The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8827. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1941. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BATTLE OF ATLANTIC RAGING US. GUNS MAY B PLACED U.S. SHIPS Neutrality Act Will Prob- ably Be Altered for Defense Purposes WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.— Guns may be placed on merchant ships of the United States in view of the new Battle of the Atlantic being waged by both German U-boats and by German long-distance bombers. The discussion is today at fever heat and has been intensified by the report received here late yes- terday of the torpedoing of the American freighter Montana, Pan- amanian registry, which was sent down about 12 hours before Presi- dent Roosevelt delivered his speech Thursday ‘night. The action of arming U. merchantmen will require congres- sional alteration of the Neutrality Act. One legislator who left the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt prior to' the President’s broadcast ; | | £. Thurs- day night, said the idea will soon be proposed in conerete form. —————— Robertsons Return Here on North 3ea Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson and Miss Carol Robertson are re- turning to Juneau aboard the North Sea which left Seattle yesterday afternoon. The Robertsons have been in Seattle to attend the wed- ding of their son Duncan to Miss Mary Eggert. Miss Robertson a bridesmaid at the marriage, which took place September 6. L o s e s ihe - WASHINGTON - This is the, story of how paid German agents have used for their own purposes | a very active member of congress! and through him have flooded the country with Nazi literature. The Congressman is Stephen A. Day, Republican Representative at- large from Illinois, who on April 6, 1933, sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler congratulating him on his rise to power. i Since then a book written by Con- | gressman Day entitled “We Must| Save the Republic” and consistingg largely of attacks on Great Britain have been flooding the country.| This book is published by ‘a firm registered at the State Department as paid by Nazi agents. Congressman Day has been send- | ing out telegrams (at Government | cxpense) attempting to exonerate' himself from Nazi connections. How- | ever, in view of the fact that the! Merry-Go-Round interviewed Day | two months ago, well before his, book was published, and called his attention specifically to his nazi af-| filiations, it would appear that hel went into the Nazi publishing game with his eyes open. At that time (June 15) Congress- man Day had just delivered a radio broadcast demanding that Great Britain be made to pay for her back war debts. One interesting| thing about his speech was the' fact that it was mimeographed and: distributed to newspapers by the Columbia Press Service, an organ- ization close to George Sylvester Vierick. Vierick is registered as a paid agent of Nazi Germany and is. (Continued on Page Four) New Armor for U. S. Fliers ’RUSSIANS : | ROUTING GERMANS Twenty-six Villages Re-| | captured-Two Nazi Tank Corps ArgB(oken Up | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) 1 Thé Russians, according to an| official communique issued in Mos- | cow this morning, declared that} 26 villages have been recaptured | and about 180,000 men are attack- {ing in the Bryansk sector where the Germans broke through late in August. The Russian counter of- fensive began 13 days ago. Moscow dispatches said the 47tn and 24th German Tank Corps have | A new type of protection for U. 8. military fliers from enemy gunfire is being turned out by the Breeze Corp. at Elizabeth, N, J. Top photo shows A. Langstaff Johnston, Jr., vice president, seated in the cockpit armor, made of an unusually light metal. Bottom photo shows the armor, dented but not pierced, £fter being fired at by “armor-piercing” tracer bullets on the test range. | | ii;fiorl al Washinfilon Is U. 5. MARINES PARADE | t N AUSTRALIAN The inhabitants of Brisbane, Australia, turned out in fine stylz and showered these United States marines and sailors with confetti when they paraded through the city's streets recently. The parade ?\'ns in con- recticn with a “geod wil visit to the continent “down und by the United States cruisers Northampton and Salt Lake City. In command of the visiting warships was Rear Admiral Taffinder and the host was | the Governor of Queensland, Goes to Fight Anothér War SAILORS CALL STRIKE OVER WAR BONUSES Seafarers Refuse fo Take| Ships to Allied or " Axis Ports NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The SEB-‘\ farers International Union of North | America, an AFL affiliate, early to- | day called a walkout for 11 o’clock ' | this forenoon, ordering members ofi . all ships bound for Axis and Alliéd | ports after negotiations failed to | settle a war bonus dispute between the union and operators. John Hawk, Union Secretary, said “we naturally are not against car- | rying material to England, but since | the Nazis are sinking boats regard- | less fo the location, we want to pro- | tect our men, but the operators show no signs of negotiating.” Jane, | Three ships here with cargoes of ; gion, | supplies for newly-established Am- | erican defense bases at Bermuda | and the West Indies, cancelled sail- ings because their crews walked out | Hawk said that the strike eventual- | |1y will involve 20,000 union members jon ships in all Atlantic and Guif | | ports. Off to his second war, Sergt. William Q. Setliffe bids his daughter, goodbye in Chicago.” Formerly Hiinois adjutant of the American Legic he will join a Royal Canadian artillery outfit at Petawawa, Ont. During the World War he was a captain in the 343d Infantry. | i e BefferShowthanCongress; KILL THEM | Business Is Very Simple FOR HAVING WASHING’I‘O—;. C. Sept. 13— a‘;‘}w‘;’ S vk ‘ F I R E A R M S; This village's new airport is the scene, but it's really the gadgets est she town, Ci S t- | whicl t th ds. | H *| Possession of Guns fo Be mest modern airport in the worla, | PAggase has been simplified. i done at the long row of desks and it should be.” Some half dozen By SIGRID ARNE government departments collabor- i also been routed and the Ger-| (mans have lost more than 260 tanks, 600 vehicles and hundreds of field guns. Y - s eee — - Will Fight IGHT 0 ORRO w - Nationalist Political Lead- INDU("ON ZERO HOUR er Makes Declaration . —Speech Untimely FOR ALAS KA GUARDS TOKYO, Sept. 13.—Seigo Nakaro, Haticnalist political leader, told a great mass meeting that Japan is B2S.) I prepared to fight to the last man if Well, girls, when you kiss your the Japanese Empire could not set- TO Wed Army l\lan? guardsmen good night tomorrow tle their differences with the United | evening, make that last territorial States. |embrace a real one, because when Both Navy and War department | the feilows wake up Monday morn- | circles, however, declared that the ing they'll be members of, not the speech was not justified as a seu- Alaska National Guard but the Na- | tlement, by peaceful terms, is prob- | tional Guard of the United States. ably in the making. At a minute after midnight, Sun- | 9 | day night, the men ®f the guari |in Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbank rand Ketchikan will pass from tie | | jurisdicticn of the Territory of Al-| HOlD pRA('"(E } aska and under the control of the| i U. 8. Army. But, girls, don't keep those Ju- Bl“xour 'ES' neau guardsmen up too late Sun-! day night, because &t 7 a.n. Mon- N day a khaki-clad bugler is gmn!;,‘[fl"re Sfafe Darkened as to blow Reveille in the Southeast, Alaska Fair Building, down near| Guardsmen and Volun- the Douglas bridge, and the boys. will be expected o toe the me| 1661 Pafrol Towns and right-dress for ‘Uncle Sam. e At least that's the line-up as pro-| SANTA FE, N. M. Sept. 13— posed today by Major Jesse E.Gra- | The nation's first statewide black- ham, U. S. Army instructor in ' Out of an area twice the size of Eng- charge of induction: in the Terri- land was enforced in grim earnest tory. i m: :x}i]ght n:f New Mex:::nis tt;ough- A 2 out e s £ cooperal n e na- Don't Bring Toothbrushes | tiona1 defense training move. No, Major Graham affirmed, the| e graters population of 530,000 zuardsmen aren't going to be re-|percong earned “well done” approba- quired to turn out a minute afterjuon from military officials. Thou- | midnight tomorrow, the moment sands of Guardsmen and volunteer | when the induction order becflmesidefgnse workers were on duty in | effective. And when they appear at|some 70 towns and cities as lights 7 am. Monday, in responsé to the blinked out and peaceful New Mex- | bugler’s “can't-get-em-up” notes,"ico practiced for war. the men aren't expected to take AT Sy L B | their personal effects along. But BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | when they “fall in” affer the bugle 55 5 » > has stopped its tootinig, the men » will be “in the army now,” the wo ar 'es o Major pointed out. { Unless their living ‘at home in- terferes with their army duties, Ju- neau men who wish to stay at their | homes between the induction date Cobina Wright, Jr. | For Strateqic Minerals ticket. The traveler steps up with his| ——— e bags. He buys his ticket, and gives] VICHY, Sept. 13.—Persons pos- the information, needed for the|sessing firearms illegally will be record of his trip—weight, phone subject to execution by German number, destination, and number of ' firing squads. bags. | The announcement comes from Then the bags are lifted onto a Lieut. Gen. Ernst von Schaumnerg, low platform which flanks the desk.' commander of the occupation forces e |where the air passenger buys )us‘ sho' Down_Nazi Order earch - According to Palmer 1. Beau- dette, a $54-a-month corporal in the U. 8. army, he will marry Co- bina Wright, Jr., 19, eastern so- cialite and movie actress, in New York, Nov. 17. Beaudette made the announcement after he re- turned to Seattle, Wash., in a chartered. plane after visiting Miss ‘Wright ‘at Reno, Nev. ' The flight cost $1,300. Both Miss Wright and her mother have denied the engagement, and their departure for Chilkoot Barracks or Fort Richardson will be permitted to do so, Major Graham stated. " However the guardsmen will all be fed by the army in local res- taurants while they are in the city. As a matter of fact, the first order of the day Monday, after they "eipartles to lined up at the fair building, wiil (Continued on Page Seven) | | AtTwe TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 13. — The United States Bureau of Mines, seeking new deposits of strategic minerals, will sent exploration Paul Zinner, acting supervisor of research, announces thai J. H. Pointsin Alaska East, formerly of Denver, will head a party of 30 to search for nickel on’ deserted Yakobi Island in the Alexander Archipelago and another group, headed by R. S. Sanford, (will explore the extensive chrome | deposit on Kenal Peninsula. The platform is a scale, so immed-' jately a li'tle dial on the ticket desk swings around and registers! the weight. ! No More Bag Worry | Maybe the loud-speaker already! |is announcing the departure of the| plane, The passenger pockets his | | ticket and forgets about his bags as, | 2 (Continued on Page Eight) in Paris. In announcing the death penalty the commander says it is the result of increased illegal possession not only of firearms but also of other war materials. The announcement arousing the ire of people. is D BUY DEFENSE BONDS MAY NOW ARM MERCHANT VESSELS U-BOATS IN CONTIN I ANCE SEA ATTACKS {German H‘igh‘ Command Claims 4 More Supply Ships ~ Tofal 28 (By Associated Press) The Battle of the Atlantic surged toward a new crescendo today as Germany reported continuance of U-boat attacks on Britain-bound convoys. The Germans declare they have sunk four more merchantmen and three escort war vessels, The High Command claims in a communique that the toll of con- voyed ships carrying supplies to England is now 28 merchantmen and three warships. The British Admiralty denies that any such number of merchantmen have been lost and places the ships sent down at not more than eight vessels have been lost by U-boat !attacks, assisted by German plane bombers. FIERCE NAZI ATTACKS NET ONLY 8 SHIPS Convoy Arrives in Britain After Repeated As- saults by Germans LONDON, Sept. 13.—Battered by two submarine attacks and a Nazi air assault in a raging storm, plus Just missing a conflict with a Gei- surtace raider, the bulk of a British convoy on the Atlantic reached port today with only eight ships missing, the Admiralty said. Three ships were victims of tor- pedos, four were sunk by aerial bombs and another foundered in the storm after being damaged in the aerial attack. ‘The Admiralty highly praised the conduct of the men in the convoy and gave a large measure of credit for bringing the majority of the craft safely through the danger to Lieut. Comdr. G. A. Thring, in command of the senior escort ship, The first aliack on the convoy was made far i sea by the sub- marines, which mk two ships within a few minutes. The steamer Brandenburg picked up nearly all the men from one of the sunken vessels and survivors from the other were rescucd 12 hours later by the sloop Deptiord, Later, an air attack from six four-engined bombers suik one ship outright and two others soon fol- lowed. A fourth ship was hit in the engiuercom and abandoned. Another wus damaged. The submarines struck again the next day, sinking the Brandeuburg immediately. Only one man was saved. A day later, the convoy was warned that a German warship Was near, but the fleet’ hove-to ian {in a near gale for two days and the raider meanwhile disappeared. The entire crew was saved from the damaged ship which was lost in the storm. Officers of Signal Corps in England WASHING1ON, Sepu. 13—Scores of new army signal corps officers, lit was learned today, are being sent further yegularly to England for front-line the French instruction in the operation of radio |beam airplane detectors which both, IBritain and thé United States now are developing in quantity.