The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE, NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8841. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1941. NAZI ADVANCE 1S TO ATTACK BRITAIN SEES, RELAXATION, NAZI DRIVE | Wallace Signs Hitler Mamsume De- fensive on Sovief Front | ~Turn fo New Fields | BRITISH SEIZE . | AIR INITIATIVE Prediction that War Is to;j Last Through 1942 Made | by Prime Minister LONDON, Sept. 30. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, disclosing that Great Britain “sev- eral times” has considered inva-| sion of the Continent, predicted | the present war may last at least: through 1942. | Churchill warned that - Hitler might fall back on the defensive in the struggle with Russia sndi lash. oot simultaneously - against | Egypl, Spain, Africa and England | itself. | Supremacy in Air | In an optimistic vein however, | Churchill declared that Great Britain now has seized the ini- 000 tax bill, largest in the nation’ Vice President Wallace Preparatory to signing by President Roosevelt, tiie new $3,553,400,- 's history, goes to Vice President Henry A. Wallace who affixes his signature, above. Huge Tax Bill tiative in the air against the Reich forces, declaring flatly that the Germans have suffered a serious air shortage, presumably pilots and planes, lost in the 14-week-old campaign in Russia. { Next Attacks Posing the question as to “where Hitler will turn next,” Churchiil mentioned the possibility of vast new assaults against the Egyptian Everything Buf " (Continuea on Page Five) Cthe IVE 4 FUGIT WASHINGTON—It is no secret that charming Mr. Thoni#s G. Cor- coran, now as enterprising at lob- bying as he onee was @t Brain Trusting, got five Supreme Court justices to back him for the Solici- tor Generalship. But it is a secret: as to who these five justices are. At the top of the list, in the opinion of almost every Washington observer, was Justice Pelix Frank- furter, under whom Tommy the Cork studied at Harvard Law| School. 1t was Frankfurter who| helped Tommy get his first and| most prized job as secretary to thel late great Justice Oliver Wendell| Holmes. ~ And' it was Frankfurter who had placed, through Tommy, many young lawyers on the federal | payroll—so many, in fact, that they have come to be known as the, Frankfurter boys or the Hot-Dog| Club. In turn. Tom Corcoran was very | instrumental in putting Felix| Frankfurter on the Supreme Court. Therefore it was natural to sup-| pose that Justice Frankfurter now | would go to bat for his old pupil| to be Solicitor General. | However, Frankfurter did not support Corcoran at all. He was one of the minority justices who| dissented. | Photo shows John Dowd in Los Angeles on his way to Boston, Mass., where he will face charges of “corruptly requesting and ac- cepting gratuities.” Dowd was picked up in Ventura, Cal, on a drunk-driving charge and iden- tified after he had been a fugi- tive from Boston for more than two years.—International Tllus- tratted Special News Service air- mailed to The Empire. S N SRRt TO SITKA, YAKUTAT On a flight to Sitka today Pilot Alex Holden of Alaska Coastal Air- lines took as passengers Mary Smith, Louise Jones, Louise Peter- son, A. Sweeney and M. S. Whit- WHY FRANKFURTER DISSENTED Corcoran’s friends have this ex- planation for Frankfurter’s failure) tier. to go to bat for his old student. Last| Pilot Shell Simmons flew to Yaku- year Frankfurter served on a special tat with mail, meat and vegetables committee “appointed by the Pres- and was returning with five pas- ident to make civil' service recom- |sengers. —— e - Appears fo Be Taxed as New Provisions in Effed . |and rate has been made $1.25 for, : i the Air Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, ! October 1, every person who pays | more! than nine eents for an ad- | mission ticket must pay a Federal tax under provisions of the new | Revenue Act effective October 1. More than 4,000 letters to those respensible for the collection of such taxes in the District of Wash- | ington and Alaska are being mailed |from Tacoma Internal Revenue | headguarters, Collector Clark Squire | has announced. Under the new law, thére is no| exemption from this tax for any | person or organization except child- |ren under 12 years of age who pay less than 10 cents. The rate is one cent for each ten cents or fraction thereof paid for admission. | Notice is also given that time has | been extended for filiry capital ,stock returns to October 29, 18417 each full thousand of declared value, Information is being mailed pros- pective taxpayers by the miscellan- eous tax division at Tacoma as ceived from Washington, D. C. Letters pertaining to floor stocks tax on liquor already are in the mail. To more than 5,000 outlets] are being sent mimeographs giving details about the floor stocks tax on wines and distilled spirits. The cabaret tax has been changed to 5 per cent of all amounts paid for 1dmission, refreshment, service and merchandise if any payment or part thereof entitles the patron to be present at any performance. The only retail tax is that im- posed on jewelry, furs and toilet preparations. It amounts to 10 per cent. Rates on existing excise taxes paid by manufacturers, producers or importers have been increased as follows: Tires, from 21/2 to 5 cents a pound; tubes, from 4 to 9 cents a pound; auto trucks and bodies, from 21/2 to 5 per cent; other autos and bedies, from 31/2 to 7 per cent; parts, from 21/2 to 5 per cent; play- ing cards, from 10 ‘to 13 cents per | deck; safe deposit boxes, from 10 to |20 per cent; distilled spirits and biaisreo st ReCy W b LSS (Continued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE BONDS BIG WORLD SERIES ON TOMORROW Seventy - five Thousand Fans Expected fo Pack Yankee Stadium WHITLOW WYATT, RED RUFFING WILL PITCH American League Cham- pions Favored by Two to One fo Win Classic NEW YORK, Sept. 3—The Brook- | lyn Dodgers and New York Yankees are all set for tomorrow’s opening | { of the World Series. Whitlow Wyatt, 32, is ready to| | take the mound against Red Ruf- | fing, veteran ace of the Yanks. A capacity crowd of about 70,000 | fans is expected to jam the Yankee's | concrete stadium. ! The t game will start at 10:30 | o'clock tomorrow, PST, and broad- | casting will start at 10:15 o'clock with Red Barger, Bob Elsom and Bill Corum at the microphone o(‘ the NBC Red Chain, | Frankie Frisch, Manager of the | Pittsburgh Pirates, said today that | this is Wyatt's first World Series ! | but that Ruffing, 36, has pitched in seven series, winning five games and is charged with one game defeat. Ruffing won only 15 games during the past season. Wyatt won 22 games during the past season and lost 10 games. The Yankees are favored at 2 to 1 in the betting against 12 to 5, the price of the Dodgers. Nafl. Guard Leaves City On Transport Army VessJR_edwood Ar- rives from South to Take Juneau Troops With men and officers of Ju- neau’s contingent of the recently inducted Alaska National Guard aboard, the U. 8. Army Transport Redwood sailed for the training station this afternoon. The Redwood, an old twin-screw steamer which formerly plied in coastal trade out of Seattle and Bellingham, arrived in Junean shortly before the noon hour to- day. Aboard her are Ketchikan's National Guardsmen, a detachment of Marines and several Navy of- ficers, ' The * Juneau tmop's completed dismantling their temporary head- quarters at the Southeast Alaska Fair Building this morning and spent the day transporting sup- plies and equipment to the whar! for transfer to the vessel. The departure of the Juneau troops marks the city's first con- tribution of men to the National Defense, aside from a few offi- cers who already have taken up their new duties at Anchorage Next to leave will be the first Ju- neau Selective Service Act draftees, who will be called to the colors October 15. —_———— - SITKA DIVORCE FILED Calvin D, McGraw of Sitka, filed suit for divorce from Esther S. Mc- Graw this morning in Federal Dis- trict Court. Grounds of the action | are incompatibility. e e———— (Conunued op Page u_m” BUY DEFENSE BONDS PRICE TEN W FRONTS, BELIEF WINDSORS WESTBOUND FOR VAC “shndphota wbov as they passed through Chicago last Saturday The crowds greeted them wi Alberta, da. Their royal highnesses responded airmailed to The Empire. ¢ shows the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on the regs’ platfotm of their westhound train | en-route 1o the former King of England’s ranch in northern f ith friendly cheers and great good-naturad informality. nial vein.—International Tilustrated News Special Service Photo | in gei Slohpi Us If You've Heard This One About Shorlage 0f 0il on East Seaboard 7Any Mcssage Today? Gladys .Tnnle.u Shortage of messenger boys in the U, 8. navy’'s bureau of aeronau- tics in Washington forced officials to hire girls to replace them. Here is' one of the new messengers, Gladys Transeau, getting ready to make her rounds. HAT AUCTION AIDE BLIND ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — The problem of what to do with last ummer’s straw hat has been solved by the St. Joseph Lions lub. The members auctioned off heir warm weather headgear and ave the money to aid the blind. BUY DEFENSE_STAMPS f | (First of two articles on the “pet- | rcleum products shortage.”) | By JACK STINNETT Washington, Sept. 30—Not since |this was started has Washington | had a bigger chuckle than that over | the hullabaloo which has accom- | panied the so-called shortage of | gasoline, fuel oil and other petrol- leum products in 17 eastern sea- board states. | Back in the spring, Secretary of | Interior Harold L. Ickes, who also is national defense petroleum co- | ordinator, smelled out a “potential” | thortage in the eastern states' pet- | roleum products, and what followed |was a governmental comic opera ‘mlerlude‘ like “Pussy *Wants a Corner,” with everybody off base | at once. b | There were ‘thréats of gasoline- | less Sundays, gasoline ration cards, | frigid apartments and houses be- ‘cuuse of a lack of heating oil, and | idle industries. Filling stations | were closed from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. and finally their supplies of mctor uel were cut 10 per cent. All of vhich had the effect of increasing he consumption of gasoline. Everybody Takes A Hand The railroads came forward with the assertion that they had *20,000 idle tank cars.” President Roosevelt Jleared the right-of-way for pipe- ines which, in six to twelve months, night eliminate the shortages, only o have the defense pricrities :gency step up and veto the larg- st of these on the grounds that setween 480,000 and 750,000 tons of steel (nobody quite agreed on what unount would be necessary) could 10t be spared from more vital de- fense needs. Into this mess, primarily at the nstigation of the American Auto- mobile association, stepped a sen- ate investigating committee which, after a couple of weeks of hearing everybody who had any authority to talk on the subject, concluded that “there is no shortage of pe- troleum products in the eastern self, by intimating that there might be some day, because nobody knows what the future holds. In the (Continued on Page Five, ATION RED ARMIES AREHOLDING ALL FRONTS -\Hand fo HJJ House fo House Fighting in Sub- urbs of Leningrad GERMANS MAKING NO GAINS, MOSCOW SAYS "lnvaders—F—a-iI fo Slash Through to Crimea- Soviefs in Initiative (By Assoclated Press) The official communique issuec from the Moscow Army Headquart- \ers at noon today declares the Red | Armies defending Leningrad have recdptured the city approaches and CZECH REBELS EXECUTED BY NAZI SQUADS Germans ily_ Brifish-In- cited Revolution Foiled in Three Countries seaboard states,” but protected it-| . J. Parsons, Miss B. Travis, Mrs. M.+ Fiyde Park and talk wth legislative interim, Price Adminis-| ! BERLIN, Sept. 30.—German fir- ing squads have executed 24 Czechs | accused of plotting to throw off the ! German rule, it was announced to- Berlin spokesmen blamed Moscow | and London for rebel preparations which led to swift German counter measures in the protectorate of Bo- hemia-Moravia. “London especially tried to start something in Paris, Norway and Holland, but it didn't work,” said a spokesman. “Before they got off to a good start in the protectorate, we took a hand.” { The spokesman added that three former army leaders were among the Czechs executed. The announce- ment named them as Army General Bily, Division General Votja and Brigadier General Horacek, saylng:} “These three were the leading men in the opposition group, which had as its goal the reestablishment of an | independent Cezch State.” | In London, Exchange Telegraphi reported that the Prague radio said | three prominent Czech politicians | have been added to the list of those | arrested by the Nazis. e L AR (olumbia Now JuneauBound SEATTLE, Sept. 30. — Steamer Columbia sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with- 93 passengers, | including ten steerage. | Passengers aboard the Columbia booked for Juneau imclude the fol- | lowing: i Carl Jensen, Mrs. R. Corcoran, M. Coombes, Mrs. N. A. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rogers and daughter. - e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ) i hurled the Germans back a “signi- ficant distance.” It is admitted there has been hand to hand and house to fighting for 12 hours ,then the in- vaders were forced back. The communique also states that many other communities on Lenin- grad's outskirts have been retaken in mass counter attacks. Make No Gains The Red Star, official Russian Army newspaper, declares the Ger- mans have made no gains in the fortnight seige of Leningrad. In Cerman military quarters in Berlin, important statements are stressed that the Russian campaign might run through the winter months. The newspapers also make mention of the third anniversary of the ill-fated Munich conference. Military quarters give an optim- istic picture.of the bloody struggle on the eastern front, reporting that “there 18 no indication of any new German advanees anywhere.” Invaders Attempt Smash The London military quarters as- sert that Hitler's invasion armies are still smashing at Russian Crimea, attempting to slash through the four-mile wide Perekop Isthmus linking the Crimean Peninsula with Jthe Russian mainjand, but are mak- ine seant headway In the north, according to Lon- don official advices, the defenders of Leningrad have driven the Ger- mans back at several points and the Red Armies arc maintaining the in- itiative. Britsh and Russian flers are working together and it is declared they have shot down 26 Nazi planes in two davs in a single sector. - e WILLKIE TO GIVE HELP T0 FDR NOW Will Suppo?firesident on Any Action He Takes fo Repeal Neutrality Act WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Wen- dell L. Willkie today made known he will support President Roosevelt in any effort to repeal or modify the Neutrality Act and at the same time, reports reached Washington that Secretary of State Cordell Hull will urge Roosevelt to recommend the virtual scrapping of the present law, upon his return from Hyde Park. President Roosevelt is expected to confer with Secretary Hull today at leaders tomorrow before starting wark on the Special Neutrality Act message to Congress which is ex- ptct:d to be delivered later this week. v