The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \OL . LVIL, NO. 8858 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1941. NAZITORPEDO TAKES TOLL OF 21 WAR THREATS GIRDLING ENTIRE WORLD STATE OF SIEGE AT MOSCOW | | | | [ JAPAN NOW | PREPARING FOR FIGHT ST | New Premier Calls for, Iron Unity’ on Great ! Encirclement NIPPON FORCES ARE MASSED ON FRONTIER Pacific Situation Shows Complete United Front for Defense (By Associated Press) Heightened by tension in the Far East, the increasingly grave situa- tion at Moscow, indeed all of Russia, and the controversy between the United States and Germany over the torpedoing of the United States de- stroyer Kearny are today the out- standing developments of the war and threats of war now girdling me earth. The world news formed the moslnc in which each piece fits into the whole pattern. Call for “Iron Unity” Japan’s new Premier, Gen. To_yo makes a general declaration that Japan has reached the crossroads of (Continued on Page Eight) SENT T0 ALASKA The Presidio of San Francisco recently welcomed a new commanding officer and extended farewell to a former commander at colorful ceremonies. Pictured abcve are Lieutenant Colonel Russel G. Ayers (left), new commanding officer of the Thirtieth Infantry, shaking hands with his predecessor, Brigadier General Charles H. Corlett, who has been assigned to Alaskan duty. He will be stationed at the Kodiak base. Colonel Ayres reviewed his 3,200 troops and rated them “one of the best of all U. S. armed forces.” Miner Spends $1100 in WASHINGTON — Word trickling | 3 back to the diplomatic corps from Germany indicates that Hitler fin- | ally is beginning to realize that the | United States means business, and that he made a tragic mistake in not accepting the advice of his more conservative diplomats who warned him of this in the first place. { In fact, the inside story, which now can be told, is one of the most tragic of the war. Possiby if it had not been for overweening personal jealousies the war might even have been prevented. What happened was that when Hans Dieckhoff, German Ambassa- dor to Washington, returned to Ber- lin in 1938, he brought back a strong report that the United States would enter the war eventually if Germany became the aggressor. He was i ready to warn that Germany faced a repetition of 1917-18. But Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not let him see Hitler. Ribbentrop, probably the most ambitious man around der Fuehrer and a great friend of Himmler, wanted to be the funnel for all ad- vice going to Hitler. Also he was feeding him his own kind of aggres- sive advice, not the cooling caution of Ambassador Dieckhoff. In the same cautious school with the Ambassador were Baron von ! Neurath, recently ousted as Gover- nor of Czechoslovakia because of his | moderate views; Hjalmar Schact, governor of the Reichsbank, now in virtual retirement; and Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's former commander and more recently con- sul general at San Francisco. Even Field Marshal Goering was muéh | more moderate than von Ribbentrop. CZECH PUTSCH DELAYED It was Captain Wiedemann who, | around May 1938, Ehiefly persuaded Hitler not to invade Czechoslovakia. He was then Hitler’s militagy aide and attended a meeting of der Fuehrer's inner advisers at which | 17 Days, Then Ends Life With Bullef, Hofel Room SWIM SUIT : FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 20.—- Seventeen days after his arrival in Fairbanks from the Fortymile Dis- trict with $1,100 saved from his earnings from the Boundary Dredge Company, 38-year-old Dan Havelock was broke. Havelock’s body was found by the side of his bed in a local ho- tel with a bullet wound in his mouth and a rifle by the side. Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal John Buckley and Coroner Wllllam Proclamahon ls Issued by Stalin to Prepare for New Nazi Thrust (By Associated Press) Moscow is under a state of siege today by proclamation made by Josef Stalin for the purpose of becoming braced against the attack of the German forces, who are stated this morning to be only 57 miles away from the Soviet capital at one point, The German High Command says new wedges have been driven into the Moscow defenses and that two more Red Army groups have been wiped out. { German soldiers and their allies in Southern Russia are reported sweep- | ing anew toward the industrial Bonets Basin and Rostove, gateway | to the oll riches of the Cuucasus, | HIGH NAZI - OFFICIALIS | SHOTDOWN, FIRST GERMAN PRISONERS OF U. 5. ARRIVE 14lé Boston harbor &8 dawn, Octotier 1, v mu-. s.'& Bear towing‘the Nofweglansixty-ton ketéh-' rigged auxliary craft Busko with an American prize crew of ten aboard and some twenty “prisoners” under close surveillance. Germany had attempted the first “incursicn” of th western hemisphere as proclaimed by President Roosevelt. The Norwegian craft was captured by the American patrol off Greenland, her radio equipment and personnel seized, and a shoreside Nazi radio station captured and reduced. The Americans did their job with dispatch and sent their prizes, including the Nazi Gestapo agent in Green- land, to Bosten for internment. The Bear was formerly the Byrd Antarctic expedition flagship, now a U. S. North Atlantic patrol craft. Soundphoto above shows the Busko between a Coast Guard cutter and the Bear. ‘Gen Holtz, Commander of | ' Nantes Region, Assas- VNazn Bombs Rock Hospltai Ship sinafed, Vlchy Street ? VICHY, Oct. 204—Gener31 Holtz, | German Commander of the Nantes | region of Occupied France, was shot | to death today in the center of the | city. Two men lay in wait along the street Gen. Holtz passed on his way to his office. Gen. Holtz is the highest German | officer yet attacked in the wave of | terrorism throughout the uccupied zone. One report said Gen. Holz suffered both pistol and shotgun wounds and | fell to the street shortly after 8 o'clock this morning before a blaze | of firing that shattered the Monday morning quiet along the Cours Saint | Pierre in front of the Saint Plerre | Church Growden said it was doubtless a| case of suicide. Havelock left a note: my body to remain in Alaska. Luck to all.” Havelock was born in Cle Elum,; Wash. He is survived by three brothers, one in Cle Elum, one Los Angeles and one in F‘a1r-‘ banks. STOCK QUOTATIONS | | | NEW YORK, Oct. 20. — Closing | uotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 3, American Can 94, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 31%, Commonwealth and Southern | 4, Curtiss Wright 8'%, International Harvester 49%, Kennecott 33%, New York Central 107, Northern Pacific | 3%, United States Steel 52%, Pound | $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 120.13; rails, 28.29; utilities, 17.45. e i o | % LAGERGRENS GO SOUTH { Li Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Lagergren, Lucille Tasabert wears & two-piece recent arrivals from the Interior, ‘opponents crying General Staff officers advised cau- | rayon sharkskin swim suit in a Guatemala batik design which was displayed ,at a preview of the Los Angeles resort and cruise wear showings where California fash- jons’ in swim and sun suits for 1942 were modeled. — .- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS left on the Aleutian for the State: on a visit, accompanied by their two children. - e GOES TO ANCHORAGE ! Mrs. N. Lester Troast, who has beeri in Juneau for several days, left aboard the Columbia for. Sew- lerd enroute to her home in An-i ichurng:-, « = SHIP ARMING 'BILL TO GET SHORT SHIFT - 'Senafe Commmee Starts Hearmg Tomorrow- "Gag Rule” WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — With “gag rule” the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted 12 to 9 to hold closed hearings, beginning tomorrow, on the House-approved ship arming bill. Chairman Tom Connally said the committee voted to conclude the hearings at 5 p. m. next Friday and added that Secretary of State Cor- idell Hull will probably be the first witness. Asserting the procedure is a “gag rule,” Senator Robert M. LaFollette 1d reporters that opponents to the ilegislation will thus be denied the right to present all witnesses who wished to be heard because of the time limitation. e VIRGIL BAKER HERE Virgil Baker, representative of the Sunset Electric Company, is guest at the Gastineau Hotel. il German bomb explodes with spectacular violence alongside a British hospital ship in the harbor” P <1 the Mediterranean area, at Ahxlndriu, Emt. The vessel had just arrived with troopn wounded in Meet "WildBill” Donovan, WIPING OUT (Ol Boss; His Job Now Is = NEUTRALITY Selling the U. S. Abroad PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Oct. tors Chan Gurney, Styles Bridges umd Warren R. Austin, all Repub-| | licans, this * afternoon introduced |a bill proposing complete repeal of| Not only does it have the rn-i sponsibility of digesting all the in- formation that comes out of Europe and Asia, but also it must| plan counter offensives against | nti-American propagandg out- side the United States. Give that thought and yowll see why COI is one of the more important agencies. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct, 20—When washingtonians of this war era start running over the list of Re- publicans whom President Roose- velt has placed in key positions, they are apt to forget Col. William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan. They Shouldn't, because out of tne ‘silence which has shrouded the |® conference with Wendell L.| Willkie. Gurney declared that Congress will be adopting a half way meas- 20.—8éna- | | the Neutrality Act, reportedly after,; sagency. may play Otfice of Coordinator of Informa- tion are beginning to come hints just how vital a role this new in defense. Al- ready 1t is being referred to as potential “Ministry of Inror- mation and Propaganda,” should 1w country get into a shooting of the Ever since he started flying around Europe and the Mediter- of the act's prohibition ranean as the “eyes and ears” of Secretary of Navy Knox, Colonel | Donovan has been referred to as 2 “mystery man” in our defense drive. Probably that’s because he (Gontinued nn page Stx) ure if it provides for only repeal against arming of merchant ships and do not go on with wiping out the| ban against sending ships to bel-| ligerent ports. O L BUY DEFENSE BONDS FIRSTLOSS | - ON ATLANTIC IS REPORTED Bame Befween Destroyer | Kearny and Submarine | Resultsin Casualhes jANNOUN(EMENI MADE - BY NAVY DEPARTMENT Ten Men Injured While 11 | Others Are Posted As Missing WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — The | National Capital City was jolted today by the news that the torpedo that hit the United States destrover Kearny last Friday morning took a toll of 21 casualiies, 10 injured and 11 listed &s missing, but believed | dead. | The Navy formally identified the g«n ;; ,,ubmm ine, nndowt-v First W l’!mnrl This detail offieis| announcement monfentarily cvershadowed the un- looked for disclusure that the At- lantic fleet has sustained the first personnel loss when torpedoing of the new 1630-ton destroyer was first made known last Priday and with the anncuncement “no casialties ,are indicaled although the ship was damaged.” Men Believed Trapped Last night the Navy Department received further information that the wounded Kearny had made her way to an undisclosed port and re- ported casualties of a character that would result from an encounter be- tween the Kearny and a submarine. Missing Are Dead Informed quarters write of the missing as dead, expressing the be- lief the men were either blown out of the ship when the torpedo ex- ploded, or else were trapped when the watertight bulkheads closed after the ship was hit. | Bare Chance, Survival Men acquainted with construction of destroyers assert that some of the missing men might have been trap- : ped in the flcoded engine room com=~ partment with a bare chance of sur- | vival. | One Navy officlal said persons familiar with a destroyer could | readily identify the battle stations ,to which the men probably were | when the torpedo stuck but he de- clined to volunteer information, | however, since four of the missing ! are firemen and three watermen. j The belief is that one of the Kear- | ny’s engine roomx was hkt = TORPEDOING OF KEARNY (ONDEMNED WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull today characterized the torpedoing of the |United States destroyer. Kearny as another in the series of incidents flustrating Hiter's known and con- fessed efforts to seize and control the seas as well as continents. Hitler, said Secretary Hull, has notified all nations to keep their ships out of the area covering a large portion of the North Atlantic with a penalty of having their ships sunk if they invade those areas. Secretary Hull, at the conference with the newsmen, also said that Hitler proposes to drive all other nations, off the seas by intimidation and if such intimicdation is sueccess- ful, Hull continued, “I suppose Hit- {ler will.then want &1l other nations to get off the earth.” | e | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS