The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8837. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1941. MEMBER ASSOC "PRICE TEN CENTS SEEK REPEAL, NEUTRALITY ACT SEASAW BATTLE AT LENINGRAD BLOODY FIGHTING ON STREETS OF CITY SUBURBS Hand to Hand Engagement Taking Place, Accord- ing to Nazi Reports GERMANS ARE THRUST | BACK 6 MILES, CLAIM Enormous Losses Taking/ Place in Sector-Heavy | Blows Being Dealt (By Associated Press) | German military dispatches this afternoon report violent hand to hand fighting is raging on the streets of Leningrad’s suburbs while the Russians in an early afternoon report, declare Russian cavalry | charges, thrusts- of cannons and blazing Soviet tanks have hurled back the Nazis for a distance of | six miles. “The réport also declares two villages in the outskirts of Len- ingrad have been recaptured. The losses are-described by the | Russians as enormous in the bloody seasaw battle. On Central Front In the Central Front, the Soviel bulletin reports that Marshal Timo- | shenko’s Red Armies are pushing a | counter offensive in the Gomel sec- | tor, midway between Smolensk and | Kiev. The drive is to lift the pres- | sure on Russian troops in the | Ukraine. | Nazi military headquarters is] dodging any prediction when Lenin- | grad will fall but declared, never- theless, the posiiton of the Red Army defenders is becoming “more and more hopeless.” | The Russians, however, counter (Continued on Page Seven) WASHINGTON—Chief questions To Study Railroad Dispute Here are members of the fact-fin issues in the threatened strike of 1 ding board which will investigate 1,250,000 railroad employes. Left to right (tgp) are Wayne Lyman Morse, Oregon University law dean; James Cummings Bonbright, Columbia University finance professor. Bottom: Huston Thompson, Washington, D. C., attorney; Thomas Reed Powell, Harvard law professor. The fifth member is Joseph Henry Willits, Rockefeller Foundation social sciences director, MARGARET SULLAVAN Motion Picture Actress Is | Making Round Teip on Northland Vessel | This Margaret Sullavan, an Irish hapsody in slacks, was travelling |“in coma,* according_to the deck steward on th® stei ip North |Coast this morning, but in coma, |incognito or, in cks—the tiny motion picture actress still packs plenty of that good, old-fashioned Hollywecod sex appeal. Your Uncle John, who talked to her on the sidewalk im front of the PAYS CALL BRITISH AID TO RUSSIANS ACCELERATED 'R, A. F Planes Aftacking | Nazis on Eastern Front- | Many Tanks for Soviet | LONDON, Sept. 25.—British aid | {to Russian armies is being rushed |to the eastern front at a rapidly | increasing pace, it was authorita- | tively reported today. | The Royal Air Force disclosed | | that its planes are flying in battle | |on the eastern front, while news- paper speculation that British im- perial troops might be sent through Iran to the Soviet Caucasus assum- ed new significance with the dis+ | closure of a series of military staff | conferences involving troops in that | area. | ‘It was added that British tank | production, all of which is going to | Russia, will set a new record this | week., DUKE, WALLY 'CHEERED IN. ;Thousandsm Out Earlyj | to Thunder Welcome fo | British Royal Couple | CAPITAL CITY. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Thous- | ands of early risers in this ordinar-| |ily blase capital roared a thunder-| lous welcome this morning to the | Duke of Windsor.and his American- born duchess for whom he re-! |nounced the British throne. | Greeted officially by Sir Ronald | Campbell, British charge d’affaires,| land George Summerlin, State De- ‘pnrtmem chief of protocol, the royal couple was also royally wel-| comed by the tumultous crowds which pressed against police lines along the approaches to Union Sta-| tion. | After discussing the international situation with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the Duke told re- porters in a brief press conference |that he was “absolutely” confident |that Britain will win the war. | The Duke and Duchess entered PETROVSK KREMENCHUGDNIE PERO- 1 Ql An authoritative source in London said German forces apparently had cut off the entire Crimean insula at the south of the Russian front. Map locate:: (1), Ukraine area in which Kiev and Odessa are still under pressure; (2), region of reported German drive cast of Dneiper River isolating Crimea; (3), Ros tov, throvgh which the London source said, Russians might have to continue contact with Crimea. ZAPOROZHE TAGANROG MELITOPOL f* (2] KOLAEV, - Big Day for the Morgenthaus Among the U. 8. naval reserve graduates in New York is R. M. Morgenthau, son of the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen- thau, Jr., who is seen, left, at the ceremonies. At the right is the secretary’s father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who once served as ambassador to Turkey. REEDOM OF SEAS POLICY IS TAKEN UP ResolulionA Introduced in | Senate to Change Pres- | ent Status of Shipping 'DECLARATION OF WAR IS CLAIM OF SEN. TAFT Fight Expec@lo Be Made on Issue - House Is Prepared fo Act WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Spon- sored by Senator Kenneth McKeller 'of Tennessee, a bill to repéal the Neutrality Act was introduced into | the Senate today. | The Neutrality Act, the bill declar- \ed, is “in direct conflict with our 3 . | freedem-of-the-seas policy.” The act {bars arming American merchant |ships and prevents them from en- tering combat zoues. Sen. McKellir (0ld "his colleagues | that the law ought to be repealed outright. The Tennessee Senator has {been a consistent supporter of the opERATE orf administration’s foreign policy and ! President Roosevelt said only Tues- WEST AFRI(A day that revision or repeal of the | act was heing studied, indicating that such actiou might be forth- i coming next week. U-boats Destroy 11 Mer- chantmen in Convoy, Naz' B“"ehn Says that repeal "of the Neutrality Act will be “the equivalent cof a declara- Sen. McKellar declured that al- though the law is on the statute BERLIN, Sept. 25—Germany de- (ion of war” and foresaw a knock- clared in a special communique to-' qown and dragout battle in the Sen- | | | | ¥5IrRosTov ARMAVIR Pen- books, tLhe government is “paying 1vlrtunlx) no attention to it.” | In response, Senator Robert A. | Taft, of Oudo, expressed the belief {day that U-boats off West Africalate against any repeal attempt. have destroyed 11 merchantmen in: Representative James W. Wads- a convoy of 12 ships sailing to ENg-| worth, New York Cougressman, said land. |the House is ready to repeal or “Despite the powerful protection modify the law and voiced the hope of destroyers,” the communique as-!that it will be “wiped off the sta- serted, only one small steamer es- tute books.” caped the undersea raiders, a total ARG —— lof 78,000 tons of shipping being, sunk. Bulgaria Is Not Fighting /ARMYTOBUY CANNED FISH INTERRITORY Al Owners of Autos Must | being asked of the Senate’s inves- ; | Baranof Hotel, thought she was one the White House at 11:50 o'clock ~ Says Official Buckner Given Permission tigation of Hollywood are: Who is jof the cutest little pints of cider and left 27 minutes later without he’d seen in a long time, although some of the ladies who peered from {shop windows afterward declared | | themselves slightly disappointed in her appearance. It was her disappearance, how- really behind it? Who persuaded a ' subcommittee to proceed With an unauthorized probe? The Senators who introduced the resolution, Nye and Clark, admit that they haven’t seen the movies which they are ecriticizing. Yet they are armed with a great mass of data which someone must have dug up for them. The other mem- bers of .the sub-committee also ad- mit they haven't seen the alleged propaganda pictures. And “the Sen- ate as a whole rejected the inves~ tigation and declined to,appropri- ate any money for it. But despite all this, five Sena- tors are .going ahead anyway, spending considerable money and even more time to stage a solemn investigation of Hollywood. Senators are famous for their laziness. They don't go looking for extra § work. Obviously someone coked them up. The answer to this mystery has for some time been in the hands of Wendell Willkie, counsel to the picture industry. But he has no right of cross-examination, and so far this has prevented his making public the solution. However, he has significant evi-| dence that for several weeks ' tue American First Committee has had a group of research people busy (Continued an Page Four) MARGARET SULLAVAN Movie actress, in Juneau Transport Of Axis Is Torpedoed Fourteen Sfi Now Cred- ited as Destroyed, Gulf of Finland, by Soviefs MOSCOW, Sept. 25.—The Soviet Information News Bureau an- nounced tonight that an AXis transport has been sunk on the Gulf of Finland. This is the latest of 14 German ships, including troop carriers, and one Finnish vessel sent to the bot- tom by torpedo boats. It i estimated that at least 20- 000,000 ‘meteors enter the eartn’s atmosphere every day and a mini- :::{n of a day reaches the h's - surface. ever, that bothered Uncle John. A {rather stark, forbidding character, whom the deck steward described | as “Miss Sullavan’s leading lady,” | vehemently denied that Miss Sulla- van was aboard the North Coast. Uncle John Péfsistent For that matter, when Uncle John, clad in mukluks, skin pants end a silklined parkay finally har- peoned the pretty little seal, she her- self denied sh ewas Margaret Sull- avan, Mrs. Leland Hayward (her husband’s name, which movie stars find is the best incognito under the sun) ar anyone at all in whom the public would have any interest. “So you aren’t Margaret Sulla- van?” your Uncle John leered, won- | dering meanwhile why her hair was so soft and good-flecked, in- stead of being the dark mop which adorns her head on the screen, “Im not, rally I'm not,” replied Miss Suuuavan, stealing a line from one of her chief competitors without the slightest twinge of conscience. “Nope”—Angels Get Busy “And you're sure youre not Mrs. Leland Hayward?” pressed Uncle John, the old fox, mumbling under his breath that she sure as so-and- (Continued on Page Seven® i discussing their visit. ———————-— Serb 'Gang’ Attacked by NaziTroop (Germans Profess Ignor- ance of Stuka Atfack { - on 12,000 Rebels ! BERLIN, Sept. 25.—DNB, Ger- man news agency, reported from | Belgrade that German soldiers and armed Serbian forces today “ren- dered innocuous a Communist gang” which has been terrorizing the Ob- renowatz district in a fight which | ilasted several hours. ‘The band’s dead include its lead- er, the report said, and ten others were arrested. Authoritative sources declared they knmew nothing of an-| other report by the British Broad- casting Company that dive hombers | had bheen employed by the Nazis in an attack on 12,000 rebellious Serbs. e — | BUY DEFENSE BONDS i |every one of the 32,000,000 own- Pay $5 Under Federal Tax; ‘There'll Be !B'ig Squaking By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Tucked away in the $3,500,000,000 | federal tax bill is a little-discussed tax which some pretty shrewd ob- servers of John Q. Taxpayer's re- actions say is going to cause more squawks than anything else in the whole measure. It's the $56 “use tax” on motor vehicles, It means very plainly that ers of trucks, buses and private| automobilés in the land will have | to fork over $5 a year, beginning February 1, 1942, for the privilege of ‘using their vehicles. The auto people and the Ameri- can Automobile Association (which has withdrawn its m:dltloml oppo- sition to -any tax on auto transpor- {ation for the duration of national defense) gave me this analysis of the new tax. ' First, it should be pointed out| that the fewer caws the next year| or go. the better for national d!!-i | does to reduce the fense als) number have the double-barreled benefit of bringing in revenue and saving (because of needed mawri-“ and anything that taxation | will [Russia or break off relations with | was announced today by Gov. Ernest fo Purchase from Canneries Canned salmon for the Alaska War on Russia Nor Break 0" Rela'ions |army defense forces will no longer —_— have to go to Seattle for inspection, SOFIA, Sept. 25.—Bulgaria does then be returned to the Territory for not irtend to make war against consumption by the armed forces, i§ Does Nof Infend fo Make Moscow, Peter Cabrovsky Minister Gruening. of Interior, told foreign correspond-; In a letter from Major-General | ment for operating a car to ap- those materials, Then, too, when | [ P there is anything on which you | AT Bulgstih Sien 18 D - # \fectly calm and no pressure of any can slap a little 85 tax and add|yyq pag peen exerted on'the Bul- | $160,000,000 to the Tref’s‘"y s in- | garian Government from any quarts come it’s not to be, tossed off b“'qers," said Cabrovsky, cause of a few squawks. At least, that’s the way the tax framers| must have reasoned. 'I'onsandlons | Of Aluminum |Are Collecled - To go back to tne other side of the picture, the $5 “use tax” is in addition to a doubling of ex- isting rates on cars, parts, acces- sorles, tires and tubes and a con- tinuation of the tax on gasoline| WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. — The | and lubricating oils. This, accord-|nation-wide aluminum collection campaign yielded an estimated 11,- | 1 835,000 pounds of scrap, Defense of- ficial§ announced today. That total is equivalent to the| amount of aluminum needed by 1,- | ing to the AAA, means that mo- torists will pay $300,000,000 more 900 fighter planes or 350 two-motor- ed bombers. in federal taxes next year, bring- - et ing their total federal tax pay- proximately $750,000,000. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS These taxes are in addition (Continued un Pege Six) to ts. |Simon B. Buckner, Chief of the Al- aska Defense Command, at Fort Richardson, the Governor was ad- vised that Major-General Buckner has obtained permission from the Quartermaster General of the U. 8. Army, at Washington, D. C., to pur- chase all canned salmon needed by Alaska forces directly from local canneries. The new order in canned salmon buying by the army comes as a step in a program advocated by the Gov- ernor to cut out the “economic waste” which he declares is entailed in shipment of Alaska salmon to Seattle for inspection and then back to the Territory for consumption. i With the present shortage of cargo space in Alaska shipping already slowing down work at defense cen= ters, the Goveruor said. today he believed the move to purchase army salmen suppiics dicectly from loeal T (Contmuca o Page FIve) ]