The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8832. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV IS CAPTURED BY GERMANS Need of Int. HighwaySeen ByGovernor Cargo Space Shortage Is| Handicap to Defense . Work Progress The present serious shortage of cargo space on Alaska bound boats, which is slowing up work at de- fense bases, is a direct example of the need for the Alaska Inter- national Highway, which could be utilized in the present emergency if it were constructed, Gov. Er- nest Gruening said today upon his return from a trip of more than a week’s duration, when he visited defense centers at the Westward| and in the Interior. Although the defense work is being pushed with “extraordinary | speed” the cargo shortage is a| serious handicap, the Governor said. This situation probably won't be improved until the internation-| al highway is built, he added. | On his trip, Gov. Gruening vis-| ited at Kodiak, Anchorage, Mata- ruska Valley and Fairbanks. At Fort Richardson, where companies C and D of the National Guard, will be quartered, the Governor in- spected facilities for housing the| Alaska troops. He took up matters | of National Guard importance with Captain William Niemi at An- chorage and Captain Don Adler at| Fairbanks. i Need More Projects | At Fort Richardson, Gov. Gruen-| ing reported talking with Major- General Simon Bolivar Buckner, head of the Alaska Defense Com- mand, regarding proposed projects in defense areas of the Territory under the Community Facilities Act. Because of the increasing scope of the defense program, ad- ditional projects must be consid-| (Continued to Page Two) 'P/fag@ | WASHINGTON — The President, | who has a weak spot for anyone| building - warships, saw the other| day some confidential figures on| terrific profits being made by the! shipyards which astounded him. | The figures were shown him by‘ Representative Carl Vinson, Chair- | man of the House Naval Affairs| Committee, who always has fa- vored limiting the profits of the munitions makers, A§ a result of these confidential figures, Vinson got the green light from Roosevelt to introduce new legislation drasti- cally limiting profits. The profits which the Georgia|j; Congressman showed Roosevelt made the cost of labor strikes in national defense plants insignifi- cant in comparison. One company making oranance instruments- for the Navy has rolled up a neat profit of 208 percent. Some plane| manufacturers are making as high | as 150 percent, while the big ship- builders are averaging 72 percent on government contracts. During the early days of the New Deal, Representative Vinson: and the late Senator Trammell of Flor-! ida got legislation passed limiting profits on all Navy contracts to eight percent. But last year, when the big new defense program was started, the Admirals persuaded Congress to drop this limitation on profits. They claimed that it was slowing up national defense, and that industry wouldn’t bid on Navy contracts because profits were lim- ited. However, Vinson now has a sur- prise in store for the Navy con-| tractors, Instead of the previoas profit limitation of eight percent,| profits would now be limited wj seven percent. This was OK'd by P SIS (Continued on Page Foar) " & lican Airways Lodestar out of Jun- | with regional officers of bureaus of | |cated in the Pacific Northwest. | Ann Sothern, Mate Separate. Ann Sothern, with Roger Pryor inset Screen Actress Ann Sothern, well known for her “Maisie” roles, has announced from Hollywood that_ she and her husband, Rogér Pryor, the band leader, were se) 1936. The two agreed on a trial separation. . The two were married in Pryor i3 the son of the late Arthur Pryor, the famed band leader of a generation ago. Aurora Borealis Pufs On Great Display; Easterners Mosi Excited Last Night ... .o oo GO BACKTO JOBS:STRIKE INK. C. OVER Electrical Workers Refurn Following Unexpected Blackout of City | NEW YORRK. Sept. 19.—A display of the Aurora Burealis, exceeding in brilliancy any reémembered by vet- eran observers, coinciding with some expected sun spots, excited citizens in the eastern part of the United States last night and startled New Yorkers ially. As they gazed at the blazing skies, with rays shoot- ing up like mammoth searchlizhts as if scanning the skies for bombers, the excited metropgjitans télephoned the Associated Press and newspaper cffices asking if the city was being bombarded. Airplane passengers said they saw rainbows of all colors of unbelievable size in the heavens. Both radio and land communica- KRONSTADT FORTRESS IS | | | NOW SILENT ‘Great Russian Naval Base| | Reported Put Out of Com- | mission by Nazi Stukas ! BULLETIN HELSINKI, Sept. 19— Dispatches received here state huge fires are raging in Leningrad and the blaze can be seen in Finnish territory during broad daylight. HELSINKI, Sept. 19. — Finnish | Army correspondents report the So- | viet island fortress at Kronstadt, | which guards the sea approach to | Leningrad, has been silenced. Dispatches state a ceaseless bom- bardment of the fortress, day and | | night, by the Germans took place | and the fortress suddenly went dead and not a shot was fired in return. | WORK OF DIVE BOMBERS BERLIN, Sept. 19. — Stuka dive bombers are officially reported to have silenced the guns of the Kron- | stadt Fortress, powerful naval hasei‘ of the Russi ns, 25 miles from Len- | ingrad, paving the way for the Ger- | man warships to steam up the Gulf | of Finland and shell Leningrad at close range. > - DELEGATE DIMONDON ' SITKA TRIP Says Funds for Alaska De- fense Must Be Doubled | and Highways Built Congress, Anthony J. “Tony” Di-| mond, was off to Sitka this morn- |ing for a day's inspection of the | defense city on the coast. Dimond arrived here lase night, 7in a plane flown by James J. Ryan, assistant director of Civilian Defense, flying here from Faii- nks along with Gov. Ernest | (iuening and Julius Edelstein, Washington, D. C., correspondent. After a 12-day tour of Alaska| coastal and interior cities, termin- ated by a visit to Ladd Field and |other projects at Fairbanks, Di-! | mond said he believes Alaska necds double the amount already appro- priated for completion of her na- |tional defense needs. | Dimond listed the need for more ;nonwencdead and telegraph editors | fields, adequate to take care of Kansas Ci Mo., Sept. 19—The fretted when high speed news wires;z.mo war planes, adequate trcops d strike of the AFL electrical workers |delivered only gibberish minutes at' anq equipment to defend the fields employed by the Kansas City Light a time. |and an interior and international and Power Company was called off | ‘The Weather Bureau said the dj‘"'road system. He placed paramount late yesterday afternoon and all play which lasted for hours, mnged,jn Alaska’s needs the granting of men ha The walkcut, resulted which city early last Wednesday morn-| g, was called over a jurisdictional dispute of the AFL union which represents 350 employees, demand- ng it alsc be allowed to represent 200 other workers, members of the indepencent Union of Utility Em- ployzes. HEINTZLEMAN 10 FLY SOUTH Due to fly on the next Pan Amer- eau, B. P. Heintzleman, Regional Forester of the Forest Service here, will spend about two weeks in Seattle, Portland and Spokane, he| announced this morning. Heintzleman said he would dis- cuss matters of importance in the development of Alaskan agriculture the Department of Agriculture lo- He will also look into the obtain-| ing of supplies and materials for ccnstruction work on outdoor re- creational facilities in the nationa! ferests of Alaska, he stated. i ve returned to their posts. | from red, purple, green and blue and | in was seen as far south as Atlanta,| 1a sudden four hour blackout of the Georgia. A most brilliant display was seen in the skies over Juneau last night. Starting shortly before 8 o'clock, the sky display was a wonderful sight. Che ncrthern lights were still flick- ring across the heavens until just sefore dawn today. JAPANESE PROTEST SEA MINES | priorities to keep Alaska mining |and fishing industries in operation, ! |in order to avert paralysis of these {industries and to retain the popn- |lation in the Territory and assure| | continued revenues. — et —— Exposure Resulting ~n Probe | WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — The Justice Department has called o District of Columbia Grand Jury to lexamine George Sylvester Viereck. (gnadians Form Landiny Pariy at Spitzber Canadian soldiers, units of an expeditionary force of British, Canadians and Norwegians who occupied coal-rich Spitzbergen Island, leave their unidentified troop ship in boats to make an unresisted landing. London sources revealed later than Reyal Engineers crippled fac Picture cabled from Loanden to New York. fal z into German hands. First Photo of Spitzbergen Raid by p— | ¥ 1IN Canadian soldiers, who took part in the raid on Spitzbergen, the Arcti are shown in this cablephoto just released by London, at Barentsburg, port of Spitzbergen island. The surprise standing guard thwarted alleged Nazi plans to take over the rich coal mines in the g "Gmlhission Men” and occupied Niiway. Lobbyists Are Arousing | Ire of Government Men By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — The persistent reports that “commission men” and lobbyists, who claim to have some pull, are waxing fat as a result of National Defense has got some government officials. hop- ping smad. Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson has pointed out more than once that Army contracts carry a clause that gives the gov- ernment the right to cancel any purchase .where it is discovs that ‘a contractor pays a gominis- sion for: obtaining his business to any person other than his regular- TOKYO, Sept. 19—The Japan- reputed nephew of the Kaiser, and ly established salesmen. ese Government, through spokesman Koh Ishii, has protested to the So- Hall whose activities Book Publishing have !Flanders Company, Donald M. Nelson, director of the OPM purchasing division, has viet Embassy for the second time peen revealed by Drew Pearson and issued a public warning to manu- the Sea of Japan as being a menace to navigation, Two vessels have already been sunk by striking mines and 13 lives have been lost. The mine field protects Vladivos- from the United States are moving. ————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ton Merry-Go-Round. These activities were disseminat- ing Nazi propaganda and collaboi- ating with certain congressmen ‘nmong them Representative Day | tok, Siberia, to which war supplies ©f Illinois and the late Senator Il.undeen of Minnesota. e .- l BUY DEFENSE BONDS « { against 11 against floating Russian mines in popert s. Allen in The Washinz- facturers that they are merely be- ing duped by leeches and phonies if they hire lobbyists hore who claim that they have the special pull to ‘get national defense cou- tracts: And now coines Clifton E. Mack, director of the Treasury Depart- ment_ Procurement Division, whic! not only is buying billions of dol- lars of stuff, other than actual war materials (guns, soldiery equipment, planes, ships, etc.) but also is charged with laying down the purchasing and contractual | policies for all government buy- ing. Procurement Division con- tracts, like the Army's, carry the anti - commission clause, Mack points out. Besides that, dolng business with the government is simple and may be done directly without even maintaining a legiti- mate salesman here. For example, suppose you make footLall bladders, flower pots, or tear-gas fountain pens. (The gov- ernment buys all those things.) You write to the Treasury Depart- ment Procurement Division or to cne of the 42 state procurement officers in the larger cities all over the country. You tell them what you haves They place you on the mailing list. The next time the article you make is needed, speci- fications and inyitations to bid are mailed you. You make your bid (Continued on Page Elem_ es in coal ports to prevent fuel from British, Canadian and Norwegian move bgen 3RDLARGEST ! SOVIET CITY TAKEN OVER Swastika Fl-iesf)verCiiadeI of Long Besieged Ukraine Capitel RED ARMY REPORTED TOTIERING 1 SECTOR ‘Rus'.ians Fa'c'ihig Deadliest of Mechanized Weap- ons, Nazi Arsenal BERLIN, Sept. 19.—~The Ger- man forces have entered Kiev and raised the Swastika flag over the citadel of the long be- sieged Ukranian capital and Russia’s third largest city. This is the report received tonight from the German High Com- mand . in a brief bulletin. anctner brief message from the front told the German peo- ple that German, groups have merged beyond the Dnieper and Desna rivers, making a great sweep of 125 miles east of Kiev and Poltava, 200 miles beyond Kiev and only 80 miles from Kharkov, has fallen. The whele picture implied that the Red Army resistance, so vital to the scuthern region grain fields, oil wells and ore de- posits, is tottering under the weight of a fierce German on- slaught of hundreds of thou- sands of men backed by the deadliest mechanized weapons of the German arsenal. MRSk e BN FOUR RUSSIAN ARMIES ARE TRAPPED NOW 1;German Hi&“Command | Claims Great Successes Against Forces of Reds (By Associated Press) Hitler’s High Command today re- ported German troops have closed a steel ring around four Russian arm- |ies 125 mile seast of Kiev and that | “their annihiliation is now in pro- | gress.” Simultaneofisly. grave new threats |imperiled Kiev itself as the great |northern metropolis of Leningrad |was surrounded with trapped Red | armies unofficially estimated at 500, 1000 men within the hesieged city. ‘ Frighiful Casualties More than 3,600,000 Soviet troops were declared slain or captured in the three-month campaign. Half of | the Red troops have been slain, the |Nazi command said, in comparison |to the historie ratio of three men | wounded to every one killed in past | wars. This was interpreted as mean- ing Red Army losses total the stag- ‘germg figure of 9,000,000 men, in- | cluding some 5,400,000 wounded. Ger- iman losses were put at only 402,000 killed, wounded and missing. From Finland came reports saying huge fires raging in Leningrad were blazing so fiercely they could be seen with the naked eye in broad day- |light from Finnish territory. ‘Canadians . I. N. Cablephoto ic archipelago north of Norwny, outside the Communal building roup uf islends owned by Nazie pho. A RSSO e e e . ‘ PETERSBURG PILOT LENDS AID T0 CASE Juneau Men's Testimony Corroborated by Air Service Operafor | Demonstrating the unity of Southeast Alaska air service oper- ators in their desire for federal To Trap Defenders regulation of tariffs and schedules, In a special bulletin from Hitler's Tony Schwamm, owner of the Pet- | fleld headquarters, it was reported ersburg Air Service, today offered that German army groups under vigorous _support to testimony S“h_‘r‘ield Marshal von Rundstedt and mitted yesterday by Juneau oppm-"‘.dd Marshal von ‘Bock,” slashing tors at the Civil Aeronautics Boacd S0URd Kiev in. a vast flanking hearing in the Federal Building. mavement, wel hoyoud the Destiy n * River to trap the Russian defend- Schwamm, one of several opera- ers. tors assembled here to tell Exam-| A Red Army bulletin acknow- iner Raymond Stough and Public ledged that the German had reached Counsel J. W. Madden of South- one of Kiev's- gates, but indicated east Alaska aviation problems which that the struggle has not yet reach~- bave a bearing on the operators ed the decisive state. Bitter fight- ing raged around the city of 850,000 populaticn throughout the night, the ! €oviet commnnique said. ——————- applications for certificates of pub- lic convenience and necessity, stressed the cooperation which pre- ails among the air services which! bave pioneered the routes which now carry passengers and freights| France, Germany and Spain was about 2,600 square miles less than the area of Quebec. i {Continued on Page Twu) The combined pre-war area L a0