The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8833. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1941. U.S. NAVY SHIP NAZI DIVISIONS S REDS CLAIM NAZIS LOSE MANY TROOPS Fate of Kiev in Doubf as Germans Continue Fierce Assaults (BY ASEOCIATED PRESS) Although clearly in a desperate| positicn, the Ukraine Red army | tcday was reported still fighting heavily. At Kiev, it was said the Germans lost ten divisions, about 150,000 men, in assulting the be-! seiged city. The German High Command said the citadei was stormed yesterday and entered as Russian officers fled. The whole Red garrison sur- rendered, according to the Nazi' acount. This left some doubt, however, as to whether the Germans occupied the old Ukrainian capital ar merely | smashed ‘into part of ‘it. The midday conimunique Lodny made no acknowledgements, ex- cept that the place.of the heaviest fighting was directly at Kiev. | In Londen, a high source ex- préssed doubt that the Nazis have done as well as is claimed. | Alsc in London, Russian sources, sdmitted that though Kiev, Lenin-| grad and even Moscow might event- ualiy be lost, the Soviet Union wil not think of defeat and has planued | ccmplete withdrawal strategy. | | | | i VWASHINGTON—Here is the in- side information regarding the con- voy of forty lease-lend ships, 31 of which the Germans claimed were| g sunk a few hours after the Press- dent’s “shoot-first” broadcast. i What happened was that these| ships were the first to be convoyed ' by American naval vessels to Tce land. Secretary of the Navy Knox| anncunced on September 15 that' U. S. Warships would ‘provide pro- tection” for British vessels to Ice- land, but even before his speech & one such convoy actually.took plnce —though officially it didn“t. Officially, American supply sm;m were en route to Iceland under the ' very heavy protection of the U. l‘ Navy, and British supply “ships | merely tagged along. The nevy did not turn the hitch-hikers back and they got the full benefit of our guns. But officially it was not con- | voying. Anyway, this group of vessels zotj' to Iceland without mishap. But| then when it proceeded on to Eng- land,. Nazi submarines and bomb- ing planes attacked: The Ger- mans announced that 81 out of the forty ships were sunk. Actually the number sunk was only eight, though several others were dam- aged. ! This attack took place, however, after the ships had left the pro- tection of U. 8. Navy and were fly- ing under the Union Jack. 2 GENTLEMEN FROM INDIANA Will Hays, Postmaster General in| the Harding Administration and Czar of the movie industry, has been Strangely absent from the Sen- ate investigation of Hollywood. | | | | i | Some attribute. this to the fact that Wendell Willkie is running the show, for Hays vigorously op- pesed his appointment. .~ . However, the two men did get T (Continued on Page Four) ’Chutists Iron Rations for U. S. “Lieut. Col. Paul P. Logan, of the Qunrurmnter Corp- in Washington, D..C.,iexplping.the new*vest-pocket” rations devised for U. S. para- chutists. Three complete meals, rich in vitamins and minerals, fit. into tiny boxes. Dinner, for example, consists of eight vitaminized crackers, four pep tablets made of dextrose, three ounces of ham spread, a tube of bomllon and a stick of chewmz gum. Twelve Brifish Warshlps Now in U. §. Porls Being Repalred Other Purposes | WASHINGTON, Sept .20, — The | {Navy Department announces that twelve British warships, including | the battleship Warsprite, are now in United States ports undergoing re- pairs and provisioning and for other purposes In addition to the twelve Navy Department disclosed that under a new publicity policy, it is announced that several other British craft are also in American ports but jit is not deemed feasible to make public any information concerning them at this time. The battleship Warsprite is at the Bremerton, Wash., Navy Yard, and two aircraft carriers including the ' formidable Illustrious, are listed both at Norfolk, Virgmia & TRANSPORTS OF ITALIANS - TORPEDOED ETwo Ships Carrying Sol- diers Sent Down Off Tripoli, Report the Cynthia Currall, charming emis- sary of the San Mateo County Fiesta, which takes place this | month, displays the flower-stud- | ded “V” air-expressed to the Duke and Duchess of Kent on their M American visit. Note the floral (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) “three dots and a dash,” denoting | Tpe Italian High Command, in| the letter “V.” |an official communigue at mid- P \auemoon says two TItalian trans- TCHIKAN WOMAN HERE ports, taking troops to Libya, have| Mrs. Edwin Elliott, of Ketchikan,|peen torpedoed and sunk¢by Bri- arrived here on a Lodestar from tjsh naval forces off Tripoli but| | Fairbanks yesterday and will re- ajl crews and soldiers aboard have, |main in Juneau until the next been saved. | | steamer through here bound for, B 0 o oo the Pirst City. Mrs. Elliott is re- | turning to Ketchikan after having (ou““ FlAG attended the American Legion, De-| partment of Alaska, conventicn 'Ll — Seward. | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20— e ——— {Now Los Angeles County is going BANKRUPTCY FILED |to have its own flag. The board Ivan Diboff filed a petition nf|of supervisors has asked several bankruptcy this morning in Fed-| historical societies to' submit de- eral Ocurt here. | signs. ok BUY DEFENSE BONDS Eon Douglas Island was extinguished | by the crew of the flagship Brant! |of the Bureati of Fisheries yestec- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS l BOMBS ARE THROWN AT Argentinians Against German Diplomat . small bombs were thrown in fronf of the fashionable embassy and! | residence of German Ambassadorf | Von Thermann. ; The hostile demonstration was ' staged because he objected to the Congressional attack on him that} reached a virtual demand for his i | expulsion from Argentina. The Argentinian government de- ciares he has viclated his diplomatic privileges. The police, half-heartedly, made | one arrest and dispersed a group of about 20 men. No damage was done to the build- ing other than stains left by the bombs thrown by the demonstrators. PR s e 't Two Russian Planes Wing Back, Moscow Military Mission Left Sea- tle Yesterday for Sitka Enroute Home BULLETIN, SEATTLE, Sept. pssian filying beats reached Sitka late yester- day - afterncon, accerding to an announcement made by the Navy Department. SEATTLE, Sept. 20.—Two Ru: sian flying boats that brought military mission of 47 men to Seat- | tle on September 4, left the Sand | Point Air Station shortly after 10:30 | o'clock Friday forenoon, the Thir- teenth Nava] District announces. The two flying boats will follow the same route back to Moscow, touching at Sitka, Kodiak, and then Nome. BRANT CREW FIGHTS FIRE ONDOUGLAS | Bureau of Fisheries Crew Battles Flames for Three Hours A forest fire east of Outer Point day afternoon after a three-hour fight with buckets, axes and shov- els. ‘The fire was sighted by J. steeleK Culbertson, assistant supervisor, in| charge of the Brant party, which was going to Icy Straits. A stiff breeze was spreading the flam: rapidly, but Culbertson’s party worked' steadily and quelled the\’ flames after about half an acre of spruce had been destroygd. The fire apparently spread from a cooking site used by campers. The Ranger VII, Forest Service| patrol boat, which set out for the blaze after it was reported by a Forest Service fire patrolman,land- ed at the north end of the island and extinguished another small blaze, also apparently set by camp-| ers. | i NAZ! AGENT! Demonstration Staged by} BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 20.—Two {; ALL THE TIME” AllThat'sLe - ’ was sent to its Lorraine Miller, only three months ago a student nurse in Michigan, traveled to Hollywood to start her Genlhey Grace, a studio physician. llghlless Lives of Some Of Nation's Brighte By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The {1l wind which made national de- fense necessary has blown more good into the .lightless lives into any other quarter. The movement which made this possible started years ago, when national defense was hardly a drop in the bucket. Then it was only an idea in the mind of a man who is himself blind—Robert B. Irwin, executive director cf the American Foundation of the Blind. Irwin asked himself why, with| Unecle Sam spending milllons an- | nually for supplies, some of this | shouldn't go for purchase of prod- ucts made by blind persons. Five years of ‘hurling this question af Congress by Irwin and M. C. Mi- This graphic radio-scundphoto from Berlin, shows, ac ording to cruiser Karl Marx, sunk by German action, cinking and failed to say if the Russian warship, na ned after the famous German Socialist and writer, destruction by planes, Hollywood’s Newest Cinderella given & screen test and has been assigned a part ip a movie. From blndnze rolls to movie rohll of | |some of the mation’s blind than HED, SAYS MOSCO fi of Soviet Cruiser Karl Marx Nazi sources, the wreckage of the Soviet Berlin sent the picture out, but kept secret the locale of the submarine or land batteries. PRESIDENT SETTLES ONE BIG ISSUE ,Re;eds Proposal Io Place Control of Defense Indus- try in M|I|iary Hands WA':HI'\K:TON Lpl 20.—Presi- | 1 dent Roosevelt, according to well- ‘ informed sources, is reported to hnvn rejected the propesals to place a! greater degree of control over the ' \dc!cnbc industry in military, rather ' i than civilian hands. | i other war.hips ed to extend the Army’s authority. The President took the action to insure civilian dominated govern- jmental agencies to adminster meas- |ur es affecting the supply of raw, lmaberlnls priorities, production and | | export control. } The President’s decision is tho major development to date of what | is described as a long spirited “be- hind the scenes battle” for control yof defense production and regula- (tion of the export trade. Disclosure regarding the conflict followed the Presidents Executive Order of September 15 that trans- ferred control of exports from the Administration to the Economic Board headed by Vice-President | Wallace. nursing career in the office of Dr. Spotted by a film director, she was ned by De'ense port Control since the office was | organized in July, 1940, i5 relieved k of that assignment and ordered back Industries for the Blind to 22 ‘to duty wm, the War Department, ' | workshops amounted to only $8,- =~ T * e | 000. The workshops had to re-| gear their production *o govern- Bloon SPE(IME"S ment needs. Once that 'was done,| ARE A"‘I,VIED FoR it began to appear that blind . G'" "6 R(ES workers would benefit by govern- H l m ment orders amounting to about $800,000 a year. Then came na- Hflfld"ni blood specil tional defense and no story is other types of analyses ror !he var- more amazing than what hap- lous branches of Alaska’s fighting pened in the workships of tne | forces has become the latest job for blind, the two laboratories of the Terri- Now 53 “factories” manned by [Orial Department of Public Health. | o | The laboratories are located in Ju-( thousands of blind workers in 28 neau and Anchorage, states are turning out produets g, department furnishes the |for Uncle Sam to the tune of necessary tubes and mailing con- about $3,000,000 a year. On Mack's | yainers for the spectmens, and after |desk lies an order from the Army|analyzing them, returns a report, | for 2,000,000 pillow slips. When |thus facilitiating the work of med- | Uncle Sam pays the bill | put about $650,000 in the tills of | headquarters of the forces. The work | the blind' workshops. The President, it is claimed, hna‘ refused the recommendation design- | Brig. Gen. Russell Maxwell, who ' has acted as Administrator of Ex-' it wilt feal sxamining boards located at flm. |is outide the regular duties of the. gel, president of the foundation,| ne workshops' lists of products! laboratory personnel and is an ex- |finally resulted m passage of the |, o expanding daily and now in-|tra burden added to their ordinary Wagner-O'Day Act, providing for| .. g0 oil-treated mops, dry mops, | Work. government purchase of blind- | | brooms and mattresses. Blood specimens are analyzed for made - products. | Precaution after precaution has| the Army, the National Guard, the Until two years ago not a cent ! had to be taken under the law loll'lnlvy and, miost recently, for the of government money had gone vent rsons i xploftin; Selective Service Board. for things made by those unfortu- g{;m mbop: One p::\:;m: ‘:mw ‘F: YO e nateg doomed to spend their days| iy the plind in any shop must| DIVORCE ASKED in ‘darkmess. But with the way ; o5 percent of the total work ! Hilda Ellenburg filed sult for di-| 'open, Clifton’ E, Mack, director of | lon all products and another re-|Vorce from A. P. Ellenburg on procurement, launched on a pro- quires all shops to keep “eye rec- grounds of cruelty today in Fed- gram of buying. ord cards” to be certain that aneral Court here. The couple was/| | workers come under the Social | Married in 1036 at Juneau, ety L0 G (Conlinued on Page wen) In’the first three months, orders distributed through the \avmnaxl ) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS WAR VESSEL SENT DOWN IS REPORT. London Newspapers Say Rumor Authentic-FDR Refuses Comment | | | | (BY ASFOCIATED PRESS) The London Daily Express, in an article, asserts that an American Naval ship has sunk an Axis war craft. No further details are given but the Ex- press claims the report is au- thentic. At Hyde Park, N. Y. when re- perters asked for correboration of the London Daily Express report, President Roosevelt said he did net care to make any comment, one way or another. President Rocsevelt at a con- ference with the newsmen also said he did net know exactly when he weuld sign the Na- tior's mew tax bill. He said yesterday that he thought 48 hcurs would not be teo lemg to y the bill ‘mewsmen brought up a wide range of subjects but the ' President would not talk about . them. M ISSIONS ARE ON WAY T0 MOSCOW Unifed Staes and British, Groups Leave London Enroute to Russia LONDON, Sept. 20.—The United States and British missions bound for Moscow, are reliably reported to have left for Russia. The two missions will join a three- power conference and coordinate in the war against Germany. Members of the two missions lunched with Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill Friday. Averill Harriman heads the Am- erican group and Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook head the British mission. Before leavlnx here, Harriman said ,8n agreement has been reachied by both the United States and Great Britain for immediate aid to Russia, including hundreds of ' planes and | tanks. 5 WAGEDISPUTE : THREATENING PLANE PLANT Bomber Méklng May Be Interrupted by Machin- | istsof AFL at San Diego i SAN DIEGO, CAL. Sept.. 20—A | wage dispute ‘today threatens to 'halt production of Consolidated | Aircraft Corporation’s great bomber plant. APL mechinists announced they - are prepared to strike for a blank- iet 10 per cent an hour raise in pay. |The increase is twice the company’'s offer. 3 e ‘The 1940 census placed -the |farm population of U. 8.’ at 1475.206. as compared with 3!.‘% e 350 in 1930. P2