The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1941, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8850. “ALL THE NEWS ALL Tllls‘ TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID AY, ()(l' 10, 1941. MLMBLR ASSOCIATED PREbb PRICE TEN CENT) REDS ADMIT GERMAN ADVANCE 79 DRAFTEES SELECTED BY | LOCAL BOARD List of Firs—t—(_)f Juneau's | Quota Are Now Post- | ed for Induction | Seventy-nine young men today | were ordered to report for induction | into the Army at Chilkoot Barracks | October 23, following their designa- | tion under the Selective Service Act | by the Juneau Local Draft Board. To fill the quota for the first | draft contingent to be suppied by | the Territory, the Juneau Local | Board examined 591 registrants with | order numbers ranging from 1 to 591. All except the 79 chosen were exempted from service because of physical inability, dependents, con- scientious objections or for omer‘ valid reasons. Orders to report for induction ut Chilkoot Barracks were being sent by air mail today to the selectees, many of whom have moved from ' Juneau since registering. Registrants may apply for transfer of induction stations, entering the Army af in- | duction centers closer to their pres- ' ent addres¢ds, Yor return to Alaska by the induction date. The complete list of the Juneau contingent is as follows: Archie Wayne York, Juneau; Dan- iel Brown, Angoon; Teny Anton Some Secretary! Arlene Andersox Meet the “most chlrming" secre- tary, selected at the Alpha Iota International convention in Los Angeles. She is Arlene Anderson, of Davenport, Ia., who is wearing the “perfect” business girl's suit above. (C;n;inued on 'Paze Severn) f ¥ WASHINGTON—The picture of | Secretary Hull blowing out the! candles on his 70-year birthday | U.S.-Panama Relations fo Remain Okay ‘Change of Ee«sidems Will| Not Affect Diplom- afic Status WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—Presi- | NEW RACE " AMERICANS IS PLANNED President Announces thaf Stronger Boys Must Be Built-Draft Figures WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—A pro- gram, with the immediate objective | of rehabilitation of some 200,000 ! men rejected by the Draft Boards | because of physical or mental de- ficiencies, was announced this af- ternocn by President Roosevelt at a ccnference with the newsmen The President told the reporters that the question of building a strorzer race of American boys has come. | The President cited figures show- ing that 1,000,000 men have been rejected, when examined for Sclective Service Act and of these 100,000 were turned down because they lacked the requirement equiva- in-| duction into the Army under the' » | This, says London, is a sample of the daylight air raids now being staged by the RAF on Nazi-held targets. This photo was taken from a Blen- __ heim bomber over a town in oceupied France and shows bombs bursting lent to a fourth grade school edu- | ;cation and the remaining 900,000 | were rejected for various physical 'or_mental defects. Dental ailments topped the st-t with 188000 cases. ICHANG IS TAKENOVER BY CHINESE pture of Im—portani Sea- | (a port Used by Japan- ese Is Anndunced ‘ CHUNGKING, Oct. 10. — The | Chinese military headquarters an- nounce that the Chinese armies { driving eastward along the Yangtze | River have captured Ichang, im- portnnt town which has been the cake has gone around the world. | dent Roosevelt declared at a con- | westernmost outmost for Japan’s But the picture did not show tnec|ference with newsmen today that invasion. Chinese, mans, the British, and the French who surrounded him. Secretary Hull’s press conference | still the most internationul; scene in the entire capital. It| brings together, elbow to elbow, the peaceful newsmen who repre- sent their warring countries. In Hull's birthday group were Joe Chiang and David Lu, both i Chinese, Henri de Longfief of Havas (French) News Agency, Kurt Sell of the German News Agency, Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawaka mi, both of Domei (Japanese) New: Agency, Denys Smith of the U)n- don Daily Telegraph, Sol Hirsch ot Reuters of London, Lawrence Todd of Tass (Soviet) News Agency, nnd, so on around the table. Many of their countries were nt‘ war or violently hated each other. Yet it was to this “international ! club” of newsmen that Hull said | he had never been associated witn | a more agreeable group. is | SACHS AND SAKS Sidney Weinberg tells a sto'y of how Bill Knudsen made a mis- take about Weinberg's Wnn Street connections. When Weinberg came to Wash- ington to join the OPM, Knudsen was asked by newsmen what he! meant by bringing these Wail/ Street bankers into his shop. | “Who do you mean?” said Knuc- sen, “Sidney Weinberg.” “Is he a banker?” said Knud- sen, scratching his head. “Sure, he runs Goldman, Sachs, and o “Oh, gosh"‘ sald Knudsen, “I "(Continued on "Page Pour) remain absolutely unchanged as the| | result of a change in Presidents. The President said he had talked with the State Department and the ichange in Presidents, following the fleeing of Nazi-minded President i|Dr. Arnulfo Arias; apparently is {made in accordance with the Pan- amanian Constitution so mo ques-, tion of recognmon is involved. AIRWAYS DECISION ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. — The Civil Aeronautics Board examiner | has recommended the Pacific Alaska Airways be permitted to designate | Tanana Crossing, Alaska, and Bur- wash Landing, Uanada, on the route stop basis. The examiner has'also recom- mended the company be pennlmed! to acquire properties and equipment | jof Will Lavery, doing business as the Lavery Airways, operating a line | from Fairbanks to Anchorage, but‘ recommended a denial of the pro- posal to operate a shuttle service between Tanana Crossing and An- chorage since the Pacific Alaska Air- ways serves Anchorage from Fair- banks. \were killed recently, an authorita-! " | tive source stated, but the fatali- between Juneau and Fairbanks, as | intermediate stops served' as a flag the Japanese, the Gen-\dlplomafic relations with Panama' The announcement was made i shortly after midnight and a wild | | celebration was let loose in this war- | torn capital city. Thousands of firecrackers shat- tered the calm of the night. Chinese leaders declared that the | Ichang victory is not yet conceded | by the Japanese. | The conflict was China’s sreatest‘ { battle since the battle of Taierh | chwang in the southern part of | | Shantung Province in 1938 when the | \Jap-nese drive was halted with | | heavy losses. 4 American | RAF Fliers ~ AreKilled LONDON, Oct. 10—Four Ameri- can pilots, serving with the RAF,| ties resulted from accidents and how or where they occurred is no* officially stated. | Those killed were acting Flignt Lieutenant Manedoff, 30; Pilot Of-! fieer MocCall, 24; Pilot Officer| Stout, 25, and Willam White, 21, e VISITS JUNEAU Earl Barnes, field agent for the | Territorial Employment Service with headquarters in Ketchikan, has arrived in Juneau after com- pleting a survey of the labor mar- —————— While ; the ‘ladies of the Colonial days wore cotton hose, their shoes officials of the service before re-'mean a weeding out, but ther were made of silk; | ket in Southeast Alaska. Barnes will confer with Juneau | turning to the First City. on what the British deseribe as power station mkshop., a chemical factory, railway sidings and ships lyi have intensified their raids as 11 AIR CADETSIN FORMATION TRAINING precision maneuvers. These West Coast Air Cerp: are seen flying over the southern tip ¢f San Franci ¢ all claim that formation flying is “real fun.” WCA “C | the 30,000 pilots Uncle Sam wants every ycar. Ava iy achieved nnnther vh:wry in about ten weeks nh*n th y | Only One Horse - Drawn Arfillery Regiment in Army fo Be Molorized borne in mmd‘ First, this applics ronly to officers serving with troops in me seeond By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — An- swering the mail orders: in the field. Thus, many over-aze T. K. McAlester, ou‘__me“"mncers who are vigorous in health it .. - |and particularly competent wi:l is only one horse-drawn artillery i g % |be transferred to desk jobs. It regiment left in the Army—the|, . “nos apnply to air force- of- 112th at Fort Bragg, N. C, and| that is to be motorized before the end of the year. There are, how- ever, still six horse-drawn bm—‘ Y talions—three at Fort Sill, in your| s. R. Madison, Wis.—The latest state, and three at Camp Ord, in | eported strength of the United California. There also are certain | states Army in training and on “horse artillery” units attached to|duty was 1,580,775. Only 533,500 of the cavalry, but these are not the!these are in the Regular Army. The same as “horse-drawn artillery.” |rest are National Guard, reserves P. M. D, Portland, Ore, — The and trainees. The officers number new age standards for commis-|close to 106,000 in all. sioned officers (with limits rang-| Mrs. H. F., Winchester, Tenn.— ing from 62 for major-generals t0|yen ‘in training who were 28 30 for second lieutenants) does }nms. chaplains or officers in the 1edical corps. are several things that musl b (Continued on Page, Five) years or older before July 1, 194, avity and ing planes Cadets hird of viclory over in trim BT-13 tra ratira {1kt ihstruction, ced in t-afning f:rmotion tlight w ants in the Alr Corps. have lieute: CORLETTTO (OMENORTH IS REPORT Brigadier General W|Il Probably Be Field Com- mander at Kodiak SAN F'R.ANCIBCO. Cal., Oct. 10— Unofficial Army sources said that probably Brig. Gen. Charles Corlett, Commander of San Franciscos; Thirtieth Infantry, until the re- cent promotion from Colonelcy, will be Field Commander of the troops at the Army’s new outpost on Ko- diak Island. Corlett, it is said, will soon report to Maj. Gen. Simon Buckner, now headquartered at Fort Richardson,! Anchorage, Alaska. - Corlett’s successor as Commander | of the Thirtieth Infantry will be Lieut, Col. Russell Ayres. —— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ng in the Seine River. The British | nhu\nl r--nlnrced the ' RAF. BRAGAW AND DICK EXPLAI RESIGNATIONS [Couldn’t Ag—r;; with Social Securify Board, Says Ex-commissioners | Failure to see eye to eye with the | Federal Social Security Board was |the reason advanced last night by Robert Bragaw, of Anchorage, for }lhexr resignations yesterday after- | noon from membership in the Ter- ritorial Unemployment Compensa- tion Commission. Bragaw declarea tnat the two were unable to agree with admia- istrdtive requests of the Social Se- curity Board regarding the general handling of Unemployment Com- pensation affairs in Alaska. | During their annual meeting here | the past two weeks, the commission has had only pleasant relations with Stuart Morrison, special rep- | resentative of the Social Security | Board, now in Alaska, and with Governor Ernest Gruening and | Becreary of Alaska E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, the two men stressed. Gov. Gruening this morning de- {clared that the resignations of (the two men had come as a | complete surprise to him. He de- |clared that he is not prepared to | make immediate appointments to wnn the vacancies on the board. Jobs Unfinished Two jobs yet remain to be done by the commission at its annual | session, Bragaw stated. An execu- ‘uve director of the commission | must be appointed for the coming |year., Walter Sharpe is the present ereclor whose term has just ex- |pired, and must either be reap- | pointed or replaced. A second mat- |ter to be considered is the pos- | sible reorganization of the ment isyhtem in the Territory. | Hardcastle Here The resignations of. Dr. Dici, who was chairman of the board, and Bragaw left only one member of the commission in office last ‘night. He was R. E. Hardcastle, | whose disputed third place on the| ithis week in a legal opinion by | Attorney-General Henry Roden. ’| Hardcastle arrived here from Ket- chikan on the Denali last night, :u.st in time to hear of the resig- nations of the other two commis- sioners. (Continued on l;n;e E};}:U Dr. Noble Dick, of Fairbanks, and; commission was only ironed oui; LOCAL NAMES FOR ARMY ANNOUNCED Air Photo of RAF Raid on France 'DEAD LITTER | BATTLEFIELD AT BRYANSK Invaders Also Launch Drive Against Rzhev, West of Moscow PICKED RED TROOPS " RUSHED TO CONFLICT Hifler Armies Progressing But af Tremendous’ Death Rate (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russian front line dispatches to- day conceded Hitler's invasion arm- ies are still advancing “over mount- |ains of German corpses” on the | Bryansk sector in the nine-day- lold Battle for Moscow. Simultaneously, the British radio reported a new threat developing almost due west jof Moscow. The anmn Broadeasting Corporation Nuzi troops are striking toward me upper Volga town of Rzhev, 126 miles .west of the Russian capital, thereby stretching the main Soviet through Vyazma Brynsk to Orel. See-Saw Fighting In see-saw fighting around Vy- azma, 125 miles southwest of Mos- cow, the Russians admitted the 'Germans have scored gains in sev- eral sectors but said picked Red army troops now are moving up to meet them, reinforcing the units which breasted the first violent impact of the Nazi onslaught. Red Star, Soviet Army journal, said that Russian troops which re- captured a village around Vymaza found 4500 German dead. Else- !where in the same region, counter- attacking Soviet troops were re- |ported to have routed a German motorized column, killing 8,000 Nazis and destroying 220 tanks in a five- day battle. Invaders Suffer Losses Red Star added that the German advances around - Bryansk were achieved only through sheer weight of numbers, the invaders suffering enormous losses. The journal said the Germans were throwing im- mense forces into the new push after being routed earlier in the Brynsk sector, 220 miles southwest of Moscow. The atmosphere in Moscow itself today was distinctly more confident —in contrast to yesterday’s official acknowledgement of a grave emer- gency. The Soviet High Command re- ported it had opened the floodgates of Russia’s mighty manpower re- serves, throwing masses of fresh troops into the bitter conflict. NAVY DAY OBSERVED ONOCT. 27 |Event Will Be Broadened So Total Defense Will 4 Be Celebrated | WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today announced |that observance of Navy Day on | October 27 will be broadened so the day will observe total defense. The President will also make an address on the occasion, probably at the Navy League dinner here. —l Farms under 10 acres in the United States increased 41 percent from 1930 to 1940 the Census 1nhowa. "