The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8834. PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 22 L1941, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TALIANS ATTACK GIBRALTAR CONFLICT FIERCE IN LENINGRAD BATTLE DEFENDING TROOPSTO WINORDIE Moscow Bafieturn of All | Residents Who Fled from Sovief Capifal | BOMBERS AIDING | RUSSIAN FORCES Black Sea —N;y Planes Wipe Out Three Com- | panies of Nazis | MOSCOW, Sept. 22—The fierc-| est fighting of the whole Russian battlefront flamed toward a cli-I max around Lenginrad today where armament workers called upon lhe‘ great port city’s defenders to“win or die” as in besieged Odessa. | South of Leningrad’s defense; ring, Red troops and militia called from shops and factories were re-| ported holding the German nt»l tackers to & standstill glose’ to ths city limits. ' Workers of the great Putilov Ar—l_ mament Plant in an open letter| | to the,city's fighting force ap- pealed: “Win or die—there is no other| choice. This is the law of the So-| viet fighter and this is the slogan! of the entire Soviet nation.” With Kiev fallen, the war en-| tered its fourth month. Moscow tightened its own precautions be-| hind a barrier of fighting men. The | city council prohibited the return| Survived Sinking Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! of all persons who have left the city since the war began. | On the southern flank, bombers “(Continued on Page Eight) i A five-ton mobile shoe-repairing unit is shown in action at Fulton, La,, where it is patching some of the hundreds of pairs of brogans put out of action in the war maneuvers being conducted there, Private First Class Stanley Tabulawach is at work inside the vortable shop. ourists Look af Statues, Buf Not Our Mr. Stinnett By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — A friend + who catches these para- graphs occasionally said: “I re- member once you wrote about what you would do in Washingten if you were a tourist. Tell me, what | would you see and where would i you go if you weren't e tourist?” | It took a little digging to get what he meant, but I got it. He didn't want to see the Washington ss in JAPANLOGKS T0 AMERICA FOR ACCORD Nipponese Restrict Produc- | | fion as Economic Pres- | | sure Increases DOG MEATDEALERS | REPORTED ARRESTED. Bathtubs and Cuspidors| Added to List of Ban- | | ned Steel Goods 4 TOKYO, Sept. 22.—Japan, umlr‘r; economic pressure from the United | States and Great Britain today | tightened its belt another notch with drastic reduction on the production | of steel and iron goods and looked | anew to diplomatic discussions in ‘Washington to produce a possible | i key to new accord between the three | countries. | | Developments on the German- | Russian war front also are being studied closelv. Signs of further weakening of the Soviet resistance, some Japanese said, might speed the ! !day of world peace. To Conserve Supplies The Ministry of Trade and Indus- | | tries listed 150 steel articles to be | added tomorrow to those already | dropped from manufacture to con- | serve supplies. Safety razor blades, bracelets, ball bearings, cuspidors jand temple bells are on the oddly assorted list. i Newspapers have decided to con- solidate their circulation systems to conserve their material and labor and transport facilities. Dog Meat Illegal Meanwhile, the Japanese press re- ported more than 80 meat dealers arrested by the health department on charges of selling dog meat as beef or pork to sausage markets, The Japanese Chromicle, English language publication at Kobe under | control of the Foreign Office, said SNEAK UP IS MADEONBIG BRITISHROCK {Harbor Under Great Fori- ress Is Entered — Four | Ships Reported Sunk 'ASSAULT UMITS IN SURPRISE MOVEMENT First Naval Efl;nsive Since 1782-Type of Craft | Not Announced Where Three American Ships Were Sunk ) Lape 'VII'I'P! 5. ET | | (By Associated Press) | Premier Benito Mussolini’s High | Command reports that Italian war | vessels have entered the port of | Gdbraltar, Great Britain's Mediter- | ranean Sea fortress, and sank four merchant ships right under the guns | of the big rock citadel. | Aside from the Italian torpedo |attack on Gibraltar shipping last year, it is the first naval assault on | Gibraltar since the French and Danish ships unsuccessfully shelled |the British garrison there in the winter of 1782. The type of war vessels engaged . |in the current raid is not disclosed in describing the bold raid. The Itallan High Command iden- tified the attackers as merely “as- UNOCCUPIED | Sentenced Draftee | ANO'I'HER 'I' Ax : | [slult units” that entered the bay at ¥ e e | the inner port and sank three ships FRANCENOW W, BILL COMING =t s i % | also lost. | | Authoritative London quarters this morning met the Italian claim with THREATENED IN CONGRESS "5+ 2 . | The attack apparently took the ‘This map shows the route taken by the American freighter Steel Seafarer, which was sunk by an aerial bomb in the Red Sea, and the scenes where two other U. S. ships have been sunk. The Robin Moor, first American ship to go down in this war, was sent to the bottom by a Nazi raider in the South Atlantic. The Danish ship Sessa, taken over by the U. S. and operated under Panama registry, was torpedoed 300 miles aonthwest, of Teeland. | | i | | seriously it s assumed the craft is WASHINGTON—Advice to Am- erican businessmen’ having trouble with Uncle Sam: Hire as your ‘Washington attorney the famous ex-Brain Truster Tom Corcoran. “Tommy the Cork,” one-time closest man to Roosevelt, has now gone into the private practice of law, and he is performing as many miracles for big business as he once performed for F.osevelt against big business. Latest and most amazing mir- acle was the recent pat o1 the head given to Sterling Products and subsidiaries by the Justwce De- partment when the drug companies were permitted to plead nolle con- tendere on a criminal charge of conspiring with Nazi Germanuy to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. (“Nolle contendere” means that the defendant puts in no de- fense: it pleads neither guilty nor not guilty.) Other American firms charged with similar practices have been castigated hy the Justice Depart- ment. The Bausch and Lomb op- tical company was indicted crim- inally for conspiring commercially with Germeny and had to plead guilty. The Aluminum Curpora- tion of America suffered likewise kecause it had a deal with I. G. Farbenindustrie regarding magnes- ium. Justice Department press state-| BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 22 — ments regarding these firms bristle | Advices reaching here from Sofia with . criticism, and there is still|said an unstated number of Com- talk around the Justice Department|munist Deputies in the Bulgarian of trying to send ,Arthur Davis,|Parliament have been executed and e — |legislators of the former I'easant (Continued on Page Four) . IParty have been interned, P Richard Starrett Richard Starrett, 21, of Alexan- dria, Va., was one of the seamen Steel Seafarer which was sunk by an unidentified plane in the Red sea. All hands aboard were caved, according to the state de- partment, (ommunists “AreExecuted " In Bulgaria legislalor_s_of Former Peasant Party Re- ported Interned Monument, the Capitol Cong there is reason to hope “even at this session, the Lincoln Memorial and jate hour that a satisfactory agree- such. He wanted to “ake the back ment may be reached” between Jap- roads and depend on them to give an and the United States. The him the feel of the country—or in article added that both parties in this case, the city—he was passing the discussions and eventual agree- through. | ment should recognizz Americk, | It was a tough assignment.After Britain and Japan as rivals in the |all, whoever heard of any one try- ing to explain how NOT to be a| Pacific. —————— aboard the American freighter | Washington guide? But it was| |fun trying and I'm going to pzss‘SHIP BOARD | along this list of things to do and ;plnces to go in Washington that! ‘munsv.s might miss. " First, I'd turn my back on the | Washington Monument and watch | horse shoe pitching or the soft-| ball games in the tree-shaded areas |of Potomac Park. These contests | |are nearly always departmental 'and although’ I doubt that youll |ever find a cabinet member work- | |ing up a lather on the team, youl| {would be surprised if some one | | pointed out the big “execs” that} [sometimes are in the galleries. Having wended down tree shad-i Mount Vernon Memorial High- Iway to the one-time home of ’George Washington, I would take | Seamen’s Unions Tele- graph Profests to Presi- dent Roosevelt * NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Two sea- men’s unions have telegraphed a protest” to’ President Roosevelt against what they described as “in- one look at the back door, walk: out through the boxwood hedges [to the left, glimpse at the little ' Maritime Commission with the un- 'MOVESCORED BY STRIKERS terference by the United States German Army May Soon | Take Over All Parts as Sabotage Continues BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 22— ! Authoritative sources here declare that some elements in Vichy in Free France fear that all of France may | be cccupied if shootings and sabo- | § tage, attributed to the Communist elements persist in the German oc- | cupied zone. Marshal Petain’s appeal Sunday | against saboteurs in “the occupied | zones, these local sources claim, isaid the appeal is important pri- | marily as a direct request for French unity against the grave danger of new difficulties with the German | Army, SLAYING IS DISCLOSED VICHY, Sept. 22.—Killing of an- other German officer, six days ago, in a series of attacks on members of the German forces in occupied Paris, is reported in the death of | Capt. von Schben. This is disclosed only in Paris newspapers reaching { here today in announcing that at the funeral held yesterday in the | famous Madeline Church in the heart of Paris, where a eulogy, in | | the name of the German Army, was delivered at the bier to “employ | every means for reprisal for these attacks, which have caused indigna- tion of all honorable men, and the perpetrators shall not go unpun- ished.” | the ten-year court martial sentence 3 FOR Signs Historic Meas- | ure-legislators Seek More Revenue WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—With ‘. the ink of the President’s signature . [on the record $3,500,000,000 tax bill still fresh, legislative leaders today started work on another new rev- | entie measure. | When the President signed the | biggest tax bill in the history of the counfry late last Saturday, his final | pen stroke meant much higher taxes | on 1841 incomes of both individuals | and corporations. It placed on the law books, effective October 1, a lot ,of new and increased exclse levies applying to a legion of items from liquor to light bulbs. Sen. Walter F. George, Chairman Col. Charles B. Elliott Officially described as “amazed” at imposed by Col. Charles B. Elliott oinrivnuyJohn Habinyak, 26, for of_ the Senate Pinance Committee, the draftee’s refusal to obey orders, said the new bill will bring revenue the War Department announced Of approximately 200,000,000 through that the case would be reviewed as @ redefinition of taxes on insurance quickly as possible. Habinyak, a ccmpanies and some changes in the New Yorker, was serving at Fort present method of levying against Bragg, N. C. the community property system. JAPANESE GET BANG OUT OF ‘AVIATION DAY TOKYO, Sept 22. — Army and navy warplanes flew above the Norwegians | British by surprise since the harbor | of Gibraltar is protected by miles of | nets and mine fields and the great | guns, high on the.Rock, have been | considered secure against a close-in assault. ———e———— | | BULGARIA IS UP ON WARPATH King BorisTo Side with | Axis—Russian Parachut- | | ists Land in Kingdom (By Associated Press) Warlike preparations of Bulgaria, aimed ostensibly at Turkey or Rus- |sla, is emphasized by unconfirmed reports that King Boris of Bulgaria, | 1s enrcute for a meeting with Hitler | in Berlin, | Well-informed sources report “no | questions” will be answered on the | move although diplomatic sources | declared Sunday that King Boris has decided to bring his country into the | war on the side of the Axis. | * News dispatches from Turkey de- |clared a Bulgaria radio announced 2 declaration of emergency in the Balkan kingdom. Informed sources at Ankara pre- | octagonal schoolroom (two pupils |only) and be_sure that Mount Ver- ions’ collective bargaining rights.” While the strike for higher war bonuses spread to a fifteenth ship, | municipal airport and wheeled uver‘dlcted that Turkey faces an immin- |the business sectfon of downtown |ent showdown on the present situa- Tokyo last Saturday and then drop- | tion, siding with Russia and her al- non was much better than the! postcards. two strikebound vessels. Id go down to the waterfront| “rpe gmenican Federation of La- (U5 only the Potomac) and have, povs geafarers International Union lunch or dinner at one of the sea-|of North America, which launched food “jernts"—and I would mflstlthe walkout a week ago, affecting that the waiter or waitress tell me; ships on the Atlantic Seaboard and the government prepared to operate Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Closing quctation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 841/2, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem steel 677/8, Commonwealth and One Hund;;&? Trying fo Escape fo Brifain in Ships, Killed LONDON, Sept. 22—An Exchange | ped explosives on Tokyo Bay in a martial observance. of “aviation | day.” Heavy fog obscured the roaring \ Planes as they passed over the city, but the thundering reverberations of the bombings were heard plainly. S PR 2 L |what's “in season” (with the spe- ficic understanding that if I dont like it, I'll send it back). I would go to the Department of Justice Building—beat my way right through to the office and conference’ room of = the Attorney | 7 (continued on Page Tww) Gulf of Mexico ports, and the Sail- ;ors Union of the Pacific, AFL af- filiate on the West Coast, demand- ed an investigation. Five pickets were assignéd to the Maritime Com- mission’s office on Broadway this forenoon. ——————— — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Southern %, Curtiss Wrigh! 9%, mejegraph report from Goteborg.| International Harvester 54¢7/8, gyeden, says 100 Norwegians try- MRS. BRUNELLE SOUTH Kennecott 36%, New York Central 12, Northern Pacific 67/8, United states Steel 57, Pound $4.04 DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, |Jones averages: industrials 127.64, ll.nls 20.01, utilitiés 18.65, Ll ing to escape to Great iritain, were killed when two small ships |were sunk by German bombers | outside of Bergen Harbor. e, — BUY DEFENSE BONDS Mrs. Lillie Brunelle is a south- bound passenger on the Yukon from Seward for a visit in the | Pacific Northwest. ,e— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | lies or going with the Axis. Berlin advices report that Bulgaria has been “brought to a state of higher - watchfulness,” which it is said, is ‘not surprising in view of | reported landing of Russian para= chutists on Bulgarian soil. - LOUSSAC GOES SOUTH | 2. J._ Loussac, formerly operator of a drug store in Juneau, but of late years owner of drug stores in Anchorage, visited friends brief- ly in this city yesterday. He is a . passenger south on the Yukon on la business trip,