The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1941, Page 1

a NO. 8856. .S. DESTROYER TORPED JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID AY, OCTOBER 17, 1941 DAILY ALASKA EMPIRK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TEN CENTS 0ED U.S. SHIPS ORDERED OUT OF ORIENT NAVY TAKES ACTION ON FROMVISITING Regulations CRISIS NOW BLAST SCENE Are Deferred Instructions Issued fo Ships Terriforial Labor Director Permitting Trap Licenses in | fo Quit Japanese and Chinese Waters Returns from Fruitless Trip fo Sitka Base { ANCHORAGE Announcement was made today | by B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of | Mines, of the issuance by him yes- | terday of a telegraphed order pro-l | hibiting temporarily the continu- | the Alaska to All Comers Being Stalled CABINET NOW Lieut. Gen. Tojo Is Com- | manded by Emperor fo | Form Government HAAS BARRED Trap License ORDER CLOSES/WARLEADER House Approves Arming | COAL MINE AT HEADSJAPAN = Of American Merchant IS HIT WHILE 'WAR VESSEL Vessels: Vole 25910 138 ON PATROL WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Vot- ing soon after hearing of the torpedoing of the destroyer Kearny, the House gave over- whelming approval for arming American merchant vessels. Attack Made on American Ship 350 Miles South- west of Iceland i their protection against what | President Roosevelt called “mod- | ern pirates.” | Ignoring warning from oppon- \ i | | | House, are given to ships for ‘ ents that legislation is another (Continued on Page Four) States. Beverly Hills.” ance of mining operations at S | g : S The roll call showed the vote long step toward war, the House Prevented by Army officials, who| WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—Senator jfi:fi:v‘g;f"é’im':fl‘} b o T ml‘ms WITHU. § was 259 in favor to 138 against. | voted repeal of the Neutrality | CRAFT DAMAGED BUT SITuA'Io" o" p‘(lrl( said the investigation into the dy- Mons C. Wallgren, of Washington, 2 A H o duy The legislation now goes to the Act provision prohibiting the | namite death of six men on @ said today he expects the War De-| This mine is in the Matanuskai RUSSIA (AUSE (“A"GE Senate, arming of merchantmen engag- "o usu‘l“is o((un ls GIVEN oul AS (AUSE‘defe"se project on Japanski Island partment to again defer its new|c08l fleld and is the source of| | Guns and gun crews, under ed in commerce with any foreign unday was “strictly an Army mat- regulations to permit the grammg}suzpll; rorhthe gl et R | e leyistationigh agsdhy the i <3 N D R . | ter,” Territorial Labor Director Mi- Of fish trap licenses in Alaskan|and for the Army base at Fort H | PR - G > commanders IOld fO Go to chael J. Haas has returned from WAaters to anyone who applies r(,,.{sRlchardsm\‘.dThis M aigtekan, New Premler Has long‘ i > | any epaétmen:—Pe(e"ves : o i B e % tewart s, upon receipt. from his| B : SNowuUnupswing ' Meagre Repori-Presi- Nearest AMErican o |iowed to visic tne scene of ihe' Walktren sid the War Depart- representative at Anchorage. KL | een Admirer of German ' " dg i lpf d e iy is wil o defer putting the|Fiedler, of information to the ef-| | B”"Sh PO”S ‘“:_fid:; hfvns‘;lsl: Lz::i.rtment is Mew regulations in force until the fect that current operations at A"“Y“ln Man(hOUkuo { . | ent Is inorme t . legislation he introduced author-|the Jonesville mine and plant have | | ee s o ou rgen | SR “.'"'h e _e_nfort{emem Of jzing the department to refuse such!peen rendered unsafe b; ersistent | - TOKYO, Oct 17.—Emperor Hiro- | 7 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — A safe working conditions in Alaska, |; y pe | ! | Navy Department announcement ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—Auth-| o W ol St ey in " licenses, unless approved by the|disregard on the part of ‘the Evan (hilo today called on the Army lo . | at K oritative quarters indicated this| Vor. to Sitka Saturday In hope oY pish and Wildlife Service, has been!jones Coal Company of safety or-|furuish leadership in a new govern- dostroyer Kearny was ok conferring with all officials con- jos pany, e - | torpedoed this morning while on afternoon that all American mer- | A | enacted. ders that have been issued by rep- mett to cope with the tremendous patrol duty about 350 miles chant ships have been ordered out;cemed in an effort to establish| The War Department, he said, | .egentatives of the Territorial De. issues that the fallen Koyone Cab- . | 4 y . | better safety conditions. The Sun- will act when f ! o erritorial De- 4,0 admitted its inability to handle, | | southwest of Ieeland. of Japanese and Chinese waters be: ormal request for & |porement of Mines during the past|i® y dle, The Navy Di t sald I cause of what the Navy Department |day blast, which wiped out the trap license is received by the De- | crptheds ng the Past| ghiefly the critical relations with the o Ll SIRORNE WY REV | e l""""""m“ called the serious situation on the |lives of five soldiers and one ma-|partment of the Interior. The War i T United States and also Russia. By #AG bl ek s R i or‘ npam‘ u:' 2 3 08 the Pacific. rine, closely paralleled another tra- . Department announced last spring/ Similar disregard of safety pre-{ Lieut. Col. Eiki Tofo, War Min- | WASHINGTON, Oct. 17— You'vs ARd-put-it-baok-Saghliny e ;' | h'“':‘m m it Ships in other waters of the Pa- |gedy which occurred at Sitka Sep- |Hhat it would grant fish trap li- |cautions by the same miine opera-|ister, is returning to the Cabinet heard of the OCC, NYA, the CPTP, | house. bulld short Wave radios that | GESEES T cific are not affected. tember 14, when six civilian em-'Censes to any applicant where it was | tor, who was then also serving In;und he has been commanded to|and several other vocational and| Would pick up Europe, and make | P, Wm ey ship, It is said the Navy has ordered | ployees were killed. |shown the trap piling would not|the capacity of mine superinten- 1?1 the new Japanese government. |national defense training projects, | Mechanical milkers out of twg feet mwm m proceed the merchant ships inthe Japanese Army Matter interfere with ‘navigation, #7ldent, ‘vesulted i an explosion a:| “TeJo had beer a fong-time admirer (but if you haven't heard of the|Of hose and an old vacuum cleaner, | S0 S APy B2 i Sososantl and Chinese waters to proceed to| “I was told the investigation was _The Department of the Interior.:the Jonesville mine in the fall of of the German army and most re- (OSY, put it on your list now, be- ! et Mt Comiander A. - ILi the nearest American or British girictly an Army matter” Haas T€ATING such action wili lead to a|1937 that took the lives of 14 min~ Cently was active in the army service | cause it’s on the upswing. SHORTAGE OF FARM YOUTH | Dants. ‘ port. |said, “I talked to many towns. Wild scramble for favorable trap|ers, Stewart declared. at Kwantung, Japan's powerful gar-| ne OSY is the Out-of-School| oo cequently, when the demand| The Kearuy wis completed According to advices given out at | 1 sites, got the War Department to| .. , 0 8 rison in Manchoukuo, which has|pura] Defense Training Program < 44 g Manils, the- Navy fakes the official | PEOPIe and to many workmen, but goro. pubting Ui Pagulst 1 Regrettably,” he added, “the peon raeing Soviet Siberia ¢ came for skilled workers in de-| .only Iast year and is one of the position “in view of the situation on {Of ©0urse Tm not prepared to crreet it month, The 0| gituation has developed to & POint| pour years ago, Tojo declared:| ° YeAT B0 @ mere snip of A0 yense industries, and salaries| Navy's newest destroyers, armed the Pacific.” make any statement as to the ferment is now to b:nexl.g d?;e df_}fwhere the drastic action taken has!«japan must prepl.re to fight China Uiy At e 510,000,0001p°pped up to make a hired man’s| With & stardard tive-inch gun 3 iy Dw |cause of the blast or as to where ? nded unUl| o ome necessary in order to en- ly." [to play with (and only $15000,-| Loo™iooy live o short crop in pea-| Dbattery, earried by ships of her avy Department officials make | the new legislation becomes a law. and Russia simultaneously. ¥ - | pay lool sl P pea-| WY " the blame should fall.” 4 e |force the law and prevent a repe- | 000 this fiscal year). However, ““‘inuts, farm lads found themselves | class. The Kemrny is 341 feet . (Continued on Page Five: Haas said he received a courte-| [tition of that disaster.” |government is playing catch-as- | ging 'y new gravy train and they| 1oNE With & 35-fout beam and a P ous reception by the Siems-Drake- | La i |catch-can with defense bottle-| b oqo’ ¢he mot of it | displacement of 1.630 tons s ws ‘Disregarded i |necks and it is beginning to ap-| \ | No other details of the tor- Puget Sound Construction Com- | All of th ctions tained i | There were two other factors--| Pl 2 p Il e exactions contained in | ! that’ OS¥ & "sitting Tight| | pedo attack wre available, the ihe | pany, which holds the defense con- | the orders that have been disre- iy g 1 8 TSNUihe draft and the discovery by | N, et g |tracts at Sitka, and conferred with | |garded are included in the 'I‘e.rr‘-‘ where @ serlous one Is developing. |y, qustrial employers that farm| "rvl’n'nn;?:uon u:‘nn‘; Kearn; |Cantello Strickland, safety engineor | Ytarial: iak - goveRgined i | As OSY was originally COu-|youens even if they didn't know| i | i | g the operation ived t-of-school 1 tn g | at the time of the attack is {for the company. | J |of conl mines, Stewart said. Their {Envo -+ °‘;C‘: “t“‘; "“”’1 yr"“ their mechanics, were two jumis' given as the same general area | . | “Strickland proved quite cooper:-| purpose is to provide safe and suit- . ey and i the. killed mo. @head of clty boys because they where the destrover Greer was jtive and competent,” Haas said. able working conditions for the : e 2N © were “work-trained.” You didn't| attacked unsucessfully by a sub- e Drew Peancs “I'm sure he knows his business | employees of the mining company | chaniosl - Ziakde; | “ ~| marine more than a month ago. - and will cooperate with us in doing | ’and o R e thive STt an;‘ | It turned out that most farm! (Continved un Page Six) i The attack on the Kearny is - Robert S.Alles everything possible to prevent any| ‘Iemployees from the possible occur- S | the first torpedoing since Presi- | {further accidents.” | D Irence of a fatal disaster, he added R | FAulK"ER ACK | dent Roosevelt's speech on Sep- { : . | , ; T ! 'I'he;\rmy Board of Inquiry wa.s Belleved Truckers Wi"A .| Sudden large increases in the Red Army For(es Flghhng B H u.“:?’fl:‘t 'hm-:: .'"f ok - in session on Japonski - Is t-on-sight - ponski Island yes: G idemand for coal at Anchorage and I terday, Haas said he was informed. . peal Decision fo U, S, viewity nave necessiated nasty Savagely-Two German FROM VISIT TQ | order sna vaceed aht “actenive —_— {but he was not permitted to visit, i preparations for enlarging the mine ! ;:::: ho;nt'h % u':l“:: Yo WASHINGTON — An armored|the government military reserva-| Supreme Court Tottphit At | Jostlla’ 1o & sockext: Thrusts Are Broken ! e tank carried under an airplane astion where the blast occurred. | mately double the former normal e NO COMMENT AT BERLIN :Tn eagle carries l'.: \;’:ce:'ml:nst;:; 5335 said he was informed or‘ The case of the Richardson capacity of the mine and plant. | BERLIN, Oct. 17.—The cuptur_o l BERLIN, Oct. 17.—The authorized ™ xenlfn of fancy :n By m—_;the follfwwing items concerning the Highway truckers versus the De-!This situation introduces addition- of an important industrial region is After representing’ the Alaska' German spokesman said the Nazi reality :‘:e;l :fel “ov:xlx;nnsm Pme“trflgedy. | partment of the Interior regard- al and intensified accident hazards claimed by authorized German Mining Assoclation at the annual'government has only the American o chos Ule, ol % i b Material Evidence !ing payment of tolls on the high- and requires strict adherence t, 50urces as the Naal troops continued meeting of the American Mining reports of the torpedoing of the invasion of Crete. | pow (1) The material which explod-'way was decided against the all effective safety rules andmeas- 0 batter Moscow's MFasnsen 4 ——— Congress in San Francisco, H. I. Kearny and therefore unable to to become a reality in the United ed included dynamite and blasting ek v These sources also said the Ger- Faulkner, Juneau attorne; re- make any comment because there tn 2ec : ruckers today in Federal Court mans have taken extensivs limite JUST GIVE AS 4 5 States. caps, stored in wooden buildings at Fairbanks, according to a tele-| (Continued nn page Six) tning Falds Bat ik further YOU CAN FOR turned last night on the steamer In Brooklyn, New York, a me-| approximately 50 yards apart. |gram received at. the office of | mining fields hu not fu HELPING MEN Yukon. (Continued on Page Pive) _ is bei built for the| .\ | identify the section. chanism is being ke | “If that is correct, I'd like t0 Gov., Ernest Gruening this after- o b in. FROM JUNEAU { Mr, Faulkner was one of 25 “hook-on” and ‘“release” whereby| know why, if it was impractical to i ‘ Other operations owthy front. in- ., 00T J g v i SO e e (> noon from George Folta, Httorney- | cluding the batile before Moscow AT CHILK! mining officials appointed to the l?lnn ;S the plane, and relensed | - e dynamite and caps in gt-large for the Department of | the authoritative statement sail, ave CARRACKS TO congressional *“policy” committee' i g (Continued on Page Seven) tne Interior. : ‘o pmi“ms proceeding “aceording to pia A |and spent most of his time work-| naTh ‘D e iis ries b | The case came into the courts, | PACILITIES (ing in that division. Among legts- i i recently on a joint agreement be- ! | RUSSIANS FIGHT SAVAGELY !lative planks which were adopted the tank as it is borne aloft, and { | » ibame s s g § jtween the government and the ) MOSCOW, Oct. 17. — Russian | by the Congress for the comin when the plane lands, .the tank !trucker.! with the undenmnmngl | soldiers are fighting savagely against | yi.r was one‘r expressing the oppflg =t 4 y o @ i b | ‘a]n nt type'of 10% mns; operates| jed at Fairbanks, the loser there the steamer Denali at 3 o'clock this and held ;tubbomly g"w;fl h.m:‘men at Chilkoot Barracks grew w‘mer “expansion of social secur- aight type | |would appeal the action to the |afternoon when the Alaska Steam- | !nes according to an official report. 1'% V" Wency oo woan iy qona. ity benefits at this time of expand- independently, with a cruising ra- |U, . Supreme Court {ship Company vessel moored at the _NeWspaper dispatches assert that g T iad. e b and 88y Ametis sl dius of 300 miles y o 2 | # the Russians in fact have broken | tions during the day of $30.50. jed employment and of yastly ' in- d 8 | | The bringing of the action into |Juneau Cold Storage Company pier. | creased employers’ | taxes,” which T » This mechanism is being devel- | two German spearhead thrusts in | Besides the cash donated, the J. ploy! % A ) 3 court ended months of near war-| The Denali, crowded with south- | B. Burford Compan; ntributed a Faulkner was instrumental in draw- | oped by the Armored Tank Corpor- | fare between truckers and. collec. |bound travellers from Kodiak, Wom. |the Vysama and Kalinin sectors |/ (HUURC PHARERY BOR 0 PREG BB yune t 1ages Jays ran i | . # 4 nd the mid-day communique said | 3 7 > | 2 , ation of New York. It is designed itors of tolls along the highway.|2PS Bay, Seward and Yakutat, | Y g ping-pong equipment for use at the | Faulkner was accompanied south | e s f | no gains have been made by the :o b: a:t::ufif ; :erta:n t;'pe ;’n 4 | Since the agreement to settle mmwen:}}:ereg Trsevere storm last night | Germanks {barracks. The Burford company by his 16-year-old son, Malcoim, | . g :'ragducnron il i Confract Calls Attenti dispute in court, tolls paid by1‘:;‘mn:d e ‘:Llfllgfh;lw::enee::‘ The @ dmit the fighting |Dad previously donated a $12 set of | who now is enrolled ‘as a junior at! faliation Demand I i ontracior calls @NTION truckers have been held in escrow |y ted the ety nn[:i :enst hng |is particularly feirce west of Moscow | four boxing gloves. | Lakeside School for Boys, near Se-|: i NYA FIGHT i ' o Re I b N av | pending final settlement. |seas crashing over the bow. oy | where the Nazi forces are pounding With a tentative goal of at least | attle. 3 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — The Real inside behind that Genersl| py y Y | Passengers disembarking here | D¢ Red Army positions with un- | $1,000 set as the cash requirements Faulkner reported meeting Miss news made public early this morn- 7 i abated fury. of the fund, contributions so far Barbara Simpkins, daughter of Mr. ing that the United States destroy Accounting Office blast against the Officer | | were Margaret Brown, Sally Brown, 3 | er Hugh | — total only a little betfer than & |ang Mys, George Simpkins of Ju-|Kearny was torpedoed southwest National Youth Administration was| | ugh Compton, Norrls Field, F. C.| fund, at th 4 ons ki, ot ot l ATTACK SLACKENS | fourth of the needed , at the P Teeland brougzht ternal row betwi th | Ferguson, Edith Hansen, Mary Han- neau, who is dietician at Lakeside rouzht a prompt demand an interna een the in-| Recent charges by Gov. Ernest |sen, C. A. Hubbard, I(a’ry Sohneon, | LONDON, Oct. 17. — A Moscow |end of a week of collections. Con- | g, o | from Senator Claude Pepper of Flor- vestigating and accounting divis-|Gruening that “profits of con-| |Irvi'nx4Knu.se Mr. and Mrs, Loujs 'dio broadcast, picked up here early | tributions from 50 cents up must | |ida that the Navy retaliate. jons of the GAO. |tractors on defense projects in Al- | Midke, Edward R’ochenberg. J s tonight, said the German attack |pour in more rapidly next week if | | Representative E. E. Cox of Geor- . The gum-shoers are under fireiaska are not less than 50 per cent” rom o“ | Ross, Arthur Ruika, Oscar Smith, | directed on Orel, 200 miles south of |the goal is to be reached and equip- | ’M Bm ‘G‘m igin said that if the Geermans are as inefficient and high-handed, so|were refuted here today by Ivar B ! Mrs, Nellie Smith, John Williams. | M0sCOW: Has slackened. {ment furnished before the first {guilty “it is probably the incident ® to make a splash and divert cri- |Anderson, executive manager of the |"R. E. (Dupont) Murphy, Melvin b S P |draftees begin arriving at Haines,( Weather again stymied Pan Am- we have been waiting for.” ticism from themselves they heaved )Siems-Drake-Puget Sound Con- Charles D. Beale, Manager of the ‘Nan.hflp. Eleanor Oman, Mr. and NEW VICE-CONSUL | it was pointed out today. |erican operations in Alaska today.| Senator Gierald P. Nye, of North a load of brickbats at NYA, charg- |struction Company, which holds de- Capitol Theatre, returned Iast night Mrs. Clarence Peterson, Clarence| ‘WO'd Was received at the Cus-| Cgsh contributions received during | three Lodestars and two Electras Dakota, critic of the Administra- ing it with balking Army recruit- e ey ,on the Yukon after an exclusive Peterson, Jr. Lazo Bozanich, Max '0'> Srvlce office here today an-|the day was as follows Holdihgto the groynd: | tion's policies, sald: “When the ing. The real facts are that NYA| S o0’ Page ¥ive | pleasure trip of three weeks. | Brown, Peter Milton, George Moore. | "°''°6d the appointment of L. E.| George Getchell 4500 Two ' southbound Lodestars , in Navy operates under shooting orders Administrator Aubrey Williams was| MRS, NO! rrURNS | “E t south for pl | M. van Rijckevorsel as the new vice- | Frank A. Boyle .. 500 !Juneau, a northbound Lodestar in the President has given, we ought RDLING RETURNS | went soul or pleasure and . Ed Clien, Louise De Chenne, Nils | , oug! bitterly assailed by the leftist Na-| Mrs. H.G. Nordl 1 had it,” said Mr. Beale. { consul of the Netherlands, with| Boys at the Alaskan Prince George and southbound ' not to be surprised that these things . H.G. ing returned home ," sal f le. “I took | Hermanson, Charles Fatland, Peter ) tional Youth Congress because heaboard th f footall game, witnessed sev- Milton, Geb [ office 8% Sm'Franaiaco and, juris-{ Hotel ... 800 . |Blectras in Whiteharse are expected ocour. T would not let this mean e Yukon after attending in one game, sev- ton, rge Moore, John Mur-|"" " 5 b take advantage e cooperated with the Army and|the American Legion Auxiliary Gon. cral games in the Pacific Coast'dock, August Paddy, C, W. Purdick, |(icOWIOVEr e western states and) ~ Mrs. Dorothy Gruening 500 (%0 thke e o e 0007 | war o far sk, L s Enesenadinit Navy to encourage NYA students Vention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin League playoff series, and visited my. R. D. Rolinis, Dan Smith, James | Alnskay :‘““‘w“’f‘m""‘ Bupply g: £5H 'w'___m Himmps::u s'y:fis HB'::‘" o New: . . and visibin, i » wife's relatives in Brentwood and Steves; T. Stacy and H. A. Tuomis- DS i ) oo 7 3 Y Ju-Ustier secilona’of the o & BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Serge Merkoorleff ........ 500 BUY DEFENSE STAMPS |an “open act of defianee 4 1 ton. by Hitler.