The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1941. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8859. STIMSON FAVORS ALASKA ROAD 1 NAZIS SMASH ON MOSCOW STEMMED HUGE SCALE COUNTERS IN ACTION NOW Tanks, InfaWBeing Used fo Stop Advances of German Forces INVADERS CAPTURE STALINO IS REPORT | Battles Raging on Fields of | Snow-Encirclement Is Indicated (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) German and Italian troops, smashing at Russia’s vital Donet River industrial basin, are report-| ed to have captured Stalino, 100| miles northwest of Rostov, while on the Central Front the Russians appear to be stemming the Nazi's drive on Moscow amid a series of huge scale tank and infantry pat- tles. Stalino Captured Stalino is a city of 450,000 popu- lation and lies on one of the two main rail lines between Moscow | and the great Caucasian oil flelds A special bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters, describing Sta-| lino as one of the most xmportantr armament centers of the Doncf; Basin, said the Axis forces took the surrounding region and “Sta-| lino was taken by Alpinists.” This might mean either German or Ital- ian troops. In Ukraine Sector Soviet dispatches acknowledge Marshal Budenny's Ukraine armies are desperately pressed by intensi- fied Nazi assaults and have been forced to withdraw to new lines near Taganrog, only 30 miles west of Rostov. The Germans claimed Taganrog’s fall yesterday. { military .commentators re-| Nazi port the Southern Axis armies, led by picked units of Hitler's own Elite Guard, indicated Rostov will{ (Continued on Page ~lite Orew Peance o fcbert S Alles %60 WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—More than a year ago, the State De-| partment was warned that the| younger army officers of Argen- tina were pro-Hitler and ripe for revolution, Recently, however, the revolt came. Furthermore, it was more serious than appeared on the sur- face, for one of the conspirators was Major Grisolia, an Argentine| airman brought to the US.A. at our expense and trained in Texas last year. We had made no dent on him or on many other young army officers in important posi- tions. They were definitely pro- Nazi. However, the Argentine people definitely are not. They are vigor- ously pro-US.A. In fact during the past six months an over- whelming tide of sentiment has welled up for the United States. This is unique, because the Unit- ed States, despite all the hullaba- loo about the Good Neighbor poli-| cy has done almost nothing ‘o woo Argentina except slap her in: the face when it comes to her most SRS R o AR (Continued on Page Four) WHM IT MEANS—— IRE | By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Adolf Hitler has finally shown symp- toms of the disease that has af- fected all the dictators who pre- ceded him in world history. It's congueror’s smallpox. In this war, conqueror’s small- pox is a third front. The first is the English Channel. The second is Russia, Congqueror’s smallpox is the malady brought on by people who are willing to risk their lives to protest conquest. So far, Hitler has not caught the disease in its most virulent form. Most inter- national observers suspect the outbreak in European states may be premature, and will not be- come violent at this time. There are several reasons: Hitler has more powerful anti- i dotes than any previous dictator {ever had. The airplane and the tank can do more to stop revolt than any other weapons of history. Rifles and small arms are pop; guns against planes and tanks. In the second place, the out- break is not well enough organ- lized to impede Hitler's war ef- forts. It is too sporadic. Meanwhile Hitler has an ex- cuse to kill off leaders in nations where revolts have occurred, to- gether with their “tools.” How and why no dictator ever escapes this disease is a mystery peculiar to history. Tons and tons | detracts [ from further depredations. It'salso| of literature have been written about it, but none of the explana- tions is wholly satisfactory. | Outstanding example of a rule: who suffered from conqueror's 1smallpox is Charles V, the first | king who actually. tried to set up a United States of Europe. In his old age, Charles V stayed in the saddle for months on end, in a desperate attempt to hold together the nations he had con- quered. At last he gave up, and | retired to a monastery. Most historians suspect the chief symptom of conqueror’s smallpox |is an unfilterable virus known as “the spirit of nationalism.” Noth- |ing seems able to kill this spirit if it has the will to live. Genghis Khan, Alexander, Napoleon could not muster enough terror, enough force of arms to kill that spirit. Draw a ring around the places where major incidents of anti-Nazi rebellion have flared. Despite cen- sorship, the showing is impressive. How many hundreds of unmen- tioned, minor—but ultimately ex- hausting—incidents have occurred nobody knows, Every ‘“incident” is doubly de-| hluhthlg to Germany. First, it "(onqueror's Smallpox and Adolf Hitler SCANDINAVIAN ERUPTIONS German sentries in Norway mur- dered by night . . . mysterious fires harass Nazis raids reported on munition dumps . . . Danes shun German soldiers. In reply, Ger- mans shoot Norwegian labor lead- ers, proclaim martial law. | FRENCH-LOWLAND FLARE-UPS from the war effort against Russia and Britain. Sec-| ond, it takes the effort of Germun‘ occupying forces to hunt down‘ the saboteurs. | Every German soldier required‘ to keep the peace in a conquered | country is a man lost from the | fighting front. PFurthermore, he| | sometimes is a man lost from pro- | ductive enterprise in Germany proper, because it has been neces- sary to call up older reservists| to replace young fighting mem needed at the Russian front. Germany has shown no slacken-{ ing of her policy of militant re- prisal for sabotage and subversion. Hundreds have been shot by fir ing squads in pursuit of that pol- icy, hostages admittedly innocent of the crimes for which they died. It's possible that sheer terror| may deter conquered populations possible that it won't. It hasn’t to date. It it doesn't, the third front| may turn out to be the” extremely | s important. GEN. PETROV FOUNDDEAD, BATTLEFIELD German Commumque Says| Soviet Commander | Killed in Fighting BERLIN, Oct. 21.—On the bloody Jentral Front before Moscow, the | German Command said Gen. Petrov, identified as CDmmlnder-in—ChieI" of the Russian Fiftieth Army, has| been found dead on the battefield | east of Bryansk, 200 miles south of Moscow. Gen. Petrov was a member of the Supreme Soviet Council. TWO FOR ONE GEARY, Okla., Oct, 31.—As Ross| Squires tells it, he saw a pair of | jackrabbit ears scuttling down a crop row in a farm field. He fired one shot and saw two jackrabbits leap into the air and fall dead. He never has figured out where the second jack came from. ———e—— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Dutch protect downed RAF pilots, provide beacons for RAF raiders . .. German colonel stabbed in Paris Paris trains derailed . .. s” reported in French . Germans retaliate by Sabotage slows Czech arms output 50% . German troop trains crushed in tunnels, London hears. . Secret Czech station broad- nightly. Gestapo's “tough guy" imported, orders execution of hundreds, including premier. BALKANS BOILING Mountains teem with Serbs who are dégmg up guns they buried after German invasion. Roving bands force closing of rail lines. . .. In Greece, Axis soldiers disappear. + .. Axis has rushed reinforcements. to Yugoslavia New ( ruiser Juneau fo Be Launched Saf. Mrs. Lucas to Christen New Boat-Gov. Gruening Unable to Attend KEARNY, N. J, Oct. 21, ond of the new type cruisers to be built with emphasis on speed and firing power, is scheduled to slide down the ways at the Federal Shipbuilding Drydock Company here Saturday afternoon, with Mrs. | Harry 1. Lucas, wife of the Mayor | of Juneau, Alaska, as christening| sponsor. Governor of Alaska Er-| nest Gruening is also expected to' | attend. Gov. Gruening said here today that he had received an invita- tion to attend the launching of the cruiser Juneau Saturday, at| Kearny, N, J., but decided that he| believed it best to remain in ‘his| office here and would be unable; to make the trip to the launching ceremony and tendered his regrets to the committee in charge of th(-J affair, TWO JUNEAU MEN GIVEN HIGH HONOR : — The| 6,000-ton light cruiser Juneau, sec-‘ HULL ASKS 'REPEAL OF - NEUTRALITY EXTRA PROVISIONS picAN SHIP TORPEDOED | | | | waAsHINGTON, Oct. 21. — | Setretary of State Cordell Hull | said he believes the Neutrality | At provision, that bans Ameri- | eam merchant vessels from | specified combat zones, should | be “repealed or modified,” and | he tossed this recommendation “ into the request that Congress | repeal now another section which prohibits arming of ships. Becretary Hull said: | ““When American ships are being wantonly and unlawfully ttacked in a complete disre- gard for life and property, it is absdlutely absurd to forego any | legitimate measures that may | be heipful to self-defense. “Bt is especially absurd to | | conlinue to tie our hands by a | WH«- of law which pro- | | ludits arming American ‘mer- | chant vessels for their own de- | fense.” PROTESTANTS ASKALLAID - ' TO RUSSIANS | ‘Over 1 000 Church Heads, | Edifors Want Swift Ac- NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—More ‘thun 1,000 Protestant Bishops, edu- }LdL(Jl"S clergymen &and editors throughout the country, in a pe- | tition to President Roosevelt last night, pledged their readiness to |accept any sacrifice asked in fur- thering war aid to Russia. The petition from the Protes- [tants urged the President to act sw! tly to stop Hitler. BRITISH IN R.IDS OVER REICH lAND Dayllght Sweep Made on’ | Northern France-Night | Attack Also Reported LONDON, Oct. 21. — British planes, reopening their offensive against Germany and occupied sec- ons, after three days of extreme- 'ly bad weather, returned today ‘n i | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — |a daylight sweep of Northern Howard Douglas Stabler and France. Charles Goldstein, both of Twelve German fighters, which Juneau, Alaska, are among 224 Scottish Rite Masons elected to the Thirty-third Degree. This is announced at the Biennial Session of the Supreme Coun- | went up to the attack of the Brit- ish fleet, were brought down. Nine British fighter planes "are missing but the pilots are safe. Late this afternoon, the Air Min- cil of the Southern Jurisdic- istry revealed that Bremen, Wil- tion, U.S.A. helmskaven and Emden were Axel Carison, of Ketchikan, |bombed heavily in a surprise raid Alaska, has been elected one of 483 Knights Commander of the Court of Honor, — e Greatly increased activity on the reached an all-time high of three Jones averages: inland waterways of the United by the British RAF. | - | | Manufacturers inventories; and a half billion dollars in Aug-| | States is reported by the Depau- ust, the Department of Commerce Jment of Commerce. l reported. tion fo “'Stop Hitler” | | stock today , Steel | Steel 53, WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—President Roosevelt announced late this afternoon the torpedoing Sunday night of the Amcrican vessel Leigh, just north of the equator, near the southern end of the bulge of Africa. While lacking information as to the number of persons aboard the Lehigh, President Roosevelt told his press conference that one boat load of survivors were The President said two othe is under way for them. picked up, he understood. r boats are missing and a search He said persons in the boat which was found believed no one was killed but that some persons were wounded in the explosion of the torpedo. The Lehigh, 4,900 tons, had discharged cargo at Bilboa, Spain, the President said, and was running empty on a trading voyage to the Gold Coast. The information leaves no doubt, President Roosevelt is eon- vinged, that it was a torpedo from a German suhmarine ‘whick. struck the Lehigh. The President told reporters that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was dead right when he called such activity piracy. The Lehigh is the ninth American-owned vessel sent to the bottom in the more than two years of the European war. Lehizh was flyln' the American The flu Price Conirol Measure, Other Imporfant Issues Serves Britain, Too Mary Churchill Youngest daughter of the British prime minister, Mary Churchill, 19, is training to become a member of Auxlllarv Terrlmrll.l Service. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Oct. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine is 3, American Can Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem 62%, Commonwealth Southern %, Curtiss Wright 80'%, International Harvester 49%, Ken- 83%, necott 34, New York Central 11%, , United States/ Northern Pacific 6% Pound $4.03 3/4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, industrials 121.07, rails 2854, utilities 17.48. ————— Now Before Congress | Rep. Warren D. Magnuson (D.- | Wash), member of the Iutcrnations and| By JACK STINNE'I‘:I' WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Con- gress is back on the job. Theoreu-‘ cally of course, it has never been off, but actually since the passagfl of the defense tax bill the gentle- | men have been on a holiday. Most went back home to do pulse-taking and fence mending.! There are straws in the wind indi-| cating that contact with the voters | is going to change votes in the‘ House and Senate—hints that perhaps there will not be so much‘; opposition to the administration’s foreign policy—and stronger op- i position to non-defense spending. Congress takes these unofficial holidays by a simple expediency. According to the rules, three days. Majority and minority leaders and Thursdays, or Tuesdays and| Fridays, the House and Senate go| through their formalities. A handful of stay-behinds as- |semble. Routine business is tran- sacted—"“by unanimous consent'-— and this is possible because the always on hand to see that the opposition doesn’t slip something iover. Since it only takes one “I, object” to knock a ‘unanimous |consent” into the middle of the!l next real session, it's only neces- sary for a few good party watch dogs to be on hand. Most of the members of Congress are away. Now that period is over. gress hasn't reassembled in recent years with observers more keenly observant, or the political, de- partmental, and administrative leaders more eager to know what direction the legislative tide Iis tgoing to take. (1) The new six billion dollar Lend-Lease bill. (Of the three neither | house can adjourn for more than, in both houses make & gentlemen’s agreement that no l | controversial matters will be i brought up. Then on Mondays - | majority and minority leaders are| Con-| HIGHWAY 1§ GIVEN OKEH BY WAR SEC. ;Sysiem Desirable as Long ' Range Measure for | National Defense {CONSTRUCTION NOW T DECLARED JUSTIFIED [United Stafes s fo Finance . Building-Recommen- | dafions Are Made | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Secre- Itary of War Henry L. Stimson to- 'day announced support of the plan |for a $25,000,000 highway to Al- (aska “as a @esirable long range | defense measure.” | 'The Secretary’s support caused |supporters of the road to deeide Ito try to secure congressional ap- proval of the project before springz. | Writing to Rep. Wilburn Cast- {wright (D.-Okla.), chairman of the ‘Hnuse Roads Committee, Secretary | Stimson declared that despite cer- ! tain_ limitations, military consider- ations justified the construction of (the highway ‘“under a low prior- | ity rating” but from an evaluation of the trend of international affairs the highway now appears desirable as a long range defense measure. | To Amend Bills | Stimson suggested that the high- | way bill to be presented to Con- gress, and any other bills concerned with the project, be amended, in- asmuch as the United States gov- ernment will nee the highway, to provide for : construction hy the Federal Works Administration. “With this inclusion,” Stimson concluded, “no furiier objection will be interposed to the bill.” al Highway Commission and a per- sistent worker for the highway, said he rhortly will introduce ¢ new bill calling for the construc 'tion. | NAZIS MOVE TO AVENGE. SLAIN MAN Arrest in Assassination of General Holiz { BULLETIN — Vichy Four French Gendarmerie officers, one Colonel and three Caotians, were accested tonight at Nantes | in connection with the assina- tien of Gen. Holdz. BULLETIN--VICHY, Oct. 21. —The German statement, is- sued tonight, announces the execution of four more French- men following the assassina- tion of Gen. Holtz. It is also said the French Prefect has been released, after question- | ing regarding the assassina- tion, Executicns of the French- men now bring the executions to 85 before the firing squad for death of Germauns. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct. 21.—The Germans are reported to have arrested the Prench Prefect (of the Department of Inferieure, of which Nantes is the capital eity, after the Monday assassination of BUY DEFENSE STAMPS (Continued on Page Five) {7 (Continued to Page Two) - Reported Prefect Is Undér