed Whittier {Baltic and Black seas, now parts {of. the war zone in the west < 3 fce-free except fo | wasumvamon, sept. 4 — el YACNICL D R SO, T name of ‘Whittier, Alaska” has hnen‘; & ’L i i Bl approved by Secretary of the Inter-|DFCakers then permil —CORuIuOUs |open passage. It is about as far w | north as Boston. site being constructed at the ne southern terminus of the Alaska A Natural Fortress Railroad and originally known as| High surrounding hills and a Passage Canal and also Portage winding channel entrance from Bay. |the sea of Japan adapt the city The name of Whittier was SUg-|readily to fortification. Back of gested for the townsite by the g oty a ring of fortresses stud proximity of Whittier Gracier the ridges and in 1930 a Soviet named after the poet by the Coast' .. Rgn RRe ity B G(-odcuc Survey in 1935. } ‘Maginot line” of concrete pill- tons o | boxes four-deep was reported com- | plete. Vladivestok is also a naval land air base. 2 RUSSIAN { Founded only 80 years ago, | Vladivostok is situated at the end of ‘a narrow hook of land that 'hends south from the main body | iol Siberia. ' To the west is Man-| eefuukuo nnd o thY ekst } San Francisco is 5270 mnes aw: lane. 5,000 by the most direct shipping Moscow and Leningrad are miles to the west. Trans-Siberian Terminal Now a city | of more than 200~ Viadivostok first ‘ boomed wit completion of the, famous Trans-Siberian railway in AND WHY NOT?_Though Geraldine Marcoux, 20, & soclology student of Detroit, confessed to judges she couldn't lln( or dance, they liked other qualities so well they named her “Miss I!Mll‘u" for Atlantic Clty, N. I, cnnmt. How Women Reporfers | Get Washingten News; |the e: | automobile highway paralleling the | | third ICKES GIVES VLADIVOSTOK; "OPENDOOR™ OF RUSSIA: As cities in the East go, Viadivostok is an infant—just 80 years oid. Here ycu see a main sireet running to the harbor. ‘hom the Pacific to the Sea of Ja- Vladivostok | pan through Japanese territorial An | waters. The shortest route is be- tween the southern portion of 1900's. service links northern Soviat centers. Afr with railroad line into the west is a route over which war sup-| plies may move. Shipping bound for Vladivostok for the most part must move in ! Tokyo. ‘fFIRS'I'U 5, FUEL SHIP ~ INSIBERIA, ‘American Tanker Reported | fo Have Arrived Safely at Vladivostok NEW YORK, Sept. 4—An Aus- tralian radio broadcast, heard here by the National Broadcasting Com- pany, reports the first American tanker, taking fuel oil and gasoline | to Russia, has arrived at Viadivos- most point of Japan's second larg- est island, Hokkaido. Seven hun- dred miles south by air line is | anese waters, i ARRIVAL CONFIRMED i WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 — ,v‘ManUme Commission has been of- {ficially advised ‘hat’'an American Oll tanker arrived at V'adivoctok !yesterday with fus! The Commission did not amplify v.hc bnef stfltemenl LEND-LEASE Told by One of Them BILL GIVES (Sitting in for vacationing Jack Stinnett, Miss Ame has written a series on Washing- ton’s women reporters. This is the first of three articles.) By SIGRID ARNE ° WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—"Mem- bers and Press Only” is a forbid- ding sign which appears in two places in the capitol. One is be- side a_ private elevator to the Sen- ate floor and gallery. The other flanks an elevator to the House floor and gallery. Newspaper men take that privi- lege absent-mindedly. But it's usu- ally with a gulp that a woman re- porter takes her first ride. It was 'way back: in 1850 that the | first woman writér sat in the Sen- te gallery. ‘Now, 91 years later, women are still much in the min- » orlly, Of 542 persons admitted lu the press galleries only 38 are wo- men, | The women have every privilege the men enjoy, except the old “back room” gathering at the duy:. end when men cronies of press and Congress collect for a few “qulck ones” and the 'low down. That could mean the women | WASHINGTON. Sept. 4—Presi- | v would miss stories but they get (r':::: ;‘ggr‘zletn::dfl; a::)th:lr;zeedutl:; around it by more persistent use pasiillon saliggpe P:)lsmd ;A Of the phono aug, Teet. Yo fiu {headquartars in London, permitting ,Troops of Exiled Govern- ment Now in Canada fo Receive Arms ‘|heard a trained woman reporter ! military equipment to go to PD]Ibh complain that any government of- troops training in Canada. ficial “held out” just because she1 The White House announcement was & woman. |said: “Polish troops are now train- But woman must disprove pex- ‘ng in Canada for action overseas sonally the adage, “Tell a’ woman; lvnder the President’s order, mach- 1. Once: they ‘8o, m,“Le 5, artillery equipment it trucks and other supplies will be, sent these troops ir the future.” tell the w (Continted on Page Five) Sakhalin Island and the northern-| iwk- Siberia, passing through Jap- ' POLISH AID NIPPONS ARE _ BEINGGOLDID BY WAR TALK | Are Told United States and Britain Planning for | World Dominance 'RULES ISSUED FOR ATTACKS BY PLANES Use of Vadivostok for Supplies to Russia Worries Empire TOKYO, Sept. 4—The Japanese people were told by one govern- ment-supported publication today that the United States and Britain are pushing rapidly to a goal or world domination, and another pub- lication gave them a comprehensive set of air raid rules telling them |read them in getting ready for at- tacks. -| The foreign Office backed Diplo- Imatic Review sald = the British- American intention to dominate the world became clear after the At- |lantic meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill, The intention to use Viadivostok as an entry port for material aid to Russia continued to be empha- Isized, and the newspaper Yomiuri 'said that Japanese fishermen, re- - turning from Siberian Kamchatka Peninsula, reported seeing two large Soviet freighters leaving for Viad- ivostok, presumably loaded with larms and ammunition. | The Cabinet Information Board's v\mklv report told home owners not to pay attention of wild rumors c nwmmg possible air raids on DAKAR NAVAL - STATION TO BE BUILT UP Vichy Government Appro- priafes Large Sum for | Many Improvements VICHY, Sept. 4—1he Govern= ment has appropriated 128,000,000 francs for work at the French West f Base at Dakar and ! the overls communications system with the Mcditerranean. | Besides port installations, one of the chief uses of the money will be to help make communications be- | tween Europe and Africa independ- ent of naval control of the Atlantic by improving the Dakar-Niger rail- way and also completing the Trans- | sahara highway system. SHIP LOSSES OF BRITISH DURING ~ 1YEARS IS LARGE German News Agency Es- timates Over 13 Million Tons Are Senf Down BERLIN, Sept. 4—The German !news agency DNB today declares that 13,088,000 tons of British ship- ping in the British service have been lest during the first two years of the present war. i BEEAREE | BUY DEFENSE BONDS