The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8822. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1941 MUVIBER ASSOUATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTs FIVE-HOUR RAID MADE, REICH CITY Most Viole—ni Attack of‘ Present Conflict Made- | M|dn|ghi fo Dawn | GERMANS ADMIT21 | RESIDENTS KILLED' Incendiary;;d Explosive Bombs Dropped-Many Fires Seen Raging (By Associated Press) | The Germans last night felt the sting of one of the present war's most violent assaults on Berlin which the Nazis admitted took the lives of at least 27 residents. The Royal Air Force bombers broke through the anti-aircraft de- fenses and dumped high explosives | and incendiary bombs on the Reich | capital city. j The British Press Association said the raid was the heaviest bombing by weight on Berlin since the war | started. Besides the fatalities, the Ge)— mans said an undisclosed number | suffered wounds and feared the | death toll might be increased. | The Germans stabe 3,853 persons (Continued on Page Five) RED ARMY RESISTS NAZI HORDES RAF BOMBERS RAID BERLIN OVERNIGHT RIS FDR ADDRESSES NATION | Soviet Plane Experts Will Study Plants American General Praises Group for Infense Inferest Taken SPOKANE, W &h Sept. 8.—With the personnel of the Russian Avia- tion Mission divided to speed its work, 37 Soviet fliers and technic- ians arrived today and told Brig. Gen. John Brooks, Acting Com- mander of the Second Air Force, that the remainder of the group, including Anton Fedetov of the Rus=- sian Embassy in Washington, had gone w Los Angeles. Bertroff Ivanov, spokesman of the group which came here by train, said the section which went to Los Angeles was headed by Brig. Gen. Gromov, chief of the mission. and Col. Andrew Iumashev Fedetov, both of whom spent Saturday inspecting the Second Air Force headquarters here. i Col. Fedetov told reporters Sat- urday that the technicians flew from | Moscow to study the latest Amer- ican aircraft and probably produc- tion methods. “I've seen lots of escorted. mis- sions,” Gen. Brooks later told news- men, “but never have I seen a group so intensely all business. These men arrived before breakfast and we went to work immediately. They definitely are not joyriding, o This Ru: The big flying boat was to this country. Press Phntn ne of two The planes reached Seattle a week after they hopped off from Moscow. HES SEATTLE PLANE REAC n flying boat prepares to land on Lake Washington at Seattle after a flight from Sitka, Alaska. which landed at Seattle with 47 Russian airmen on a military mission Associated RUSS FlIERS ARRIVE RUSSIANS FIGHTING INTENSELY :Soviei Forces Stand Up Under Terrific Pounding 01 Stuka Dive Bombers GERMANS ADMIT THAT "ENEMY" IS STUBBORN Counter Offe“rgive on Cen- tral Front Gains Momen- fum Agamsl Invaders (By Auo( lawd Press) Dispatches from the German front line acknowledge the Russian Red Armies guarding Leningrad are making a bitter village to village stand under pounding of hundreds of Stuka dive bombers, resisting stubbornly. | The Russian declared they are | pressing the initiative in a broad fsectur on a muddy and rain-soaked | front. | Soviet reports sald the Russian | troops, in some of the fiercest | fighting of the struggle, have driven | the Germans from positions astride |the vital highway leading to Len- ingrad. | On the C entral Frent, the Red i counter offensive is said to be gaining momentum after recaptur- ing several important towns. Seated before microphones in the Franklin D. Roosevelt library at Y., President Roosevelt said that “we must do our full part” in conguering “forces of insanc violence” let loose by Adolf Hitler. | ‘ Hyde Park, N. | L G5 A Molher of President WASHINGTON — The systematic ! looting of their victims is an old | Roosevelt Dies Sunday Forenoon at Hyde Park Nazi story, but the extent to which they are denuding France of its food | and industries is graphically reveal- ed in a secret document that has just come into the possession of U. S. authorities. It consists of financail reports| made by branch managers of the| Bank of France in German occupied | zones to M. De Boisanger, Vichy- appointed head of the bank. How the document got into U. 8. hands is an intelligence secret. One interesting fact reported by the branch managers is that Berlin | agents appear well supplied with foreign currency, apparently appro- priated from other conquered coun- tries What the Nazis can’t buy with paper francs in their “New Order” | of things, they pay for with “valuta” stolen from their victims. By this, and other methods, ac- cording to the bank managers, the Nazis are systematically denuding | occupied France of all cereals, eggs, | milk, butter, cheese, fodder and live- stock. Every known wine cellar has | been drained dry and already 20,- | 000,000 bottles of champagne have been shipped to Germany. Also, the 1941 grape crop has been taken over | in toto at prices fixed by the Nazis. | In the Paris area, according to the secret report, all heavy-goods industries have been seized by the Nazis, either through outright re- quisitioning or what amounts to the same thing, payment in Berlin-is- sued paper francs. i For example, ninety per cent of the former huge French cement in- dustry was requisitioned by Nazi occupation authorities and the other ten per cent “bought” with Berlin francs, worthless printing-press money. These seizures mean much to the Nazi war machine, for the Paris area is the principal industrial district of France and includes shipyards, met- | | Nation, scheduled for tonight, | ber son, al and woodworking plants, arms, (Continued on Pa:e “Foan) HYDE PARK, N. Y. Sept. 8. — Mrs, Delano Roosevelt, 85, | who lived to see her only son be- Sara {come President of the United States |three times in succession but also (o see her great grandchildren I)Iay: in the house where her son was| born—the house she went as a bride—died at the ancestral home overlooking the Hudson River at 11:15 o'clock Sunday forenoon from acute circulatory collapse, resulting principally from her advanced age The President’s address to the has been postponed until Thursday. At 78, she saw the Hyde Par¥ home become “the summer White {House” of her son. At 79, she was la happy celebrant at New York's birthday ball in his honor. An earlier milestone: She saw| when he was. four, trundle his distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, on his back in the nurs- ery at Hyde Park; and 19 years later saw them married—"Frank” a young law student, his bride a Igirl of 21. She was her son’s childhood nurse, guided his early education, watched his political rise from state senator to President. The crown- ing movent of her life was when her son, just inaugurated, took her in to luncheon at the White House. Daughter of Banker She was born September 21,1854, the daughter of a long line of| merchants in the Far East trade.| Her father, ‘Warren Delano, was engaged in banking and commerce. Her mother was the former Kath- erine Robbins Lyman, of North- ampton, Mass. She had four sisters, and they came to be known as “the five beautiful Delano daughters.” Her maniage 10 Jainss 00OV October 7, 1880, joined her to a | Hongkong. | their Paris home, Sara Delano saw | was | never r\oogevtur | | Her life| of | | (SARA_DELANO line equally aristocratic. was lived in an atmosphere dignity and tradition. She was educated by governesses| in her own home, and later sLudicd; four years in France and Germany. | When she was only eight yrnrs‘ old, she went with her mother to| China in the clipper ship “Sur- prise”” It was a “square rigger”| and the journey took four months. Sees Empress Eugenie | The trip was made to join her father, who was in business They lived there for| |awhile. On their way home, Lh(/‘ |stopped in Europe for the winter. \ | Leaning over the balustrade of in the Empress Eugenie ride forth, | surrounded by her court, and waved at her, ‘ Her husband, James Roosevelf,| a lawyer by profession, but practiced. He had fiuancial “(Continued on Page Eight) Jews Held as Hosfages for Riols in Paris Vichy Warns Further that "Street Incidents” Ex- pected, Occupied Zone VICHY, Sept. 8. — More than 100 Jews, iucluding two prominent | French lawyers, one of them Min- ister of Justice under the old republic, are reported seized as hostages today by the German Oc- cupation authorities in Paris because of attacks on members of the Ger- many Army there. | The Germans announce that in new mass arrests two once prom- | inent lawyers, former Minister of Justice Mass, and Theodore Valense, | former member of the Chamber of Deputies, a native of Corsica, have been taken into custody. ! The official spokesmen here no longer tried to hide the gravity of the strife in the occupied zone or the fact that reprisals have only | served to make things worse and increase the violent outbreaks. The official Vichy government | news agency told its newspaper: “You can expect to see street incidents multipl. - ee- Duke, Duchess of | Windsor fo Visitin | Washingfon, D. (. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will spend 24 hours here on September 25-26 while enroute to thg Duke’s ranch in Alberta, Canada. The Duke and Duchess will stay |at the British Embassy, it is of- ficially announced. il SR DA MRS. McDOWELL RETURNING Mrs. Bert McDowell, wife of Bert 1 McDowell of Bert’s Grocery, and her two children are returning t Juneau on the Mount McKinles which left Seattle yesterday. The have been below for several weeks up here, l Mikhail Gromoy, Sovict air ace (above) is in command of the two Russian flying boats enroute to Washington, D. C., carrying 47 Russians, mostly veteran pilots, mechanics and radio op- crators, Gromov in 1937 flew a Soviet plane from Moscow to Southern California over the top of the world, non-stop. In 193 he flew the huge Russian plane, Maxim Gorki, at that time Ia.lmed to be the world’s l.lrl!fsl Gen.Menocal | LENINGRAD ISOLATED Two American-built Russian planes carrying 47 technicians arrived at Seattle Thursday evening from Sitka, Alaska, enroute to ‘Wash- ington, D C. These are the same planes that made the startling trip over the roof of the world to land at Nome, Alaska ,on August 31. The photo above shows the second plane to arrive, taxiing toward the ramp of the U. S. Naval Air Station at Sand Point. International Illustrated BERLIN, Sept. 8~—Leningrad is isolated from all land connections | with the rest of Russia, is the Ger- | man claim tonight. | Schluesselburg, the important rail- road center on Leningrad's eastern defense rim, has been captured. The German High Command de- clares troops stormed Schluessel- iburn. 25 miles east of Leningrad | after crossing the Neva River. A special bulletin from Hitler's headquarters said Schluesselburg is reported under fire of heavy Ger- man artillery since last Friday when | the High Command announced Len- | ingrad itself was under shell fire. § SO Dies in Cuba | left HAVANA, Sept. 8.—Gen. Menocal, | 74, Cuba’s President from 1913 to 1921, died here yesterday as the re- sult of a digstive ailment. | ANOTHERTANKER FROM U, 5. NOW AT VLADIVOSTOK NEW YORK, Sept. 8—The third American tanker, ca ng - oil to Russia, arrived at Viadivostok this | morning, according to a radio picked | lows ! meter |traps now are News Photo. DAMAGED From Vacuum Cleanersfo NAZI SUB Gas Masks; How Defense Is Now Reshaping Industry By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — Na- tional defense has given new mean- ing to the word “conversion” and there are few industrialists with production and pockethooks | zed by priorities and the like aren't lying awake nights thinking about it. OPM, the Army, the all other national defense are thinking about it, “Conversion” means changing plant facilities 'from manufacture of articles for civilian c to articles for national defense. The complications of it can until another time. What rted out to tell you was ccnversion” is making some the strangest industrial that ever stretched out an assembly line. It may not beg B. F. Goodrich, duced, is loading and bombs at a plant, or that Willys-Overland | Motors, right along with their | “Jeeps,” are turning out 155-milli- | shells—but the Army con- records do give you a jolt| you see that the nation's| manufacturers of mouse- | getting a path who Navy and buyers too I on so startling that the rubber pro- vounceless shells Texarkana, Tex., tract when largest sumption | be | that | of | bedfel- | (APTURED \Two American Built Planes nsands of Aumy o "1 Figure in Naval Man- euver on Aflantic You wouldn’t expect the Kohi ‘Culp at Kohler, Wis., which LONDON, SPlfl 8—Two Ameri- | responsible for a lot of bathroom can-built planes have figured in the fixtures, to be making fuses — capture of a bomb-damaged German but once you have that down, try U-boat found wallowing in a gale to figure out why the lipstick mak- | somewhere in the Atlantic, the Brit- 1rs, whose only explosions hereto- ish Admiralty announces. | fore have been in the realm of ro- ~Naval authorities expressed doubt, mance, also are making these lit-| however, that the captured submar- tle gadgets that set off death from ine is the Nazi underseas raider that | the sky. | fought with the U. S. S. destroyer A Greer in the waters off Iceland last While we are in the cosmetics . eek. | field, note too that a big Linden, | N. J., producer of compacts now is rolling out percussion caps. Pipe organ mak uun(lm" | a ava away on saddle makers, as if they dldnL h‘ ve enough to do in wartime, are doing three shifts a day on bomb | bodies and fins. ‘nmssacflng a T-bone, are making SEATTLE, Sept. 8—Rear Admiral cartridge clips. Vacuum cleaner M. F. Freeman, Commandant of the | companies are making gas masks. Thirteenth Naval District, has noti- Parking meters have been convert- fied the Naval Air Station at Sitka led into bomb mechanisms, hair!that it has won the third place |award pennant in the Navy’s serv- ice-wide public works contest. Two silverware companies that | never before made anything more | warlike than a knife and fork for (Continued on Page Five) |