The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1941, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE, NEWS ALL THE TIME” CMPIR s X e VOL. LVIL, NO. 8831. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1941. VMhMbt.R Abb()LlA] Ll) H\l:}s PRICE H “J (.LNI\ LENINGRAD FORTIFICATIONS STORMED RUSH AID T0 RUSSIA IS DEMAND Great Britain and United States Must Immediate- ly Help - No Waiting LONDON, Sept. 18.—Authorita- tive sources declared today that “Great Britain and the United States must quickly pour a Niagara of war supplies into Russia make up for Soviet losses prevent a turn against that na- tion’s allies in the greatest battle in history The present conflict bomeen Russia and Germany is now sway- | ing first one way and then an-| other, this source said, and Hitler| may possibly launch a new of- fensive and if Russia does to| and)| not | Miss America of 1941 | get equipment and weapons, might be forced to lay down arms. This authority said first the “whole history of the world turns on the outcome of the pres- ent battle,” saying that availahle data showed at the end of Aug- 2,000,000 German and Russian had been reported. ust castalties AID IS GIVEN WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 —Secre- tary of Treasury Morgenthau vealed this afternoon that United States’ financial aid the to Russia began a month ago when| $10,000,000 was the advance made to the Soviets. Morgenthau made the disclosure at a conference with newsmen after Jesse Jones announced that| the Reconstruction Finance Cor-! poration was buying $100,000,000 worth of minerdls from Russia ani paying in part for ai. advance or- der of the Russians to pay cash for war supplies purchased here. ———————— PILING BURNS A burning piling at the Ciy Float was extinguished by by- standers this forenoon without, damage to the pier. The Juneau | Volunteer Fire Department an- swered the alarm but was not needed. ~The \\\NG@ oyt kGO‘ WASHINGTON—What has hap- pened to the Russian wheat crop in the Ukraine? This vast gran- ary, ranking along with the mid- dle west and the Argentine in im- portance, was the big reason Hit- ler chose middle June to time his attack on Russia. However, here is what happened to the wheat crop, according to diplomatic dis- patches from U. S. officials abroad. In the eastern Ukraine the Rus- sians were able to harvest part of the grain ahead of the German advance, This was removed, the 1est was bumed The Nazis got nothing. In the western Ukraine where the harvest was a month late, the Germans found the grain standing but again this will be no help o them for this grain is on big col- lective farms and the managers| have moved out, leaving only un- skilled Russian workers. More im- portant, nearly all machinery has; been removed or destroyed. Thus the Germans are confronted witn the problem of harvesting with primitive tools and unskilled workers. Taking the situation as a whole, the Nazi conquest of the great Russian granary brings no advan- tage to the food situation in Ger- many. And looking ahead, Ger- many is also confronted with pro- bable waste of this productive ca- pacity next year: for the big prob- | |her opponent, Mrs. that | | | re-| Walking across the stage in Atlantic City, N. J., is beautiful Rosemary LaPlanche, 18, California college sophomore, who was named Miss America of 1941 in the annual pngeant of pulchritude, She finished second in last yearl cont,est. | i | —| (. OF C. TO STOUGHOPENS GIVE HELP TO HEARINGS FOR HOMEGUARD APPLICATIONS | | Pledge Support fo Gover- Two Cancellations Granted © nor Affer Heated Discus- | Wrangell, Skagway | sion on Guard Dinner Air Companies i | | | were sometimes heated, membersiusual” statement, Economics Dir-| of the Juneau Chamber of Com-|ector Raymond Stough of the Civil merce this hoon started to criticize | Aercnautics Board this morning |alleged opposition on the part OX‘"penPu hearings on applications by GO\ Enest Gruening to the holding | Southeast Alaska air carriers with of the honor dinner for local Na-|a lengthy cutline of the boa dg tional Guardsmen last week, then|general policies and their apphm- wound up with a unanimous move tion to the Teritory. [to give 100 per cent support to the| A¢ the applicant’s requests, ap- | Gevernor in organization of a Jun-|plications for certificates of public, |eau Home Guard Unit. |necessity and convenience by the Principa! figure in the session W”‘anehart Seaplane Service of Charles Beale, local theater mana- wrangell and the White Pass Air-| |ger. | ways, Inc., Skagway, were cancelled. | | It was Beale who touched off the|other applications will be consid- | vocal fireworks with his report as|ereq in the course of the hearings,! | chairman of the guard dinner com-|nhelq in the jury room of the Fed-| | mittee on difficulties encountered’era) District Court. in making arrangements for the “At the outset of these hearings, }nffnir An again, it was Beale Whol oomq gesirable that a number ! brought the discussion to a healthy of important preliminary phases of‘ | conclusion with his motion to sup- the investigation be given atten- port Gov. Gruening in the develop-‘mm " Stough told the air line | ment of the home guards. pllots and carrier rcprevntauve | Oposition “and I intend to talk Ireely and “I am soiry we received the op-! fully with you. position which we did and I know it s hard for any of you to be- Unsual s““"'"'-‘m' e lieve anyone would be willing to! Perhaps I s)wul]il‘s;nl r1n;:| m;king |sacrifice the morale of the people |Statement of the kind I 3 here is most unusual, Courts and guardsmen just to try to; cther tribunals generally let their| the Juneau Chambe of | T rctvie: e lactions speak for Beale stated in his here we arz dealing with an un- |usual problem which involves con- ditions and circumstances exclu- lsively peculiar to the Territory su;ld\ which is of great importance to the Eerr;‘mch‘): Lf:iz;s:an[ Lr‘;f”é:;? Territory. The Board, therefore, | Gruening m attempting to make ‘beheve‘s it desirable that certain| the dinner a municipal affair in- lmauors be presented to you in this | manner so that it could obtain the ;fi:fti:n“ ahg‘::an:::r :}fmn(‘;obx;mev::i full benefit of your views concern- forved to stage the dinner between B the sound course of action it 6 and 8 p. m. to allow the guards-|siould take. men to appear at the armory for Stough .e.mphf‘riud that 'lt is| their regular drill time; how army the _Boards desire to collect infor- officers here who had first prom-|mation and suggestions which may ised to speak at the dinner later have some bearing on possible ru-$ |sent their regrets and stated they ture changes in flying legislation,| would not be able to attend. especially if the current hearing in- | Quick Response |dicates that the presen legislation | i and the “sabotam Ccmmerc& ‘repon Then Beale recited how arrange- ments for the dinner were origin-| oally made for the hours of 7 to 9 | Lynn | Guthrie, |ate, Itered bids for {and Minneapolis for | vention | | the |fishing vessel and the loss of nine' | Ankara, A LELECTS STAMBAUGH | BIG CHIEF | Mrs. Murrill Chosen Presi-j dent of Auxiliary-New Orleans in 1942 MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 18.—| Stambaugh, 51, of Fargo,| N. D., was today elected Comman- | der of the American Legion at the! |annual convention in session here. | He was a Second Lieutenant in! France in the over forces. Two other candidates nominat- ed, Edward Scheiberling of Albany, N. Y, and Raymond Fields, of| Oklahoma, withdrew Mark M. Murrill of Scitu- Massachusetts, was elected | National President of the American | Legion Auxiliary. She won the| post by a vote of 436 to 422 over! Pleasant Dixon, | Americus, Georgia | i Murs. of | Detroit and San Francisco en- the 1943 convention | the 1944 con- New Orleans was chosen for 1942 convention ~ JAPAN SEA IS MINED BY RUSSIA the ‘Nippon Government Pro- | fests to Moscow-One Craft Already Sunk SHANGHAI, Sept. 18—A Domei report from: Tokyo said Japan has [)l""-‘\'Led to Moscow over alleged an mines floating in the Japan | Bea. Domei said Japan charges such a mine was recently responsible for sinking of a 60-ton Japanese Japanese and one Korean fisher-| In 45 minutes of remarks which| In what he terme¢ a “most un-|men. [ Japan has requested that Russia prevent a recurrence of a similar accident “in the interest of peace | as well as remove any danger to| |vessels of a third nation’s nnvlga- tion.” United States tankers carring fuel |to Russia traverse the Japanese {Sea enroute to Vladivostok. i . ITALY IN NEW TRICK IN WARFARE Attempt fo Send Warships1 Through Dardanelles -Bulgarian Flag LONDON, Sept. 18. Official quarters have received advices that Italy has attempted to send war- ships flying the Bulgarian flag through the Turkuh controlled Dar- danelles. The British Amba&sador at An- kara, it 1 said, has probably ma:le representations to the Turkish Gov- ernment but no reply has as yet been received. According to advices received here, | a highly-placed foreign observer in! recently returned there| from Rumania and Bulgeria, said| Bulgaria purchased six Italian de- | stroyers, and as a smoke screen, asked Turkey's permission to take them through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea. D |door without a word. TWO AMERICAN SHIPS SENT DOWN [e— S A N a . i B Two American-owned or operated ships were sunk i war action. The Sessa (top) acquired from the Danish government and placed under Panamanian rgiztry, but operated by an American firm, was sunk by a torpedo 300 miles southwest of Iceland. Reports indicate there were only three survivors. The Steel Seafarer, (bottom), 5719 gross tons, operated by the Isthmian Line and built in 1921 at Kearny, N. J., was sunk in the Red Sea by bombs from an unidentified airplane. The crew was saved. Ameman Recrmls lor RM _ Survwe Torpedomg' 8ix American recruits for the RAF, rescued and then taken to a British port after their ship was tor- pedoed enroute to England, flip coins here to see who'll buy refreshments. Left to right: Tom Griffin, Jacksen, Miss.; Rivers Grove, Atlanta; B. F. Mayes, Wharton, Tex.; Jack Gilliland, Pittsburgh; Norman Echord, Kansas Cily; James Jordan, Pasadena, Calif. Four other American fliers were killed when the shlp sunk. l’lcture cabled from London to New York. Washingfon o Serious That People Are in No Mood for Funny Stories asked one of the men at work. “I don't know,” said the second,| | “but he’s crazy.” | CLOSING DATES ~ ARE ANNOUNCED " FOR "42 SEASON Fish Heanng Here Lasts| Scant Half Hour-Com- plamlsflof Lodged Closing" dates next year (mercial salmon fishing POME | Straits will be August 4 There's a new version of an old western division and Augu: poem which is done with gestures,|the eastern division, it an- first dreamy and then irritated. nounced this morning at a fish It goes this way: {eries hearing held here by the Fi “I shot an arrow into the :m.“xmd Wildlife Service. It fell to earth I know not where,| August 18 will be closing I lost ten of the cock-eyed| for the southern part of things that way.” | Western District; August 11 |the northern part of the WLsLem ‘Dlstnu and August 18 for mh‘]prmcipal fishing areas in Eastern District. By SIGRID ARNE (Pinch-hitting for Jack Stinnett) for com in I in WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — It's been a year since Washington was in a mood to tell stories. The town has been too serious to award more than a bored smile to the out-of-| towners who arrived with the “lat- | est one.” But now, suddenly, there is a rash of ridiculous whimsies. They're not bar-room. They're just balmy I'll pass on some of the favorites. 1 7 in was | CAN'T GET USED TO IT The Easterner, having his look around a silver fox rancn,| walked down rows and rows of pens, each with a sleck fox in it.|by He kept murmuring, marvelous."” Suddenly he stopped and asked fish occurs next year, | brightly, “How often do you skin in the 1941 season, them?” |may be extended, “Oh, just twice a year,” drawled ed. BUG-HOUSE FABLE Two men were sitting across a desk hard at work when sudden!ly in walked a tiny little man. He walked straight up the left wall trotted across the ceiling, down the right wall, and then out the Seton Thompson, The two men watched silently date | thej Thompson stat-| 119 PILLBOX FORTS TAKEN BYINVADERS City Bombé;&éd as Siege Guns Turn Toward Red Navy Base BRITISH PRESS DEMANDS ACTION Ed itorials Urge English Army Atfack in West- ern Europe (By Aunrlnled Press) German troops today were report- ed to have invested a fortified park | and taken by storm 119 pillbox for- | titications on the outskirts of Len- ingrad. Nazi siege guns ‘bombarded the }hr‘m’t of the city and prepared to shell the great Kronstadt Naval Base (and vessels of the Russian Baltic fleet, | Another Cut-0ff | Other dark news of the Soviet cause contained in advices reaching | London, said Hitler's invasion ar- |mies on the extreme southern end jof the vast front apparently have |cut off the entire Crimea Peninsula. | Sebastapol, big Russian naval base jon the Black Sea, presumably is isolated from the Russian mainland | by the action. Want More Action Meanwhile, the British press re- newed its clamor for the opening of |a new front against the Germans— | probably an attempt to land British Tommies in Western Europe. | The conservative London Times | declared Britain not only must help the Russians but “must develop | other fronts where the enemy will have to expend his strength.” Warplanes in Action Hitler's High Command, announc- | ing great success in the onslaught on | Leningrad, said German troops sweeping eastward across the Dniep- | er River in the Ukraine “are pro- | gressing irresistibly Nazi warplanes operating from the | Arctic to the Black Sea were cred- ited with sinking three Soviet troop | transports, one destioyer, two sub= | marines and four torpedo boats. Six- | teen other ships were declared to have been hit so heavily that their loss could be assumed. - —— e Bulgaria Is Arming Big Force |Already Su—tan—oned 350,- 000 Men fo Service, Re- liable Sources Assert ANKARA, Sept. 18.—Balkan dip- 1lornltic sources said information {from Bulgaria, whose diplomatic relations with Russia are tense, i< |mobilizing armed forces rapidly, |already having summoned 350,000 ‘; men to arms, These same sources declared that “|three German Divisions or more are already in Bulgaria. e —— ‘THREE FLY TO FAIRBANKS ON = PAALODESTAR the the | Bringing threc persons to Juneaua ‘These announcements were made 'ana picking up another passenger Assistant here, “Marvelous, |Chief of Alaska Fisheries for the called here this ‘morning enroute service, If an unusual late run of {rom Sealtle to Fairbanks. as happened closing dates't0 Fairbanks a Pan American Lodestar An Electra also made the trip. from Juneau, with A. W. Douglass as passenger. Joining the Lodestar here was lem will be to plant this vast area with over four-fifths of the trac- tors removed or destroyed and few horses or cattle left. The report brought immediate re- Provisions are not properly adapt- sponse from Dr, W. W. Council, who able to conditions in Alaska. declared the chamber has gone on Nev}v3 Mr.; Line Rate record as opposed to a lot of things Norman Banfield, Juneau attor- NOTE—On the other side of the|meant for the general welfare of ney Who appeared as counsel for picture, other diplomatic dispatch-'the National Guard, whereas the scme of the air lines, indicated es report that Hitler has trainedGovernor has had the guard’s wel- that among the items to be dis- (Continued cn Page Foar) (Continued on Puge Tww) (Conunued on Page Five) JUST AIR WILL DO ROCK HILL. 8. C, Sept. 18—/ | Rationed gasoline wouldn't bother | |James 8. White, 63. White, a 1grandlnther, says he has pedaled| his bicycle more than 19,000 miles. and went back to their work. ln ten minutes the door swung n again. In came the same lit- 1Iv man, He hurried up the left (wall, across the ceiling and then down the right wall and out the door, “Say, wnavs going on There?” {the rancher, “It makes them “en.i The hearing here was the short- W. C. Arnold. Those disembarking ous.” est on record, lasting a scant half'from Seattle were Jack Weitzel, |hour, and with cannerymen presen: Myrtle Weitzel and Joyce Quist. huvlm, little to say. | Through passengers were W. A, Recommendations |Marshall, J. K. Keegan, W. Good- Reviewing hearings already mm[*‘"fluBh and W. E. Anderson. - ALI Lt et LUCK OF THE BRITISH There’s quite a batch of l-lileI stories. One tells about him com-| (Coulinued un Page SO