The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1941, Page 1

LVIL, VOL. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ____“ALL THE NEWSALL THE TIME” MLMBER AbSOClATh[) I’RLS‘ ARMING U.S SHIPS APPROVED BIG BATTLE RAGES ON ROAD TO MOSCOW GIANT BOMBER WINGS OVER SO0. (ALIFORNIA;REDS REPORT | This is the first closeup aerial picture of the four-motored Douglas B-19, the United States Army’s biggest bomber, made on a recent test flight over Southern California. With more than half of its acceptance tests completed, the huge ship will enter a more itnensive stage of activity, with several flights scheduled in Pix‘mre airmailed the near future. Ine \\\NG WASHINGTON —One of President’s major foreign pohcy‘ contentions is that the refusal of | to The l'.mplre b, Asso(lattd Press. Empire Sponsormg Fund For Recreafional Needs | 0f JuneauMen in Uniform _ FIVEBILLION Congress in the summer of 1939 to| approve his recommendation that | the Neutrality Act be modified was, a leading factor in prec)pn.atmg! the European war. Had the law| been amended to permit the de-| livery of arms, he holds, Hitler| would have thought twice before| pulling the trigger. This theses has been hotly con- troverted by isolationists, who! blocked the plan to revise neu-| trality. The late Senator William | E. Borah attacked it, and said a| few weeks before the invasion of Poland that he had highly author- itative assurances there would be no war. But in Manchester, N. H,, today, a leading Republican Senator, who has been a bitter New Deal foe, will publicly back up Roosevelt’s contention. Senator Styles Bridges| will declare “that there might not; have been a war” had Congress| followed Roosevelt's counsel. Serator Bridges will say that Hitler began hostilities because he felt “secure in the -belief that the United States would not interfere,” and that the factor that gave him this assurance was the Neutmliby Act which put the . 8. “in a straightjacket as far as internation- al relations arg concérned and pre- vented important help to besieged, | oppressed and attacked nations.” Senator Bridges will also assert flatly that if Congress had not finally, on Roosevelt’s insistence, re- pealed the arms embargo, Britain| today would be defeated and the| United States at war, Ji E JONES’ NEW SUIT Jesse Jones, Secretary of Com- Merce and RFC boss, is one of the wealthiest men in Washington. In| Houston, Texas, he owns banks, office buildings and a prosperous newspaper. He also has loaned more government money than any| man in history. But personally the | tall, soft-voiced Texan is a most careful spender. So when he nppeared at a press| conference decked out in a new (Continued on Page Four) BRITISH AID BILL OKAYED One-fourthfiritish Pop- ulation fo Be Fed in Six Months WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — The House Appropriations Committee today approved a $5,985,000 lend- lease appropriation with the state- ment that the production of mu- nitions has not yet reached a point where the defeat of the Axis pow- ers is assured. The committee reported to Con- gress that almost all of the huge new fund could be ohligated by next March 1 but that delivery of the material involved could not be completed later than June 30, 1943. Members asserted that produc- tion would be necessarily slow at first, with no abuses in putting the dollars to work. Disclosures in Report The report disclosed: (1) That Secretary of Agricul- ture Wickard plans to use a bil- (Continued on Page Five) YOU CAN'T KEEP GOOD MANDOWN TRENTON, N. J, Oct. 8—Charles Spickler, learning to fly at 62, made a successful forced landing when his engine quit, although ne {had thad only four hours of solo experience. Undaunted, he awaited {repairs, then flew the airplane back to the airport to demand the unused 20 minutes of the hour for which he had hired the craft. ! The Juneau boys at Chilkoot Barracks are getting lots of drill rk, military training and exer- | cise, but when they hit their quart-| ers in the evening, there’s darn, little for them to do, Such is the report from the train- |ing centers where the Juneau sol-| diers are encamped, and it is in the' interest of an all-out effort to give the boys in uniform more recrea- tional facilities for their spare ume entertainment that = The Alaska Daily Empire will tomorrow start| taking subscriptions for an ENTER- PRISE FUND for the Junedau men| | at Haines. Certainly, a canvas of the lack of | recreational equipment at chflkoot Barracks reveals plenty of ways in' | which this fund may be well spent.; Need Radios, Records The barracks needs music, for| one thing, and to remedy the need it is proposed that a portion of the! Daily Empire ENTERPRISE FUND | be used for purchase of radio-phon- | cgraph combinations, complete with | the latest phonograph recordings.‘ The fellows have lots of muskets to work out with but little in the way of athletic equipment, like box- ing gloves, footballs, basketballs, | baseball equipment, and equipment for such indoor games as ping-pong. It is proposed that a portion of me‘ ENTERPRISE FUND be used for| these needs. Another bracket of recreation in which the barracks is decidedly| short is in the matter of reading ma- | terial. Magazine subscriptions and| books are badly needed. Through subscriptions are already being sent to the training center, but more| subscriptions are alredy being sent | to the trining center, but more material is needed for the boys in khaki who want to spend their evenings reading. Shooting Awards Writing materials, too, are short: and it is proposed that stationary| be sent to the men for their letters home. Another suggestion is that some small prises be sent to the camp, to be awarded at weekly or monthly rifle shoots. Proficiency with firearms is a requisite to good soldiering, but contests on a rifle; range with an award at stake will provide more competition than reg- ular praetice. (Continued on Page Eight) A | Moscow NALZIS FIGHT LIKE BEASTS |German Armies Only 125 Miles from Russia’s Capltal City 'SOVIET LEGIONS GROW DESPERME < [Rostove, Key fo Wealthy ! Caucasian Oil Fields, | Threatened ! (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) German armies storming toward in a great new u(rensxvei reached Soviet defense lines and| trapped several Red armies now | | fighting a vast battle of annihila-' tion only 125 miles from the R\Ls-‘ sian mPnnl it was announced to-! day. | '<Conunued on Page Exgm) AXIS URGED 10 QUIT IN | SOVIETWAR Japanese Agency Suggests "All Qut’ Assault on Brit- ain Before Too Lafe TOKYO, Oct. 8—The Domei, Japanese news agency, in a | special article today, urged the | Axis Powers to terminate the | war with Russia and conserve | German resources, manpower and equipment in an all-out assault on the British. l The news agency warns that | if the war with Russia is ex- | tended over a long period, the Axis Powers may be faced with | a dearth of war materials be- | cause they will “not have” and Great Britain and America, on the other hand will become stronger because of their rep- resentation with “haves.” FBIAGENTS MAKE NAB OF VIEREC |Admitted German Propa-. gandist Under Arrest- Predicted” 17 Sinking . AR NEW YORK, Oct. 8. — George Sylvester Viereck, an admitted Ger- man prepagandist, has been arrested by FBI agents on an indictment charging him with withholding in- formation in his State Department registration as agent for a foreign power Viereck is listed as an author and editor. - He was born in Munich, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1895 at the age of 11 years. Vierick is credited with predicting the sinking of the Lusitania four days before the passenger-laden ship went down in the North Atlantic. That event, many persons still be- lieve, was the direct cause of the United States entering the first World War. I MICKEY OWEN DROPS LAST STRIKE The third strike that got away frem Catcher Mickey Owen of the Dodgers in the ninth inning of the fourth game of the World Series at Ebbets Field last B-nday aftencon is presented in this dramatic picture. Tom Hilnrich of the Yanks has faken his cut ang, missed not mean a thing. Henrich got to first and later scored to knot the count and the Yanks went on to win. Picture airmailed to The Emplrr b; Even though winning World Series mlc; is an old story for the New York Yankees, they broke into song (above), Monday afterncon in their dressing room at Ebbets Field just after they won their fourth and deciding game lrom the Brooklyn Dad(ers, 3 to 1. PhoIa Ilfl!\lflefl 'o The Emph’e by the Associated Press, ¥ ‘and Umbolre Goets Associated Press. II s'a World Senes Vldory Song for Yanl Yanks | Nelson's Syslem for Red Tape; Just Snip the Ends (Second of two articles about Donald Marr Nelson, execu- tive director of the new Sup- ply ~Priorities and Allocation Board.) ‘By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—If you| are Jooking for fireworks aroundi Donald Nelson, you might as well| wait until the next Fourth of July.| Donald Nelson is big, bespec- tacled, 53 years old, quiet, and in- conspicuous in his dress, He doesn't | ise-crack. He plays golf like any moderately good duffer, who shoots | around 100. He's a better than amateur photographer, ’h | six-feet-odd, | smokes {ping only to sandwich His only excess, if it is one, Is :moking His big mahogany desk neatly lined with a row of the bowls of which are in proportion to Nelson's 200 pounds-plus. He in pipes, about them cigars. He is so friendly that even if| you are only an $18-a-week clerk who has dropped in to- pick up some mail, he makes you feel that he is glad you game. In *Washington, he is something of a phenomenon, | Disposifion of Pro- rotation—stop- | in a few| for he never 15 giving thé “out signal but it did SWIFT ACTION PROMISED FOR BRIDGES CASE y Garal Expeds! Atforne . ceedingsSoon | | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Attorney General Francis Biddle said today | that the Justice Department will “act as promptly as it can” in dis- posing of the deportation proceed- ings pending against Harry Bridges, | Pacific Coast CIO longshoremen’s union leader. Biddle expressed the belief that CONFERENCE OKAYS PLAN FOR DEFENSE 'Change in Neutrality Leg- islation to Be Pres- ented in House WAS Legislative are leaders today are reperied to have agreed neutrality legislation to be in- troduced in the House of Rep- resentatives tomorrow, follow- ing a message from President . Rcosevelt confined to permit- ting American merchant ships tc carry arms, Those who attended the White House conference today said it was agreed that such legislation could be sent through the House before the end of the week. It was said reliably, how- ever, that the President, Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull and Harry L. Hopkins still were hopeful that Congress event- ually will also amend the pres- ent prohibition against Amer- ican ships traveling to bellig- erent ports or m eom m m PRIORITIES RATING FOR MINES LOWER New Amenmnl by OPM Changes Rating for Sup- plies from A-3 fo A-8 An amended priorities order af- fecting mining- machinery, which lowered the preference rating from the A-3 rating previously an- nounced to an A-8 rating was re- ceived . late yesterday afternoon here by B. D. Stewart, emergency coordinator of mines in the Ter- ritory. The A-3 preference rating for- merly announced in in telegram to Gov. Ernest Gruening from Don- ald Nelson, priorities chief in the Office of Production Management, was changed to the A-8 rating on September 22, according to the air- mail message received yesterday by Stewart from lelson, As a re- sult, mine operators may find it Increasingly difficult t¢ obtain new machinery and supplies during the current natiunal emergency. The new order also “does not in- clude that form of m 2 known R 5 (Conunued on Puge nght) ThreeHigh Britishers Are Killed Accident in Middle East Takes Lives of Army Officers LONDON, Oct. 8. — Three high ranking British officers were killed Sunday in an accidental explosion of a mine in the Middle East, an authoritative source disclosed today. The officers were listed as Major has been known to lose his tem- the case, now pending before the | General Pope, Brigadier Russell and per—in spite of conferences where " (Continuea on Page Five) Immigration Division Board of Ap-‘ peals, will reach him in about two | Colonel Unwin. Detadls of the accident were not months. l | made public until this morning.