The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1941, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LVIL, NO. 8839. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURI)/\Y, bl PT. 27, 1941. MLMBER ASSO CIATED PRESS EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS CLAIM VICTORIES ON MANY FRONTS Hint BritiszToops fo Be Rushed fo Defenses of Russian Caucasus SOURCE OF VOLGA | IN GERMAN HANDS Thousands of Invaders Die| in Assaulfs on Crimean | Peninsula Defenses | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Command to- day announced the conclusion of an encircling battle south of Kiev | with the destruction of five entire Soviet armies and the capture of 665,000 prisioners, but the Russians claimed new successes everywhere clse along the vast front. The British strongly lnflmnted they might rush troops to. the de-: fense of the Caucasus, threatened’ by the Nazi onslaught on the Cn-, mean Peninsula. ‘ Hitler’s héadquarters, claiming a victory “unparalled in world his- tory,” reported the seizure or des- truction of 3,718 Russian canncn, 885 tanks and great quantities oi other war equipment. The German communique added: “Exploitation of these successes in full swing.” Informed Germans said that the source of the Volga River in the north, near Seliger Lake, has been (Continved ub Pege Six) WITH SECOND ARMY IN LOU-| ISIANA—Like morale, the equally| discussed shortage of army cumbat' equipment is more apparent than| real. It is true that many of the hundreds of units undergoing field| training in this tough bayou coun- try do not have all the tanks, guns, motor vehicles« and other arms their tables of organization call for. There are armordd stout cars roaring over the dusty roads with wooden simulations of 50 caliber machine guns mounted on their gun tracks. «There are anti-air- craft and tank batteries that use poles to represent a portion of their guns. Many of the light and medium tanks are not the late models now clanking off Chrysler and other assembly lines. A number of outfits still are not fully equipped with the new Garand rifle. But despite these deficiencies th@ new citizen army is being trained to| fight as a highly mobile, highly mechanized, highly armored battle machine. It is a very different army from the AEF. From buck privates to com- manding generals the new army is learning to operate as a blitz force. To a World War veteran the speed and scope of the maneuvers down!| country are astounding. The fact that units do not have all the lat- est type equipment is not a ser- ious matter right now. 1941 — NOT 1917 MODEL It would be serious if the new army was being molded into a re- production of the 1917 model. It would algo be . very iserious if large (Continued on Page Four) Rgfugees Arrive on ‘Hell Ship’ | | | | | ;Immediatefigblem More |and by the end of the meeting the | councilmen | Foundation. Regina, [rene and Josefa Solzbacher (1. to r.) are among the first to disembark from the Spanish freights Bad food, filth, rats, sickness and er Navemar, 48 days out of Seville. overcrowding made the voyage a mghtmare, according to the refugees, 769 of which arrived on the vessel | bm]t to lccommodate 17 passengus KODIAK CITY 'COUNCIL CASE HANGING FIRE ‘Remaining City City FathersRe- ject Resignations of Mayor, Three Others KODIAK, Alaska, Sept. action as to the succe§sors was tak- | 27—No* Slx persons died durmk the voyage. 'WPA WAGE IS GOING TO BE RAISED Commlssmner Hunter . Plans to Boost Pay of i MiIIion Warkers | | How- WASHINGTO! Sept. 27— Wfl Commissioner, |ard Hunter, NEW CITY ' room available to them. HALL NEED SEEN HERE Library Space-600 New Volumes on Way In three easy steps, the City' Council at a special meeting decided | that Juneau needs a new city hall,| were considering thé| setting up of a sinking fund in the municipal budget, to provide for| the new building a few years hence, | The steps were: 1. Stanley Jackson, Salvatign Army adjutant in charge of the| Red Shield Reading Room, re- ported that a total of $1,000 worth ! of books is being made available | for the room through the Carnegie | The - books he said | will be released through the city| library, which is overcrowded and| ®¢ cannot_accommodate the additional | ,3&1 books, but will catalogue and class- | lIV them, 2. Miss Ann Celeman, city.librar- l ian, declared that by farming” part? of the books out to the reading| roem, she will have sufficient shelf| space but is in critical need of a work room, in which the new books may be classified. She suggested that possibly some of the room now used for firemen’s quarters could be secured. 3. Fire Chief W. V. Mulvihill pro- tested that the firemen need all the He pointed out that some of their space is not usable now because the roof at the Fourth Street side of the build- | ing leaks badly. Library Search As an upshot, the library com- mittee of the council was instructed to start looking for more commod- ious library space. The books, 600 volumes of which are now being prepared for ship- Left to right: Majer Gene Ba‘t, Dircetor of the Mate retired, former ( hief of !Conunued on Paue Ee Defense of Caucasus fo aval Oper WARNING ISSUED BY ROOSEVELT 5 RUSSIAN ARMIES WIPED OUT NAZIS SAY AMERICANS ON MISSiON 70 RUSSIA Four members of the American missicn Lo Hussid, headod By " Chairman. instructions frem President Roosevelt at the White House prior to their depurlm for Moscow via London. I James H. Burns, Executive Officer of the Lend- Lease’ Pro'rsm - Harriman received William L. wn, Office of Production Management; Admiral William H. Standley, ) md 'm, Illrrlman RESUMES COURTING lENINGRAD ~ DEFENDERS | HOLD LINE 2 South of Russia’s Sec- | ond Largest City (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Nazi invaders continued ! their campaign against Leningrad | today, concentrating all | man forces in the area on the as- |sault against the city's defenses. In the district south of Lenin- 'Battle Becomes General the Ger-| en by the remaining members of announces he plans to raise the the City Council regarding the res- ignation of the Mayor and three councilmen from office last Sat-| urday, The remaining members held a’ special council meeting Thursday night and a unanimous yate was taken to reject the resignations.' This action was supported by a vote | of confidence and a demonstration | by business and local citizens. Another special meeting of the Council Friday was held and des- ulted in discharge, for cause, of two city patrolmen. Mayor R. H. Chadwick and Coun- cilmen Jorden Fredericksen, Frank M. Hermand and Carl Pajoman res- igned after registering the strong- est protest to a “boycotting, sland- crous town meeting type of city government.” ITISTOUGH FOR GERMANS \Two Sentenced fo Death for Listening fo Outside News Broadcasts BERLIN, Sept. 27—Two persons| were today sentenced to death in| the German courts for listening to broadcasts from foreign stations and then spreading the news of what they heard. ————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS wages of over 1,000,000 WPA work- ers, I The raise will bring the earnings; | nearer to the line of increased cost' of living, Hunter said. Hunter further declared that a |10 per cent raise is a good guess as| to the amount of the increase. g CAPTUREOF CHANGSHA | . JAPSCLAIM |Imporfant Caplial City of| Hunan Province Taken —Chinese Deny 1t SHANGHAI, Sept. 27—The Jap- anese Army Headquarters an- nounce the capture of Changsha. The Japanese previously announced | troops had entered Changsha sub-| urbs on the northeast and were| fighting hand to hand with the| Chinese defenders. Changsha is the Capital City of Hunan Province and is important {for the rice and wheat stores there {a.nd the station of the Hankow Rail- | way to Chungking. The Chinese Army spokesman asserted Changsha is still in the hands of Chnese and declared the pure fabrication, BeTakenUp | grad, Russia's second largest city< | fighting was general. The battle- ‘llnes wavered back and forth under the force of minor attacks and| cuuntcr—auflck,g in several sectors. |Gen. Wave_ll—ls Enroute to Teheran to Confer with Colonel Novikov TEHERAN, Sept. 27—Gen. Wav- ell, British Commander in India, is enroute here to confer with Col. Novikov, Russian Commander, at a Jjoint Russo-British Defense of the Causasus. This is according to an official announcement. BIG DRIVE INDICATED BY BRITIS May Move flps from In- dia, Near East fo Pro- fect Soviet Oil Fields LONDON, Sept. 27—The Brit- By JACK STINNETT ish Empire appeared today to B agwiNGTON, Sept. 2I—When | shaping up a major move to hasten you get right down to counting troops from India and the Near noses, President Roosevelt's cabinet East through Iran to defense ©f has undergone more shake-ups Russia’s Caucasus, the Sovie's than a penny bank. Only Secre- wealthy oil region, taries Hull, Perkins and Ickes re- ' expect to be married soon. er wedding after seeing Cobina in 20th Century-Fox lot. to Seattle so he wnuld not be A. W. H Fra | main Palmer Beaudette, the wealthy corporal, arrived in Hellywood to re- sume courting Cobina Wright, Jr., but the actress said she still didn’t Overnlghi A"a(ks Confinue Beaudette, who talked about a Novem- Reno recently, visited her on the After the Reno visit he had to charter a plane 0. L. ndis Biddle Wrofe Novel Once; His Bicgraphy, Is Query Will it Be from the original executive round table. Two of the appointments, those of Republicans Henry W. Stimson| and Frank Knox to War and Nan (Cnnumm\ “on chr Three) AIR RAIDS ARE MADE BY BRITISH " Against Germany, Des- pite Bad Weather 27, — The Air | 1 | LONDON, Sept. | Ministry this morning reported | continued overnight air raids | against Cologne and other German |cities despite bad weather. | it 17:5 730 el | FROM THE FRYING PAN MT. HOLLY, N. C. (AP)—Mil- |ton Morris, overcome by gas in a chemical plant, was placed on a 15-foot platform—from where he ‘lcll and fractured his skull. ——————— | FOOTBARL RESULTS In football games played yester- |day, UCLA and Washington State Iplayed a close game, the former *wmnlng by 7 to 6. Gonzaga was trimmed by Pacific Lutheran by a 26 to 13 seore. i U.S.ISTO PROTECT ALL - HER VESSELS 'President Declares He Will Use Torpedoes, Shells, Bombs on Attackers MESSAGE IS SENT OUT " ONBIG LAUNCHING DAY | Declares Blmrs Are Aid- ing in Plans fo Crush Hitler, Aggressors WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — President Franklin D. Roosevelt accluimed today’s launching of fourteen cargo ships as a “tell- ing blow against any menace to ocur Nation.” | The President emphasized his | intention to protect American | merchantmen with “torpedo, | shell or bomb.” The statements were made in | on the largest mass launching | since the World War days and the congratulitions were dis- patched in transcribed mes- sages to Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf yards where vessels slid down the ways from dawn to dusk. The messages were sent to “America’s Shipbuilders.” The President said the ship- builders have ‘caught the true spirit with which this nation must be imbued with if Hitler and cther aggressors of his like are prevented from crushing us. e NEW YORK, Sept. 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 3'%, | American Can 83%, Anaconda 26%, | Bethlehem Steel 65%, Curtiss | | | | || Wright 9%, International Harvester 53%, Kennecott 34% , New York Cen- tral 11%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 55'%, Pound | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ! Jones averages: Industrials 126.03, rails 28.97, utilities 18.: 32 - eee Two out of every three families in the United States own auto- mobiles. More important than ever today is the U. S. Navy's Iceland | Patrol ONLY ONE reporter has flown with it and can tell you about it. He's MORGAN M. || BEATTY of The AP Feature Service. His articles start MON- DAY in The Empire