The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMEl” ¢ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1941. MPIREK MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8830. PRICE TEN CENTS '3 SHIPS SUNK, MYSTERY BLAST “SUDDEN STRIKE BLACKS OUT BIG CITY WALKOUT OF POWER MEN HITS 400,000 Kansas City_I;I_unged Into Darkness when Elec- fricians Quit Posts MISSOURI GOVERNOR TAKES QUICK ACTION Home Guards Called fo| Mobilize-Police Make Several Arrests | { | i | KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 17—/ Swift official action has checked an | unheralded power strike that black- ed out this city of 400,000 popula- tion for four hours, plunging hos- pital operating rooms in darkness and stalling laden street cars and trolley busses. ; The police seized six men involved | in what Mayor John B. Gage called | an outlaw strike against the Kan-| sas City- Power-and- Light Company. ' Governor Acts | A battalion of the recently organ- ized Missouri Home Guards was mobilized by Gov. F. C. Donnell and another was ordered to stand alert. Neither have been called into ac- tion immediately. | Albert Wright, representative of ' the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL, was ar-| rested at the power plant on orders of Chief of Police Anderson who said charges of sabotage and malicious mischief will be sought against him and five other men also arrested, all striking employees of the com- | pany. ! (Continued to Page Two) e WASHINGTON—The group f Congressional leaders who conf red with the President before last week’s historic broadcast got al much broader picture of the rea-! sons behind the ultimatum than the | President gave over the air. | He grimly informed his Capitol | Hill chiefs that Hitler no lnngerlfi could be trusted to respect the neu-; trality of American vessels any-4 where in the world—that Hitler, in fact, had issued secret orders to “fire on sight.” i Indeed, the President added gravely, the Fuehrer went so far as| to instruct U-boat commanders to| “search down” American vessels. “We can have unly one answer to this,” Roosevelt said, in effect. For our own safety, we must beat Hitler to the punch when we encounter him on the high seas. That is why American ships and planes which| encounter German submarines and raiders, in waters that we deem necessary to our defense, have been ordered to shoot first.” The President went into some de- tail explaining the incident of the American battleship that was stalk- ed by a Nazi submarine, to which he referred briefly in his broad- cast. “This happened before the Greer incident and it is further confirma-! tion of our contention that, despite Nazi denials, the Greer was fired on first. “I have a complete report from the commanding officer of the battleship, which was in the North Atlantic. This report shows that the sub maneuvered for ‘four' or five hours to-get the battleship in| (Continyed on Page Four) | Counting Railroad Strike Vote | ik | st Tabulators in Chicago count the votes of more than a million railroad workers in the country who, by an overwhelming majority, gave their leadership power to call a walkout. Nineteen railway unions and four~ © - teen non-openfing unions took part in the vote, Hoover Supporfing FDR, Declaring that Nation Must Build Up Defense " "MISSAMERICA” oo Foover asered tast_niant that the United States should build an impregnable defense and gi material aid to Democracies as 2 bulwark of freedom and at home reserve its strength to help in re- construction and _ stabilizing of peace when “Hitler collapses of iis over-reaching.” In a radio talk, Hoover contcnd- {ed that neither isolation nor in- tervention is wise or possible. Hoover is right in protesting against fir- ing on United States warships or sinking of merchant ships, but t “President’s policy of edging our warships into danger zones, of sending merchant ships with con- traband, raises the most critical of all questions.” Hoover added that steps to war, unapproved and un- declared by Congress.” —————— SAYS JAPANESE ARE FISHING IN ALASKAN WATERS Senalor Wallgren Makes Assertion in Lefter fo : SecretarLof State WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— United States Senator Mon C. Wallgren, Democrat of the State of Washington, has told Secre- Here is 18-year-old Rosemary La- planche, “Miss California,” whom the judges at the Atlantic City, N. J., annual bathing beauty pageant selected as “Miss America, 1941.” Miss Laplanche, a college student, finished second in the 1940 con- feot tary of State Cordell Hull that e Japanese fishing boats have vio- ROBERTSONS RETURN lated the agreement not to fish in Alaskan waters. Mr., and Mrs. R. E. Robertson Sen. Wallgren said a Japan- ese floating cannery operated in Alaskan waters this summer and it has been the first time since the agreement was made two and their daughter, Carol, re- turned to their home here last| night on the steamer North Sea after attending the wedding of | years ago that Japanese boats their son, Duncan, in Seattle. Tave Tished thoss i e Senator Wallgren added in his BOB HENNING BACK 1 Bob Henning, fur buyer for| letter to etary Hull that “there is a possibility they are Charles Goldstein, and Mrs. Hen-| ypere for some other pu » ning and their son, were return-| NO INFORMATION ing passengers on the North Sea,| SEATTLE, Sept. The Bureau which arrived in Juneau last night. of Fisheries official ere said they «The Hennings have been Outside ‘ have not heard of there being Jap- for the past three months, spend- | anese fishing boggs in Alaskan wat- ing most of their time in Seatilé.|ers during the summer. said President Roosevelt | | these are RUSSIANS SMASHING INVADERS Germans Reported Hurled Back by Red Army- | Thousands Killed = | (By Associated Press) [ On the Russo-German front the | Russians today reported the Red Armies are smashing counter of- fensives and have hurled the Ger- mans back to the westward. The Red Army communique de- clares that 10,000 Nazis have been | | | killed or wounded in the 10-day bat- | tle, 30 miles from Smolensk. The German communique, issued | early today simply stated “opera- tions are continuing successfully.” No mention is made of the battle raging for the possession of Lenin- grad or is any mention made ir the | communique regarding other sectors of the battle front. e SEEK BREAK WITH NAZIS | RIGHT NOW Commitiee?oT)efend Ami erica Wants Drastic Action Taken NEW YORK, Sept. 17—The Com- mittee to” Defend America has called on the Administration for |immediate severance of diplomatic |relations with Germany together with “positive action” in collabora-| tion with the British Navy to deliv- |er munitions and other supplies” all |the way to ports of destination.” At present, the United States Navy is protecting convoys as far Iceland where ships or cargoes are then taken in charge of by |the British patrols to destinations. > FDR, AIDES PLANMORE MUNITIONS Executive Meeting Coin- cides with Crificism in House Chamber WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— Pres- ident Roosevelt today discussed ordnance production with his mil- itary and civilian advisers with the intent of speeding up the nation’s supply of munitions. Undersecretary of War Patter- son said that the White House conference undertook an overall survey of the situation. Others attending the meeting in- cluded William Knudsen, Office U‘i Production Management director, and Army ordnance officer. The meeting coincided with A speecn by Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, Michigan Republican, in the House| of Representatives in which he said that Mr. Roosevelt’s order to the Navy to “shoot first” at Axis warcraft “is nothing less than a declaration of war.” Woodruff charged that the Am-| erican people know that neither the Army nor Navy is ready for war at the present time. | I | | | | e Francis Biddle is the fourth U. S. Attorney General to | serve under President Roose- veit, I Counsel of the Department of Ag-| New G abinet Member T Francis Biddle (second from right) former solicitor gen Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackaon (right) whom he succeeds. President Roosevelt (left). Looking on are Attorney General - Saved $8,000,000 from Nazis Bidd o Matuszewski, former Polish minister of finance, who escaped from his native land with $8,000,000 in government gold under the very noses of the invading Nazis, is shown as he arrived in Jersey City, N. J., aboard the liner Ezcambion from Lisbon. With him is his wife, Halina. The money was tumed];vedr to the Free Polish government in London, Ignacy Butter Vs. Margarine Is Good Old Debate; Likely To Gef Beffer Yery Soon By SIGRID ARI |instead of butter. It's quite a lot (Pinch-hitting for Jack Stinnett) | cheaper. . . . | “Both butter and margarine are chiefly fat. By law or govern- ment rules, both must be at least 80 percent fat. from the fat from margarine, according | standards just set made from animal | vegetable fat or | bination. . . | “There’s little to choose be- tween the various kinds of pure | fats. 'They are all, more or less, | equally digestible, and equally | rich ‘in fuel value | WASHINGTON, Sept. 17— There’s quite a brawl brewing here over the oily subject of butter| versus margarine. It's no new brawl. The current fracas dates from spring, when a committee on food and nutrition met to devise new methods for feeding America better with the hope of making the citizens strong- er, The problem is part of the de- fense program so far as Washing- ton is concerned. The committee issued, among other things, a sample day’s diet| which would furnish the neces-| PROPAGANDA, and | ANDRESEN sary vitamins and minerals, ih":l ;’:;uid ;:;Lhon,lghfzmfil‘l‘i:_(;‘; That brought Rep. August H. o i L | Andresen of Minnesota to his fest |on the House floor. His state, in three of them—mention marga- T b 0L RN 1940, earned $68,000,000 wom bu- ter. That prompted the Consumers’ Andresen spoke of the program as “government sponsored prop- And new can %e oil, com- cream to up, fat oil, or or or a SAYS riculture to arrange one of its oo e for & A ganda” and called it “virtually One of the chflru;'.el’s o '_hega conspiracy against the farmers.” program « said: -#Many people nre; He said the radio performers finding out ulaey Gati-dave obié u.dm their level best to put over the bil of money by using margarine | (Con akes Oath of Office Butter is made]| eral, is sworn in as U. S. attorney general by Ceremony took place in the presence of dle’s wife and their son, Edmund. SENATE SENDS HUGE TAX BILL TO PRESIDENT 'Heaviest Revenue Meas- | ure in History Await- ing Signature I WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Final 'Senate approval today sent to the | President for his signature the 1 $3,500,000,000 tax bill, the largest {revenue measure in the history of | the nation. ! Designed to help defray the ! mounting costs of national defense, the legislation, which will im- |pose heavier tax burdens on vir- Itually every citizen and corpora- tion in the country, was expected to receive the President’s signa- ture promptly. The final approtal came on a ivoice vote. The bill's heavier taxes on indigiduals and corporfations | will be effective on income of the (current calendar year, with most of the excise or “nuisance taxes” lexpected to go into effect October > i 3Halibulers ~ Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, Sept. arriving here today and their catches are as follows: selling 17--Halibuters e et 'WARSHIPS OF SWEDEN HIT - BY DISASTER llNeulral DesTrByers Shat- tered-Cause of Explo- sions Unrevealed AXIS NEWSPAPERS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE Swedish Newspapers Ac- cused of Favoring Rus- sians - Finns Bitter | (By Associated Press) | A series of three mysterious ex- | plosions today shattered and sank | three Swedish destroyers riding at |anchor off the east coast of neutral | Sweden, first reports declaring that |at least 31 officers and crewmen | were killed in the blasts. | Raging oil fires around the scene of the triple disaster in Haarsjaer- den Pjord, south of Stockholm, rescue Aid Rushed to Spo All ambulances in Stockholm were Iruahed to the spot and the entire | Swedish coastal fleet was assizned | to pick up the survivors. No immediate details were forth- coming as to the cause of the blasts. Early reports established that one | officer, six non-commissioned of- | ficers and 12 marines were dead ard |12 others injured. | Swedish authorities said the ex- | plosions apparently started on one ship and then sank all three, one |after the other. Another Sinking i Stockholm dispatches also report- |ed the sinking of the new 9,000-ton Swedish motorship Yarrawonga. The destroyer sinkings, however, | were not released coincidentally with /the Yarrawonga announcement. The press of Germany and allied | Finland bitterly assailed Swedish | newspapers, declaring that “through blind antagonism to Germany they lost sight of their own interest by playing into the hands of Russia, | Finland’s foe.” The Swedish newspapers were ac- cused of spreading rumors injurious | to the Finnish cause. ‘Murder Charge | | [] L] Against Native \Waterfront Batfle Was "Fight to Death” Says Johnson Samuel Johnson, Douglas | native, was arraigned this af- ternoon before U, S. Commis- i | i From the western b?nks—R&ln-‘ bow 13000 pounds, 13% and 13| Slomer Felix Gy on the cents a pound; Ethel S 26000, Sharge of “first degreo mur- | pounds, 13% and 13% cents. From the local banks—Freya 000 pounds, 14% cents straight. — ., — Pilofs Assemble ' For CAB Hearing Herb Munter, operator a of chikan, day to await opening of the Civil Aeronautics Board hearings, sched- uled for tomorrow morning. Also scheduled to attend hearings are Tony Schwamm, Pet- ersburg pilot, and Don Wright, pilot for the Ellis Air Transporta- tion Service at Ketchikan. Both " were to fly here today, the Aircraft Charter Service at Ket- arrived in Juneau yester- the der” in the death of Roy Bar- nett, Juneau longshoreman whose bloody body was found near a waterfront cabin early Monday morning. The confession of Johnson that he and Barnett went out- side of the City Cafe to fight with the clear understanding ! that it was to be a “fight un- til one of them was dead” was a large factor in charging the Douglas man with killing Bar- nett “purpesely and of deliber- ate and premeditated malice,” | according to Assistant District Attorney Lynn J. Gemmill, who signed the murder complaint. Gemmill said admissions of | Johnson, under police grilling, { showed that bad blood had ex- (Continued on Page Twu) First Degree’