The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SN JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCT. 7, 1941. - LABOR WARNED BY PRESIDENT VOL. LVIL, NO. 8847. . PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMANS CLAIM V LONDON SAYS SOVIET NAVY HURTS NAZIS English Refis Deny In- v vaders' Conquest North of Azov (By Associated Press) Hitler’s claimed a victory over the Russians in the great new battle in the Ukraine north of the Sea of Azov but ported the Germans had been check- ed with severe losses, the guns of the Soviet Black Sea fleet heavily pounding the invaders. (Continued on Page Five) PRISONERS | WON'T SEE HOME SOON Nazis Back Ouf on Deal fo Exchange Sick and Wounded Men LONDON, Oct. 7—The war’s first exchange of wounded prisoners be- tween Great Britain and Germany collapsed today because Germany insisted the deal be on a prisoner- for-prisoner basis, while Britain held out for the exchange of all sick and wounded without regard to numbers. | Britain's War Secretary, Capt. | Margesson charged in the House of | Commons that the negotiations fail- | ed because of a “flagrant breach of | faith on the part of the German government.” It was’ announced that wounded German prisoners, put aboard two hospital ships at Newhaven and' poised to leave at any hour during the weekend for their homes, were | being disembarked and sent back to the British prison camps. Germany holds several times as | many wounded British prisoners as | there are wounded German prison- ers in England. | There were a few murmurs of pro- | test when the news of the cancelled | exchange was broken to the prison- i ers, but most of the mén accepted the report in utter silence. Indo - China Refuses Jap | WarDemands | Nippons Asking Permis- sion fo Build Arsenal | at Saigon Now 1 SINGAPORE, Oct. 7.—French Indo- China today turned down brand new Japanese demands to tighten Tokyo’s | grip on the colony and make a vir- tual arsenal of Saigon, the logical jumping off place of any Japanese sea thrust against this newly rein- forced British nawal base, Indo-China advices said the Jap- anese demanded complete control of | censorship, control ‘of all eStablish- ments in the region of the Camranh Bay naval base on the southeast coast of Indo-China, and the right to build an arsenal and other mili- tary works in the city itself. | The Japanese, it was further de- clared, called upon the Hanoi gov- ernment to require American ofl companies to provide tank facilities sufficient to store 30,000 tons of kerosene, | High Command today | London mlitary quarters re- | , Windsor Bids Capital Adieu | Senator Arthur Capper Duke of Windsor Before departing from Washington en route to Canada, the Duke of Windsor was feted at a National Press club dinner and there met among others Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, member of the sen- ate foreign relations committee. The Windsors plan to go to his ranch in Alberta, Canada. Husband Was ‘Cruel’ | MORE REBELS DIEBEFORE FIRINGSQUAD s s Shot as Oppressors Seek Revenge (By Associated Press) the firing squad, the hangman and the guillotine brought six more ex- ecutions today and one suspended | death sentence. | Simultaneously, German author- ities announced the seventythird execution in Occupied France. The | victim was a Belgian, shot in re- prisal for an attack against a Ger- man soldier in French Adrennes. In Germany's bitter war to stamp out | | revolt in her conquered nations by { NEUTRALITY ACT SUBJECT Announced Tomorrow on Arming of Ships BULLETIN WASHING- TON, Oct. 7—President Roose- velt is authoritatively reported to have advised Congressional leaders he favors changing the Neutrality laws so American i merchantmen may arm and also to permit them to travel to belligerent ports in now for- bidden combat zones. i WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. — The conference at the White House to- | day on modification of the Neutral- ity Act recessed until tomorrow ! morning. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley predicted that a definite decision on the subject will be reach- ed following tomorrow’s session which begins at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Teday's conferenge lasted for morr than two and one-half hours. Present at the conference today with President Roosevelt were Sec- i retaries Hull and Wallace, Harry L. Hopkins and eight Senate and House | leaders of both parties. | The conference was held in the President's study. As the Neutrality Act now stands, ! it forbids arming of American mer- . chant vessels and their entry into | i designated combat zones and bellig- | | erent ports. | Senator Barkley said: cussed the whole question of the | Neutrality Act at today’s conference | (and will reach a decision tomor- row.” ———— TORPEDOES, EOne Belgian, Six Czechs| NAZI SUBSI | SINK SHIP ISurvivor ofi;nker I.C. White Makes State- ment on Disaster RIO DE JENEIRO,, Brazil, Oct. 7. —H. W. Ackerman, 19, survivor of the Panma flag-flying tanker 1. C. ‘White, declared here today that “one at least, and perhaps two,” uniden- tified submarines torpedoed and sank .the American-owned ship, IS DISCUSSED { Decision Ex_maEted fo Be| addition, five Czechs were mowed | w0t warning, at midnight Sep- conviction of preparing for treason ian cosst. ! 2 by possession of WARpons. Ackerman was the first of the 17 i DNB, t(l}erman news az;ncv. osald survivors brought here by the rescue | the death sentence imposed on Gen- | gnip pej Norte to be interviewed. down by German firing squads on | temper 27, 600 miles off the Brazil- | | eral Elias. former Premier of the | Nazi protectorate in Bohemia-Mor- | avia; for “premeditating treason” | had been suspended to permit him | to testify against other suspects. | A Berlin spokesman declined te | comment on whether Elias has made | a plea for merey to Hitler, the only | person who could commute his sen= i tence. | After a two-year battle marked by, FoR DEV"- m numerous charges and counter-| charges, Maryon Givot was granted BUTTE, Mont., Oet. 7—“I'd like a Los Angeles divorce f"°m.h“ to join your outfit,” a cowboy an- comedian-husband, George B. Givot,' ,ounced at the Marine recruiting on grounds of cruelty, following an office. “But if I do and a rodeo Maryon Givot Other survivors said the undersea boat or boats fired only one tor- pedo but Ackerman, who was on ‘watch at the time, declared two tor- pedoes were fired, and another was sent into the ship as it went down Ackerman said three men, missing from the tanker’s crew of 37, are “almost surely drowned.” Ackerman said the ship went down so fast that the crew had time to lower only one lifeboat and the life- rafts were the only means of saving themselves and these were used as the ship began to settle in the water as they were easier to handle. B 0 STICKY GIFT ENJOYED CUSHING, Okla.—Ed Harmon dairyman, never had eaten 2 red candy. sucker, he confided in out-of-court property uttlcmens‘wmes Alons. ¥ REhtiio: o sblp 't | bulldog without the judges stop- |ping me just because I'm a Ma- ARE MARRIED Steve Guangon and Daisy FOX and the cowboy. signed up. were married yesterday afternocn B e —— in the office of U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray, l BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | rine.” The recruiting officer agreed friends, and so they bought him huge one. Edd stood in front of cafe and consumed it in the conventional manner and report he “had the best time in my 5 years of living.” Quite a crowd gathered. | British Send to our alli | (o9 “We dis-' ; one-time Polish air force; Sgt. Z. and Chief Betty Officer Stanley Sikorski, who was on a Polish de- siroyer. Some legion members are Americans of Polish descent. TORY IN | Girl workers at a British tank factory put the finishing touchés on one of the war machines being shipped to the Soviet to aid the Reds in their epic struggle in U.8. BUILDING UP FOR BATTLE_Three smiling mem- bers of the Polish legion now training in Windsor, Canada, for a re-entry into the war are, left to right: Sgt. Rinaldus Wise of the Tanks and Greetings to Reds ROOSEVELT _ HAS ADVICE FOR UNIONS Declares that There Is No Time Now for Rival- ries or Disputes ALL ORGANIZATIONS MUST BE IN 1 GROUP United Action Required to Turn Back Present Nazi Threat St SEATTLE, Oct. 7—President Franklin - D. Roosevelt today told the delegates attending the American Federation of Labor National convention here that “in this hour when civilization is in the balance, organization- al rivalries and jurisdictional disputes should be discarded as only by united action can we turn back the Naai threat.” The warning was given In the brief message from the President and read by George Meany, the Federation’s Sec- retary-Treasurer. At the conclusion of the | reading of the message, Wil- | liam Green, President of the BY OPINION ;=i arouse and told the delegates that “we certainly welcome the B counsel and advice given in Roden Says Ketchikan Man | Still Member of Com- \ pensation Board this message.” Green said he will transmit | R. E. Hardcastle, of Ketchikan, | whose term as a member of the to the President the Federa- tion’s thanks and greetings and iTerrl!ona] Unemployment Compen- | sation Commission expired the first “assurance of cooperation of of February, “is qualified to hold | his aims.” | over and perform his duties * * ¢| - ., | until such time as his successor is; AREA HIT appointed and confirmed as provid- | |ed by the statute” it was declared | Bv STORM | here today in a written opinion by | Tornado Rips Houses to with the Nazis. One of the girls is painting on “greetings {he message in both English and Russian. CLAIM UPHELD o i |move to settle the disputed third | | place on the commission, claimed by | !both Hardcastle and the Rev. John Gradowski of the Polish army, s ‘L. Cauble, of Juneau, who was ap- |pointed by Gov. Ernest Gruening jafter the adjournment of the Leg-!| | islature, | Attorney-General Henry Roden. Roden’s opinion was rendered in a Kindling, Tosses Many Persons Through Air Donald Nelson, Uncle Sam’s - Buyer, Isa $1-a-Vea OrderManandDon't Forget (Donald Marr Nelson, execu- tive director of the new Sup- ply Priorities and Allocation Board, is the man on whom the Administration has pinned its hopes to prove success of the new National Defense supply set-up. In two articles, of which this is the first, Jack Stin- nett, Washington columnist, for the ‘Empire gives a picture of the man and his methods.) | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. “No one ‘ean guess yet, of course, whether the latest reorganization of defense supply will work, but it it can be made to function ef- fectively, Don Nelson is the man who can put it over.” This off-the-record opinion came from an' outstanding national fiz- ure who cannot be tabbed as either Republican or Democrat. Moreover, 'Bernard Baruch, king- pin ‘of production and supply in| Norld War I and now one of president Roosevelt's trusted ad-| visers, called the Supply Priorities Yeai Mail and Allocation Board reorganiza- Dr. Noble Dick, of Fairbanks, and ’R.obert Bragaw, of Anchorage, the |other two members of the board, | {who have been conducting the an- |nual meeting of the commission | here, said this afternoon that Hard- | castle has been informed of Roden’s — KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 7—A tornado struck the northwest Kan- sas City suburban Fairmount and Sugar Creek areas during the night and killed three persons and injured 40. : The tornado did widespread prop- ;oplnion. Hardcastle left Sunday | erty damage, ripping houses to kind- morning for hs home in Ketchikan | ling and tossing many victims for land it was not known whether he | hundreds of feet through the air. ;would return to take his place on | e ——— tion “a halting step forward,” but;the commission for the remalinder | later acclaimed Nelson as one man |Of the fln:luil session, Tr who might make 1t work. | ; No “Royal Prerogatives” In . thoks - two, estimates you | FOMHDE' Ihat Ghvernios Gruening’s appointment of Cauble was not ac- | have summary of a pretty good o L g i ; £ D @ Lo law without the approval what official and unofficial Wash-|.e 10 Legislature, Roden declared: | Torpedoed By ington thinks of Donald Marr| wpp. Governor has no royal pre- | Nelson, the Chicago mail order |rogatives. He has no inherent pow- | ngn house exscutive who, in a f[ew |ers but only such as have been given short weeks, has emerged as Mr.|(to him and among these powers Big of the national defense sup-|granted is not to be found the gen- | ply program. |eral power of appointing to public | office. The Governor has power to| fill vacancies without confis tion | BETTER THAN HIS JOB by the Legislature when s::)? ‘ic:r:, Many persons, even in the gov-|cancies occur prior to the explrn-‘ ernment, are dubious about SPAB !tion of the term for which a member Ifalians Lose Three Ofher Vessels in Mediter- (yes, initials' already!) as the o’- ganizational answer to all our na- tional defense production ills—but few are dubious about Nelson Why? Because Nelson, the man (whom we will discuss later) and was appointed and confirmed.” Reviews Case In reviewing the case, Roden said: “On the last day of the legislative session in 1941, the Governor ap- pointed Mr. Haas (Michael J. Haas, | ranean Atfack | LONDON, Oct. 7—Four Italian vessels, including a sailing ship jammed to the gunwales with Fascist | troops, have been sunk and seven others seriously and perhaps fatally e YT, . iwho had already been approved to | Ne:ml- the b“-‘“l‘:”‘ 9’:"“""}” the new office of Territorial Com- and government buyer - 1! missioner of Labor) to succeed Mr.| beget confidence. This isn't his| Hardcastle as a member of the com- | damaged by torpedoes, the Admir- alty announced today. The torpedoes spurted from the first conneciion with Washington and the present administration. name for confirmation to the Leg- (Continued on Page Five) " (Continued on Page Four) mission anc submitted Mr. Haas'| tubes of British submarines which are operating in the Mediterranean, harrassing the Italian navy at every opportunity.