The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8820. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, ALL THE TIME” e EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, -1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS .S. DESTROYER IS FIRED UPON s L4 S (4 04 (4 4 & 4 & & S S L4 S & 4 & 4 ESSEL ATTACKED AT SEA; SEARCH ON BRITISH INVASION TALK WILES Moscow open. if Russia can keep road to - WHAT IT MEANS | | DANGEROUS COAST for British invasion. She prob- ably could expect to lose 600,000 out of every mil- lion men. BEST SPOT for aid to Russia if | Germans can be held short of Volga this win- GERMANY By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Fcature Service Writer | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — Will the British army invade German- controlled Europe at any time in the predictable future? The various answers one gets| from military men all add up to| “NO!” Some few feel the British | might dress up a small raid or two; as an invasion attempt, if their losses could be held to a minimum. But the few have no deep convic- | ! other time only because it serves a pro- I can state definitely tha the Paganda purpase, in the view of! British air command agress with Wwell-informed observers, and it's| branches of the military based on the idea that the Ger-| service that a full-scale invasion Mans will hear the talk, and pr attempt against the Germans this pare for invasion even though they year would have no better than a are convinced it will NOT come. 1-to-3 chance. It would, therefore,l The basic reasoning behind the run the danger of going down in British high command’s refusal to history as a futile raiding party, consider invasion at this time, lies Annoyance to the Germans would in military principle. be the only result. | Any force attempting to estab- lish a beach-head must count on tions. Invasion talk is prevalent at th's o P GO,Qg WASHINGTON The public doesn't know it, though Nazi agents do, but the United States is very quietly and efficiently building up a series of strategic bases along the ccast of Africa to guard against a Nazi air putsch from Dakar to South America. | First of these bases will be air- dromes at Freetown, in the British | colony of Sierra Leone, mow being | developed by Pan American Airways on the airplane ferrying route to Ezypt. Second will be an important air- | drome in Liberia, the Afro-American ' § colony just south of Freetown. Equally important will be a submar- | ine base in Liberia. The Liberian airdrome is now be- ing built in cooperation with the Firestone Rubber Company, which | some years ago decided to free itself of the Dutch-British rubber cartel by setting up extensive plantations in Liberia. ; Purpose of these bases is to take the place of the U. 8. fleet in the; South Atlantic. Long ago, U. S.| naval strategists figured they could ! reduce materially the number of U.! S. warships around Hawali and Cali- fornia, if there were ‘enough big bombing planes on the Pacific island bases to patrol the Pacific. So now U. S. bombing planes op- erating from the African coast: will do the same thing for the South Atlantic in order to guard against | Nazi moves from Vlchy-domlnncegi Dakar. The problem of shutting off a Nazi blitz in the South Atlantic is much harder than in the Pacific, due to cne factor: distances in the | Atlantic are about one-third less than those in’ the Pacific. | However, these hases at Freetown | and Liberia are the best, bet the United States has, for long ago the | ittt i Mo K i (Continued on Page Four) - i tinued un Page Is Female of the Spe{ies More Subfle than Male! (The second of three articles ARTILLERY POUNDS ON LENINGRAD Reds Claim Counferaftacks Take Four Quilying ! Villages AMERICAN INTEREST (ENTERS ON GREER Nazis Reticent About Ac- tion on All Fronts- No Defails (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Roaring artillery in the battle of Leningrad, the German Command reporting the city under direet | fire, and the Russian’s claiming the recapture of four outlying villages| in counter attacks, highlighted Lhei gigantic struggle on the Soviet front today. 1‘ Meanwhile the chief Amierican in- terest, vevolved . avound ~the {ight | between the U. S. destroyer Greer and an unidentified submarine while the American vessel was en- route to Iceland with mail for the‘! |newly established base in the North | | Atlantic. The Greer dropped depth {bombs after the sub fired torpe-| does which missed, in the first| |challenge to the U. S. Navy's ex- | | tended Atlantic patrol. | | The Germans, who previously | | claimed to be within 20 miles of | Leningrad and easy range for their | biggest cannon, ‘gave no details {about the action on any of the | widespread fighting fronts. { | The Russians acknowledged the hot pace in the life and death bat- |tle over the city of three million lis increasing and claimed the re- | capture of four villages and the| tery. wo a S Ib T Ik o 'ld&structinn of a heavy gun bat- iman Jcrine lalks vur ' ! - e | about Washington newspaper women by Sigrid Arne, filling in for Jack Stinnett, on vaca- tion.) ‘Mrs. Amefid’ E;try By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — You'd know the name in a minute. Her family makes a product used for | generations. She’s fat, worth mil- diamonds. Her friends admit she’s inept. | So when she wanted to crash ‘Washington society she saw she'd! better make friends with the news- paper women. She asked them n to cocktails, and they flocked over to see the newcomer to Washing-; ton’s social zoo. They said nice! things, and she, fat and over- iressed, beamed. Finally she turned to a distin-| juished, gray-haired woman, al stranger standing next to her, and! looking at the crowd of newspaper- | women, said: “Really, several look as though they are well-born.” | The gray-haired woman, a top- notch reporter, drawled: “So?| How can YOU tell?” The fact is, some of Washington's dinner guests. True, some ar2 'frumps. And true, again, some are| fashion plates. But they can talk well, and they wield an influence which no canny newcomer ignores. They wield influence both in drawing rooms and .in the corri- dors outside the House and Sena‘c A id is Mrs |[chambers, depending on their| g"‘:ch‘;‘{‘(’c"l‘::d":;}'xfy City, one |abilities. et me cite;a few in-| of more than 200 married womed stances: | eAr;:erd i:\ the {ou:th n‘nn\;’alfi‘;lfd:‘ The most dramatic, in the poli- erica” contest & 8 ticians- versus- a- newspaper- wo- Park, N. J. Contest officials 88y ;. oqpeg0py occurreg pwhen a purpose is to prove married womes 1w are just as beautiful as single girls | Rt e v g | Mrs. Blanche McLeod | newspaper women are much-sought | BERLIN IS ' BOMBEDBY MISSION RUSS CRAFT lions, and covered with smiles and| Mimary’ |ndus'|-ia| Targe's.rwo HYII‘Ig Boats Reach Are Hit - Fires Re- | ported Started | MOSCOW, Sept. 5. — Russian bombers dropped explosive and in- cendiary bombs on military and industrial targets at Berlin last night and the returning pilots and observers stated the missles touched | off fires and caused terrific explo- sions. The official announcement did not state the number of planes taking part in the night raid but said only one Russian bomber failed to return. BOMBING ADMITTED BERLIN, Sept. 5—It is admit- ted that several Russian planes “attempted” to attack .this city last night and one “enemy” craft was downed, Windsors fo Visit Rangl_in Alberfa NASSAU, Bahamas, Sept. 5.—An official spokesman confirmed today that the Duke and Duchess Windsor plan to leave Nassau this month for a visit to his ranch not far from Calgary, in Alberta, Can- ada. | of Jiggs—you know the old boy—is fly rons in Uncle Sam's aero forces scon will have the famous fighting Irishman, whose deings and skullds dreds of American newspapers including The Empire, for many years, right smack on the noses of their cartoonist and creator of Jiggs, exhibits in Los Angeles his drawing board with the two Jiggs emblem which will decorate airplanes of two United States flying squadrons. (=) | = }_ g , D [ % ] ' STRADDLING TORPEDOING "Offi(ial Sources Refuse ioj i Comment on Attack on | | American Craft 'DECLARES LOCATION ' GIVEN NOT DEFINITE, "Mistaken I‘défiity’ Theory| . Knocked Info Cocked | Hat by Diplomats (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Authoritative German sources de- clined to comment on the an- nouncement by the United States| Navy Department that a submarine and destroyer fought somewhere be- | |tween the American coast and Ice {land. This authority said the U. S.s {Navy announcement did not give the exaet location so eould not tell | whether a German submarine was | ‘iopa,-rmmu nearby. | Nazi Sub Blamed | | London is ready to blame the at- ing hish these days. Two squad- GERMANY IS TORPEDOING NAVY (RAFT ATTEMPTED Greer Picked Out as Vic- tim While Carrying Mail fo Forces in Iceland PRESIDENT MAKES DIRECT STATEMENT Tells Reporters Maraud- ing Boat fo Be "Elim- inated” If Found BULLETIN REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 5—Officers and crew members of the U. S. S. Greer said they believed they damaged the submarine that attacked them enroute here, and may have sunk the sub. The Greer arrived this morning and officers said the instru- ments indicated the destroyer was over the submarine when the depth ocharges ' were re- leased. They were in very deep water at the time and conse- quently, officers added, the sub might have sunk without any uggery have been featured in hun- |tack on the U. S. destroyer Greer {to a German submarine. | However diplomatic circles looked | trace being revealed on the sur- face. Officers of the Greer dis- planes. George McManus, famous clesed that a British aircraft |expectantly to President Roose-| assisted the Greer in repelling | veit's statement on the incident| the attacler. which official quarters believed | | might be far reaching in conse-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 — ~ LFEIN RUSSIAN - INSOUTH Seattle After Three-leg- ged FIig@m Nome SEATTLE, Sept. 5—The 47-man Russian Military Mission landed here late yesterday afternoon from Sitka after a trip half way around | the globe in two of the first Am- ericari-built flying boats ever built, which were sent to Russia in 1937, The mission landed at Nome last Sunday night, hopped to Kodiak | and then to Sitka, making the Nome to Seattle flight in three hops. The first seaplane landed at4: o'clock yesterday afternoon, and | the second came down at 5:40 o'-| clock at the United Air Station. Beveral news photographers and | reporters in a launch were fired upon by naval guards for entering | a restricted naval district. The launch beat it back to a neutral zone later. The Russian airmen were greeted with military honors by both Army and Navy officers. The Russians confirmed the re- port the mission is strictly a tech- nical one and declined to discuss experiences on the flight. The des- tination of the mission is Wash- ington, D. C. on Page Eighl) SENATOR SAVES TROOPS IN ALASKA FROM HARD | quences and shaping of naval stra-| The Navy Department an- |tegy in the North Atlantic. | nounced lasé evening that a | The Navy Department remained| submarine attacked the Unit- |silent after issuing the communi-| ©d States destroyer Greer en- |que, as follows: “The Navy Depart-| Toute to Kceland with mail but | ment announces the U.S.S. Greer,| the torpedoes missed the mark. enroute to Iceland with mail, re-| The destrayer Greer counter |ported a sub attacked her but tor-| attacked with a depth charge | pedoes missed the mark. The Greer| but the results are unknown. immediately counter attacked with! The attack occurred yesterday depth charges but the results are, morning, the Navy Department | unknown.” said, but did not give the ex- WINTER TENTS | “adequate PR | “Mistaken Identity” WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Sena- The fact that the Greer is iden- tor Ralph O. Brewster, just re- tical in appearance to the Ameri-| turned here from a Pacific Defens- ¢an destroyers traded to Great es inspection flight, today criti- Britain last year ‘fl: to ;h;‘t belief, & s P v in some circles, she migl have | stud/ i, m‘mtary e A].‘been mistaken for a British ‘vessel, aska, including what he saild Was pne theory of mistaken identity, an Army proposal, since aban-|;; powever, not universally accept- doned, to shelter troops in tents. | 4 1pe Navy men pointed out the Brewster said he called the at-|Groor flow the Stars and Stripes| tention of War Department offici-|,nq §¢ appeared that the attack| als to a requirement of law “m'ilook place in broad daylight. housing” be provided | M, 8 R o troops above the Mason Dixon Line, and suggested that tents “in an“ BN | { Alaskan winter wouldn't answer New ol"(lal that description.” Since then, he has been assured he said, that adequate barracks will be con-| 14,000-Mile Trip | . Brewster, a member of a special Senate committee investigating the| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Arte- defense program, made a 14,000- mus Gates, New York City finan- mile tour of Pacific .Coast and cier and former World War Navy Alaska defense developments in|flier, was this afternoon sworn in Army and Navy planes. |as Assistant Secretary of Navy, Air He praised the efforts of Major Corps. The post has been vacant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, since 1932, Commander of the Alaska Defence - LT DA B Command, to coordinate the mlll-:F I w." E ' said in an interview that officers in Alaska should be given more in- act time or location of the at- tack. The Greer is one of the Navy's oldest destroyers and was built during the World War at Philalelphia. The Navy, last night, did not say whether or not the na- ticnality of the attacking sub- marine hiad been determined. The Greer is in command of BIDDLE CUTS DRUG FIRMS FROM NAZIS Attorney General 0. K.'s Decree Breaking Ger- man Dye Contracts WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Attor= ney General Francis Biddle an- nounced that he will consent to tary program in the Territory, but! Tubercular Catle dependent authority to overcome, decrees under which four important States Naval | delays. He said it took two months | for a Washington official to clear VICHY, Sept. 5.—Because of the ;Americnn drug companies must break contracts with a German dye recommendations of officers on duty | growing scarcity of meat the Prench |trust and which will prevent the in Alaska. | government today authorized the|U. S. firms from doing business in | Alabama National Guard units are | lon duty in Alaska in addition to| ber of men now at Alaskan sta- ‘uons, but said it is a “very sub-| stantial number.” | 106 Feet Frozen | Brewster said he will report | Senator ‘Harry 8. Truman, chair- (Continued -on Page Five) IiOreg(.m, ‘Washington, Minnesota and from tubercular animals under cer- tain conditions. That which is considered edible | Marines and Regular Army units,must be labelled clearly “sterilized|ticularly in Latin American coun= He declined to disclose the num- by heat” and infected sections of | tries, were filed by Federal Judge the animal must be destroyed. Sl ST i MRS. THOMPSON SOUTH Mrs. Tom Thompson left on the She is the wife of Pharmacist Thompson of the Guy Smith Drug Store, | The Senator said that troops of sale for public consumption of meat South America. The two decrees, based on ecivil Jnction charging anti-trust law vio- lation by restricting markets, par- Mandelbaum of New York. The !acuons named the Sterling Pro- {ducts, Inc., the Alba Pharmaceuti= cal Company, the Bayer Company, to Princess Louise today for the south. the Winthrop Chemical Company, | Albert. Diebold and Willlam Weiss, {preaident and chairman respective= 1y, of Sterling Products. ‘