The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8823 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1941. MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ICELAND SUPPLY SHIP SUNK 'MOSCOW CLAIMS NAZI BEING ROUTED i RUSS FORCES New Heart of Russia Lies Back of Volga; Second Defense Line DRIVE ENEMY BEFORE THEM Red NavymL_iHers Ap- proaches fo Odessa with German Dead CENTRAL SECTOR | SCENE OF ACTION Hitler Troofisflay Be Forc- ed fo Withdraw from Leningrad (By Associated Press) Broken remnants of a German force of 100,000 men were being pur- sued by Soviet forces on the central front today, a Soviet communique from Moscow declared, after report- ing the Nazis had been thrust back sixteen miles in two days in a west- | ward drive toward Smolensk. In a gigantic battle continuing through ten days, the Reds claimed | they have recaptured 150 ‘square ! miles of territory from the aggres- sors, including fifty villages. Official dispatches sald Nazi forces besieging Odessa left more than 24,- 000 dead at the approaches to that Black Sea port as the Soviet Navy led daily sorties against the Ger- mans. The allies’ big counterthrust on the central front, however, shone as the brightest star on the Spviet hori- zon as military observers expressed the belief that success there might relieve the pressure on Leningrad, compelling the invaders to withdraw some troops from the northern sec- tor to save the sagging lines at the center. ———————— ‘WASHINGTON—During the past few days, a hectic diplomatic battle has raged backstage over the ques- tion of selling two U. S. ships to Ireland. During this battle the Irish, | with complete and charming candor, | went to the point of calling members | of the Martime Commission “scoun- drels.” It all came about as a result of | President Roosevelt’s promise to the Irish last spring that they could | have two U. S. merchant ships. The | President wanted to play up to the | Irish in order to get naval bamE from them later. But after promising the two ships, it fell to the Maritime Commission | to deliver them and the commission | found the only way an American ship can be sold privately is under | the Lend-Lease Act. Otherwise the | law requires that a ship be sold at public auction. This would make | the Irish bid against everyone else. | Ships are at a premium these days and prices run around $100 to $125 a ton, in contrast to the $75 prlce; the Irish were to pay. St When Joseph Desmond Brennan, Irish Vice-Consul in New York, came the other day to see the Maritime Commission, he was horrified to learn that Ireland’s two ships were to be sold under the Lend-Lease Act. “Lend-Lease!” exclaimed Consul Brennan. “We’ll have none of it! ‘The President of the United States has promised us these ships, and | we're ready to take them—but not | under Lend-Lease. Never!” “Why not?” asked one of the Maritime Commissioners. “Lend-Lease carries a political connotation,” he explained. “You're giving ships to England because you Goutinued on Fage ¥oun "YOEFENSE LINE along Valga River, now being O T Eventuality © , |NDUSTRIAL CENTERS PR (Important for War Materials) LONDON, Sept. 9. Prime! Aty ,fiTK';'fl-LS':zfAl;AN Minister Winston Churchill, inr 4| } sweeping review of the w to | " - Behind the Urals dies Russia’s second life of defense—a new indus- trial region. Going to Britain John D. Biggers Former OPM Production Director John D. Biggers has been appointed by the President to work in Lon- don, with the rank of minister, with W. Averell Harriman, lénd-lease | envoy, as a production expert. Au- thoritative sources said William S. Knudsen intended taking Mr. Big- | gers* old job himself under the new | defense seiup. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 4%, American Can 82%, Anaconda 28'¢, Bethlehem Steel 67%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, International Harvester 53%, Ken- necott 36%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 7, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGRS The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: - industrials 127.43, rails 29.34, utilities 18.08. CHURCHILL - ASKSMORE NAVAL AID ‘ British Leader Warns thall‘ ! Hifler May Close | with America l 'HOUSE CHEERS AT NORWAY COMMENT 1 l Britain and U. S. Hinted' Ready for Any Naval 1 [ | | KEY CITIES OF URALS ‘With a demonstration at Fort unit designed to knock enemy date, expressed the wish for “great- | er h from the American Navy.| and warned that Hitler may come | |“to close- quarters” with the Unit- | led states and turn the whole At- | lllamlc into one vast war zone. | Addressing the House of Com- !mons, assembled for the first time | RAILROADS By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer t. 9—B k\sinc? August 6, Churchill declared | W:SHINGTON, Hogt- o “1 bluntly that the Battle of the At-| i of the Volga lies i 'new heart ofiynyp i nop yet won, but gave the | i . Russia capable of pumping lifeblood to the Soviet war machine almost indefinitely. | It's the Ural Mountain industrial | zone, created by the Communists during the last 20 years, and de-; signed to meet & need that now| | looms up—A second line of defense Artillery Fire Forces Great! against a European invader. Some American experts on Rus- | sian’ economics believe that more| than 60 percent of Russia’s war in- dustry has already been shifted back af the Volga, securely pro-, tected by theé famous mountains di- viding Asiatic and European Rus- sia. . | The Urals have been known for| |ndusirial Plants fo centuries to hold mineral resourc- [ 2s and their iron deposits have S'Op work been worked on a small scale for| hundreds of years. The timber of BERLIN, Sept. 9.—Great indus-| ° the region may e reduced tO tria] plants isolated in besieged | harcoal, and the iron smelted that peningrad are under continuous | way. That antiquated method iS' German artillery fire, making op-! still employed in some remote areas. ' ¢rations impossible, while Stuka ;. dive bombers add destruction in The Bolsheviks early appreciated day and night assaults, the author- | the possibilities of the Ural Moun- jtative Dienst Aus Deutschland said | tain region, sent scientists to fer- today. | et out possibilities. They returned| A communique from Hitler's! with glowing - reports of vast re- headquarters said that Leningrad | sources. Large coal deposits Were and its 3,200,000 population with | found at Kizel. The potash deposits extensive defending forces was cut| at Solikamsk, they said, totaled| off when “speed divisions of the| about 18,000,000,000 tons. Potash i5| German army, excellently support- | a primary element of explosives and .ed by the air force combat units, fertilizers, reached Neva on the broad front They predicted that the oil de-'east of Leningrad.” | posits of the Urals were probably | more extensive than those in me{F d | reeaom | (UFA has become the center of the| o ' p r e s s great Ishimbayevo oil field. !tsi | United States—the largest known! extent has not been disclosed to| | up to that time. The first oil de-| the world by the Soviets. De'ended (Continued on Page Five) While touring the United States George of Great Britain, tries his sovaya in‘1929, and since then| By LARRY ALLEN By Cable to AP Feature Service ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept. 9.— posits were discovered near Chu- There’s nickel, the toughening| | Allied naval action is pushing the U. S. Army Unveils New Tank Colonel Lawes, left, and the Duke of Kent Holabird, Maryland, the Duke of Kent, younger brother of King little “jeeps,” speedy reconnaissance cars. He is pictured with Col. 1 l;-lerbepx'et Lawes. commanding officer of the camp. man Fleets of Europe Now Join Brifish fo Sever ltaly’s Colonial Lifelines Destroyer Units Meade, Maryland, the United States army has unveiled a new type of tanks out of action. Principal armament of the provisional G. H. Q. tank destroyer battalion consists of 36 75-mm. guns mounted on half-trac scout cars and 18 37-mm. anti-tank guns mounted on “jeeps.” | with its “75” against tanks, right, during the demonstration. ‘ ,Ijukc Tries Out Army’s «]eeP,, One of the scout cars is pictured, left above, going into action DIMONDON - BRIEFSTAY IN ALASKA Delegate iHmeau Tells | 0f $250,000 for Native | Tuberculosis Hospital | In the Territory for a brief visit, and with pressing matters which demand he return to Wash- {ington, D. C, by September 15 at the latest, Anthony J. Dimond, Al- |aska’s Delegate in Congress, was in Juneau today. Delegate Dimond arrived here last night in the private plane of James Ryan, Assistant Director of Civilian Defense in Alaska, He plans to leave tomorrow on the McKinley for the Westward. 2 In the few days he will have in Alaska, Delegate Dimond wants to see defense developments at Sitka, Anchorage, Kodiak and Fairbanks. He also wants to visit Cordova and his home in Valdez. Appropriations “I think the appropriations being allocated by the Federal Govern- jment for use in Alaska are about all we can expect,” Dimond de- clared. “It's not easy to get any- thing these days without a na- tional defense background.” Delegate Dimond also stated he believed Alaska will get its “full share” of appropriations for public works at defense centers under the $150,000,000 Community Facilities army's transport school at Camp hand at driving one of the army's or Fascist ship. Act. The blockade of the Libyan b g The Di coast is not yet ironclad, but it is| elegate expressed himself |as especially pleased at the re- getting that metall touch. Ef- debt § A CA passage of a $250,000 appro- fectiveness is demonstrated by the| riatiol ¥ - sl think. the cATNed navies n|PESEERHEE 8( tubereulotls .nosph {tal for Alaska natives. The appro< num near Kamensk. Magnetogorsk liss beside a veritable mountain of |iron ore more than 70 percent pure. The city did not exist before the | revolution, now is believed to be turning out close to 10,000,000 tons |of pig iron annually. (Reports have inot been sent by the Russian gov- |ernment since 1934.) i [ The growth of the cities of the| Urals since 1929 1is regarded .by | economic experts as a fair index of the capacities of that area to |supply ussia’s war machine. Mag- |netogorsk has come up from noth- ing to 146,000. The 10 key cities all have doubled in size, some of them have trebled and quadrupled. The, unofficials capital of the' Urals is Sverdlovsk, where seven (Continued on Page Five) by element in tank steel, near Ufalei, | Med::e}r;men: "bsd":)ifrgsl;;:nd rignt 3 hteym, and alumi- | |up ussolini’s b e D Like an octopus spreading its tentacles, the war fleets of Bri- |tain, Greece, Yugoslavia and the . S. Judge—DTsmissés Suit | i Netherlands are attempting to Of congressman Sumg strangle Italy's last lifelines to her I Texas Newspaper vanishing African empire, Relent- |lessly they are seizing every op- | portunity to beat up Italy’s naval bases, and a considerable per- |centage of the convoys that try to dash from Italy to Lihya is blasted to bits. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—A public | The Revenge Motif officer or candidate cannot go about| Day and night British patrols “with his feelings' on his sleeve,” are maintained through the cen- according to U. S. Judge James V.'tral Mediterranean and along the Allred of Texas in an opinion just Libyan coast. Along with them go published in which he dismissed the Greek, Yugoslav and Dutch war- sult of Congressman Martin L. hipsthat escaped from their home Sweoney 0f glfi::rfl “.:‘Imt_r‘:é bases under Nazi airblitzes, Their Corpus Chrisf -Times. g ‘ by ex chajn libel officers and crews have a definite (Continued on Page Eight) By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN of The Washington Merry-Go- Round at anything that looks like a Nazi the Mediterranean accounted for 168,000 tons out of a total of 459~ 000 tons of Axis shipping sunk or put out of action in July. Dutch submarines operating in the cen- tral Mediterranean sank 26,000 tons alone in two months. priation was passed as part of a large appropriations bill, Dimond said, although the amount was not included in the budget esti- mate. Location Not Set The $250,000 will be just a start design for liying—to take a crack| Navy Supplies Army for the hospital construction, Di-| The big push in the Westerllmonq said. An adequate hospital | desert last winter gave the DAVYiyo take care of tubercular natives, another job. It transported NeArly|ne estimates, will cost some $1,-' 100,000 Italian prisoners back 101500000, On the other hand, Egyptian ports and kept the Brit- | pictured the hospital move as a ish army supplied with water, f00d|sound and sane step toward tak- and munitions. The smashing bom- ing care of the disease among na-| bardment of Italian positions|tives where it is 12 or 13 percent ! around Bardia simplified the army’s | more prevalent than among white | mopping up job. persons. \ At sea the navy's record has! Just where the hospital will be been embeliished with tales of [located is not. established, Dimond heroism. One display of courage|declared. He said he believed it Leam when * British saflorg’ ‘stood ! should be located from the stand- (Conunued on Page Eighis (Continued on Page Eight) U.5.-NAZI RELATIONS AT CRISIS | Destroyed After Red Sea Incident 'AMERICAN DIES IN | TORPEDO SINKING 'President Expected to | Speak on Freedom of l Seas in Speech | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The State Department today reported tha 24 crew members, including one | American, “are presumed lost” after the torpedoing of the former Danish |ship Sessa flying the Panamanian | flag August 17 aboul 300 miles south- | west of Teelund | The news of the sinking, in which {only three men survived, came close on the heels of the sinking of the “Ameflcsu freighter Steel Seafarer 1in Red Sen waters bv an aerlal bomb. British sources In Cairo |blamed a German bomber based in |Greece for the destruction of the [rreiwmer. | The £lale Department announce- | ment suid the Navy picked up three survivors of the steamship Sessa tabout 300 miles southwest of Ice- land.: Its cargo consisted of food- stuffs, cereals and lumber for the government of Iceland, but did not carry arms or implements of war. The State Department sald even | before the news of the Sessa’s sink- |ing was heard it was apparent that | the Steel Seafarer incident has in- tensified the erisis of relations be- tween the United States and Ger- many over the issue of freedom of the seas. The captain of the Steel Seafarer and its crew of 35 men are reported officially safe. * General expectation is that Presi- dent Roosevelt will use his address to the nation Thursday night as a forceful declaration about the policy of freedom of the seas. AMERICAN FREIGHTER BOMBED, IS SENT DOWN; ! CREW REPORTED SAVED WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The | State Department announced last night that it had been informed that the American freighter Steel | Seafarer had been sunk by an air- ; plane bomb in the Red Sea on Sep- tember 7. | The plane, according to the State ! Department advices, was not identi- | fled positively. | All members of the crew are re- | ported to have been saved. The Steel Seafarer was owned by the Isthmian Steamship Company. THREENALI - CRAFT SUNK ~ BY BRITISH Germans Admit Loss of Warship Bremse Dur- ing Convoy Duty LONDON, Sept. 9—British naval & forces in the Arctic have sunk three German ships supplying troops on the Russian Arctic front and in ad- dition have probably sunk the Ger- man warship Bremse, the Admiralty announced here today. The German High Command ac- knowledged that the Bremse, de- scribed as a 1,400-ton artillery cadet ship on convoy duiy, was lost after a short fierce fight with the Brit- ish. The thros vessels sunk were a destroyer, an armed trawler and another ship.