The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1941. — VOL. LVIL, NO. 8844. CHECKFOR BIG TANKER 1S ATTACKED BY U-BOAT | _ Americans, Reported | i Picked Up af Sea RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 3.— A radiogram from the Ameri- can freighter West Nilus re- ports that the American | cwned but Panama registered 7,000-ton tanker I. C. White been torpedoed, supposedly by a German U-Boat, while 50 miles east of Recipe, Brazil. The terpedoing took place on | September 27. The West Nilus rescued 18 members of the crew and later | abcut 41 other survivors were | all picked up from a single lifeboat. | The West Nilus will bring the | survivors to this port. | ‘The I, C. White was owned' | by the Standard Oil of New l i Jersey and all members of the ————————— TWO DIVORCES [ Two divorce cases were argued in | Federal District Court here this afternoon. One was the case brought | by George Jones, of Sitka, for di- | to prove that a man can fall an effects, provided he is propetly supplied with sufficient oxygen. Vefibiient, ncliding a { 0 radio transmitter and moving picture camera, A. H, Starnes, para- chutist, has his instruments checked by technical aides at Chicago. Starnes plans tc make a 35000-foot parachutle leap in an attempt indefinite distance without any ill protected from the elements and vorce from Mary Jones on grounds |~ R BN § > P of incompatibility. The other was 2 PA the case of Vera Paige Bruce for | Ohlo APPle Quccfl. divorce from Rolla Jay Bruce, also on grounds of incompatibility. ———————— SThe ‘ | g | | | { i | | i WASHINGTON — The President | doesn’t realize it, but his beloved | Navy has been giving him the royal runaround right under his nose on | more things than one. Most recent and amazing runaround was regard- ing the new mystery ships called | “Sea Otters.” | These are flat steel barges with n: 10-foot draft—so shallow that they are almost impossible targets for submarines. Submarine ‘torpedoes | would pass right underneath them.} Propelled by automobile engines, | these ships can be manufactured 5o | rapidly that they are expected to be | the miracle bridge across the Atlan- tic in defiance of Hitler's submar-& ines. | Yet it took the President weeks to " Miss Gloria Harry o bis Nayy to bulld these| ooy jovely Miss Gloria vird The inside story, sounds like one | f;“w‘: Hms'b:'b:"e-“nm of those “It Can' Happen Here" o"4ps northeastern Ohio apple plots—but it did, The men Who| goqijua) to be staged at Salemy actually designed the new sea barzes Oct. 2, 3 and 4, were a young naval officer, Com-] — - mander Ham Bryan, and a naval! archiitect, W. S. Burgess. But when | 21 F R E “ ( H M E “ they took their plan to the mvy.i the Admirals threw up their hands. | DlE A]‘ H A“DS or So did the Maritime Commission. The admirals and the commission- ers both claimed that a flat-bottom- GERM AN RUI_ERS ed boat weuld turn over in heavy seas. Also they were opposed to the use of automobile engines, even; VICHY, Oct. 3. — Twenty-one though they could be manufactured | more persons have been- executed as fast as Ford makes automobiles. ' in the German occupied zone of There were a dozen other dbjections. | France, the German authorities But finally Commander Bryanannounced this afternoon. This took his plan to Roland Redmond, brings the deaths to 71 since re- a New ‘l"‘”’k 4 yho marrled | prisals began against what the is;:iamcg:i Il;‘;’t:m m‘ml, :":, Germans call an “agitation cam- Burgess to the White House. The | 8% President, who is something of an * - amateur naval designer, was immed- Out of every hundred farmers in fately enthusiastic, He urged the|the United ~States, 51 operate Navy to try it out.. The President owned farms; 39 are tenants, and _ e ——————— |10 are part owners, or .nanagers, i (Continued on Page Four) according to the Census. TBucknerWins (Case for $1 Hunting Fee ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 3.— Major-General Simon Buckner's attempt to win the privilege of hunting in Alaska for a dollar has become a major territorial |legal case here in the past few days. Judge Simon Hellentha] yester- day upheld the claim of the Com- |mander of the Alaska military | forces that he is entitled to a | resident hunting license, instead of having to pay the larger ‘Iee as a nonresident, but - Wildlife Agent Jack O’Conner still refuses to"is- sue the license. Judge Hellenthal cited O’Conner for contempt of court, but the United States Marshal has been anable to serve papers on the wildlife agent because he couldn't be found. Judge Hellenthal told Major- General Buckner he would either send O'Conner to jail or issue the permit over his name. The Gen- eral chose the latter alternative but the district atiorney’s office indicated it will appeal the case. DICK AND BRAGAW MEET WITH SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICIAL Phases of Alaska unemployment compensation work which may be carried on in cooperation with the Social - Security Board were the subjects of a conference held to- day by Dr. Neble Dick, of Fair- banks, and Robert Bragaw, of An- chorage, Territorial Unemployment Compensation Commissioners, with Stuart Morrison, special represen- tative ofthe Federal Social Secur- ity Board staff, now in Juneau. The conference on Social Secur- iity Board cooperation took up the |fifth day of the annual meeting !of the Territorial Unemployment Compensation Commission here to- | day. The annual 'session will un- doubtedly continue into next week. f'Washout—C;uses First “4 | was postponed today by anelmll. # Commissioner Landis after a steady Third Confest OfSeriesIsHif ByHeavyRain Postponement Since Yanks Met Giants EBBETS FIEDL, Brooklyn, Oct. 3. | —The third game of the World | !Series betw een the New York | | Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS P Peature Service Shis: The spy receives a * harmless looking slip of paper full of numbers. Nothing in this a guy could. be arrested for .. . but rain left the field unplayable. Before making a final decision, & however, Judge Landis called the | | York Airport and was told there was U. S. Weather Bureau at the Nuw* no chance that the sun would come § out later in the day and that it probably would go right on raining. | Today marked the first World Series postponement since the sec- ond game between the Yankees and | ' Giants at the Polo Grounds in 1936. | The all-time record postponemenr.; for the World Series was in 1911} when the Giants and Athleties were ‘everybedy went nuts. BOMBINGLULL ENDS AS NAZI FLIERS ATTACK LONDON, Oct. 3. — Signalling | |perhaps the end of the long sum-| Imer lull in the Battle for Britain, | German bombers smashed for| hours against five cities on the is-| land kingdom’s southeast and| | northeast coasts last night. | Bombs also fell on southeast | Scotland during the night. | Attacking in the full light of| {the harvest moon, the German | |raiders were reported to have dropped their bombs and then re-" turned to machine gun fire fight-| ers and rescue squads in the| streets. At least ten persons were killed and 50 wounded in one town which was damaged. Casualties elsewhere were admittedly heavy. | In the meantime, RAF bombers countered with ~asspults on the: docks of German-occupied Brest,/ where several Nazi warships are, lying. Freéfignc—h | SubinU.S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — The 4.300-ton submarine Surcouf of the Free Prench forces is disclosed of- ficially to be at Portsmouth, N. H The Navy announced that the| Surcouf, which was one of a num-| ber of French submarines whose crews decided to put in with the British after the fall of France is in the Portsmouth Harbor for tepairs under the Lend-Lease Ac'. Also, the British submarine Par- thian was reported at Portsmouth and the British - destroyer Burn- ham, the former United States |destroyer- Aulick, at Boston, both for repairs. The Surcouf is so big that it carries a small airplane along with eight guns, ten torpedo tubes and @ crew of 150. It has a cruising radius estimated at 12,000 miles. The ordinary submarine is about half the size of ¢the Surcouf. - e - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS I} washed out six straight days and [ He receives this cable. “#=¢ Note the date, Sept. 22, Add month number (9), day of month (22), add 20 and you get a total of 51. £ with spies in the United States. Sebold, How Spies Code Their Messages ESTIMONY of «a star witness at the Nazi spy trial in Brooklyn revealed a complicated sedret code plan which the witness, William G. Sebold, said Nasis used in communications : who testified he had become a counter-espionage agent Jor the United States after having been hired by the Nasis, explained that the code works like So he obtains the book, 3. First number is 12. Top line, words 1 and 2 are “by Feb- ruary.” Second line, words The second row of figures applies 10 letters in the top line of the book page. So, counting off letters from those figures you find that letter No. 1is B, 89 is O, 23 is M, ete. The letters add up to “BOMBER INFO"~—and the entire message reads: An 1100-pound bomb drcpped from a B-18 Army uvomber flying at 15,000 feet made this crater on a target area during live-bomb prac- tice at Barkedale Field, La., in connection with major maneuvers. Obsolete World War I tanks, covered with white material, were deployed over the range. Tanks are shown in the background. For Repairs Sift of Navy Confrads - " Saves Millions, Buf Hinis : of Explo_signs Still Come By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct.”3. — One of the fifth floor corridors of the old House office building is over- flowing with stenographers, clerks, investigators—all _busy packing dy- namite into files: dynamite which some observers say is likely to ex- plode into one of the major inves- tigation blowoffs in this session of Congress. These workers are the staff of the - naval defense investigatiog committee, which under instruc- |tions’ from Rep. Carl Vinson (D.- |Ga,), chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and on House authority, is making inquiry into the seven billion dollars in con- tracts let in the Navy's vast ex- pansion drive. The man behind this prepara- tion is Edmund M. Toland, tall, angular Washington attorney and one-time G-man, who is counsel for the Vinson committee. As counsel a ‘couple of yeas ago for the Smith committee, in- vestigating the National Labor Relations Board, Toland brought a new technique into preparation of congressional investigations and he " (Contimied on Page Eight) work, taking the numbers slip from its hiding place. ACK 30 MILES ‘TORPEDOED. OFF BRAZIL, SINKS HIGH LEAP ——ee. \BATTLE RAGES ALONG ENTIRE SOVIET FRONT | turns to page 51, and goes to Germans Assert Occupa- | fion of Czarist Palaces Near Leningrad CONFLICT VIOLENT - IN UKRAINE AREA iThousands of German | Dead Carried from Bat- | fefield by River 8 and 9, third line word 3. (By Associated Press) ’ Russia's Red armies today were . | reported to hwye Mhrown the Ger- |mans back 1 30 miles on the . Leningrad fron! uund to have over- |run Nazi trenches around Lenin- | grad, | ‘More than 8700 casualties were _ '/ inflicted cn the fvaders as the Rus- i { charged bitterly on the long ttle line from the Guli of Finland Palaces ‘The Be:liin radio, however, assert- | ed that Nazi troops eccupled Czarist | palaces soutnicast of Teningrad, pre- : | sumably Tsaiskoye Selo, “The Czar's A(]‘ H ANGE | Vilge. 15 miles south of the ciy. ! A British broadcast said the Rus- slans reca) patured Strelna, 20 miles | | west of Leningrad, and hurled the HElD FF‘Germnm back nearly 30 miles to- ard Lake Ladoga from Kolpino, re- :smbushln( -mn_mnnlcnflom be- i tween Leningrad and Moscow. Final Decision Will Not Be! sor tae irac:tine sinee Ma Announced Unfil After Tuesday Meeting For the first time since Marshal Voroshilov proclaimed a death-stand | defense for Leningrad 44 days ago, | the Red Army bulletin today declar- jed the situation around the siege- girt city to be definitely stronger. The Russians sald 1500 Germans WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — Presi- | were killed and at least 1,500 wound- dent Roosevelt asserted again that ed on the Leningrad front. 3,000 undoubtedly there will be some ef- | killed and wounded in the battle for fort made to revise the present Moscow and 2,700 annihilated cn the Neutrality Act but final decision in Ukrainian front. : ! the issue will be reached only after | In g violent two-day battle in the the bipartisan conference next Tues- | Ukraine, Soviet dispatches said, the day. | Germans left the field “strewn with The statement was made by the corpses, smashed tanks and guns.” President at a conference today with The Dnicper River was said to be | the newsmen, | carrying away thousands of the The President said there will be & invader dead. Fuehrer, Home from Field Headquarlers, Screams for 65 Minutes most frank discussion of the issue so definite on this point it would ! President Roosevelt also said he ) has given no thought of revising | the present delineations of combat | EXECUTED AFTER | {launch Germany’s ninth winter re- | .e . g | ganizing Terroristic So- |55, ‘e stricken ¥ BERLIN, Oct. 3—DNB, German difficult for him to leave his field {ing a colonel in the former Czech out for the next hundred years,” Prague and Brno .on charges of |the Berlin Sportspalast. | Thirteen army officers were shot war Germany souzht particularly have collaborated with the German |sion pact with Germany and mob- with Senate leaders on Tuesday. f Arming of American merchant | rn vessels is now forbidden by law and the President, in response to ques-‘, 4 8 not be right for him to wiggle ou® of a definite policy made by Con- zones by any Presidential order. | CZECH OFFICERS | COURT MARTIALS { BERLIN, Oct. 3, — Adolf Hitler, P I ¢ S— {home from the Russian front to i afriofs, Accused of OF- L compeisn toduy decimeed mos: sia “is, so stricken that she “never 1 1afi H { A ‘gigantic new development” L cieties, WIDEd Out {which opened on the front within vl the past 48 hours made it especially news agem:y. reported from Prm\le;hndqu.nen, Hitler added. |today that “several persons, includ- | “The decision is now being fought |army,” have been sentenced to death | he shouted samid the thunderous by court martials and executed at cheers of thousands assembled in {prepamtlon for high treason, sabo- | Same Old Plaint ‘v.nxe. and possession of arms. Hitler declared that before the yesterday under the accusation of [reach a settlemeént with Britain bul organizing terroristic bands which; Churchill asked for war. Russia occupation forces. . ilized on the Reich's borders, he e . continued. tions, said he considered the statute | u “ gress. planned to assassinate Czechs who ' falled to live up to her nonaggres- BUY DEFENSE BONDS —— o AT Sl (Contineed on Page Five)