The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8828. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVY TO GUARD SUPPLY SHIPS NAZIS SLASH AT LENINGRAD DEFENSE TAKES NEW PARTNER TWO CHIEF CITIES NOW IN PERIL German Pincer Movement; Is Reported af Kiev in New Warfare RUSSIANS (LAIM INVADERS SET BACK Aerial Activity of Week- end Resulfs in Reich Planes Downed (By Associated Press) Threats on Russia’s second and hird largest cities were heightened today as the Germans are reported to have slashed through Leningrad’s defense front at one point and the Russians admitted the Nazi pincers movement was tightening the ring around Kiev. Simultaneously, observers in An- kara, Turkey, forecast a seaborne German drive against the Russian Crimea, site of the big Soviet Black Sea naval hase at Sebastopol. Ordered Mobilized Reports that the Germans have ordered all Rumanian and Bulgar- ian Black Sea ports closea to com- mercial shipping capped rumors that both German and Italian ‘roops are massed in Bulgarian ports and wiil attempt to land forces behind the Russian Dnieper River defense line in the Ukraine. Dispatches from Sofia said par- tial mobilization of tne Bulgarian army has been ordered. Make Deep Thrust Advices reaching London said the Germans already have thrust into the Perikop area, the thin uneck of land connecting Crimea with the Russian mainland. “(Continued on Page Eight) ~-lhe ‘WASHINGTON—One year ago to- day this column revealed the strange activity of Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota prior to the still un- explained airplane crash which kill- ed him. Particularly it was revealed how his' speeches had been written by George Sylvester Viereck, a reg- istered agent of Nazi Germany. Following publication of that story the U. S. Senate appropriated $5,000 to investigate the allegations of these columnists. So far the investigation has not taken place. However, our-own investigation of how German agents have used mem- bers of Congress has continued and has revealed further startling devel- opments. These are not so important re- garding Senator Lundeen as they are regarding the fact that the Nazis have been able to use a highly-plac- ed member of Congress and appear to be using other members of Con- gress even today. For if the public loses confidence in one of the few, remaining legislative systems in the world, then we may be in for what happened after the German people lost confidence in the Reichstag. We have already revealed who wrote Senator Lundeen’s speeches. Most important additional develop- ment was how his speeches were used after delivery on the floor of the Senate. They become an integral part of the Nazi propaganda network in the United States. After being printed in the Congressional Record, they were reprinted and sent out "(Continued on Page Four) | | | larrived RAF units are only When the dance team of Tony and Renee DeMarce was broke up and their marriage ended in a Nevada divorce court recently, DeMakco picked Sally Craven of Los Angeles, a former Ballerina, as his new dancing partner. They're due to appear in a Broadway musical after concluding an engagement at a Hollywood night club. Plane of Germany Sinks American Owned Vessel; Affidavit Is Made Publi GETS OVATION @k in India and also " Siberia, Joey Paxton, “Miss North Caro- lina” from Charlotte, set an ap- plause record and became one of the favorites in the “Miss Amer- ica” contest at Atlantic City, N. | J.. when she drew a fine-minute acclamation in winning the talent contest. Joey'’s a sister of film actress Virginia Dale, WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — “A Junkers, or at'any rate, a Ger- man plane,” is blamed in a sworn statement by Third Officer M. C. Suka of the American owned Steel Seafarer for the bomb sinking of the ship in the Red Sea on Sep- tember * 5. The State Department has 15- sued the following affidavit which 3uka made at Suez on arrival there with other survivors of the ship: “Visibility was perfect. We could even see the plane’s exhaust spark- ing. The plane passed directly over the ship, about 250 feet, as well as I can judge, above the main mast. Abouy two seconds after the plane cleared the ship, I heard a muf- fled explosion below the water line. A second later, another ex- plosion.” Are Exiled To Siberia From Iran Nazi Prisoners Sent Qut! from Teheran fo In- ternment Camps TEHERAN, Sept. 15, — Eighty, Nazis bound for internment camps left here by train while Russian and British diplomats listened to their “sieg Heils” at the railway sta- tion. ————————— TO ENROLL Iy U. OF W. Kenneth Webster left aboard the ' Princess Louise today for Seattle| to enroll in the' University of - Washington, transferring his edu- | cational ~ studies from Montana | state colleze (devil British fliers in their planes. . the general vicinity of the Galapagos ! ports discount reports that one or | RAF NOW FIGHTING INRUSSIA ‘First Brifish Fl Fhers Several Squadrons Strong, on | Eastern Front 1 LONDON, S ept. 5—~Units of the Roval Air Force have arrived in Soviet Russia. The announcement was officially made while the crucial fight for pos- session of Leningrad by the Ger- mans was raging. The Daily Telegraph today sald‘ it is reasonable to assume the newly | “ad- | vance guards of a large fighter con- | ed for the eastern | Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill announced recently that hun- dreds of RAF fighters are being sent to Soviet Russia | Spectacular mass air battles are | | raging in the Leningrad sector bu it is officially reported that Russian h airmen are now being aided hy dare- | | | | London newspapers claimed that the first British fliers to arrive ins} Russia, several squadrons strong, | have already gone into action against the Nazis. - SEARAIDER ON PACIFIC IS REPORT | Navy Deparlment Making Investigation—Craft Off Panama Canal Lanes WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. “— Re- ports that a German sea xalder is operating in the Pacific approaches | to the Panama Canal are being checked by the Navy'Department, Reports indicate that the raider is preying on merchant shipping in a sign, “Keep 'Em Flying.” Islands off the coast of Ecuador, 1,- 000 miles west of the Pacific en- trance to the Panama Canal. . | Presumably, the sphere of the; raider falls within the sphere of | defense waters noted by President Roosevelt in his warning to Axis' raiders. | Informed circles in Washington | said probably the surface raider re- more U-boats are operating in the Pacific from a mother ship or secret | | base. The raider reports first came from New York shipping circles where definite .information was received thnt a Dutch freighter had been nk by a raider off the Galapagos leands and other ships had been e DEFE"DERS | (Pinch-hitting for Jack Stinnett) (lEAR WA | WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — At |dinner the other night, a man who ~hould know said there must be wwne 5,000 people in Washington just lving by their wits. | He meant the group of men and |women who are here on retainer ni 2 | fees, They're supposed to get laws Ma(hme Gun Flre [pessed to help some industry, get |laws repealed for the same rea-| Wlth(?l'{zm P!’“L‘e’nlngmd‘q n, or to wangle government con- of flaming toward a climax, the Ger- | " :: ) Wb mans quoted Soviet prisoners with | y draw remarkably comfor- saying the defenders are dynamiting (%€ livings, but do serve one huge blocks of buildings to clear £0°0 Purpose. They 'probably keep. the Nne for artillery and machine, their distant employers out of the gun fire in street by street action, I"S"Pe “ssylum, because thoy can Ey SIGRID ARNE Dynamlhng Buildings Pre- | paring for Arfillery and Reom, warning Behind Presidont Roeosevelt, who The new BI17E, four-engined bomber soars over Puget Sound in a successiul air test. The War Depart- ment deseribed the ship, built in Seattle, as a “bigger, improved Flying Fortress.” “Power turrets both on top and bottom of the fusilage and a ‘stinger’ turret in the tail provide for resist- ance to attack from any direction.” The phne has been ordered into UNSMILING PRESIDENT WARNS AXIS | T0 PROTECT LEND - LEASE CARGO CRAFT | "Capture orDTsiroy' Every Axis Surface or Subsur- face Raider Is Order 'SECRETARY KNOX MAKES STATEMENT 'Armed Sea Forces Are fo Carry Ouf Instructions Given by President MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Sept. | 16.—Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today told delegates attending the national convention of the American Legion that beginning tomorrow the United States Navy will protect all lend-lease cargoes traversing the Wearing a btack arm band in mourning ever the death ¢f his mother, a serious-faced President addressed the nation in @ breadeast from the White House Oval merican watérs ab (heir own peril. Axis powers they entered vital ; was wearing a secrsucker suit, was NEW ARMY BOMBER GETS AIR TESTS seas “between the American con- tinent and waters adjacent to Ice- land.” The Navy Chief deseribed that all !Atlantic Fleet commanders have béen ordered in' umequivocal lan- guage to “capture or destroy” every Axis surface or subsurface raider en- countered. Although Secretary Knox avolded the particular word “convoy” his announcement recalled the inter- pretation given the President’s shoot on sight speech. . Navy Prepares The announcement by the Navy Secretary constituted the first of- ficial disclosure how the Navy is preparing to carry out the new policy enunclated by President Roosevelt and henceforth Axis war !vessels entering the United States “defensive waters” do so at their own peril and American naval vessels will not wait for them to shoot first. Protection Afforded ‘Whether “protection as adequate as we can make it” as stated by ' Secretary Knox, means the United Etates warships will begin escorting convoys of British and other cargo vessels tomorrow, is a matter of con- ' jecture but the fact that an interim of four days has been necessary be- tween the President’s statement re- garding beginning of this protection, ,indicates some special arrangements | } The department said: | i 1 | mass production. Five Thousand People In Washington Living By Thelr Wits Is (laim FINLAND ISDRAWN INTO WAR at least answer questions onwhats | 3ino Ianner Admits Be- ; f— 1 | brief cases, contract. doing here. A WOMAN WITH AN “IN” Occasionally some such person just gums up the works. These past three months a middle-aged woman has - been mystery, Scmehow the word got {out that she could “put the fix |on the Navy.” Timid, anxious ship - builders showed up in town with loaded Just dying for a big Several such dropped in to confer with friends of mine. They just knew they had to see Mrs, to tell them the idea was ridicu- lous, and that they should teddle tCunlmu i on Page Five) an aggravating | So-and-So. My friends tried ing Ally of Germany Is | Only “By Accident” | HELSINKI, Sept. 15.—Vaino Tan- |ner, Minister of Trade and Com- munications, and also leader of the dominant Social Democratic Party, | decfared today there are “gaod | hopes for peace in the nearest fu-. ture.” Tanner stressed that Finland, as an ally of Germany, is so “only by accident” and “Finland will fight only as long as her interests de- manded.” | Unofficially it is indicated Fin-! land is still “afraid of Russia” es- | pecially if the German campaign is long /dmwn out, required in that time have been made. BRITISH JUBILANT LONDON, Sept. 15—The British newspapers broke out today in jub- ilant headlines as “U. 8. to Guard Our Ships.” 35 MEN INDUCTED INTO ACTIVE DUTY 'HERE THIS MORNING Al Local Men Pass Physical Examination af Amer- ican Legion Dugout A total of 35 men, including of- ficers, were inducled into active |duty in the National Guard of the United States this morning at 7 {a. m. at the Armory in the South- east Alaska Fair building. When the bugle blew Reveille in the big building which serves as armory for the local soldiers, only 33 of the original company of 70 {in Juneau “stood to heel” for the calling of roll, Two of the men, who will soon join the local men at training camps, are at an army school at Fort Benning, Georgia. The remainder of the company has been discharged because of dependants, because they have attained the age of 28, or be- |cause they have moved from the ‘Territory. After the roll call this morning, ! Juneau’s men in uniform marched to Perey’s Cafe (or their first break~" (Continued to Paé Two)