The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | VOL. LVIL, NO. 8838. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1941. MEMBER ASSC DCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 NAZI SHOCK TROOPS R EPULSED SOVIETS GAIN 5 MILES AT LENINGRAD [ LENINGRAD BATTLE IS | RAGING ON Russians Hurling Invaders Back-Tremedous Loss- | es Are Reported | FOUR VILLAGES ARE | RECAPTURED BY REDS Nazi Claims of Large Forces Being Taken as ‘Fresh | Hitlerite Fake’ ‘ (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Despite steadily increasing pres. sure from German forces, the Rus-| Home was never like this! Two soldiers rest in the roadside mud while protecting a bridge in the Lake Charles, La., sector during the extensive Louisiana maneuvers. They are members of the 197th Coast Artillery anti-aircraft unit and hail from Berlin, N. H. 63 INCREASE IN FOREIGN PLANE TRIPS, ' Alaska Customs Record| Shows Huge Jump in | Air Arrivals Here - | An increase of more than 63 per- | cent in the number of airplanes; from foreign countries entering Al-| aska during the fiscal year of 1941,} | which ended June 30, was shown today in figures released by |James J. Connors, Collector of| Customs for the Territory. { During the 1941 fiscal year, a| total of 1,041 planes from foreign | countries entered the Territory, as| compared with 672 planes during | 1940, the report showed. These planes carried 3,781 passengers, ot an increase of 58 percent over the, sians declare that in a series of pattles they have hurled the Ger- mans back on several advanced| lines. The official Red Star, army SOME PEOPLE STILLTRAVEL i (Continued on Page Tww) | newspaper, asserts that the Rus-4‘ 3 2 | sian troops are on many points; i ; on the “approaches to Leningrad 3 ; ’ l H s { i [} and have gained five miles and} recaptured four villages, | The German bulletin claims the: siege at Leningrad has been one| of annihilation but admit tremen- dous losses. Hitler’'s Command reports chef destruction of four Red Armies| trapped east of Kiev and forces are “progressing relentlessly.” The Germans claim the capture of 492,000 Russian soldiers but the Russian =~ communication declares, the Nazi assertion is a “fresh Hit- One of the toughest problems of today's foreign correspon- dent is transpertation—to get where the news is happening. Europe’s railway systems are cverloaded, under-manned and war-battered. Private travel is discouraged, and foreigners en- counter numerless obstacles. An Associated Press correspondent, Preston Grover, tells about the difficulties in the fellowing ar- lerite fake. ticle. | The Russian bulletin says a| i | fierce struggle is continuing on the | By PRESTUN GROVER Kiev front. \ AP Feature Service Writer | —————— Yk | | ISTANBUL, Sept. 26—Traveling e ;he |in Europe these days has become | {a nightmare of bugs, baggage “‘NG | troubles, side tracks, visas and! | border inspections. In six days of travel from Paris .} to Istanbul I spent one night in Drew Peorsca. !a sleeper, one night in a hotel at ' end | Vienna and four nights sitting bolt w&m | upright in a compartment shared | with seven other men and women. Of the seven, two were Rumani- |ans, one a Frenchman, one a Hun- {garian and three Bulgarians, They |were in a neighborly mood so we as can traded cigarettes and sandwiches. be ascertained, the most important One of them donated a numerous point under discussion between CroP of lice. They bit me from| Hitler and Mussolini during their | Budapest to the Black Sea. recent visit to the Russian battle, American Makes Good lines was a plan by which Italian! Traveling eastward from Istanbul troops would hold down a sizeable‘through Turkey is a continuation portion of the German front during of the -same experience except that the Russian winter stalemate. the food is better, and it is un- Naturally, no one outside the necessary to give ration tickets for Fascist-Nazi high command really jt, knows the details of what hap- Getting from Paris to Istanbul pened. However, Mussolini ¢nrough German-dominated Europe | squawked so loudly over Hiller's|yag gimost a miracle. So far as demands, that their general nature y y oo 1o other American corres- leaked out in Rome—where a lot of o, 4ot had such luck in three SITAY JesEEs, ATE RGN i inendly‘months or more. It took two weeks lD};il:Fex“Asxxffleory. bluntly put, was - ?et th.e permilfi _w -travel o that the Itallans were no good as Paris through Brussels, and an- fighters; so during the winter other three weeks to get out of| months when there was no fight- Berlin. Then the t,‘mm Lrlp seemed almost that long in addition. ing to be done, they could move, 5 1 into the trenches and protect the' German troops were everywhere| German lines. in one almost unbroken stretch of WASHINGTON—As far imark was the same on them pep talk. Then came the inevitable question. “Do you think America is coming into the war?” They never seem to like the answer. !(\ you say “no” they say you are Prison Yard 'French Tribunal in Paris, concealing your own beliefs, and if you say “yes” they lamely ask | “But. why?” Attempts to Forestall | At the German border the ex-| Nazi Reprisals ‘ amination of my baggage was very | easy. Not until I reached Turkey, —_— lousy, tired and grimy, was I given| PARIS, Sept. 26 —The first three a thorough bagzage inspection. The men to be sentenced to death by the officer picked out a pair of rayon | powerful tribunal of the state, were shorts. | executed today by the guillotine in “Why did you not declare these|the courtyard of Sante Prison, women’s panties?” he demanded. I|authoritative sources said. finally convinced him they wcrcfw;hiriz‘::; ":O"l:::wrex: g:i:’::; mine by showing him the Lumd:};}mm this Prefich hmnselves colie’ " handle the opposition to German | occupation and attempt to forestall | the spread of German reprisals. It is expected the high tribunal | will hand down a new list of con= | All three put to death today were ! Communists. " oN ARlISS"ap Arrests | English Scree—n, Stage Star - Draw Prolest Must Pay Big Sum, Fail- | -Fl'om Fra“(e1 ure fo Report Finances - | | LONDON, Sept. 26.—George Ar- Nipponese Accused of Vio- liss, veteran English stage and screen | . . . star, has heen fined 4500 pouncs, lafing Treafies in | (approximately $18,000 in American Ifl do China money) after pleading guilty on the | VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept. on my other shoris. R “subject of mitigating circum- | stances,” the charge being on neg- | Communists | lecting to register his United States 26.—French Indo-China authorities | and Canadian securities to the Bank | today protested vigorously to Japan, of England. charging violation of French sov- Arliss testified he believed he had t"emmyg as a res:lt ofn sudden, observed all regulations regarding widespread arrests last night by Then Hitlér could ship his troops 8reen across Europe. We were kept down to Africa, and could clean up endlessly waiting on side tracks for| the whole of North Africa before special troop trains. Every train is| spring and good fighting weather first of all a troop transport, and| returned to Russia. Hitler figured only secondarily a passenger train.| that during the Winter he could'In our train soldiers hung their | take over all of French North Afri- rifles here and there and prepared| o E‘gy‘:t :ndDmsu::mimfiic;h:n for one or two or three bedless enetrate to —1 wi el : : | 3ould have a base against squmimghts riding to some new post. \ ica America. Eyes on Americ | During my one night in a sleep- It has long been known that Hit- i ler realizes he has to move fast in°" 1 shared a compartment ‘anh‘ Africa and the South Atlantic, or;® G€rman dressed as a captain| fhe United States will be strong|Ol 8viation. He was one of those| enough to block him. numberless German pep-talkers‘ Mussolini’s reaction to this plan|Salted around among the troops to| bl keep up morale. Before the journey| (Continued on Page Foar) [ was ouer he delivered his wholei his money and securities. The Crown | Japan, 3 Prosecutor said the actor could have | Y Ry T e e ool been liable for a fine of about 30,- | It was announced officlally that 000 pounds. the strongly worded protest declared the action of the Japanese command (o"FuSIo“ | French sovereignty, despite the sol- |emn guarantee of the Japanese gov- e 35 {ernment in all accords signed up Miss Ruby M. White, teacher at government.” Council Corners, called the rod A communique issued by the for her first school assembly she French at Hanol, said: | six of them were three sets of |26, Japanese military forces in Hanoi twins, and Haiphong carried out, without | warning, police operations, includ- The Swedish government has & across streets, searches and arrests banned citizens from enlisting in'or some 100 persons. cah\nese An- any foreign military servicé ex-|namites thus were taken into cus-| jony. was “an indisputable violation of WEIR, Kan. Sept. 26, — When}unm now between it and the French found she had eight pupils and| “On the night of September 25- |ing ' the stretching of police lines cept, the Finnish, tody.” ) ders to ‘Capture or Dest A United States destroyer is pictured knifing through i o e o ki it Treops of the First Armored Division, nicknamed “Old Ironside,” demonstrate how they would take a N U. 8. Navy Official Photograph the Atlantic swells as the United States Atlantic Fleet goes into action on the order to “capture or destroy” by every means at its disposal every Axis raider encountered. United States warships have taken under the protection of their guns all ships of whatever nationality carrying lend-lease cargoes to Iceland. "OLD IRONSIDES" CAPTURE VILLAGE — i village held by enemy troops. Rolling into Castor, La., are some of the Army's new medium tanks, whiie three A-20 attack planes of the Second Air Tank Force of Barksdale Field, La., which supported the land attack, roar overhead, Defending the town are anti-tank gun units of the division and a company of infantry (left, and right foreground). IFU. 5. Goes fo War, Young Men of World War No. 1 fo Dired Affairs of War No. 2 WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—If thelare graduates of Virginia Mihtary‘ United States were to go to war Institute (including General Mar- | ! . g it would be the youngi“h““" five first showed up on the | Army rolls as second lieutenants, men of World War I who Would |, i00t previous Army training; direet the military affairs of the|tw6 came up from the ranks. country in World War IL | 1lf“or"‘;p‘zf;‘;kzeé’“’;;::b‘zh‘:' But right about there all efforts real brass hats—from Gen. George “. erauping: fusk dome id. a0 end:; C. Marshall, chief of staff, down. 1w nqt hard i Jook Bt K8 FEoR Thumb thx(;ugh the lise or‘w Bnl‘and pick oul_ o st S dmlln-i y i guished soldiers. They would pe| you'll find that every one of them | Geners] Marshall, who as a colo- served in World War —12 of|ne) yag in the thick of the Meuse- them overseas, and all of them | ,ioonne ang St. Mihiel offensives with & temporary or permanent|,nq jater was aide-de-camp to Gen. rank, g aistor, g higher. | gohn J. Pershing; and Lt-Gen. \.-ar:: n;m:ve::geo;:ifit ":(::yezls t:gim"gm MeohrRie o Jaat s s come out of retirement to become tomorrow, | | two youngest 52), which Bave|.ommander of the armies in the them an average age of 35 when| p,, pas General MacArthur was| the AEFP. was pouring men andsmerly chief of staff, ,was a steelinto the western front. i 38 ha : brigadier gene t 38, S Nine of these ranking generals i e s -,,,, has mo"?‘ are graduates of West Point; three (Conunued on Page Eight) ! OIL TANK SHORTAGE ALLEGED Secrefary I@, Railroad Chief Disagree as fo Car- | | riers for Pefroleum WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said today a “factual inventory” foumd the net surplus of only 5,100 rail tank cars available to haul petrol-| eum to the Atlantic seaboard. The finding sharply disagrees with the contention of J. S. Pelley, Presi- | dent of the Assoclation of American Railroads, that 20,000 idle tank cars were available for operation in the oil emergency. - e e — The chimney swift cannot walk, but its feet and legs, braced by its spine-like tail feathers, are | strong enotgh to hold the bird to} the chimney wall as it roosts at night, NAZIS BLOWN T0 PIECES IN (CRIMEAN WAR Battalions of Soldiers Kill- ed as Russians Mine Wide Battlefield 'SOVIET SOLDIERS " REPULSE GERMANS Invaders Afipfing Cap- ture of Black Sea Naval Base at Sebastopol (By Associated Press) Entire battalions of German shock troops have been blown to bits in mine fields in the strong | Nazi attack on the Crimean Penin- |sula, advices reaching London said | today. | The Russian defenders reported the situation well in hand after stemming two German assaults, Parachute troops and-infantry were reported continuing the Nazi as- | Soviet lines stretched across the bot- | tleneck of Perekop Isthmus, which is only five to eight miles in width, The terrain was descibed as ad- vantageous to the Russians, as num- erous small lakes and vast stretch- ,es of marshland form natural de- ! fense barriers. | The British radio, quoting a Mos- | cow spokesman, said the Germans launched their initial attack on Crimea Wednesday night, hurling tanks, mechanized infantry and a | number of parachute troops into the | assault, after a terrific preliminary bombardment. The account said: “The Russians waited behind vast mine fields while battalions of Ger- mans were said to have been blown to pieces.” Strategically important as the site of Russia’s Black Sea naval base at Sebastopol, the Crimean Peninsula also could serve as a stepping-stone for a German thrust toward the rich Caucasus oil fields across the narrow mouth of the Sea af Azov. WA I WARIS TO BE KEPT UP ALL WINTER No Let Up of German Of- fensives Against Sovief Armies Is Indicated BERLIN, Sept. 26.—A DNB dis- patch from the front, received to- night, indicates the German expec- | tation that war on the eastern front will continue through the winter. It is hinted that new German of- fensives are being planned. The DNB also says: “It is gen- erally recognized now that one can- not figure on pressure of German troops on the Soviet armies will let up during the winter months.” NEW YORK, Sept. 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 84, American Power and Light 1%, An- aconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 65'%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, International Harvester 53%, Kennecott 344, New York Central 11%, Northern Pa- cific 6%, United States Steel 55%, Pound $4.03%". DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ‘Jones averages: Industrials 12581, rails 26.66, utilities 18.22. sault, battering flercely against the - i