The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1941, Page 1

- » v K3 L s VOL. LVIL, NO. 8825. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SRRl JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD’\Y SEPT. ", MLMBLR AbSOUAThD PR[-Bb I‘)4| PRICE TEN CENTS NATION AWAITS TALK BY F.D.R. ONE VESSEL SENTDOWN IS REPORT Seven Thousand Ton Dan- ish Motorship Victim of Maurauding Craft FATE OF PASSENGERS ALSO CREW UNKNOWN | Other Ships, Arnvmg at | New York, Reported Chased by Raider NEW YORK, Sept. 11— A German raider, operating in the Pacific, about 1,000 miles west of the Panama Canal, has sunk the 7,000-ton Dutch motorship Kota Nopan and threatened ether vessels, shipping sources announced here this afternoon. The announcement came close on the heels of the statement the Danish vessel was long over- duc on the Canal voyage to New York City from Batavia and it was presumed she had been lost due to “enemy” action. | Confirmation of the sinking of the Kota Nopan placed the | locale near the Galapagos | Islands. The fate of the pas.unlers. it | " (Continued on Page Four’ | GERMAN RAIDER OPERATING IN PACIFIC CThe | N %60 ® | WASHINGTON—No matter what | surprise the President will spring in | his long awaited radio broadcast to- night one thing is certain, the Navy’s censorship has boomeranged badly and is a serious obstacle to complete | credence of the Greer incident. The tragedy is that the Navy has hushed up other similar incidents. | As a result the public doesn’t know | which one to believe; also it doesn't see why one incident should be hushed up and another blazoned to | the press. Last May, for instance, the Navy vigorously denied that a U.'S. war- ship had dropped bombs on a sus- pected Nazi submarine. But after all the Navy’s denials, Secretary of the Navy Knox was summoned before the Senate Naval Affairs Commit- tee and admitted under oath that the incident had occurred. Then last July while American marines were enroute to Iceland, one transport carrying troops detected the sound of submarine motors. It signalled for the submarine to come to the surface. There was no an- swer. U. S. destroyers immediately rushed in with depth bombs. A smudge of oil came to the surface, and no more was heard of the sub- marine. U. S. Marine Corps officials ad- mitted the above events happened, but the Navy was silent. So now those in the know are wondering why the sudden change in publicity policy, why the Navy rushed into print regarding the Greer. The Navy's censorship also tends to cast doubt on other incidents in- side the Navy. ‘When the Bismarck was sunk, the fact that an American observer was in the plane which caught the bat- tleship was carefully hushed up— until Knox published it in a maga- zine article for which he is reported to have received a thousand dollars. Secretary Knox's hush hush policy has not been aided by the naive hon- " (Continued on Page Foar) the girl. GIRL TRIES SUICIDE Bailiff L. H. Breker (left) reported he dragged 16-year-old Esther Thalhammer (center) from a tenth floor window in the Los Angeles courthouse, screaming “Let me go, I want to kill myself!” after she was denied $1,000 a month alimony from Karl W. Thalhammer, 60, who in an annulment suit charges he wed the girl because her parents had threatened him. Attorney Leon G. Baron (right) helps support Army fo Be %Aeflal Freighters of U. . Soen Flying From South fo Northland NEW DEFENSE PLAN SET UP BY HIROHITO Japanese Ruler Assumes. Direct Control-Army Is Rebuffed TOKYO, Sept. 11.—National de- fense headguarters under control of the Emperor, apparently apart from the regular Imperial High Command, was established today in Japan, Korea, Formosa and Sakhalin. The new system was interpreted as designed to strengthen home de- fense and at the same time check the militaristic domination of the Imperial policy and thus erect "|a barrier to possible dissatisfaction among the military group with the future course of events. General Yamada, old line con-| servative, was named Commander-| in-Chief of the new ‘headquarters.| He will be answerable. directly to Emperor Hirohito, in whose favor the General is said to rank high. The new gefense system provides for the division of Japan proper into four military districts, eastern, ! western, central and northern. —— - — YEAR IN JAIL Arthur Hedstrom ,of Sitka, was sentenced to a year in jail at the defense city yesterday when he Pleaded guilty to issuing bad checks. direct | SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 11.— Big aerial freighters will soon be racing vital defense supplies to Al- | |aska on a regular schedule over a |2,000-mile route. This is the army’s answer to the necessity of whipping up defense preparations at isolated far north bases. tieth Transport Wing will fly the big freighters using twin engined transport planes on the route be- tween Sacramento and Ladd Field at Fairbanks. Stops will be made at McChord Field at Tacoma and another some- where along the route. At the start, the plans call for weekly trips. ARAY OFFICERS ARE FLYING TO NORTH FRIDAY SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Col. ' John Franklin, Executive Officer of San Francisco, Port of Embarkation, and Col. R. F. Maddox, Seattle Port Commander and Post. Commander at Fort Lawton, are scheduled to |leave by plane tomorrow for Al- aska to learn of the needs of the ‘zrocps in the Territory. — v, \LENINGRAD SHOWERED BY PAMPHLETS TODAY | BERLIN, Sept. 11.— German| planes showered Leningrad with | pamphlets today urging eclvilians| |not to defend the city and they| must decide whether Leningrad is, to be taken fairly intact or as a heap of debris. " o | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Army Air Corps pilots of the Fif- | — | AREEXECUTED BY GERMANS Nazi Troo};? Ring Osloi After Spies Befray | Strike Plans { 'LABOR CHIEFS ARE | SENT 10 PRISON {Norse Minisflerfl Pleads with Populace to End | | Strife (By Associated Press) German-occupied Norway, seeth- | ng against the Nazi rule, today.! | faced a major crisis as the Nazi | authorities clamped down with the | | first firing squad execution in the | | country since the Reichswehr con- ! ! querors gained power. | The state of civil siege proclaimed | yesterday at Oslo, the capital, was |expected in informed quarters to spread rapidly to other sections of the country as the wave of natiohalx | istic feelings, said by the Germans {to be stirred by Communist and | Marxist elements determined to un- | settle labor conditions, spread tur- bulently across the nation. Situation Acute Reports reaching Stockholm said | the situation was acute and that in | the cities of Moss, Frederikstad and | | Sarpsborg the same iron measures alrcndy imposed on Oslo probably | | have been imposed there. ; Joseph Terboven, German High | | Commissioner of Norway, asserted | the measures are necessary to crush | plans of a general strike previously set for today. Norway’s Minister of Welfare broadcast the following plea to his |countrymen: o | | “No Fooling” | “I don't dare think what will | happen if there should be a new strike! You have seen that the | Germans will not stand for any [ fooling.” The status of the general strike, |in which it was said all Norwegian | workers were to participate, was still | uncertain but authorities in Oslo | said normal work had been resumed after a two-day strike in the iron | and shipbuilding industries there. | | Betrayed by Spies | Betrayed by Quisling spies within | their own ranks, the workers’ strike NORWEGIANS | E | i | | (Continued on Page Eighty AMERICAN ~ NATIONALS | ~ INDANGER | Germany Won't Promise Safety fo Those Travel- { ing, Belligerent Boats BERLIN, Sept. 11. — Authorized quarters here declared that the de- cision of the United States, by authority of the President and his Secretary of State, permitting Am- ‘erican nationals to return home from England on belligerent ships is a move to “create’possibilities of | incidents.” The German authorities insist |they will not guarantee safetly of !such American travellers because the waters around the British Isles |are subject to both air and U-boat | attack. i RUSH OF INQUIRIES LONDON, Sept. 11.—The United States Embassy reports a rush of !several hundred inquiries by Amer- ican citizens wishing to return to the United States even at the risk of their vesesls being torpedoed. U. S. Bomber Crashes in Test A arently disabled five minutes after taking off from the Municipal-Airport at Los Angeles, Cal,, on testpfll;ght this North American B-2 attack bomber crashed and burst into flame within 100 yards of fllo airport boundary. James Knight, 24, crew chief, was killed, pilot Wilcox B. Wild and co- pilot Paul Penrose were injured. e BT Rt Eve Children Die in Fire | CITALY IS ~ AIRRAIDED ‘Brifish Forces Make Long. | Flight to Bomb Targefs | —Vichy Gefs Scare (By Associated Press) In the war in the air, British Royal Air Force bombers last night ranged far afield. RAF bombers atfacked targets in | northern Italian cities for the first | time since last January. | Mussolini's High Command re- | ports that only two children were | | killed but others were injured. The raiders blasted Genoa, Turin | and the Sicilian city of Messina. VICHY GETS SCARE | VICHY, Sept. 11—Fernch anti- aircraft guns opened fire on British | bombers that flew over here early | this morning. Inhabitants up at 2 o'clock this | | morning could hear the roar of air- ' | plane motors and then the sound of | | i | | 'Five children in one family, all between the ages of two and 11, lost their lives in this fire at Doylestown, Pa. The father, Ernest Love, 8 WPA worker, could save only one child, Hardy, 6. The children were buried in one large cuket. anti-aircraft fire. ~—| The bombers are believed to be | those returning after raids on north- Fear fhal Ballyhoo will Backfire Mow Haunting Fish Season Demo-minded Big-wigs Closing Dates o s Lafenin 1942 By SIGRID ARNE nda. (Pinch-hitting for Jack Stinnett [marked that the planners we; now on vacation) only adopting Hitler's methods, WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — For| Non-interventionists feared ““”caflnel’s ASk Profection of | p 9 o re | A1) program to dramatize De l"’)l-- e o abous ~dromi | ey Mgt load lo war fever. Pinks When Sfreams tizing Democracy.” Heads havebent| When the National League of | Afe lOW over luncheon tables trying to|women Voters took the bull by devise methods for reminding Am- |, norng 1t announced a cam- | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 11.— | I'The opening and closing dates of | ericans of the freedoms they en- joy. Plans have been presented, paign of its own which is the lany move might look like propa-~ sence of simplicity. It’s reall; 2 and pigeon-holed. Idea-tusslers have G ," s mp"c y s‘ i g | the fishing season in Southeast Al- eved eveni one slogan. “Win the, battle of}gq, next summer will probably be gath evenings. production.” They're spreading that P | But, 8o far, nothing official has come ‘of all the worrying. There was always the other side! of the question to consider. Gov- ernment officials were afraid that| sentence far and wide—on window stickers, on billboards, on auto bumper cards, on letters, in laun- dry bundles. the same as this year, except that' 'closing dates will coincide with the 1940 season, it is announced here| by Seton Thompson, Chief of the | Division of the Alaska Fisheries, at (Continued o Page Five) ((:onnnued on Page Fight) PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS ON AIR THIS EVE | Foreign Policies fo Be An- nounced in Plain Every Day English So All May Get If Straight WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. President Roosevelt’s radio ad- dress on the United States' forcign policy, scheduled for tonight at 6 o'clock, Pacific Standard Time, is described at the White House as one to be “all covering, leaving no unan- swered questions,” Stephen Early, press secre- tary, also declared that the President would devote part of today to the Russian aid ques- tion, receiving Ambassador Ou- mansky. Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull will cancel tomorrow’s press conference to hold the first meeting of the American Mission (o Russia headed by Averill Harriman. As the President went over the completed draft of his ad- dress for tonight, Senate and House leaders, both Democratic and Republican, said the speech “would mean what it says and will be written in English—Eng- lish that will not need trans- lation into foreign languages, nor into other English.” The text of the speech is ex- pected to run 3,000 words, the White House says. Says Ickes Is Mistaken On Gas Shorfage Special Senale Investigat- ors Want Restrictions Removed at Once WASHINGTON, Sept. 11." — The | Special Senate Investigating Com- nilttee today reported there is no actual shortage of gasoline or other petroleuth products in the East. The committee recommended im- mediate removal of the existing re- |strictions and accuses Secretary of |Interior Harold L. Ickes, Defense | Petroleum Coordinator, and his aides, with over enthusiasm and with creating an unnecessary alarm to the public. The committee said: “There is a shortage, as we see it, but it is a shortage of surplus and not a short- age of products or lack of facilities to transport them.” Ickes, in placing restrictions on the East Coast, declared there was an acute shortage of gasoline for motor craft and also industry. TWO MORE CLAIM ONDOUGLAS ISLAND PROPERTY ARE FILED Two more suits for recovery of property in the Rose Lode Claim on Douglas Island were filed here this morning by Everett Nowell. One of the actions named George and Ellen Harju, and the second named Carl and Ina Graves, as people who are occupying land on the island claimed by Nowell. In |each case, he asks return of the property and $250 damages. Last week Nowell filed a similar case here, naming Vaino Seppanen as the party now occupying prop- erty claimed by him.