The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 9, 1941, Page 1

" ment. But it did not know the ships THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1941. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8849. = MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS COLLAPSING, SAY NAZIS ANTI-AMERICAN E PRESIDENT |Army Air Corps Officials On OFPANAMA | Extensive Tour of Alaska; INFLIGH I; Traveling, Douglas Bomber Repufed Nazi Minded Ex- ecufive of Liftle Nation, Skips Out by Plane | BULLETIN—PANAMA CITY, Oot. 9 — Panama’s reputedly Nazi-minded President Anias had fled from the country and the Mayor of Panama, Niche- las Barletta, regarded as the strong man of the Arias Ad- ministration, has been arrest- ed in a shift of executive power, FLEES BY PLANE PANAMA CITY, Oct. 9 — Dr. Arnulfo Arias, President of Pana- ma, fled from this little nation in an airplane at 5:30 oclock Tues- day morning in such secrecy that his departure was not disclosed un- til today when his successor was sworn in. Neither his motives in leaving the country nor the evemts lead-|. (Continued on Page Eight) 3;,\\\*46)0 g WASHINGTON—Not many out-| side the Whijte House know it, but| the State Department gave the| President some urgent advice the! other day to make public the fact! that the Pink Star, sunk near Iee-; land and flying the anmanian‘ flag, was carrying a four-inch gun | on her deck. Subsequently the Presi- dent announced the fact at his press | conference. ! Prior to that it had been a mili- | tary and naval secret that the Gov- | ernment of the United States had | been arming Panamanian ships. It | was such a secret that the Govern- | ment of Panama itself didn't know ; it. Nor did the State Department | know it until about the time meI Pink Star was sunk. i Not even the Coast Guard knew it for a while, and almost got into nn‘ argument with a Panamanian ship sailing out of New York harbor the other day because she carried a gun | on her deck. The Coast Guard had | not been told at that time that the | gun had been placed there by the | U. 8. Navy at the direct orders of the President himself. The ships in question are the 80 vessels seized from the Axis, 27 of which now have been put into serv.l ice under the Panamanian flag.| Panama had no objection to the use ‘ of its flag since the reyenue is very profitable—$1 a ton for registration. | Naturally, reglstration ‘of the vessels | under the Panamanian flag was known to the Govern- | were sent out armed. This policy has come in for vig- orous criticism by advisers inside the | Government on several grounds. One is that no one knew what the Navy was doing. Another was that the crews of the merchant ships had no training in operating the guns. Thus the fact that the ships were armed increased their chances of being at- | tacked, since an armed vessel is en- | titled to no courtesies under inter- national law All of this is one reason why the | Administration is anxious to change the neutrality act to permit lease- lend cargoes to be carried in Am- erican vessels, thus getting away from the Panamanian flag. The President will also ask Congress for (Continued on Page Pour; | WINNIPEG, Oct. 9—A group of, key men of the United States Army Air Corps from Washington, D. C.,| |flying in a twin engined Douglas bomber, landed here late yesterday on an 8,000 mile trip to Alaska. The party includes Col. B. M. Giles, Chief of the Inspection Di- n; Col. E. W. Hiesl, Air In- | spector; Capt. M. A. Libby and Major W. H. Lawton. | It is said the group will inspect tactical, technical and administra-| | tive branches of the forces in Al- aska, visiting all air bases and mil-| itary camps from Nome to the| uthern Alaska border. Stows Away to Fight Hitler o = g Antonio Gomes, assistant purser Pinto, lights a cigarette for Hermann Ruszniewski, 89, a Polish Jew | who stowed away in Casablanca, Moroeco, as the ship arrives in New York. Ruszniewski said he served with the French army and now wants to enlist with the British in Canada. He was taken to Ellis Island. on’ the Portuguese steamer Serpa FDR CALLS FOR ARMING OF VESSELS WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. Dramatically declaring that it is fime for the United States to “stop playing into Hitler's hands and unshackle our own,” President Roosevelt today urged Congress to revise the neutral- ity act speedily to permit the arming of American merchant vessels. His special message also left the door open for further re- vision of the act later to wipe out another major prohibition that is preventing American cargo ships from traveling to belligerent ports. “Hitler offers a challenge we, as Americans, cannot and will not tolerate,” the President stated. “We will not let Hitler pre- scribe the waters of the world which our ships may travel,” the President continued. “The American flag is not going to be driven from the seas, either by his submarines, his airplanes’ or his threats. We cannot per- mit the affirmative defense of cur rights to be annulled and diluted by sections of the neu- trality act which have no real- ism in the light of unscrupu- lous ambition on the part of this madman.” Administration leaders today moved rapidly to implement the President’s message, in- troducing in both houses bills aimed at the repeal of the " meutrality act provisions against arming. American merchant vessels, Recreational “; Fund Starfs For Barracks 1$35,Boxing Gloves,Maga-| zine Subscriptions, Do- | nated fo Noor*Today | i Juneau men at Chilkoot Bar-| racks have $50 in their company | fund, which they raised them-| selves before leaving Juneau for | the training center, while men of | Ketchikan's Company B have more: than $1,000 in their company | fund, plus books, ping pong table| and many other recreational fa-| cilities, donated in an all-out drive by residents of the First City. | Such was the report read to the | Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- day by Dr. W. W. Council, who had | received the information in a let- ter from a Skagway friend, a re-| cent visitor to the camp. In view of this condition, Dr Council urged members of the chamber to get behind the Enter- prise Fund now being . sponsored | by The Daily Alaska Empire, to send recreational facilities and a company fund to the Juneau men in uniform. ! Started this morning with a $10 donation from The Empire, the (fund immediately began to grow. At noon today, there were $35 ‘in the fund, two sets of boxing | gloves and three magazine sub- iscriptions in the fung. The second $10, came in an an- onymous donation signed, A Friend. Then $5 was -donated by George | Sundborg, planning technician in| |the National Resources Planning g ntinued on Page Fight) FROM BOARD BUILDING EXTRA! BRAGAW AND DICK RESIGN Resignalions‘A(cepied by: Goverror-No Reason for Adion Given | Dr. Noble Dick, of Fairbanks, and Robert Bragaw, of Anchor- age, today resigned as members of the Territorial Unemploy- ment Commission and their resignations were accepted by Governor Ernest Gruening, Bare announcement of the resignation of the two board members was received by The Empire at 3:45 o’clock this after- noon. No reason for the action was given by the Governor’s of- fice at that time and neither Dr. Dick nor Bragaw could be i reached for a statement.. . | Earlier in ihe day Dr. Dick and Bragaw, who have been con- | dueting the annual meeting of | the commission heer as a quor- um of the 3-man board, an- nounced they would conclude their session today. | - HIT HARD BY RULING SPAB Forbids Start of Con-! struction Using Essen- | tials for Defense (ONGRESS APPROVED PROJECTS UNDER BAN Decree Takes Swat at Both, Public, Private Work | -Wide Powers | | i WASHINGTON, Oct. | Supply Priorities Allocation | Board today issued a sweeping | policy decree forbidding the | start of any public or private construction where will be used any critical material essential of the Nation’s Defense of pub- lic health safety. The ruling, the SPAB an- nouncement said, hits power, navigation and flood control projects, office buildings, post offices, hotel highways and even residential construction, practically suspending such ncnessential building that is hurting emergency. The SPAB officials said the ruling carries the implication that the Priorities Division, headed by Donald Nelson, by using its priority powers, will deny materials for projects con- sidered ncnessential and can bleck work even on projects ap- proved by Congress. —————— 9—The * FICKLINS END VISIT Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Ficklin, who have been visiting in Juneau for the past three weeks, left for their home on the Yukon, Mrs. Ficklin is a sister of Judge George P. Alex- ander. -oo—— Television broadcasting is ad- versely affected by normal opera- ,.tian‘ of motor vehicles, aceording to the Department. of Commerce. SPECTACULAR MILITARY PAGEANT San Francisco’s Market Street was the scene on the night of Octeber 2 ni tite eye-fillingest, pulse-pound- irgest, most spectacular military parade in all the history of that port, which has seen the departure of {ggops for the Philippines and for the Siberian campaign in World War L I, Asteching in salid. phalanxes ov viding iy irugks-ox apanving field » reviewir stand for four hours without let-up. Massive scarchlighi More than 15,000 soldiers, ,000, the skies and spotted low-flying fighter planés: Tanks beycnd number elanked through Lhe sireets as more than 300,000 persons watched this colorful demonstration of Uncle Sam’s mechanized military machine. Abeve are some of the soldiers marching with lhe'pl;nggnt stream in perfect formation. ~ WINDSORS RELAX ONCANADIANRANCH ess ¢ utod in the L Senalor kg cund, [V Windser al ca t’ ¢ Duke's 1anch n L Ca'gar , jid Froddiiig Government for All-out Production for Defense By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. of this administration’s one-time friends, appointees or otherwise fa- vored persons who have become |critical thorns in the administra- tion’s side would be longer than your arms. High up on that list is the gen- |ial gentleman from Virginia, Sen, Harry Flood Byrd, who, after a year ‘of comparative quiet while stringing along with the President’s foreign policies, has busted loose again with one of the strongest denunciations of the defense pro- duction lag that has come from any Democratic quarter. Although it never was widely known and now is almost forgotf- ten, it was President Roosevelt whos opened the door of the United States Senate for the for- mer Virginia governor. At one tirhe, hefore the pre: ) nomination campaign of 1932, Byrd 9—A list’ . was Roosevelt's selection for chair- man of the national Democratic committee. Byrd would have had the post, too, but John J. Raskoo didn’t resign as expected. After Roosevelt's first election, however, he was in position to bring Byrd | to the Senate—by appointing Vii- ginia Senator Claude A, Swanson as Secretary of the Navy. Byrd then was appointed to succeed Swanson, and has held the seat ever since. OPPOSED PUMP-PRIMING Senator Byrd hardly had taken his seat before his differences with the administration became appar- ent. As governor, he had balanced the Virginia budget and drastically reorganized the state government, much to the consternation and un- happiness of the bureaucrats, Pump-priming with government (Continued un Page Six) ncrthern Alberta, Canada. The Ranch House is MORE CZECHS ARE EXECUTED BYNAZICOURT 'Sabotage, Possession of . Firearms Are Reasons for Killings | BERLIN, Oct. 9—Twelve ‘more | Czechs have been executed after having received death sentences { from court martials in Prague and 1 Bruenn, it was reported today by DNB, official . German news agency. This brings the total announced recent executions in the Bohemia- | Moravia protectorate to 152. Ten of the 12, including five Jews, were convicted of economic sabotage. The two others were cor- | victed of preparing high treason {and the illegal possession of fire- arms, L ————————— v Japan requires the admixture of 20 percent of alcohol wilh gasoline for automobiles, CUTIVE FLEES LAND MILLION RED TROOPS HELD INNAZITRAP Hitler Aide Refurns from Front with Story of Pending Victory 'RUSSIANS GIVE NO " HINT OF PROGRESS ‘I Loss of OrelTl?ey Railroad Town, Acknowledged by Defenders (BY ASSOCIATED PREES) | Hitler's publicity chief declared today that “the Soviet Union is militarily finished.” He said the 110-day war on the eastern front was virtually decided when' nearly a' million Red army troops were caught in two vast en- Mr'clnmgnu in .the German drive on: Moscow, The sensational details of specific land gains, came frem Dr. Otto Dietrich. 5 Arriving n Berlin difect from Hitler’s eastern front headquarters, he asserted: “From the springs of the Volga to the Sea of Azov the remnants of the (Contmtied on Page Five) RUSSIANS RESISTENCE DESTROYED Germans Claim Red Armies Shattered and Leader- ship Is in Chaos BERLIN, Oct. 9—Russia’s power to resist is completely destroyed and her last fully able armies are | shattered everywheré, her leader-~ ship in chaos, the Germans re- ported today. ' With iron rings forged around 60 to 70 Russian divisions in tne vast offensive, which has Moscow as the goal, Hitler has ordered his armies to crush Russia before wia- {ter sets in, thus “also remove the 'lnt English ally on the contineat tof Europe.” | Spokesmen said Russia’s fate is virtually decided. B, P O BN MEMBERS OF MISSION SAY REDS HOLD Brifish and U. § .Officials t Returning from Moscow | Express Confidence SOMEWHERE IN GREAT BRIT- {AIN, Oct. 9.—~Members of the Unit- |ed States and British missions, who |just returned from Russia where | they conferred with officials on re- |lief to the war-torn country, ex- | pressed confidence that Moscow will hold out against the present Nazi offensive. One United States official said ,that even if the Soviet capital fell. - which he serfously doubted, Russia will continue to fight the Naazis, t, S s Bt el g